Berlin Buzzwords 2026

Vincent Pistor

Vincent is the VP Commercial at Cognee. He worked for 4+ years in venture capital, investing in 20+ AI, open-source, and infrastructure companies, at early-stage all over Europe. As an investor, he led the pre-seed round of Cognee and joined the company full-time as the commercial and growth lead by the end of 2025. He loves to talk about anything related to knowledge graphs, memory, context, world-models, or open-source.

Vincent has an academic background in economics and data sciences from LSE in London.


Company/Organisation:

cognee


Session

06-08
16:30
40min
Search is Back: Solving the "Context Crisis" for AI Agents
David Louis Hollembaek, Vincent Pistor

Why do smart agents make dumb mistakes? The culprit is context, an old problem with new solutions. Let's fast-forward through 20 years of search evolution to fix the missing link in today’s Agentic AI.
We’ll demonstrate how to combine Knowledge Graphs and Vector Search to build reliable, context-aware applications using open-source tools.

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