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Graphwise AI Summit 2026

October 7th – 8th, 2026
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4:00 PM – 9:00 PM CET (Vienna) | 7:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST (San Francisco) | 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM EST (New York)
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The Graphwise AI Summit 2026 is a two-day free virtual event bringing together business leaders and technical practitioners to share what’s working: the governance approaches, the architectural decisions, and the implementation lessons that move AI from pilot to production.

Two days. One connected story about what it takes to get enterprise AI right.

Program

Day 1

Time

DAY 1: Where ROI meets trust
Wednesday, October 7, 2026

04:00 pm – 04:30 pm CEST
07:00 am – 07:30 am PDT
10:00 am – 10:30 am EDT

Presentation

Opening Keynote 
Atanas Kiryakov, President, Graphwise

04:30 pm – 05:00 pm CEST
07:30 am – 08:00 am PDT
10:30 am – 11:00 am EDT

Presentation + Q&A

Semantic Backbone: Driving Strategic Business Outcomes Through a Centralized Content Catalog 
Speakers: Monica Fulvio, Data Governance and Metadata Leader, ASHA; Kathleen Gollner, Taxonomy Consultant, EK; Ben Kass, Taxonomy and Ontology Technical Consultant, EK

05:00 pm – 05:30 pm CEST
08:00 am – 08:30 am PDT
11:00 am – 11:30 am EDT

Presentation + Q&A

The Business Case for a Semantic Backbone: From AI Investment to Measurable Returns 
Speakers: Andreas Blumauer, SVP and Co-Founder, Graphwise; Helmut Nagy, VP Sales Enablement, Graphwise

05:30 pm – 06:00 pm CEST
08:30 am – 09:00 am PDT
11:30 am – 12:00 am EDT

Panel

Stop Chasing Tools: Building an AI Business Case in a Chaotic Market
Speakers: Toni Ressaire, Director of Innovation, Altuent; Leslie Farinella, President, Content Rules; Ben White, Product Manager, Graphwise; Todd Blaschka, Senior Executive, Graphwise

06:00 pm – 06:20 pm CEST
09:00 am – 09:20 am PDT
12:00 am – 12:20 am EDT

Networking Break

06:20 pm – 06:50 pm CEST
09:20 am – 09:50 am PDT
12:20 am – 12:50 am EDT

Presentation + Q&A

Harmonizing Centralized and Federated Governance: How to Build FAIR Minimal Viable Ontologies 
Speaker: Martin Romacker, Product Manager, Roche

06:50 pm – 07:20 pm CEST
09:50 am – 10:20 am PDT
12:50 am – 01:20 pm EDT

Presentation + Q&A

Delivering Context for Agentic AI for Corporate Reinvention 
Speakers: Manish Bachhania, Senior Architect, Accenture; Derek Rodriguez, Co-Lead for Knowledge Engineering, Accenture

07:20 pm – 07:50 pm CEST
10:20 am – 10:50 am PDT
01:20 pm – 01:50 pm EDT

Presentation + Q&A

TBC

07:50 pm – 08:30 pm CEST
10:50 am – 11:30 am PDT
01:50 pm – 02:30 pm EDT

Panel

Connected by data: how knowledge graphs drive interoperability and ROI in mobility and transportation
Speakers: Ghislain Atemezing, Project Officer, ERA; Clemens Burmeister, Regional Sales Director, Graphwise
*more speakers tbc

08:30 pm – 09:00 pm CEST
11:30 am – 12:00 am PDT
02:30 pm – 03:00 am EDT

Presentation

Day 1 Recap & Day 2 Preview 
Speakers: Alan Morrison, Consultant, Speaker, Blogger and Podcast Host; Todd Blaschka, Senior Executive, Graphwise

Day 2

Time

DAY 2: Infrastructure & Implementation
Thursday, October 8, 2026

04:00 pm – 04:30 pm CEST
07:00 am – 07:30 am PDT
10:00 am – 10:30 am EDT

Presentation + Q&A

Opening Keynote 
Speaker: Andreas Blumauer, SVP and Co-Founder, Graphwise

04:30 pm – 05:00 pm CEST
07:30 am – 08:00 am PDT
10:30 am – 11:00 am EDT

Presentation + Q&A

AI and the Future of Technical Documentation: From LLMs to Fully Agentive Workflows 
Speaker: Michael Iantosca, Senior Director of Content Platform, Avalara

05:00 pm – 05:30 pm CEST
08:00 am – 08:30 am PDT
11:00 am – 11:30 am EDT

Panel

Panel: Energy Sector & Semantic KGs
Speakers: TBC, moderated by Nikolay Krustev, Sales Director - Industry, AECO, Energy, Graphwise

05:30 pm – 06:00 pm CEST
08:30 am – 09:00 am PDT
11:30 am – 12:00 am EDT

Presentation + Q&A

Data Governance of a Semantic Data Layer 
Speaker: Ben Gardner, R&D Lead for Data Mesh and Semantic Infrastructure, AstraZeneca

06:00 pm – 06:20 pm CEST
09:00 am – 09:20 am PDT
12:00 am – 12:20 am EDT

Networking Break

06:20 pm – 06:50 pm CEST
09:20 am – 09:50 am PDT
12:20 am – 12:50 am EDT

Presentation + Q&A

Kick Off the Graphwise Playground 
Speakers: TBC, Graphwise

06:50 pm – 07:20 pm CEST
09:50 am – 10:20 am PDT
12:50 am – 01:20 pm EDT

Presentation + Q&A

From Ontologies to GraphRAG: Building Enterprise Knowledge Graphs for Real-World Use Cases 
Speaker: Matteo Busanelli, Head of Data Governance, BitBang

07:20 pm – 07:50 pm CEST
10:20 am – 10:50 am PDT
01:20 pm – 01:50 pm EDT

Presentation + Q&A

From Linked Data to AI-Ready Data: A Framework Forged in Production 
Speaker: Agis Papantoniou, VP of Business Development, Cognizone

07:50 pm – 08:20 pm CEST
10:50 am – 11:20 am PDT
01:50 pm – 02:20 pm EDT

Presentation + Q&A

Want to Talk to Your Data? Tell Me About It First: Making Data AI-Ready Through Semantic Metadata and Reference Data Alignment 
Speaker: Szymon Klarman, Senior Director, Knowledge Engineering, S&P Global

08:20 pm – 09:00 pm CEST
11:20 am – 12:00 am PDT
02:20 pm – 03:00 am EDT

Presentation

Final Q&A & Closing Remarks 
Speaker: Atanas Kiryakov, President, Graphwise

Speakers

  • President, Graphwise

    President of Graphwise, founder and CEO of Ontotext and product manager of GraphDB until 2010. Kiryakov is a top expert in semantic databases, knowled...

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  • VP Sales Enablement, Graphwise

    VP of Sales Enablement at Graphwise, a native graph AI platform used by over 200 organizations worldwide. He is a recognized expert in knowledge manag...

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  • VP of Business Development, Cognizone

    Agis is VP of Business Development at Cognizone, the semantic engineering firm he co-founded in 2015 and led as CEO until 2...

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  • Taxonomy Consultant, Enterprise Knowledge

    Kathleen Gollner is a taxonomy consultant with extensive experience designing, implementing, and managing semantic mode...

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  • Technical Consultant Taxonomy and Ontology, Enterprise Knowledge

    Ben Kass is a taxonomy and ontology technical consultant with experience in knowledge graph development and governance...

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  • Taxonomist and Ontologist, ASHA

    Monica Fulvio is a data governance and metadata leader with over a decade of experience building practical systems that...

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  • Senior VP Growth, Graphwise

    Senior Vice President of Growth at Graphwise. As the founder of Semantic Web Comp...

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  • Product Manager, Roche

    Passionate about transforming data into real business assets and building data-driven cultures in the pharma industry. With deep expertise in scientif...

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  • Director of Innovation, Altuent

    Director of Innovation at Altuent, an Irish company that offers consulting and customised end-to-end content operations for seamless management of con...

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  • Senior Architect, Accenture

    Data architecture and engineering expert at read more

  • Co-Lead for Knowledge Engineering, Accenture

    With over 30 years of experience helping organizations unlock value from knowledge assets through search, analytics...

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  • Senior Executive, Graphwise

    Senior Executive at Graphwise, bringing a deep experience in data management, con...

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  • Consultant, Speaker, Blogger and Podcast Host

    Alan Morrison is an analyst, writer, advisor and podcaster on advanced data technologies and emerging IT. For 20 years at PwC's R&D and innovation...

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  • Senior Director of Content Platforma, Avalara Inc.

    Senior Director of Knowledge Platforms and Engineering at Avalara Inc., with over four decades of experience at the interse...

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  • President, Content Rules

    President of Content Rules with more than 25 years of experience helping global companies create scalable content governanc...

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  • Sales Director - Industry, AECO, Energy, Graphwise

    Helping organizations manage and fuse heterogeneous data to extract additional value and analytics.

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  • R&D lead for Data Mesh and Semantic Infrastructure, AstraZeneca

    R&D lead for Data Mesh and Semantic Infrastructure at AstraZeneca he is responsible for the application of graph techno...

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  • SVP of Product & Technology

    Vassil has spent over 25 years developing databases and data management software for the world's biggest and most innov...

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  • Senior Director, Knowledge Engineering, S&P

    Senior Director of Knowledge Engineering at S&P Global, leading knowledge engineering team and strategy, committed to b...

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  • Regional Sales Director, Graphwise

    Clemens brings 20+ years of experience in enterprise software, customer success, and strategic account management to his work in Semantic AI and Knowl...

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  • Product Manager, Graphwise

    Product Manager at Graphwise with deep expertise in enterprise content platforms, semantic integration, and Microsoft 3...

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  • Project Officer at ERA

    Ghislain Atemezing works in ERA’s Operational Register Unit. He is driving the work on the EU railways ontology and the mig...

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  • Head of Data Governance, BitBang

    Helps organizations unlock the true value of their data by leading strategic initiatives in Data Governance, Enterprise Knowledge Management, and Sema...

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