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Semantic Arts convenes the people doing data-centric work through a free online community, an annual virtual symposium, and a small in-person forum in Colorado. Our consultants also speak and teach across the wider data and knowledge-graph community. Everything we run is open to anyone.
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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 events
Tue · Oct
13
2026
EDTC Tooling Talk
Free
Managing the Full Data Lifecycle: A Tour of the Graph Research Labs Toolchain
Dougal Watt, CEO & Co-Founder, Graph Research Labs · Virtual · 11:30am MT / 1:30pm ET
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
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
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)
Tue · Nov
17
2026
EDTC gist Forum
Free
gistUFO: An Alignment of gist and gUFO
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
October 13, 11:30am MT / 1:30pm ET
Managing the Full Data Lifecycle: A Tour of the Graph Research Labs Toolchain
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.
Speaking & publishing
Where you'll find us
Semantic Arts consultants speak, teach and publish across the data, ontology and knowledge-graph community, at other people's conferences and in our own programs.
Next up · Connected Data London 2026
Sparql Patterns for Connected Data
Doug Beeson, Ontologist. Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 5:10pm GMT (10:10am MT / 12:10pm ET), at the Leonardo Royal Hotel London Tower Bridge, during Connected Data London's tenth anniversary edition. Session details →
Recently
FOIS 2026
September 21–25, 2026
Vitória, Brazil
gistUFO: An Alignment of gist and gUFO. Dylan Abney, Philip Blackwood and Will Mandel, with Claudenir Morais Fonseca of the University of Twente. Aligning gist with gUFO lets ontologies built on either interoperate, and gives gist a formal foundation to be checked against. Published in the FOIS 2026 proceedings. Read the paper →
EDTC gist Forum
September 15, 2026
Modeling Workflows in gist. Rebecca Younes and Jamie Gulden work through how to represent workflows and processes in gist, with each modeling decision shown as it is made. Watch the recording →
DCA Forum 2026
June 11, 2026
Fort Collins
Who Moved My Data? Creating an Audit Trail in RDF. Jamie Gulden on knowing where every triple in a graph came from: tracking provenance with named graphs, deletions included, and breaking a complex accounting calculation into steps that can each be checked.
DCA Forum 2026
June 10, 2026
Fort Collins
Bridging the Three Realms of Security, a talk by Dave McComb.
EDTC gist Forum
May 19, 2026
gistBFO: Pragmatic Domain Modeling with ISO-Certified Compliance. Dylan Abney walks through gistBFO, the bridge between gist and the Basic Formal Ontology (ISO/IEC 21838-2), and what it takes to model pragmatically while staying BFO-compliant. Watch the recording →
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
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.