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Conference programme topics include:
- Data collection and management in this new age
- Who you need in your team and what are their functions
- The art of reporting to top management
- Knowledge Graphs and Content Graphs - enhancing taxonomies with ontologies for content and media
- Combining multiple data structures to answer complex questions
- AI powered systems
Featuring real world applications in practice including:
- How to get to Content Graphs - enhancing taxonomies with ontologies for content and media
- Ontologies in Life Sciences and Pharma
- Data management in eCommerce
- Environment Sustainability Governance (ESG) data: combining multiple data structures to answer complex questions
- Data integration in Publishing
- Creating Political Intelligence through data
- NLP & AI
First Sessions Announced
Best in Class Data for Sustainable Finance
The case for LLMs (Large Language Models) and Knowledge Graphs
In recent years Sustainable Finance has rapidly gained traction, with an estimated over $30 trillion now to be invested in sustainable funds globally.
Paired with growing investor interest regulators have started to pay increasing attention to the risk of greenwashing. Regulations on fund labelling, mandatory disclosure, supply chain due diligence and other requirements can have a material financial impact.
Factors at work:
- A fast paced voluntary standards landscape with growing interest in climate change.
- Increasing demands for nature and biodiversity disclosures by the Taskforce for Nature Related Financial Disclosures (TNFD).
- The importance for financial institutions of being able to analyse a wide variety of data sources in a cost-effective manner.
James Phare shares Neural Alpha's experience working with many of the world's largest financial institutions to leverage a wide variety of environmental sustainability data, including: disclosures, supply chains and spatial and physical assets. The emphasis is the unique role Knowledge Graphs, Taxonomies, LLMs and Semantic Technologies play in the work.
James Phare, CEO, Neural Alpha
The Role of Semantics in Improving Customer Service
From service rage to client satisfaction
Made possible by better retrieval of what’s already known
The DIY customer support experience is something we've all learned to hate
- Outdated information
- Duplicate file names with conflicting information
- Missing information
- A chatbot that acts as gatekeeper instead of access point
Past practice: The way information was managed in knowledge bases was often left to the imagination and know-how of the customer support teams. These teams used those same repositories to provide information for agents to relay to customers.
There is a better way: The customer service model is rapidly changing, with AI-enabled chatbots the single access point to what is often a vast array of knowledge base articles.
The big change: Until recently approaches to managing content for accurate retrieval relied on manual efforts. Now knowledge base articles can be created, stored, and tagged, better to retrieve and deliver.
Recent developments, particularly applying generative AI, are changing the landscape.
But beware: In hype cycle parlance, companies are somewhere between the Peak of Inflated Expectations and the Trough of Disillusionment.
The role of ‘semantics’ in the customer support ecosystem to the rescue: In this session, Rahel Bailie describes the multiple pathways to bold new delivery models, explaining:
- Where they diverge from traditional tried-and-true techniques:
- Where foundational principles remain intact
- Why a thorough understanding of the issues is so important
- How getting the semantics right increases customer satisfaction
Rahel Anne Bailie, Content Solutions Director, Technically Write IT
The Three Flavours of Taxonomy Tools: which one is your cup of tea?
Every taxonomist knows that a taxonomy or thesaurus must be maintained in a suitable medium.
Joyce van Aalten discusses the three major flavours of taxonomy tools:
- Spreadsheets
- Content systems taxonomy modules
- Dedicated taxonomy tools
Each one has its own specific characteristics, its pros and cons. It should not be a matter of which flavour you most prefer. Rather it should be which option is the best for both you and your organisation – needs vary.
This session covers the differences that distinguish the three options – the pros and cons and when and why they matter. The analysis identifies the indicators of when it’s time to select a dedicated taxonomy tool and what to keep in mind when doing so.
A review of the types of dedicated tooling available, the variations among them and the most important ‘tool selection dos and don’ts’.
Joyce van Aalten, Consultant, Invenier
Ontologies in Pharma
The landscape, pre-competitive development, and use-cases
The life sciences are fortunate to be rich in established ontologies, terminologies, and data models, for example MeSH, MedDRA, CDISC and the Human Phenotype Ontology. However, this richness presents its own challenges:
- The requirement to map between ontologies
- Managing multiple sources
- Choosing the right ontologies in a complex landscape
The ontology coverage is patchy, and for the pharma industry there are notable gaps that must be filled.
The Pistoia Alliance is a pre-competitive industry collaboration which aims to advance innovation through collaboration. One of its key strategic goals is delivering value from data of which shared ontology development is a key part.
In this presentation Christian Baber and Jane Lomax will describe the current and emerging data and ontology landscape and the part that Pistoia is playing in shaping the future.
Christian and Jane will also examine how value is being derived from ontologies using knowledge-graphs and other approaches, 'AI-ready' data, and laboratory data collection.
Christian Baber, Chief Portfolio Officer, The Pistoia Alliance and Jane Lomax, Head of Ontologies, SciBite
What will be the Hot Topic in 2024
Why it Matters
“You know who understands your taxonomy? Generative AI. That’s who.”
Dean Allemang, author of The Working Ontologist
With rapid technological change, the future arrives more quickly with every new development.
Each advance is appraised – whether it is a threat or an opportunity – usually it is both – but to different players.
This will be the year when the role of data in the world of generative AI, with all its implications, is centre stage.
Inspired by Ashleigh Faith’s annual vodcast, the panel shares their predictions of the impact of data on business operations. Hear from leaders who have been comfortably on the cutting edge for years and learn where they think we're headed.
Moderator: Madi Weland Solomon
Panellists include: Avinash Dixit, Head of Life Science Practice & Customer Success, Datavid
Creating Political Intelligence
A journey through data at Dods Group
This is an era in which information is power. Dods Group stands at the forefront of harnessing the immense potential of data to cultivate actionable political intelligence. One of the central challenges we face is the dynamic nature of politics. With rapidly evolving issues, regulatory changes, and geopolitical developments, traditional approaches to understanding political landscapes can fall short. Dods tracks and interprets these dynamic shifts, providing clients with timely and accurate information.
Dods Group is on a transformative journey to decode the complexities of the political landscape in the EU and UK. Part of this adventure involves developing taxonomies and ontologies to support and enhance the organisation and access to Dods much sought after political intelligence.
We describe the information challenges we have faced (and are facing) and the data strategies we are deploying to meet the information needs of our varied clients.
The session focuses on:
- Enhancing existing taxonomies
- Exploring ontological relationships for taxonomies
- What’s next for Dods online services
Takeaways include:
- Tips on taxonomy development
- How ontological relationships can support and enhance taxonomies
- Governance and maintenance challenges of complex data
Ian Davis, Taxonomy Manager, Dods Group