---
title: "Daniel Chalef"
category: "people"
role: "Founder and CEO"
company: "Zep AI"
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielchalef/"
twitter: "https://x.com/danielchalef"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Daniel Chalef

## Profile
Founder and CEO at [[zep-ai|Zep AI]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielchalef/)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/danielchalef)

## Biography
Daniel Chalef is the founder and CEO of Zep, agent memory at enterprise scale. He co-created Graphiti, the popular open-source temporal knowledge graph framework. A second-time founder, Daniel previously built and led machine learning and engineering teams at late-stage companies. He lives in San Francisco.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-07-01-daniel-chalef-citation-needed-provenance-for-llm-built-knowledge-graphs]] — Citation Needed: Provenance for LLM-Built Knowledge Graphs (2026-07-01, 3:20pm-3:40pm)

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph summarizes how this person appears across the conference source graph: scheduled sessions, linked videos, transcripts, and slide-derived evidence.

### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-07-01-daniel-chalef-citation-needed-provenance-for-llm-built-knowledge-graphs|Citation Needed: Provenance for LLM-Built Knowledge Graphs]]

### Media Signals
- `youtube-T5IMo5ntyhA` — 9 slide-derived text signals
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-T5IMo5ntyhA`: daniel, media, assistant, remembers, everything, except, listening, habits.
- Evidence links for `youtube-T5IMo5ntyhA`: [[youtube-T5IMo5ntyhA]], [[youtube-T5IMo5ntyhA-slides]], [[youtube-T5IMo5ntyhA-dense-slides]], [[youtube-T5IMo5ntyhA-reconstructed-slides]]