For more than 12 years Panos Alexopoulos has been working at the intersection of data, semantics, language and software, contributing in building knowledge-based systems that deliver value to business and society.

Born and raised in Athens, Greece, he currently works as Head of Ontology at Textkernel, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where he leads a team of data professionals (Linguists, Data Scientists and Data Engineers) in developing and delivering a large cross-lingual Knowledge Graph in the HR and Recruitment domain. Prior to Textkernel, Alexopoulos worked at Expert System Iberia (former iSOCO) in Madrid, Spain, as a Research Manager, and at IMC Technologies in Athens, Greece, as a Semantic Solutions Architect and Ontologist.

Academically, he holds a PhD in Knowledge Engineering and Management from National Technical University of Athens, and has published 60 papers at international conferences, journals and books. Alexopoulos strives to present my work and experiences in all kinds of venues, trying to bridge the gap between academia and industry so that they can benefit from one another.

Big Data, Databases & Infrastructure, Data, Data Analytics, Software, Software Development Engineering, Technology, Business, Business Leadership,