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January 24-25, 2026

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The AI Innovator – Collaborative Machine Reasoning Marks AI’s Next Inflection Point
- January 06, 2026
The New Stack – Data in 2026
- January 06, 2026
The Next Generation of Knowledge Management
- November 18, 2025
The rise of accountable AI agents
- October 30, 2025
VentureBeat – Neuro-Symbolic AI for Safe, Explainable Automation in Regulated Industries: AllegroGraph Leads the Way
- August 10, 2025
Graph thinking empowers agentic AI
- August 01, 2025
Accelerating AI Development with Synthetic Data
- April 27, 2025
Who Needs Neural Networks? The Generative Prowess of State Transition Models
- March 19, 2025
Tackling Cryptocurrency Fraud, Autonomous Drones and Drug Discovery in 2025
- February 05, 2025
Predictions for software development in 2025
- December 27, 2024
Fixing Hidden Errors in Medical Systems with NeuroSymbolic AI
- December 17, 2024
Best practices for AI-based security for 2025
- December 17, 2024
Technology to connect people and knowledge
- November 07, 2024
Boosting AI Trustworthiness in Financial Services
- July 26, 2024
100 Companies that matter most in Data – Franz Inc.
- June 27, 2024
Can Neuro‑Symbolic AI Bridge the Gaps in Modern AI?
- April 17, 2024
The NewStack – AllegroGraph 8.0 Incorporates Neuro-Symbolic AI, a Pathway to AGI
- January 02, 2024
Using Knowledge Graphs & Data Fabric as a Pillar for AI
- November 07, 2023
Readers’ Choice – “2023 Best Knowledge Graph”
- November 06, 2023
Why an Event-Native Mindset is Now Essential for Data Architecture
- September 20, 2023
SEMANTiCs Keynote (Recording) – Dr. Jans Aasman
- July 06, 2023
DBTA 100 Companies that Matter Most in Data – 2023
- June 20, 2023
Embracing the Power of Knowledge Graphs at Data Summit 2023
- May 10, 2023
Why an Event-Native Mindset is Now Essential for Data Architecture
- April 06, 2023
AllegroGraph Delivers The Semantic Layer For Enterprise Data Fabrics
- January 18, 2023
The expanding ease and utility of text analytics and natural language processing
- January 09, 2023
What to Expect in 2023: AI and Graph Technology
- January 06, 2023
2023 – Trend Setting Product
- January 04, 2023
Big Data Industry Predictions for 2023
- December 15, 2022
2023 Trends in Data Modeling – Spotlight on Human-Centric Taxonomies
- November 18, 2022
The Hype Around Semantic Layers: How Important Are Standards?
- November 10, 2022
“2022 Best Knowledge Graph” by KMWorld Readers’ Choice
- November 09, 2022
AIThority – How Cognitive Psychology Principles Can be Applied to Knowledge Graphs
- August 16, 2022
The Conceptual Data Model’s Unwavering Role in Data Governance
- August 07, 2022
The One-Shot Learning Phenomenon
- July 29, 2022
Innovative knowledge-sharing tools elevate the modern workplace
- July 08, 2022
The key to Quantum Computing AI applications: Flexible programming languages
- July 05, 2022
The Importance of Semantics for Data Lakehouses
- June 29, 2022
The Taxonomic Underpinnings of Cognitive Computing
- June 23, 2022
The Root of the Knowledge Graph Hype: Semantic Technologies
- June 16, 2022
Database Trends and Applications Top 100 Companies – Franz Inc.
- June 10, 2022
The Foundation of Data Fabrics: Semantic Knowledge Graphs
- May 19, 2022
AllegroGraph 7.3 Extends GraphQL to Knowledge Graph Developers
- May 17, 2022
Making smarter connections with Knowledge Graphs
- May 10, 2022
Knowledge First Design For Dynamic Intelligent Contact Centers, And Beyond
- May 04, 2022
Knowledge Graph Standards in Ambient Computing
- February 15, 2022
Symbolic AI: The key to the thinking machine
- February 11, 2022
Linguistic Reduction and Knowledge Graphs for Chatbots
- January 31, 2022
The 10 Most Promising Knowledge Management Solution Providers, 2022
- January 10, 2022
2022 Trends in Intelligent Bots: Knowledge Worker Empowerment
- January 04, 2022
Analytics and AI in 2022: Innovation in the era of COVID
- December 28, 2021
2022 and Beyond: Quantum AI, Graph Neural Networks, and Personal Data Pods
- December 15, 2021
AllegroGraph Has No Log4j Security Exposure
- December 14, 2021
2022 Trends in Big Data: The Data Marketplace Evolution
- December 07, 2021
Franz’s Jans Aasman gives a primer on Graph Neural Networks at KMWorld Connect 2021
- November 17, 2021
Neuro-Symbolic AI: The Peak of AI
- November 16, 2021
“Best Knowledge Graph” – AllegroGraph – KMWorld Readers’ Choice
- November 08, 2021
KMWorld – Putting intelligent search to work
- November 05, 2021
Supply Chain Risk Management System Solves Complex Problems in Critical Supply Chains
- November 01, 2021
AllegroGraph v7.2 – Now Available with GNNs, Virtual Graphs, Spark, and Kafka
- October 25, 2021
Why Dynamic Algorithms Still Haven’t Replaced Human Rules
- October 01, 2021
Fuse Graph Neural Networks with Semantic Reasoning to Produce Complimentary Predictions
- September 24, 2021
Benefits of Integrating a Language With a Database
- September 13, 2021
Graph Neural Networks Combined with Semantic Reasoning Deliver – Total AI
- September 08, 2021
VentureBeat – What are graph database query languages?
- September 03, 2021
No-Code Queries Can Accelerate AI and Data Analytics
- September 01, 2021
Why Young Developers Don’t Get Knowledge Graphs
- August 01, 2021
The Next Step in Machine Learning’s Evolution: Graph Neural Networks
- July 29, 2021
Franz Inc. Named to KMWorld’s AI50
- July 14, 2021
AiThority Interview with Dr. Jans Aasman
- July 01, 2021
The Amazing Applications of Graph Neural Networks
- June 26, 2021
The New World of Database Technologies
- June 24, 2021
NLP: Unlock the Hidden Business Value in Voice Communications
- April 23, 2021
The Future of AI: Machine Learning and Knowledge Graphs
- April 06, 2021
KMWorld 100 Companies that Matter Most – Franz Inc.
- March 08, 2021
Understanding What Matters With Text Analytics and NLP
- March 08, 2021
Maximizing Your Data Fabric’s ROI via Entity Data Modeling
- February 24, 2021
Governance, Privacy, and Ethics at the Forefront of Data in 2021
- January 21, 2021
Information governance 101: The regulatory compliance survival kit
- January 12, 2021
Data-driven 2021: Predictions for a new year in data, analytics and AI
- January 04, 2021
2021 Trends in Data Science: The Entire AI Spectrum
- December 02, 2020
Data Fabrics and Knowledge Graphs — A Symbiotic Relationship
- November 06, 2020
RDF Graph vs Property Graph – The Graph Show
- November 03, 2020
2021 Trends in Data Modeling: Attaining the Universal Data Model Ideal
- November 03, 2020
Sharing Ontologies Globally To Speed Science And Healthcare Solutions – OntoPortal
- October 07, 2020
Knowledge Graphs: A Single Source of Truth for the Enterprise
- October 05, 2020
Little Known Artificial Intelligence Secrets: What Unsupervised Learning Really Means
- September 03, 2020
Franz Inc. Named an AI 50 Company by KMWorld
- August 18, 2020
Knowledge graphs enhance customer experience through speed and accuracy
- July 10, 2020
AllegroGraph Named to 100 Companies That Matter Most in Data
- June 22, 2020
The Many Shades of Knowledge Graphs: Let Me Count the Ways
- June 05, 2020
Ubiquitous AI Demands A New Type Of Database Sharding
- May 05, 2020
Informing machine learning with time series analysis
- April 06, 2020
100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management
- March 20, 2020
Answering the Question Why: Explainable AI
- March 18, 2020
Improving Data Processes with Knowledge Graphs
- March 16, 2020
THE SMART MONEY: Decoupling financial services for cross-departmental big data integration
- March 09, 2020
How To Avoid Another AI Winter
- February 14, 2020
Tomorrow’s Machine Learning Today: Topological Data Analysis, Embedding, and Reinforcement Learning
- February 14, 2020
Deconstructing machine learning: correlation vs. causation, factors, and vectors
- January 28, 2020
California utilities should have used digital twin technology instead of power shutoffs
- January 22, 2020
Proceed With Caution: Explainability, AI, And The Risks Of Regulatory Compliance
- January 15, 2020
Franz’s 2020 Predictions in the News
- January 03, 2020
2020 Trend Setting Products – AllegroGraph
- December 04, 2019
Three Necessities For Maximizing Your Digital Twins Approach
- November 11, 2019
Knowledge graphs take the stage at KMWorld 2019
- November 08, 2019
Monetizing digital asset management: The power of metadata management
- November 08, 2019
2020 Trends in Cybersecurity
- November 01, 2019
2020 Trends in Big Data: The Integration Agenda
- October 24, 2019
The Importance of FAIR Data in Earth Science
- September 18, 2019
Harnessing the Internet of Things with JSON-LD
- August 23, 2019
Preserving Endpoint Device Security in the Internet of Things
- July 30, 2019
Turn Customer Service Calls into Enterprise Knowledge Graphs
- July 30, 2019
Artificial Intelligence Improves when Graph and Document Databases Become One
- June 27, 2019
The Crux of Supervised Learning: Annotated Training Data
- June 27, 2019
Creating Explainable AI With Rules – Forbes
- May 22, 2019
The Truth about Machine Learning: What It Is And Isn’t, What It Can And Can’t Do
- April 30, 2019
Earth Day – Franz Inc. and Geoscience Experts Recognize the Growing Importance of Semantic Knowledge Graphs for Earth Science
- April 21, 2019
What are the main pros of property graph databases compared to triplestores?
- April 03, 2019
What is the Answer to AI Model Risk Management?
- March 19, 2019
Dataversity – AllegroGraph 6.5 Marks Multi-model Semantic Graph and Document Database
- March 14, 2019
Seeking an edge: Exploiting alternative big data sources and customer data for financial gain
- March 11, 2019
How Blockchain And Legal Entity Identifiers Are Improving Workplace AI
- February 26, 2019
Why Is JSON-LD Important To Businesses?
- February 26, 2019
JSON-LD: A Method of Encoding Linked Data That Adds Meaning to JSON Objects
- February 15, 2019
Unraveling the Quandary of Access Layer versus Storage Layer Security
- February 07, 2019
Why Smart Cities Need AI Knowledge Graphs
- March 21, 2018
Going Beyond Blockchain with Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAG)
- January 20, 2019
The Semantic Knowledge Graph: A Tribute
- January 10, 2019
Knowledge Management: 6 Predictions for 2019
- January 07, 2019
Semantic Web and Semantic Technology Trends in 2019
- January 04, 2019
2019 Trends In The Internet Of Things: The Makings Of An Intelligent IoT
- December 20, 2018
Solving Knowledge Graph Data Prep with Standards
- December 11, 2018
AllegroGraph named to 2019 Trend-Setting Products
- December 10, 2018
Knowledge Graphs — The path to true AI
- December 10, 2018
What is the most interesting use of a graph database you ever seen?
- November 14, 2018
2019 Trends in Data Governance: The Model Governance Question
- November 05, 2018
AI Requires More Than Machine Learning
- October 16, 2018
Is Deep Learning Too Superficial?
- October 01, 2018
At Montefiore, Artificial Intelligence Becomes Key to Patient Care
- September 11, 2018
The Cornerstone of Data Science: Progressive Data Modeling
- June 27, 2018
Why dynamically visualizing relationships in data matters
- June 21, 2018
How AI Boosts Human Expertise at Wolters Kluwer
- June 06, 2018
Dataversity – Preventing Nation-Wide Security Breaches with Semantic Standards
- June 07, 2018
InfoWorld article – The marvels of an event-based schema
- February 28, 2018
Graph Databases Review – Top 5
- May 30, 2017
Franz Inc. Named to Trend-Setting Products in Data and Information Management for 2018
- December 14, 2017
Dataconomy article – How to keep graph databases both flexible and secure
- September 25, 2017
Dataconomy article – Triple Attributes: A New Way to Protect the Most Sensitive Information
- October 04, 2017
Why Enterprise Knowledge Graphs Need Semantics
- September 25, 2018
Big Data 50 – Companies Driving Innovation in 2017 – Franz Inc.
- September 07, 2017
Dataconomy article – Graph Visualization with a Time Machine
- August 29, 2017
AnalyticsWeek article – Better than Master Data Management: Building the Ultimate Customer 360 with Artificial Intelligence
- August 22, 2017
ZDNet article – Semantic Data Lake Architecture in Healthcare and Beyond
- August 21, 2017
NetworkWorld article – Tapping Big Data to Predict the Future
- August 01, 2017
Analytics Week – Implementing Personalized, Precision Medicine with Artificial Intelligence and Semantic Graph Technology
- July 19, 2017
Intel Solution Brief – Montefiore Creates Data Analytics to Advance Patient Care
- July 01, 2017
Franz Inc. named to the DBTA 100 – The Companies That Matter Most in Data
- June 18, 2018
AI Business – The Consumerization of Artificial Intelligence
- May 05, 2017
Database Trends and Apps Report – Building a Data Lake for the Enterprise
- February 02, 2017
Bloor Research – 2017 Graph and RDF Database Market Analysis
- November 02, 2017
Bloor Research Positions Franz’s AllegroGraph as a ‘Champion’ and Highest Ranked in Graph Database Market
- September 25, 2018
KMWorld article – KM resurgence in life sciences
- March 01, 2017
Virtual Strategy Magazine article – Why Semantics & Data Linking is Vital to Artificial Intelligence
- December 06, 2016
Knowledge Management World article – How does precision medicine become a reality? The Semantic Data Lake for Healthcare makes it possible
- October 30, 2016
HealthIT Analytics article – Semantic Computing, Predictive Analytics Need Reliable Metadata
- July 18, 2016
insideBIGDATA article – The Magic of Visual Querying
- July 12, 2016
ModernMedicine Network article – Making sense of big data: Data projects spur progress
- July 03, 2016
Knowledge Management World article – Text analytics and beyond
- July 01, 2016
DB-Engines article – Enriching Property Graphs with Relationship Objects
- June 21, 2016
AnalyticsWeek article – Enterprise Data Modeling Made Easy
- June 08, 2016
Health IT Outcomes article – How Cognitive Probability Graphs Can Save Lives
- May 23, 2016
Information Management article – The Unparalleled Utility of Graph Databases
- April 21, 2016
Inside Analysis article – How Many Trips to the ER Does It Take?
- April 20, 2016
Database Trends and Applications article – Demystifying Artificial Intelligence
- March 31, 2016
TechTarget article – Semantic graph database underpins healthcare data lake
- June 01, 2016
Inside Analysis article – AllegroGraph: Think of It as Conceptual Computing
- March 22, 2016
Computer Technology Review article – Cognitive Computing is Turning Precision Medicine into a Reality
- April 12, 2016
AnalyticsWeek article – Improving Big Data Governance with Semantics
- March 08, 2016
Datanami article – The Bright Future of Semantic Graphs and Big Connected Data
- February 08, 2016
Datanami article – Taming Unstructured Data with Cognitive Computing
- January 15, 2016
insideBIGDATA article – Making Big Data More Meaningful through Data Visualization
- December 22, 2015
DB Engines article – Master Data Management Remains Siloed Without Semantics
- September 25, 2018
Database Trends and Applications article – Franz Updates Graph Analytics Platform with Dynamic Data Visualization
- November 10, 2015
CIO Review article – Franz Inc.: Making Complex Data Meaningful with Semantic Graph Analytics
- December 28, 2015
HealthITAnalytics article – Semantic Big Data Lakes Can Support Better Population Health
- September 08, 2015
Dataversity article – Data Lakes Get Smart with Semantic Graph Models
- September 08, 2015
Info. Mgt. articles – How Semantic Graph Techniques Ease Data Integration
- September 25, 2018
Info. Mgt. article – Why Data Lakes Require Semantics
- June 11, 2015
Inside Analysis article – Events that Change the World
- June 08, 2015
Datanami article – Multi-Dimensional Graph Data Opens the Door to New Applications
- June 02, 2015
Datanami article – Hadoop, Triple Stores, and the Semantic Data Lake
- May 16, 2015
Optimizing Fraud Management with AI Knowledge Graphs
- July 12, 2018
The Silicon Review article – Delivering Scalable Knowledge Graph solutions Franz Inc.
- September 25, 2018
Franz’s CEO, Jans Aasman to Present at the Enterprise Data World Conference in San Diego
- April 20, 2018
IEEE Article – The Enterprise Knowledge Graph
- February 10, 2018
Franz Inc. – Named to Trend-Setting Products in Data and Information Management for 2018 by Database Trends and Applications
- December 07, 2017
Franz Inc. named to The Silicon Review 50 Fastest Growing Tech Companies 2017
- September 14, 2018
IoT Evolution article – IoT Will Become Part of Cognitive Computing
- February 16, 2017
TechCrunch article – Putting data back into the hands of owners
- December 19, 2016
HealthIT Analytics article – Montefiore Semantic Data Lake Tackles Predictive Analytics
- May 31, 2016
Communications of the ACM article – The Data Lake Concept Is Maturing
- March 22, 2016
Franz Inc. Recognized Among Top 10 Analytics Solution Providers 2016 by Pharma Tech Outlook
- January 05, 2016
Datanami article – A Semantic Approach to Big Data Governance
- December 10, 2015
451 Research covers AllegroGraph and Franz’s Semantic Data Lake architecture
- May 14, 2015
5 Graph Databases to Consider
- April 20, 2011
What One Trillion Means for the Semantic Web
- August 29, 2011
“The Role of Social Network Analysis” – Forrester Research Interviews Franz Inc.
- September 25, 2018
InfoQ interviews Jans Aasman on how MongoGraph helps NoSQL Developers
- December 03, 2011
Dr. Dobb’s interviews CEO Jans Aasman – Catching Up with Lisp
- September 26, 2018
Press Release: AllegroGraph Named as Leading Database Solution by CIOReview
- September 25, 2018
virtual-strategy.com – Why Semantics & Data Linking is Vital to Artificial Intelligence
- December 06, 2016
ODBMS.org article – “On data analytics for finance. Interview with RavenPack’s Jason S.Cornez.”
- May 17, 2016
Datanami article – Medical Insight Set to Flow from Semantic Data Lakes
- August 26, 2015
Franz, seeking funding, wants to become the foundation for a “semantic web”
- January 23, 2008

Building Accountable AI Agents with Knowledge Graphs
- 10/29/2025
Knowledge Graphs for Next Level Cyber Threat Intelligence
- 05/01/2025
Webinar (Recording) – Exploring AllegroGraph v8 – Unleashing the Power of Neuro-Symbolic AI
- 02/07/2024
Knowledge Graph Technology Showcase Honest Review
- 01/02/2024
Why an Event-Native Mindset is Now Essential for Data Architecture
- 09/19/2023
Data Fabrics and Knowledge Graphs for the AI Enterprise
- 08/12/2023
Graph Neural Networks in AllegroGraph
- 06/22/2022
Authentic Meets Artificial – The New Intelligence
- 01/13/2022
SemWeb Pro Conference – Semantics & AI for Data Fabrics (Recording)
- 12/09/2021
The Future of AI in the Enterprise: Podcast
- 10/04/2021
Catalog and Cocktails – Fashion Week… but for data w/ Jans Aasman
- 09/22/2021
Chaos Orchestra – Cognitive Graph Models
- 09/02/2021
Improving Data Processes With Knowledge Graphs – Data Summit Conference
- 06/10/2020
Webinar – Visualizing and Exploring Knowledge Graphs with the New Browser based Gruff
- 05/14/2020
Webinar – Scalable Knowledge Graphs using the New Distributed AllegroGraph 7
- 05/05/2020
Stanford – CS 520 – Knowledge Graphs
- 04/07/2020
Webinar – The Knowledge Graph that Listens
- 10/23/2019
Webinar – Advanced Knowledge Graphs using SHACL and JSON-LD
- 09/19/2019
Recorded Webcast – Why is JSON-LD Important to Businesses?
- 03/27/2019
A Jupyter Notebook for Learning AllegroGraph (Bonus n-Dimensional GeoSpatial)
- 03/28/2018
Navigating Time and Probability in Knowledge Graphs
- 03/22/2018
A Time Machine for your Graph
- 08/23/2017
The Power of Machine Learning and Graphs
- 03/01/2017
IC FOODS Conference 2016 – afternoon speakers
- 11/07/2016
The Power of Cognitive Probability Graphs
- 06/15/2016
Meetup at Franz, Inc. – “Introduction to AllegroGraph”
- 11/07/2015
Enriching the Property Graph with Relationship Objects
- 12/02/2015
Maximizing New Multi-dimensional Indexing for Complex Location Aware Applications with AllegroGraph v5.0
- 02/25/2015
Haystax presents: Advanced Analytic Techniques for Insider Threat Detection
- 01/21/2015
Graph vs. Semantic Graph Databases – Selecting the Right Database for Your Next Project
- 07/23/2014
Taxonomies and Ontologies for Graph Search
- 12/11/2013