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Speakers

Taylor Riggan

Employers on the program

  1. 2019–2026Amazon Web Services16 talks
Events8
Conferences3
Talks20
Years active2019–2026
Miles between events3,5198 in-person events · 1 country

Appearances by year

201920202021202220232024202520262027
  • AWS re:Invent
  • DataTune
  • SQLSaturday

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Nov 30, 2026AWS re:Invent 2026AWS re:Inventbuilders sessionBuild a knowledge graph-based agent guardrail with Amazon Neptune
as Amazon Web Services
AI agents assert relationships such as compatible products, cleared counterparties, or approved suppliers, derived from LLM reasoning rather than verified data.…Show less

AI agents assert relationships such as compatible products, cleared counterparties, or approved suppliers, derived from LLM reasoning rather than verified data. When these assertions are wrong, downstream business decisions fail.

Nov 30, 2026AWS re:Invent 2026AWS re:InventbreakoutBuild an agentic context layer with ontologies on Amazon Neptune
as Amazon Web Services
Most knowledge graphs answer questions but never close the loop with operational systems. In this session, explore how to build an ontology-driven context layer…Show less

Most knowledge graphs answer questions but never close the loop with operational systems. In this session, explore how to build an ontology-driven context layer that transforms a knowledge graph into an active control plane for AI agents.

Nov 30, 2026AWS re:Invent 2026AWS re:InventworkshopBuilding ontologies with Amazon Neptune
as Amazon Web Services
Large language models pattern-match on tokens, not business meaning, which causes subtle failures when applied to enterprise data. Ontologies address this by…Show less

Large language models pattern-match on tokens, not business meaning, which causes subtle failures when applied to enterprise data. Ontologies address this by giving AI systems a formal structure for knowledge: a graph defining what exists, how entities relate, and what questions are meaningful.

Nov 30, 2026AWS re:Invent 2026AWS re:Inventchalk talkBuilding Production Graph Pipelines with Nodestream and Amazon Neptune
as Amazon Web Services

Nodestream is an open source declarative framework for building, maintaining, and analyzing graph data, built collaboratively by engineers at Intuit and AWS.

Dec 1, 2025AWS re:Invent 2025AWS re:InventworkshopBuild a web-scale application with purpose-built databases & analytics
as Amazon Web Services

In this workshop, learn to build modern web applications at scale using purpose-built databases.

Dec 1, 2025AWS re:Invent 2025AWS re:Inventbuilders sessionUse GraphRAG with Amazon Neptune to improve generative AI applications [REPEAT]
as Amazon Web Services
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications use the power of generative AI to analyze private datasets. GraphRAG combines knowledge graphs with RAG to…Show less

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications use the power of generative AI to analyze private datasets. GraphRAG combines knowledge graphs with RAG to produce explainable responses that are grounded in the semantic relationships between concepts, entities, and the underlying content.

Dec 2, 2024AWS re:Invent 2024AWS re:InventworkshopBuild a web-scale application with purpose-built databases & analytics [REPEAT]
as Amazon Web Services

In this workshop, learn to build modern web applications at scale using purpose-built databases.

Dec 2, 2024AWS re:Invent 2024AWS re:Inventchalk talkEffective Amazon Neptune data modeling strategies in the age of gen AI
as Amazon Web Services
The emergence of generative AI has also seen the rise of innovative new graph workloads like GraphRAG and natural language querying. In this chalk talk, learn…Show less

The emergence of generative AI has also seen the rise of innovative new graph workloads like GraphRAG and natural language querying. In this chalk talk, learn how to deploy these new workload types on Amazon Neptune.

Dec 2, 2024AWS re:Invent 2024AWS re:Inventchalk talkMigrating from self-managed InfluxDB to Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB
as Amazon Web Services
In this chalk talk, demystify the process of migrating your self-managed InfluxDB open source database deployment to Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB. Whether…Show less

In this chalk talk, demystify the process of migrating your self-managed InfluxDB open source database deployment to Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB. Whether you're currently running InfluxDB versions 1.X or 2.X, discover the various options and steps to make the transition seamless.

Dec 2, 2024AWS re:Invent 2024AWS re:Inventbuilders sessionUse GraphRAG with Amazon Neptune to improve generative AI applications [REPEAT]
as Amazon Web Services
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications use the power of generative AI to analyze private, differentiating datasets. However, baseline RAG can…Show less

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications use the power of generative AI to analyze private, differentiating datasets. However, baseline RAG can sometimes produce poor responses that lack explainability and contextual awareness and include conflated sources and spurious claims.

Mar 8, 2024DataTune 2024DataTunetalkExplainability for Similarity Search Using Graphs, LLMs, and Vector Embeddings
Feb 10, 2024SQLSaturday Atlanta BI & Data Analytics #1071SQLSaturday—A survey of graph algorithms and how they are used in modern day data analytics

Ever wondered how a bank calculates fraud risk? Or delved into the inner workings of the foundational techniques used by web search engines?

Nov 27, 2023AWS re:Invent 2023AWS re:InventworkshopBuild a web-scale application with purpose-built databases & analytics [REPEAT]

In this workshop, learn to build modern web applications at scale using purpose-built databases.

Nov 27, 2023AWS re:Invent 2023AWS re:Inventchalk talkGraph modeling best practices with Amazon Neptune
Use cases such as real-time recommendation engines demand high performance. When performance is your top priority, model optimizations can be very important to…Show less

Use cases such as real-time recommendation engines demand high performance. When performance is your top priority, model optimizations can be very important to achieving your goals.

Nov 28, 2022AWS re:Invent 2022AWS re:InventworkshopBuild a web-scale application with purpose-built databases & analytics
as AWS
In this workshop, learn to build modern web applications at scale using purpose-built databases. Discover how to apply development patterns using Amazon…Show less

In this workshop, learn to build modern web applications at scale using purpose-built databases. Discover how to apply development patterns using Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Neptune, and Amazon OpenSearch Service to build a fully functional and scalable bookstore ecommerce application and dive deep into best practices along the way.

Slides
Nov 28, 2022AWS re:Invent 2022AWS re:InventworkshopBuild your first graph application with Amazon Neptune
as Amazon Neptune, AWS
Amazon Neptune is a fast, reliable, and fully managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected…Show less

Amazon Neptune is a fast, reliable, and fully managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets. In this workshop, get hands-on experience and learn how to use Amazon Neptune to create and load a connected graph dataset, write connected graph queries with Gremlin and openCypher, and generate rich visualizations with your...

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Nov 28, 2022AWS re:Invent 2022AWS re:Inventchalk talkJump-start graph projects with Apache TinkerPop & Jupyter notebooks
as Amazon Neptune, AWS
Graph databases have many uses including ways to detect fraud, discover security risks, and store data lineage across disparate datasets. Building such…Show less

Graph databases have many uses including ways to detect fraud, discover security risks, and store data lineage across disparate datasets. Building such applications can require an iterative approach, and many developers prefer to start this process on their local workstations.

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Dec 2, 2019AWS re:Invent 2019AWS re:Inventworkshop[REPEAT 1] Hands-on with Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
as Amazon Web Services
Join us for a practical, hands-on workshop on using Amazon ElastiCache. This session is designed for developers, engineers, and database administrators who are…Show less

Join us for a practical, hands-on workshop on using Amazon ElastiCache. This session is designed for developers, engineers, and database administrators who are involved in designing ElastiCache for Redis.

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Dec 2, 2019AWS re:Invent 2019AWS re:Inventchalk talkBest practices for identity resolution with Amazon Neptune
as Amazon Web Services
In this chalk talk, learn how to build a cloud-centric, graph-based identity resolution system that connects customer data across devices, channels, and…Show less

In this chalk talk, learn how to build a cloud-centric, graph-based identity resolution system that connects customer data across devices, channels, and touchpoints and helps enable better media buying and personalization. Learn about best practices and the mistakes to avoid for identity resolution data collection, processing, and preparation.

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Dec 2, 2019AWS re:Invent 2019AWS re:InventworkshopBuilding your first graph application with Amazon Neptune
as Amazon Web Services
In this session, get hands-on with Amazon Neptune and build a cloud-based graph application. Learn how to quickly load data and begin writing Gremlin…Show less

In this session, get hands-on with Amazon Neptune and build a cloud-based graph application. Learn how to quickly load data and begin writing Gremlin traversals.

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Frequent co-speakers

SpeakerShared eventsShared talksLast together
Ali Saidi6—2026
Amit Kumar6—2026
Andrew Crudge6—2026
Andrew Krug6—2026
Andy Reedy6—2026
Andy Warfield6—2026
Arthur Petitpierre6—2026
David Piet6—2026
David Yanacek6—2026
Dirk Fröhner6—2026
Eric Brandwine6—2026
Eric Johnson6—2026
Fabrizio Manfredi6—2026
Gavin McCullagh6—2026
Giuseppe Angelo Porcelli6—2026

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