Willemsen, Christophe: - Christophe discovered graph databases during a project that mapped family trees for the Belgian Canine Royal Society, aimed at improving the detection of potential hips dysplasia disease risks. Since then, he has been in love with using graph databases for storing and representing highly connected and complex data. He joined GraphAware in 2014 where he consulted with clients and helped them derive value from the usage of graph technologies. He pioneered the R&D of combining NLP and information retrieval techniques with graphs leading to the ignition of GraphAwareâ€(TM)s flagship product, Hume, a mission-critical graph analytics platform. He is now Chief Technology Officer at GraphAware, focused on strategic R&D and consulting.