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Los Angeles, CA
July 2022

Jans Aasman

CEO
Franz Inc.

Dr. Jans Aasman started his career as an experimental and cognitive psychologist, earning his PhD in cognitive science with a detailed model of car driver behavior He has spent most of his professional life in telecommunications research, specializing in intelligent user interfaces and applied artificial intelligence projects. Jans is currently the CEO of Franz Inc., the leading supplier of scalable Graph database products that provide the storage layer for powerful reasoning and ontology modeling capabilities for Knowledge Graph applications. 

Dr. Aasman has gained notoriety as a conference speaker at such events as Smart Data, NoSQL Now, International Semantic Web Conference, KMWorld, Java One, Linked Data Planet, INSA, GeoWeb, AAAI, IEEE, Enterprise Data World, STIDS,  ODSC, Text Analytics, and DEBS to name a few.