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CDL25 Programme Announcement: Beyond AI, from foundations to innovation

Updated: Sep 29

LJ Rich speaking at Connected Data London

Using the Relationships, Meaning and Context in Data has never been more important than today. At Connected Data London 2025, you will meet the people who make it all happen.


Connected Data London provides a Community, Events, and Thought Leadership for those who use the Relationships, Meaning and Context in Data to achieve Great things. We've been Connecting Data, People & Ideas since 2016, covering all things Knowledge Graph, Graph Databases, Semantic Technology and Graph Analytics / Data Science / AI.


We are happy to announce the programme for the 2025 edition of our flagship London conference. Explore the full programme for yourself, and book your ticket to join us now! Benefit from advance pricing to save 15%, valid until Friday 24 October.



Connected Data London 2025 is taking place on 20 - 21 November at the Leonardo Royal Hotel London Tower Bridge. On 20 November, our programme features Masterclasses and Lightning Talks. On 21 November, attendees will enjoy Keynotes, Presentations and Panels.


Keynotes set the tone for the event, featuring recognised leaders and innovators. Our Presentations span 3 parallel tracks - Nodes, Edges, and Educational. Panels feature experts in a moderated conversation on a topic, engaging with the audience in a structured way.


Masterclasses are hands-on tutorials in which instructors teach attendees skills they can use in their daily work. Lightning Talks are interactive, fast-paced presentations of novel ideas and use cases.



Growing market, evolving technology, global community


Attendee engagement at Connected Data London

Connected Data technology and solutions are seeing phenomenal adoption and growth, driven by rising demand for AI/generative AI solutions, the rapid growth in data volume and complexity, and the growing demand for semantic search. The knowledge graph market alone is estimated to grow from USD 1.06 billion in 2024 to USD 6.93 billion by 2030, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 36.6%.


The interest our Call for Submissions attracted has been unprecedented. Connected Data London is growing roots as a global agora for knowledge exchange and networking. We received submissions from every continent in the world - Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Australia, in addition to our home soil of the UK and our established community in the EU and the US.


We feel privileged to have been exposed to impactful use cases and innovation as well as instructive educational material, and we believe our audience will feel the same way. Reviewing submissions with the help of our Programme Committee has been rewarding as much as it has been hard. In compiling our programme, we tried to strike a balance in topic and organisation representation, as well as established community members and new voices.


GenAI is making headlines and driving many newcomers towards Connected Data technology as the best way to ground AI with meaning and semantics. Topics on the intersection of Connected Data and Large Language Models / GenAI such as GraphRAG and Agentic AI are well-represented in our programme.


But there is more to Connected Data than AI. Over our Nodes, Edges, and Educational tracks, leaders and innovators will covering topics ranging from the foundations of knowledge graph and ontology-driven data model creation and management within organisational practices, to cutting edge innovation: from graph analytics techniques and applications in anti-fraud and supply chains to temporal and multi-modal knowledge graphs.


The Nodes track focuses on use cases, featuring presentations with little technical details aimed primarily at a business audience. Host: Maya Natarajan.


The Edges track focuses on innovation, featuring presentations with some technical details aimed at both business and technical audiences. Host: Paco Nathan.


The Educational track focuses on applications, featuring presentations with more technical details aimed primarily at a technical audience. Host: Katariina Kari.



From foundations to innovation


Attendees networking at Connected Data London

Connected Data London 2025 features leaders and innovators from the likes of ABB, Accenture, Airbus, AstraZeneca, Bloomberg, Capgemini, Deloitte, Delta Air Lines, EY, National Highways, Netflix, Neo4j, Nvidia, Rabobank, SAP, S&P, ServiceNow, Vodafone, and more.


Here is a brief selection of some of the sessions in our Connected Data London 2025 programme. Explore the full programme for yourself, and book your ticket to join us now! Benefit from advance pricing to save 15%, valid until Friday 24 October.


In his Keynote, "AI’s Defining Moment: From Hype to Lasting Impact with Connected Data", Synapse Partners Co-Founder Evangelos Simoudis combines his perspectives as a venture investor, corporate advisor, and neurosymbolic AI expert to highlight the issues enterprises, startups and governments will need to address over the next 12-18 months if AI is to fulfill its promise and avoid the weak outcomes seen in past AI efforts.


Connected Data community legends Tara Raafat and Tony Seale are back. Tara will take us beyond technology, focusing on the human blueprint for building an Enterprise Knowledge Graph. Tony will share lessons from the front line of Enterprise AI leveraging the Neural-Symbolic Loop.


CDL25 features a range of returning speakers. Ora Lassila will share his experience generating knowledge graphs from legacy data. Brad Rees will show how to benchmark GraphRAG to measure benefit. Juan Sequeda will explain what data engineers & governance professionals must know about knowledge graphs, and Jessica Talisman will take us from data infrastructure to knowledge infrastructure.


We are equally happy to welcome new community members. Alexandre Bertails will show how the Unified Data Architecture works at Netflix. Mara Inglezakis Owens will expand on the interplay of knowledge graphs, AI, and work in contemporary IT organisations such as Delta Airlines.


Torsten Jedicke and Robin Osagie will take us along on Vodafone's journey to semantic models in action, and Dharmendra Rana will share how knowledge platforms work at S&P Global.


In our Masterclasses, Ben Gardner will show how to implement ontology-based data management. Martin O'Hanlon will help people understand relationships in data with knowledge graphs.



We look forward to you joining us at Connected Data London 2025 on 20 - 21 November at the Leonardo Royal Hotel London Tower Bridge.


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