LLM Knowledge Bases, AI Memory, and more
Topic: Personal Wikis, AI Memory, and more
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📆 Agenda
5:00 pm - Registration & Networking
5:30 pm - Welcome & Introductions
6:00 pm "Semiont: A human+AI collaborative context engineering and agent memory platform" Semiont is a personal wiki that serves git repositories as annotated Knowledge Bases. Built on the W3C Web Annotation standard, Semiont transforms unstructured content into interconnected semantic networks — all stored as portable, interoperable annotations. Self-hosted, so your data stays on your infrastructure. Inference runs locally or in the cloud — mix providers per worker to balance cost, capability, and privacy.
Adam Pingel, Project Lead for Semiont, The AI Alliance at IBM.
6:20 pm "Control Plane for Agent memory" Coding agents still feel stuck in single-player mode. Most recently, we have seen a need to store and manage the memory they produce across various workflows. What if we could have one control plane for it? In this talk, we'll walk through setting up a few sessions that try to accomplish a simple goal across different repositories and allow us to share information from these sessions with other agents that might benefit from them
Veljko Kovac, Head of FDE @ Cognee
6:40 pm Powering premium visual experiences for brands with SpeedSize.
An AI-powered media compression and delivery platform built for eCommerce brands, designed to convert more existing paid traffic into engaged shoppers, as it does for hundreds of leading brands worldwide. It makes images and videos up to 99% smaller and up to 6.5× faster than any competitor, while preserving full 4K quality - delivering the fastest CDN performance on the internet. Powered by a patented Psychovisual Compression Index (PVCI) and a Hyper-Performance AI CDN, the AI-agent platform analyzes billions of images and videos at the pixel level using AI recognition, machine learning, edge computing, and neuroscience.
Vlad Malanin, CTO @ SpeedSize
7:00 pm Q&A
7:30 pm Networking
8:00 pm End
Speaker Bios:
Adam Pingel is the Project Lead for Semiont, and Head of Knowledge Engineering for The AI Alliance at IBM. Prior to that, he was CTO of Global Platforms at LexisNexis, which he joined via the acquisition of Ravel Law.
Veljko Kovac is the Head of Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE) at Cognee AI, leading deployments of memory systems for AI agents. He previously founded a VC-backed startup, raising pre-seed funding from leading investors across San Francisco and London to build a trust layer for agentic AI. Before that, he conducted research on Graph Neural Networks under the supervision of Prof. Pietro Liò at the University of Cambridge.
Vlad Malanin is the co-founder and CTO at SpeedSize. He has 15+ years of experience in high-load web development, AI, cloud computing, Big Data, media processing and content delivery. He's also a software architect, scientist, doctor, former surgeon, and has a PhD in Computer Science.
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We look forward to bringing New York's AI community together! 🚀
Food and drink, engaging conversation, and incredible company are sponsored by IBM, AI Alliance and SpeedSize
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