Events Hosted by Semantic Arts
5th Annual Data-Centric Architecture Forum
Fort Collins, Colorado | June 5-7, 2023
More information and registration coming soon!
Estes Park Group
First Thursday of each Month | Virtual
Semantic Arts' Estes Park Group is a monthly online presentation and discussion forum on knowledge graph and data-centric architecture (DCA) trends. SA President Dave McComb first brought the Group together in person in 2017 for a weekend retreat in Estes Park, Colorado, thus the name.
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gist Council
First Thursday of each Month | Virtual
We have an active governance and best practices community around gist, called the gist Council.
Practitioners and users of gist come together to discuss how to use gist and make suggestions on its evolution.
If you would like to be involved, enter your email and a description of your use of or interest in gist in the box to the right. Someone will be in touch soon.
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Events Semantic Arts is Attending
Enterprise Data World Digital 2023
March 27-31, 2023 | Virtual
Virtual | March 27 - March 31
Workshop: The Data-Centric Approach
Thursday March 30 | 8:00 am to 11:00 am
Led by: Dave McComb, Heather Moore, Justin Dowdy and Peter Winstanley
The typical large enterprise has thousands of application systems, each with its own database and idiosyncratic data model. These are the famous "data silos." Most enterprises spend a great deal of their budget trying to put Humpty Dumpty back together with systems integration, middleware, data warehouses, data lakes, and the like. There is a better way. It leverages semantics, knowledge graphs, and model-driven development. We call it the "Data-Centric Approach."
At the end of this tutorial, attendees will:
- Understand exactly where data silos come from, and what must be done to prevent their growth
- Be acquainted with next-generation tools, including Knowledge Graphs, Triple Stores, and Model-Driven Development
- Learn a high-level version of a methodology for implementing Knowledge Graphs
- Be aware of common pitfalls in the implementation of Knowledge Graphs
Presentation will include online demos and case studies of firms that are successfully implementing Data-Centric.
Workshop: Understanding Knowledge Graphs
Friday March 31 | 8:00 am to 11:00 am
Led by: Dave McComb and Mark Wallace
More and more enterprises are adopting Knowledge Graphs. Some of this interest has come from the incredible success firms like Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Amazon have had with their graph efforts. Part of it comes from early adopters in Enterprises who have found capabilities in Graph Databases that are very difficult to replicate in traditional systems, such as graph analytics. Other interest comes from firms using the graph as an integration hub.
This tutorial will start with what are Graph Databases, and how they relate to Knowledge Graphs. We will show how relational, big data, and even unstructured data can be mapped to Graph. We will explore and demonstrate the two main types of Graph Databases: Labeled Property Graphs and RDF Triple Stores and discuss the pros and cons of each. By the end of this tutorial, attendees will:
- Understand what Graph Databases and Knowledge Graphs are, and how they differ from traditional databases
- Be able to distinguish Labeled Property Graphs and Triple Store, and understand the strengths and weaknesses of each
- Understand when to select a graph rather than a relational data structure
- Appreciate the appropriate applications for Knowledge Graphs
Agenda:
- What is a Knowledge Graph?
- Value proposition for Knowledge Graphs:
- Flexibility
- Ability to integrate structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data
- Graph analytics
- A cook’s tour and demo of Labeled Property Graphs
- A cook’s tour and demo of RDF Triple Store
- Discussion of knowledge graph use cases
- A road map for getting started
2023 Basic Formal Ontology Summit Meeting
May 23 - 25, 2023
Buffalo, New York
More information, and the level of Semantic Arts involvement, coming soon!
7th Biennial ISKO UK Conference
May 23 - 25, 2023
Glasgow | July 24 - 25, 2023
Peter Winstanley, Semantic Arts
More information coming soon, but Peter will be speaking on issues related to data quality and rust in the context of semantic technologies.
Past Events
Virtual| February 6-7, 2023
Building on the success of last year's virtual symposium, join us as we hear from the "doers", those who have committed to the journey in changing how information can be leveraged as a strategic asset.
Learn more and view recordings of presentations: 2023 EDT Symposium
Austin, TX | January 28, 2023
Presentation by Dave McComb: Data Integration Session on "Zero Copy Integration"
The reason we need to talk about zero copy integration is that its opposite is so well entrenched that most practitioners can’t imagine a world without some form of extract, transform and load, or system integration copy and manipulate through APIs. The traditional enterprise data landscape in an almost endless set of pipelines, data sets and chutes and ladders that ferry data from its source to myriad destinations. This seems necessary, because each application we use and each tool we employ has its own bespoke way of structuring data. Each application ends up morphing the prior application’s idiosyncrasies into its own idiosyncrasies. In this talk we unpack the prerequisites needed to achieve Data-centricity and zero copy integration. We will present two case studies of firms that are enjoying zero copy integration. We will also present a simple demonstration, to make the idea more concrete.
Presentation by Michael Uschold: Ontology for Data Scientists Workshop
We start with an interactive discussion to identify what are the main things that data scientists do and why and what some key challenges are. We give a brief overview of ontology and semantic technology with the goal of identifying how and where it may be useful for data scientists.
The main part of the tutorial is to give a deeper understanding of what ontologies are and how they are used. This technology grew out of core AI research in the 70s and 80s. It was formalized and standardized in the 00s by the W3C under the rubric of the Semantic Web. We introduce the following foundational concepts for building an ontology in OWL, the W3C standard language for representing ontologies.
Virtual| October 19-20, 2022
Led by Phil Blackwood, Semantic Arts
Contact Us for recordings from this session for those in attendance!
This is an interactive training webinar on how and why a journey to becoming Data-Centric is the way to future proof information management for the enterprise. The training will give you a concentrated view into semantic capabilities, practical learnings of Knowledge Graph application and “hands on” use of Ontology best practices.
To increase engagement throughout the training, we ask that you have your video camera on, that you participate in exercises and help to direct the conversation with questions to better understand how you’re absorbing the material.
The training will be held via Zoom on Wednesday, October 19, 2022 and Thursday, October 20, 2022. Details will be sent to registrants beforehand.
Portugal | October 9-13, 2022
Presentation by Justin Dowdy, Semantic Arts
Dyalog users are fortunate to be able to use APL for an entire project when it is a good fit. Traditional software engineers that are interested in APL often have to find ways to use APL on the side or incorporate APL thinking into their professional work. April* and May are two projects that allow APL to be evaluated from Common Lisp and Clojure, respectively. These projects allow APL to be incrementally employed in projects that don't currently use APL.
Justin describes these projects and the ways that he uses them.
Switzerland | October 5-6, 2022
Presentation by Peter Winstanley, Semantic Arts
Peter will be joining this private (invite only) event bringing together friends from the Semantics Community.
Peter, along with other experts, will be speaking on 'Easier RDF'.
Lansing, MI | September 29 - October 1, 2022
"The goal of the U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium series is to bring together the U.S. Semantic Web community and begin forming such a research network. We achieve this by supporting communication across disciplinary, organizational, and geographical boundaries. The Symposium events provide a forum by which participants can share information and ideas, coordinate ongoing or planned research activities, foster synthesis and new collaborations, develop community standards, and advance their science and education through communication and the sharing of ideas."
Peter, along with other experts, will be speaking on 'Easier RDF'.
New York | September 29, 2022
Presentation by Borislav Iordanov:
"From a Property Graph to Standard Knowledge Graph - the Why, the How and the Happily Ever After"
In Person Only, Fort Collins, Colorado | June 6th – 8th, 2022
This is not a spectator event. This is for people who want to co-invent the future. The Data-Centric systems that are being implemented today need more architectural support than currently exists. Maybe you have part of the solution, maybe you need parts of the solution. Either way, come to Fort Collins and contribute.
This will be an intimate, interactive 2 ½ days. We will have ten 90-minute sessions, each one focused on one of the ten core problems to be solved. Each 90-minute session will feature 2-3 practitioners (perhaps including you) describing how they have solved that problem, in a data-centric context, followed by Q&A.
Our theme for this event is “The Last Mile.” As attendees of the last three forums know, there are challenges in implementing a Data-Centric solution that sooner or later need to be addressed. We’ve identified ten challenges that historically have been solved with application-specific code. The data-centric vision is to make applications thinner as more and more shared relationships and other common business logic ends up in the knowledge graph. The question is, how can we move more organizations up the maturity curve?
Many of these challenges have already been solved in graph environments. All could be improved and further integrated. The agenda is totally dedicated to upgrading our shared understanding of the state of the art on these twelve challenges in the Data-Centric / Knowledge Graph environment.
New York, NY | May 2-6, 2022
Hosts: Mark Wallace and Borislav Iordanov
5 days of programming devoted to knowledge graph technologies changing the world. Taking place on the beautiful Cornell Tech campus and globally online. Learn more here.
Presented by Dave McComb: Graph Databases-What Enterprise Data People Need to Know
Dave will be presenting to the DAMA-Phoenix chapter virtually. You can register to hear at Graph Databases – What Enterprise Data People Need to Know (constantcontact.com).
Digital | April 19 - 20, 2022
6 days of content covering topics like Data Governance, Data Architecture, Metadata Management, Data Quality, Enterprise Information Management, and much more. More information can be found here.
Cambridge, UK | April 19 - 20, 2022
Dave McComb has over 30 years of experience with enterprise-level systems and enterprise architecture. He has built enterprise ontologies for over a dozen major enterprises.
See the recording here: YouTube Link
Basel, Switzerland | April 17, 2022
Dave McComb has over 30 years of experience with enterprise-level systems and enterprise architecture. He has built enterprise ontologies for over a dozen major enterprises.
Virtual Symposium | February 28 - March 1
We’re putting together a two-day seminar focused on the firms already committed to this journey. Each is making major systemic improvements. In the process, each is changing how information can be leveraged as a strategic asset.
To help executives, business leaders, enterprise architects, or anyone involved in digital transformation initiatives, we’ll be showcasing fresh stories to reveal key findings and in-depth lessons learned. This seminar will highlight pragmatic solutions and lessons learned along the way.
While no company has completed the entire journey, some are leading the way. At Semantic Arts, we call this pursuit becoming Data Centric. Data centricity is based on principles that govern a new paradigm towards digital and data literacy.
Regardless of where you are, the talents, skills, processes, systems, and roles that made your company successful in the past won’t be enough for future success. Like minded professionals will share those challenges and triumphs.
Take advantage of early registration for this 2-day virtual event on “Enterprise Data Transformation & Knowledge Graph Adoption”. Organizations committed to presenting include Siemens, Morgan Stanley, Montefiore Hospitals, and AstraZeneca. You’ll hear 10 case studies in total followed by an overview of how to get started.
Enterprise Intelligence for Innovators is hosted by Shinydocs Founder and CEO Jason Cassidy. It's an ongoing video series that talks to industry experts, global thought leaders, seasoned consultants and everyday experts about how they're tackling their information challenges and embracing digital transformation.
18-19 November 2021 | 9h00-17h30 CET
Speaker: Dave McComb
In this talk we’ll explain how the single, simple, extensible and federate-able ontology becomes the key to unifying the vast complexity of the typical enterprise data-scape.
November 4, 2021
Join us for a full day of cutting-edge conversations, presentations and panels with technical experts and creative problem solvers who are harnessing the momentum of digital transformation to move communities forward using tech and beyond!
June 23rd & June 24th | 9 am - 12 pm EST
Join our data-centric community! This interactive training webinar is a starting point to future proof information management for the enterprise. The training gives a concentrated exposure into Semantic capabilities, practical learnings of Knowledge Graph application, “hands on” exercises in Protégé, and a view into ontology “best practices”. Click here to learn more.
May 3-6, 2021
The Knowledge Graph Conference bridges the gap between industry, which is increasingly recognizing the necessity of integrated data, and academia, where semantic technologies have been developing for over twenty years. Our events, education, content, and community efforts facilitate meaningful exchange between diverse groups, and increase awareness, development and adoption of this powerful technology.
Speaking from Semantic Arts: Peter Winstanley. Click here for more information.
April 21, 2021, 12:30 pm - 1:40 pm
Dave Mccomb, author of "Software Wasteland," joins Brian Platz, co-founder of Fluree, to introduce the concept of data-centricity.
Data-centricity is a mindset as much as it is a technical architecture. At its core, data-centricity acknowledges data’s valuable and versatile role in the larger enterprise and industry ecosystem, and treats information as the core asset to enterprise architectures. Opposite of the "application-centric" stack, a data-centric architecture is one where data exists independently of a singular application and can empower a broad range of information stakeholders.
Wednesday, April 7, 4:00 pm CT
Companies spend an obscene amount of money every year on data and analytics initiatives. And almost all of that spend goes toward applications that employ vastly different data models. Normalizing data structures is a painstaking process that most IT teams are used to by now. But should we normalize normalization?
In this episode, Juan, Tim, and Dave McComb, President of Semantic Arts and author of Software Wasteland and The Data-Centric Revolution, discuss what it takes to shift from an application-centric to a data-centric mindset.
March 22-26, 2021
Data-Centric — The Revolution will not be Televised: Dave McComb
As Gil Scott-Heron put it in his classic song of the same title: “The revolution will not televised… The revolution will be live.” Data-Centric is ushering in a revolution. It requires that we change the way we think. And it requires we act on the new way we think. The Data-Centric revolution will not be televised. It will not be hyped (hopefully). It will occur quietly in the minds, priorities and practices that firms undertake. In this session we will outline what the Data-Centric Revolution is.
March 18, 2021 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm EST
Breaking down the confusion of the data world and where to start to maximize data value and enterprise intelligence.
About: With increased accessibility to data and an increasing need to make data informed decisions, the world of data has erupted with many solutions, promises, and frankly, jargon.
Join Dan DeMers, CEO and Co-Founder of Cinchy, and Dave McComb, President of Semantic Arts and Best-Selling Author to break down the ambiguity of six data systems and products you’ve likely heard, but probably don’t really understand the difference of...you’re not the only one!
March 16-19, 2021
Introduction to the W3C Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT): Peter Winstanley
March 16-18, 2021
At this year's conference, we will discuss all the valuable COVID-19 related Lessons Learned information acquired over the past year and how NATO deals with global crises in the planned panel discussions and from our guest speakers from across the Alliance and Lessons Learned Community.
Speaking from Semantic Arts: Peter Winstanley
January 27, 2021 - March 18, 2021 | 11:00 EST
If you’re interested in building OWL ontologies, join us for KGC’s upcoming Book Club with Michael Uschold, author of “Demystifying OWL for the Enterprise.” Whether you want to build them for practical use, in enterprise or government settings, or a technical manager or student curious to learn how to model with OWL this group is for you! Focusing on the 30% of OWL that gets used 90% of the time, Uschold makes learning OWL easy by speeding up the process and enabling you to master the language. Running from January 27 to March 17, we’ll cover one chapter per week, holding a video call each Wednesday, at 11 am EST, for live discussion and Q&A with Michael. The price of a ticket is $80 ($10 per session).
February 18, 2021 | 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM MST
What works and what simply doesn't while planning for data-centricity? To find out, join Cinchy CEO, Dan DeMers, and our special guest, Semantic Arts President, Dave McComb, for stories from the field and lessons learned from Dave as he has transitioned to data-centricity.
February 1-3, 2021
NOW BEING HELD VIRTUALLY!
The Data-Centric Architecture Forum is an annual conference hosted by Semantic Arts. The forum has created a data-centric community that consists of a collaborative space for practitioners who are interested in helping shape the nascent Data-centric Revolution. This revolution recognizes that the predominant approach to implementing enterprise applications (the “application-centric” approach) is badly broken.
We use this platform to explore what works and what doesn't and we invite vendors that have key parts of the puzzle. The format of the conference is highly interactive; riveting discussions with much input from the audience and short vendor demos. Join our data-centric community! Learn More About the DCA Forum
January 31, 2021 | 9:00 am MT
Join our data-centric community! A virtual one day interactive webinar on Knowledge Graphs, Semantic Technology and Model Driven Everything
Facilitated by Co-Founder of Semantic Arts, Dave McComb & Phil Blackwood. This is a very interactive training webinar on how and why you should be beginning your journey to becoming Data-Centric.
January 27, 2021 | 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM MST
Enterprises are looking to achieve pervasive automation. This includes not only commodity tasks but also complex knowledge based tasks. Yet they are stuck in an IT quagmire leading to complexity, siloed data and hidden semantics. Ultimately this effectively prevents what is commonly called digital transformation. Only a few large enterprises like Google, Amazon, and Uber have made the mindset and capability transition to turn data and knowledge into a strategic advantage. Their roadmap is build on data-centric principles. What does your roadmap look like?
After their first exploration of why we got into this quagmire in the first place, Chris Brockmann and Dave McComb return for a second session to bridge the gap between problem and solution.
December 9th, 2020 | 11:30 AM MT
Most organizations today strive to be data driven…but what does it mean to be Data Centric? Data Centric Architecture does not equate to Data Driven. Our Panel members will discuss global business’s long marriage to multiple vendors’ applications with proprietary metadata structures, the data silos this has created, and the challenges and opportunities this has presented, before looking forward into the emerging Data Centric Architecture. Decisional Architecture will be a theme through this discussion from the Traditional Top-down/Bottom-up architectures in use today to the implications on how Analytics might be done in a Data Centric organization. featuring leading data luminaries – David McComb (Denver, Co), John O’Gorman (Calgary)
December 2nd, 2020 | 5 PM CET
Catch Dave McComb, author of the groundbreaking book "Software Wasteland", and Chris Brockmann, data-centricity evangelist and eccenca GmbH CEO, getting down to the root of the trouble at our new Escape From Data Darkness webcast series.
Webinar | Wednesday, October 21, 2020 | 9:00 AM
Data-Centric Architecture – Can We Get the Toothpaste Back in the tube?
This presentation described what happensed when a Data Centric philosophy was adopted in one business division, and then the experience in leading a transformation by taking that data-centric practice and its patterns from one division and adopting them across an enterprise.
Webinar | Wednesday, August 26th 2020 | 1:00 pm ET
Join us for this webinar hosted by Fluree!
Dave McComb will cover the critical waste of data integration and the complexity of localized application centric world most deal with today and what's the future look like. Join us and our data-centric community!
LIVE Webinar | Tuesday, June 30th 2020 | 11:00 am ET
Not all knowledge graphs are created equal. Join Mark Wallace of Semantic Arts and Cambridge Semantics for this live webinar on Semantic Web Ontology & a Knowledge Graph.
Webinar | May 4th 2020 10:00 - 11:00 am EDT | May 6th 2020 7:00 -8:00 PM EDT
Our Speakers:
Dave McComb: "After Relational"
Description: Relational Databases have so dominated the enterprise application space for the last 30 years that it is hard to imagine life without them. But at the dawn of the relational era, it was hard to imagine they would win and be so dominant. This presentation reviews what it was about relational that led to its rise, why the many heirs to the throne have not replaced it, and what will.
Stanford University Online Course | April 28th, 2020 | 4:30 -6:30 PM PDT
Our Speakers:
Michael Uschold: "How to Evolve a Knowledge Graph?"
Raleigh, NC | March 9-11, 2020
Peter Winstanley & David Booth: "Next Steps Toward Easier RDF"
This was an interactive session to discuss possible steps toward lowering the adoption barrier for RDF. In order to enable average developers (middle 33% of ability) to develop successful RDF applications.
Michael Uschold: Enterprise Semantic Data "The Siren Song of Semantic Silos"
Following the spirit of US2TS to create community between industry, academia and government, in this session, the presenters shared their experiences of deploying semantic technology in the real world and lessons learned tailored to academia and government.
Fort Collins, CO | February 3-5, 2020
February 2019 we hosted the inaugural Data-Centric Architecture Forum where we started a data-centric community filled with profound conversation about the exploding costs of enterprise systems, discussed strategies to reverse the application-centric mindset, and committed to move the needle in the right direction forging data-centric projects going forward. We are very pleased to announce we'll do this again February 2021. Click below to join our data-centric community!
Austin, TX | January 24-25, 2020
Our Speakers:
Michael Uschold: "Ontology for Data Scientists"
We started with an interactive discussion to identify the main things that data scientists do and why and what some key challenges are. We gave a brief overview of ontology and semantic technology with the goal of identifying how and where it may be useful for data scientists.
Training: AstraZeneca
London, UK | November 2022
Dave McComb and Mark Wallace, Semantic Arts
Traveling to London, Dave and Mark will be delivering a 2 1/2 day training for leaders at AstraZeneca.
This private training is customized to help orient to semantic concepts and provide an educational experience.
Interested in how we can help your team? Contact us today to discuss a fully customizable training plan!
Training: Citi Bank
Virtual | November/December 2022
Phil Blackwood and Justin Dowdy, Semantic Arts
Phil and Justin will be delivering a series of training sessions for Citi Bank over the course of a few weeks.
This private training is customized to help orient to semantic concepts and provide an educational experience.
Interested in how we can help your team? Contact us today to discuss a fully customizable training plan!
