Organizing Committee¤

Julia Holze (contact person)¤

With a master’s degree in communication and media science, Julia Holze manages the social media channels of the projects at InfAI as well as the KILT, the ET and the KMI Competence Center at the InfAI. Furthermore, Julia leads the public relation strategy of the CoyPu project (Cognitive Economy Intelligence Platform for resilience of economic ecosystems), which is funded by the Federal Ministry for Economics and Climate Action. Julia is head of the Organisational Development of the DBpedia Association. She has been part of the core organisation team of the online series of DBpedia tutorials (Knowledge Graph Conference, LDK Conference, the Web Conference and the Connected Data World event) organised since 2020. She is the local chair of the SEMANTiCS conference 2023, which will be held in Leipzig, Germany and Julia is part of the organising committee of the Data Week Leipzig.

Sebastian Tramp¤

CTO @ eccenca GmbH

As Chief Technology Officer Sebastian is responsible for the technology and product development at eccenca. He holds a PhD in computer science from the Leipzig University and authored more than 60 peer-reviewed publications. Sebastian is a founding member of the renowned AKSW research group and was PC member, reviewer and organizer for more than 30 research and technology events as well as scientific journals including ESWC, Semantic Web Journal, and Journal of Web Semantics. He also has led a number of key Linked Data technology projects, including the development of the data wiki OntoWiki.

Michael Martin¤

Professor at Chemnitz University of Technology and InfAI e.V.

In 2006, Michael Martin joined the Agile Knowledge and Semantic Web (AKSW) research group at Leipzig University. He completed his M.Sc. degree in 2008 and from then on worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Business Information Systems at the University of Leipzig. Until completing his doctorate in June 2014, he worked on various nationally and internationally funded research projects and published substantial scientific contributions at (inter)national conferences and in journals. Since 2014, Michael Martin has headed the Emergent Semantics research group at InfAI and continues to pursue research interests in the fields of data science and knowledge engineering as well as software and web engineering. Since 2018, Michael has also been responsible for the Competence Center Efficient Technology Integration at InfAI. In November 2023, he became a professor at Chemnitz University of Technology and holds the Chair of Data Management.

Sören Auer¤

Director @ TIB / Head of research group Data Science and Digital Libraries

Following stations at the universities of Dresden, Ekaterinburg, Leipzig, Pennsylvania, Bonn and the Fraunhofer Society, Prof. Auer was appointed Professor of Data Science and Digital Libraries at Leibniz Universität Hannover and Director of the TIB in 2017. Prof. Auer has made important contributions to semantic technologies, knowledge engineering and information systems. He is the author (resp. co-author) of over 200 peer-reviewed scientific publications. He has received several awards, including an ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council, a SWSA ten-year award, the ESWC 7-year Best Paper Award, and the OpenCourseware Innovation Award. He has led several large collaborative research projects, such as the EU H2020 flagship project BigDataEurope. He is co-founder of high potential research and community projects such as the Wikipedia semantification project DBpedia and the Open Research Knowledge Graph ORKG.org. Prof. Auer was founding director of the Big Data Value Association, led the semantic data representation in the Industrial/International Data Space, is an expert for industry, European Commission, W3C, the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

Ricardo Usbeck¤

Full Professor of Information Systems, esp. AI and Explainability, Leuphana University Lüneburg

Prof. Ricardo Usbeck received his PhD in Computer Science in 2017 at Leipzig University, Germany. He then joined Paderborn University and Fraunhofer IAIS as team leader, each for two years. From 2021 to 2023 he has been a junior professor for semantic systems at Hamburg University. Since 2023 he works at Leuphana University Lüneburg on AI and Explainability. He and his team are developing and benchmarking industrial and academic NLP systems based on Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models. He was the chair of the successfully concluded W3C community group for natural language interfaces as well as organiser of the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th QALD challenges at ESWC 2017 and ISWC 2017 as well as ISWC 2018, 2020, 2022 and the latest Scholarly QALD challenge at ISWC 2023.