Paco Nathan, leads DevRel for the Entity Resolved Knowledge Graph practice area at Senzing, and is a computer scientist with +40 years of tech industry experience and core expertise in data science, natural language, and graph technologies. He's the author of numerous books, videos, and tutorials about these topics, and hosts the monthly "Graph Power Hour! webinar series. Werner Herzog is his spirit animal.

Paco is an advisor for: Kurve, EmergentMethods; lead committer for the `pytextrank` and `kglab` open source projects. Formerly: Director of Learning Group at O'Reilly Media; and Director, Community Evangelism for Apache Spark at Databricks.

Long, long ago, when the world was much younger, Paco led a media collective / indie bookstore / performance art space / large online community called FringeWare. Beginning in 1992, this was one of the first online bookstores and likely the first commercial use of a chat bot on the Internet.