Knowledge Graph Insights
Episodes
Ora Lassila and Adrian Gschwend: RDF 1.2 Working Group Update – Episode 50
11 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ora Lassila and Adrian Gschwend Even as RDF has become ubiquitous in enterprises and across the web, its awkward handling of reification — the ab...
Daniel Davis: Grounding Generative AI with Context Graphs – Episode 49
30 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Davis Long before Foundation Capital published their "trillion dollar opportunity" article about context graphs, Daniel Davis had been build...
Veronika Heimsbakk: Connecting Data Engineering and Knowledge Architecture – Episode 48
20 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Veronika Heimsbakk With interest in knowledge graphs growing by the day, Veronika Heimsbakk is busier than ever with her efforts to connect the dat...
Joe Reis: Fighting “Context” and Other Tech-Industry Hype – Episode 47
06 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Reis When Gartner declared 2026 "The Year of Context," Joe Reis leapt into action, immediately writing a good-natured satirical article about "...
Robert Sanderson: Building Yale’s Cultural Heritage Knowledge Graph – Episode 46
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Sanderson Yale University manages huge collections of precious cultural heritage artifacts housed in multiple museums, libraries, and other ...
Max Gärber: Agentic AI Built on a Knowledge Graph Foundation – Episode 45
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Max Gärber The promise of agentic AI is being realized in systems like the Service Copilot that Zeiss microscopes provides for its field service e...
Quentin Reul: Solving Business Problems with Neuro-Symbolic AI – Episode 44
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Quentin Reul The complementary nature of knowledge graphs and LLMs has become clear, and long-time knowledge engineering professionals like Quentin...
Jim Hendler: Scaling AI and Knowledge with the Semantic Web – Episode 43
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Hendler As the World Wide Web emerged in the late 1990s, AI experts like Jim Hendler spotted an opportunity to imbue in the new medium, in a sc...
Brad Bolliger: Pragmatic Semantic Modeling for Government Data – Episode 42
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Bolliger Brad Bolliger entered the knowledge graph space via enterprise software system design and data analytics. That background informs the...
Tara Raafat: Human-Centered Knowledge Graph and Metadata Leadership – Episode 41
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tara Raafat At Bloomberg, Tara Raafat applies her extensive ontology, knowledge graph, and management expertise to create a solid semantic and tech...
Alexandre Bertails: The Netflix Unified Data Architecture – Episode 40
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alexandre Bertails At Netflix, Alexandre Bertails and his team have adopted the RDF standard to capture the meaning in their content in a consisten...
Torrey Podmajersky: Aligning Language and Meaning in Complex Systems – Episode 39
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Torrey Podmajersky Torrey Podmajersky is uniquely well-prepared to help digital teams align on language and meaning. Her father's interest in ph...
Casey Hart: The Philosophical Foundations of Ontology Practice – Episode 38
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Casey Hart Ontology engineering has its roots in the idea of ontology as defined by classical philosophers. Casey Hart sees many other connectio...
Chris Mungall: Collaborative Knowledge Graphs in the Life Sciences – Episode 37
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Mungall Capturing knowledge in the life sciences is a huge undertaking. The scope of the field extends from the atomic level up to planetary-...
Emeka Okoye: Exploring the Semantic Web with the Model Context Protocol – Episode 36
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Emeka Okoye Semantic technologies permit powerful connections across a variety of linked data resources across the web. Until recently, developers ...
Tom Plasterer: The Origins of FAIR Data Practices – Episode 35
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Plasterer Shortly after the semantic web was introduced, the demand for discoverable and shareable data arose in both research and industry. ...
Mara Inglezakis Owens: A People-Loving Enterprise Architect – Episode 34
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mara Inglezakis Owens Mara Inglezakis Owens brings a human-centered focus to her work as an enterprise architect at a major US airline. Drawing ...
Frank van Harmelen: Hybrid Human-Machine Intelligence for the AI Age – Episode 33
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Frank van Harmelen Much of the conversation around AI architectures lately is about neuro-symbolic systems that combine neural-network learning tec...
Denny Vrandečić: Connecting the World’s Knowledge with Abstract Wikipedia – Episode 32
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Denny Vrandečić As the founder of Wikidata, Denny Vrandečić has thought a lot about how to better connect the world's knowledge. His curre...
Charles Ivie: The Rousing Success of the Semantic Web “Failure” – Episode 31
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Charles Ivie Since the semantic web was introduced almost 25 years ago, many have dismissed it as a failure. Charles Ivie shows that the RDF sta...
Andrea Gioia: Human-Centered Modeling for Data Products – Episode 30
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andrea Gioia In recent years, data products have emerged as a solution to the enterprise problem of siloed data and knowledge. Andrea Gioia help...
Dave McComb: Semantic Modeling for the Data-Centric Enterprise – Episode 29
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dave McComb During the course of his 25-year consulting career, Dave McComb has discovered both a foundational problem in enterprise architectures ...
Ole Olesen-Bagneux: Understanding Enterprise Metadata with the Meta Grid – Episode 28
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ole Olesen-Bagneux In every enterprise, says Ole Olesen-Bagneux, the information you need to understand your organization's metadata is already the...
Andrea Volpini: The Role of Memory in Digital Branding for AI – Episode 27
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andrea Volpini Your organization's brand is what people say about you after you've left the room. It's the memories you create that determine how p...
Jacobus Geluk: Use-Case Trees for the Data-Product Marketplace – Episode 26
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jacobus Geluk The arrival of AI agents creates urgency around the need to guide and govern them. Drawing on his 15-year history in building reli...
Rebecca Schneider: Knowledge Graphs and Enterprise Content Strategy – Episode 25
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Schneider Skills that Rebecca Schneider learned in library science school - taxonomy, ontology, and semantic modeling - have only become mo...
Ashleigh Faith: Knowledge Graph Modeling and AI Architectures – Episode 24
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ashleigh Faith With her 15-year history in the knowledge graph industry and her popular YouTube channel, Ashleigh Faith has informed and inspired a...
Panos Alexopoulos: Semantic Modeling for Data – Episode 23
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Panos Alexopoulos Any knowledge graph or other semantic artifact must be modeled before it's built. Panos Alexopoulos has been building semantic...
Mike Pool: Is it time for a moratorium on the word “semantics”? – Episode 22
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Pool Mike Pool sees irony in the fact that semantic-technology practitioners struggle to use the word "semantics" in ways that meaningfully ad...
Margaret Warren: Image Metadata for Knowledge Graphs and People – Episode 21
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret Warren As a 10-year-old photographer, Margaret Warren would jot down on the back of each printed photo metadata about who took the picture...
Jans Aasman: Knowledge Graphs in Modern Hybrid AI Architectures – Episode 20
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jans Aasman Hybrid AI architectures get more complex every day. For Jans Aasman, large language models and generative AI are just the newest additi...
Juan Sequeda: LLMs as a Critical Enabler for Knowledge Graph Adoption – Episode 19
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Juan Sequeda Knowledge graph technology has been around for decades. The benefits so far accruing to only a few big enterprises and tech companies....
Jesús Barrasa: Pragmatic Advice for Graph Technology Adoption – Episode 18
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jesús Barrasa Over his 20-year career, Jesús Barrasa has spanned the worlds of object-oriented property graphs and assertion-based knowledge gra...
Yaakov Belch: Humans in the Loop? No. Humans in Control – Episode 17
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Yaakov Belch Yaakov Belch is an AI researcher with strong ideas about the role of humans in AI systems. Instead of "human in the loop," he argues, ...
Michael Iantosca: Managing Dynamic Content with Knowledge Graphs – Episode 16
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Iantosca Where content, knowledge management, and AI converge, you'll find Michael Iantosca. As many in the AI world flock to probabilis...
Fran Alexander: Alien vs Predator and LLMs vs Knowledge Graphs – Episode 15
07 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fran Alexander When Fran Alexander looks at the current AI landscape she sees some interesting parallels between the Alien vs Predator science fict...
Andreas Blumauer: The Elements of the Enterprise Semantic Layer – Episode 14
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andreas Blumauer Every enterprise nowadays is awash in data, content, and knowledge, the understanding of which is all too often available only in ...
Jessica Talisman: Using SKOS to Build Better Knowledge Systems – Episode 12
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jessica Talisman Jessica Talisman is a seasoned information architect with decades of experience across a variety of domains. She's done a lot o...
Tony Seale: The Knowledge Graph Guy – Episode 11
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Seale With ten years of semantic data experience and an endless stream of insightful posts on LinkedIn, Tony Seale has earned the moniker "The...
Paco Nathan: Graph Thinking to Better Understand Graph RAG – Episode 10
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Paco Nathan Graph RAG is all the rage right now in the AI world. Paco Nathan is uniquely positioned to help the industry understand and contextuali...
Katariina Kari: Building Knowledge Graphs for E-Commerce Giants – Episode 9
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Katariina Kari For the past eight years, Katariina Kari has built knowledge graph teams at giant e-commerce companies like IKEA and Zalando. This p...
Vera Brozzoni: Managing Classical Music Metadata at the BBC – Episode 8
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vera Brozzoni When you manage millions of digital assets, as the BBC does, you need robust metadata practices to organize and discover them. Ver...
Teodora Petkova: Dialogic Communication for the Semantic Web – Episode 7
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Teodora Petkova Teodora Petkova is a scholar and content marketer whose PhD dissertation explored semantic technologies and dialogical theory and h...
Dean Allemang: Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist – Episode 6
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dean Allemang Dean Allemang literally wrote the book on the semantic web. "Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist" is now in its third edition. ...
Alan Morrison: Pragmatic Knowledge Graph Insights from an Industry Analyst – Episode 5
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Morrison After 20-plus years of industry analysis, Alan Morrison has developed a keen sense for how knowledge graphs can help enterprises. ...
Ellie Young: Grounding Knowledge Graphs in the Humanities – Episode 4
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ellie Young Ellie Young effortlessly connects the human and technical elements that go into ontologies and knowledge graph building. Ellie came ...
George Anadiotis: Connecting the Dots in the Knowledge Graph World – Episode 3
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
George Anadiotis Every profession has its connectors, sharers, and community organizers. In the knowledge graph world, George Anadiotis fills all o...
Mike Dillinger: Knowledge Graphs as “Jet Fuel” for Generative AI – Episode 2
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Dillinger Knowledge graphs provide the digital foundation for some of most visible companies on the web. Mike Dillinger built LinkedIn's Ec...
François Scharffe and Thomas Deeley: The Knowledge Graph Conference – Episode 1
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
François Scharffe and Thomas Deely The Knowledge Graph Conference is one of the premier events in the semantic technology space. François Scha...