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Semantic Arts stays actively engaged with the broader data-centric transformation community. Come say hello to us at conferences, events, and more where we present and learn from our peers.
In addition, Semantic Arts is proud to support industry development through our Enterprise Data Transformation Community (EDTC) for practitioners and business leaders, which is free to join. We believe that forwarding the data-centric conversation benefits everyone. Learn more about the EDTC and our annual events below.
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Data-Centric Architecture Forums since 2019
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Enterprise Data Transformation Symposiums since 2022
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talks and panels delivered across both programs
What’s next
Upcoming community events
Tue · Oct
27
2026
EDTC Webinar
Free
From Capability to Trust: Building a Reliable Evidence Layer for Clinical AI
Ravi Bajracharya, CTO & Co-founder, Datum.bio · Virtual · 11:30am MT / 1:30pm ET
Nov
4–5
2026
Industry event
We’re attending
SecureWorld Seattle 2026
Will Mandel, Ontologist · Cybersecurity conference · Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue, WA
Tue · Nov
10
2026
EDTC Tooling Talk
Free
Oxigraph and What’s Next for RDF and SPARQL
Thomas Pellissier Tanon, creator and maintainer of Oxigraph · Virtual · 12:00pm MT / 2:00pm ET
Wed · Nov
11
2026
Industry event
We’re speaking
SPARQL Patterns for Connected Data
Doug Beeson, Ontologist · Connected Data London 2026 · Leonardo Royal Hotel London Tower Bridge · 5:10pm GMT (10:10am MT / 12:10pm ET)
Nov
16–19
2026
Industry event
We’re speaking
KMWorld 2026
Dave McComb and Doug Beeson · Washington, DC · Session title and time to come
Tue · Nov
17
2026
EDTC gist Forum
Free
gistUFO: An Alignment of gist and gUFO
Dylan Abney and Will Mandel, Semantic Arts · Virtual · 11:30am MT / 1:30pm ET
Mon–Wed · Feb
8–10
2027
EDT Symposium 2027
Enterprise Data Transformation Symposium 2027
Virtual · three mornings · from $45, and EDTC members pay half
The annual event
Enterprise Data Transformation Symposium 2027
Three mornings, online, February 8–10. Practitioners who have moved an enterprise to a data-centric architecture describe what they built, what it cost, and what they would do differently. Results, not roadmaps.
- Three talks, one vendor lightning round, and one panel each day
- Mornings only, so a working day survives around it
- Run by the EDT Community, powered by Semantic Arts
- Five years of past programs to judge it by
Registration
Super early bird
On now through November 30
$45
Early bird: December 1 to January 15
$95
Standard: from January 16
$145
EDT Community members pay half at whichever tier is current. Membership is free, and joining takes a minute.
The community
The Enterprise Data Transformation Community
A free community of people doing this work. Members get the invitation to everything below, half off the Symposium, and a Slack workspace for talking shop between sessions. Powered by Semantic Arts.
Tooling Talks
A maintainer or vendor walks through a tool in the data-centric stack and takes questions. A demonstration, not a pitch. Known as the Estes Park Group, after the Colorado town where it first met.
Next
November 10, 12:00pm MT / 2:00pm ET
Oxigraph and What’s Next for RDF and SPARQL
Webinars
One practitioner, one problem, then questions. Speakers come from the community, and they talk about work they did themselves.
Next
October 27, 11:30am MT / 1:30pm ET
From Capability to Trust: Building a Reliable Evidence Layer for Clinical AI
gist Forum
An open working session on the gist upper ontology: modeling problems worked through live, with the discussion left in. Useful whether you use gist or are deciding whether to.
Next
November 17, 11:30am MT / 1:30pm ET
gistUFO: An Alignment of gist and gUFO
Networking & Roundtables
Small-group sessions with no slides: a handful of practitioners and one question, with room to compare notes on what is working.
Next
To be announced
Educational Resources
Recordings of past sessions and symposium recaps, the community newsletter, and the open-source gist ontology with its documentation. The reading and watching behind the live events, and a good place to start if any of it is new to you.
Start here
The EDTC Slack workspace
Always open. Channels for the events, for tooling, and for semantic modeling, and somewhere to ask the question that is too specific for a talk. It is where the community carries on between sessions.
#events
#tool-talk
#semantic-modeling
#gist
In person
Data-Centric Architecture Forum 2027
Three days in Fort Collins with a small group of architects, engineers, and data practitioners who are building data-centric systems now. Presenters show production semantic models and knowledge graphs at work on real enterprise problems, and the room works through the hardest parts of the architecture together.
- June 8–10, 2027 · Fort Collins, Colorado
- $150 advance registration until March 31, 2027
- Held every June and kept small on purpose, with no expo hall
- Themes at DCAF 2026: security, validity, and AI integration
No booths.
No sales pitches.
No buzzwords.
DCAF is the conference that gets into the how. It is for people who have already decided to become data-centric and need to know how best to proceed.
Sessions are built for long conversations and live demonstrations, and the people around the table are architects building these systems too. Expect to take part in the discussion as much as listen to it.
The back catalog
Watch what we’ve already run
Past sessions are online. Start anywhere.
Symposium recaps
Program, speakers, and recordings for the 2023 through 2026 symposiums, on datatransform.co.
Tooling Talk recordings
Tool walkthroughs from past Estes Park Group sessions, on the Semantic Arts YouTube channel.
gist Forum recordings
Modeling sessions working through real problems in gist, with the discussion left in.
- Past symposium speakers have come from Morgan Stanley, AstraZeneca, Siemens, Bosch, Roche, IKEA, Oracle, Nokia, UBS, Amazon, Netflix, Bloomberg, and AbbVie, among others
- Each symposium’s recordings are on its recap page at datatransform.co
Where to next
The books
Books by our team, including The Data-Centric Revolution and Software Wasteland.
Hear about all of it first
Members get the invitation to every session above, half off the Symposium, and the Slack workspace. It is free.
The EDT Community and the DCA Forum are powered by Semantic Arts.