Jesús Barrasa

Dr. Jesús Barrasa is the Head of Solutions Architecture at Neo4j and the company's resident expert in semantic technologies. He combines over 20 years of professional experience in the data management space split between industry, research, and academia. He has recently co-authored “Knowledge Graphs: Data in Context for Responsive Businesses” (O’Reilly) and “Building Knowledge Graphs. A Practitioner's Guide” (O’Reilly). Prior to joining Neo4j, Jesús worked for data integration companies like Denodo and Ontology Systems (now EXFO) where he got first-hand experience with many successful enterprise-wide data integration deployments and large graph technology projects enhancing the operations and analytics of major companies all over the world. Jesús' doctoral work in Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Representation focused on automatically repurposing legacy data as knowledge graphs. He's an active thought leader in the graph and semantics communities and co-hosts the popular monthly webcast on knowledge graphs "Going Meta" (http://goingmeta.live/).