Speaker · SF Tech Week · Oct 6–8, 2026
Joshua Shinavier
Cognisee.ai
Bio
Joshua Shinavier is Head of Engineering for Knowledge Systems at Cognisee and an ontologist with twenty years at the boundary of knowledge representation and computation. He earned his PhD at RPI under Jim Hendler and Deborah McGuinness, and co-founded Apache TinkerPop, the open-source graph framework behind Gremlin. He led data standardization at Uber, built LinkedIn's OWL-based privacy-policy framework for GDPR and DMA compliance, and contributed to Microsoft Fabric Graph. He created Hydra and hosts The Ontology Show.