Events Hosted by Semantic Arts
Estes Park Group
First Thursday of each Month | Virtual
The 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. This is designed for open discussion among enthusiasts and practitioners, not a vendor sales pitch.
September Presenter: TBD
October Topic: Stratos Kontopoulos, foodpairing.com
November Presenter: Blair Jenner & Kewal Dhariwal, 3d-ess.com
Have an idea for future presentations? Let us know at admin@semanticarts.com
Want to see older presentations? Visit the playlist here: Estes Park Group Recordings
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gist Forum
Every 2 Months, 1st Thursday of the Month | Virtual
We maintain an active gist community forum where practitioners and users of gist come together to discuss the gist model, implementation best practices, and evolution.
Meetings occur virtually on the first Thursday of every other month, starting in January.
Please fill out the form here if you would like to become involved.
To view older recordings, visit: gist Forum Recordings
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Events Semantic Arts is Attending
Pistoia Alliance Webinar Series
Starting September 16, 2023 | Virtual
As a proud member of the Pistoia Alliance, Semantic Arts is honored to contribute to a virtual ontology training starting in September. Featuring 5 sessions, the goal will be training with a business slant on the complexity of R&D data discovery for medication innovation.
Details are forthcoming, but contact us directly for more information!
Webinar: Data-Centric Strategies to Break the Cycle of Legacy Addiction
October 17th | Virtual
Mark your calendar for October 17th! We're just a few weeks away from an exclusive webinar opportunity with Dave McComb, President of Semantic Arts, Inc.
➡️ Dave will join Fluree CEO Brian Platz to discuss practical steps organizations can take to break the cycle of legacy addiction and move to a more data-centric architecture.
They'll describe the path to #datacentricity through a continuum: Legacy Amplification, Legacy Avoidance, Legacy Erosion, and Legacy Replacement.
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
October 10-12, 2023 | Denver, CO
This year's annual meeting of the "Committee on Data Management and Analytics" will be held in Denver from October 10-12.
Dave McComb will be on a panel on data governance.
Ontotext Knowledge Graph Forum
November 14-16, 2023 | Virtual
Semantic Arts is looking forward to another great conference this year!
Mark Wallace will be presenting "Jump Start your Knowledge Graph with gist!"
Knowledge Graphs (KG) are rapidly gaining ground as a representation of choice for modeling highly linked data! If done well, using OWL to define the KG's metamodel allows for the meaning of the concepts to be sharable, unambiguous, deeply logical, consistent, and capable of inferring new knowledge via automated reasoners. However, "doing an OWL model well" is often pretty difficult. That's where gist can help. gist is Semantic Arts’ minimalist upper ontology, designed to provide the maximum coverage of typical business concepts with the fewest number of primitives. As such, it creates a great starting point for any new semantic KG project.
In this talk, we will:
- Introduce gist
- Give some small case studies of how it has jump-started many of our real-world KG projects
- Offer some Q&A time to ask questions about gist
- Explain how you can get involved in using and contributing to gist
Data Modeling Zone
February 27 - March 1, 2024 | Phoenix, AZ
Keynote from Dave McComb on "Zero Copy Integration"
Semantic Arts will also be hosting workshops on "Introduction to Ontology and Knowledge Graph Implementation" including...
- What is an ontology and why should you care?
- Data Centric modeling mindset shift to solve system silo and integration challenges
- Introduction to Semantic principles - Data Reusability, Globally Unique Identifiers, Hidden Meaning, Rigidity vs. Flexibility
- Growing pervasiveness of Knowledge Graphs: Trends, Triples, Ontology as Schema
- Getting started on your Ontology model: Examples within Industries, Attributes, Generalization vs. Specialization, Relationships in data, Logic within the model, Metadata vs. Data
- Introduction to OWL – formalize Vocabulary for Data
- Ontology modeling as Metadata
- Subject / Predicate / Object, Namespaces, Triples vs. Tables, Property Characteristics, Class Expressions, Annotations, Common Vocabulary, Sub Properties … and more
Use the link to the right for more information and to register today!
LinuxFest Northwest
Date TBD | Bellingham, WA
This event has been postponed until Spring 2024.
Shawn Goodwin (Semantic Developer) will be sharing about Graph Based Development. Specifically:
"Graph data structures are covered in computer science courses, but when it comes to applications of graphs in software development, the first impulse of many developers is to extract parts of the graph to put it in a key value store, or JSON object, or an Array. I will present a brief history of knowledge organizations, and show why many philosophers are leaning towards graphs as a way of thinking about knowledge. Show what that means for software development and talk about some of points to make working with graph data structures easier."
Previous Events
Enterprise Data World Fall 2023
September 18-21, 2023 | Anaheim, CA
Multiple members of the Semantic Arts team will be attending and presenting in-person this fall
Dan Carey (Semantic Arts Ontologist) will be sharing the success story and journey of a large financial services firm on the road to data-centric
Dave McComb, (Semantic Arts President and Co-Founder) will be sharing about zero-copy integration.
Stay tuned for further details and opportunities to register!
Borderless Cyber 2023
September 11-12, 2023 | University of London
Ryan Hohimer will be presenting on "Automated Classification of Threat Actors in Intelligence Analysis"
Stay tuned for further details, and use the button to register if interested in learning more!
Formal Ontology in Information Systems Conference
July 17-20, 2023 | Quebec, Canada
Hosted by the IAOA and the GRIIS, this conference brings together international leaders in the field. Watch for our own Michael Uschold and say hello!
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.
2023 Basic Formal Ontology Summit Meeting
May 23 - 25, 2023
Buffalo, New York
More information, and the level of Semantic Arts involvement, coming soon!
2023 Data Management Conference
June 1-3, 2023
2023 Data & Security Connect Conference
Calgary
Dave McComb will be delivering a keynote address at this conference in June. Stay tuned for more information!
5th Annual Data-Centric Architecture Forum
Fort Collins, Colorado | June 5-7, 2023
Hosted by Semantic Arts, this year's conference will focus on overcoming the challenges of implementing a data-centric solution. Designed for practioners and those interested in co-inventing the future.
Join us June 5th, 6th and 7th in-person in beautiful Fort Collins, CO.
Early Bird Registration available until May 15th.
Learn more and register today!
Past Events
2023 Enterprise Data Transformation Symposium 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.
Dyalog 2022 Conference 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'.
U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium 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!
