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Session	Planning
Duration	1 hour
Date/Time	December 18 2019 17:00 GMT
	9:00am PST/12:00pm EST
	5:00pm GMT/6:00pm CET
Convener	Ken Baclawski

Ontology Summit 2020 Summit Planning

Agenda

The session will continue planning the main summit sessions. The draft schedule is shown below. We should now begin filling in the slots.
The draft summit schedule is the following:

Date	Session
22 January	Kickoff Session	The tracks and schedule will be overviewed
29 January	Session #1
05 February	Session #2	Matthew West
12 February	Session #3
19 February	Session #4
26 February	Session #5
04 March	Session #6
11 March	Session #7
18 March	Session #8
25 March	Session #9
01 April	Session #10
08 April	Session #11
15 April	Session #12
22 April	Session #13
29 April	Session #14
06 May	Session #15
13 May	Session #16
20 May	Session #17
27 May	Session #18
03 June	Session #19
10 June	Planning for Symposium
15 June	Symposium Day 1
16 June	Symposium Day 2

Each session should identify the primary theme (and secondary themes) being addressed. An attempt will be made to address the themes in the following order:

Whence - History
Who, Where, When - Use Cases
Why - From data to business value
How - Details of mechanics
Whither - Future directions
What - Synthesis sessions only

Each speaker will generally be scheduled for multiple weeks.
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Conference Call Information

Date: Wednesday, 18-December-2019
Start Time: 9:00am PST / 12:00pm EST / 6:00pm CET / 5:00pm GMT / 1700 UTC
- ref: World Clock
Expected Call Duration: 1 hour

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Participants

Proceedings

What: Overview and background for the summit sessions. All sessions will be explicitly or implicitly addressing this theme.
- KGs are a vehicle for realizing the benefits of ontology engineering.
- KGs combine existing ideas in a package that frequently works in practice to deliver value for large organizations.
- KGs provide a new root metaphor and motivation that is driving interest in ontology engineering.
- This is driving investment in development, integration, interoperation and organization by large entities, both individual enterprises and entire industries.
- KGs can be an enabler for tools and methods from AI and semantic technologies.
Whence
- The historical perspective
- Knowledge as open, loose, fuzzy, emergent
- Analogies and metaphors
Who, Where, When
- Use case specifics for individual enterprises and industries
Why
- General big picture of KGs, as opposed to use cases
- The full cycle realization from data to business results
- Evaluation and management of quality and efficiency
How
- Vendors are developing technologies based on graph-based methods.
- A wide-spread graph-based culture is emerging, including conferences and training.
- The culture includes aspects such as `data thinking' and `ontological thinking'.
- Promotion of dialog to promote mutual understanding
Whither
- Emerging standards
- Research challenges
- Speculation about future directions

Discussion

[12:10] Jack Ring: How shall we warn about KG pathologies such as Faults (Quality (Zero Defects)), Failures, Fictions?

[12:13] MikeBennett: @Jack sounds like a good talk title: 'Knowledge Graphs: Faults, Failures and Fictions'

[12:15] MikeBennett: 'Knowledge Graphs: Whence and Whither?'

[12:16] MikeBennett: Maybe these can be a series of talks that alliterates?

[12:22] MikeBennett: There is a new non-profit called the Enterprise Knowledge Graph Foundation. We should invite them to present.

[12:25] Mark Underwood @knowlengr: Mike- do they have a website yet?

[12:27] RaviSharma: Mike - good suggestion

[12:35] RaviSharma: It is a good reordering of what except investments twice?

[12:41] janet singer: (Off of Jacks and Mikes points) KGs are a way to introduce people to the importance of working with both semantic technologies and general semantics principles

[12:43] RaviSharma: Under the category WHY we could also address arriving at target results with or without the use of KGs using semantics / ontologies!

[12:45] RaviSharma: sort of comparison of with use of KGs and without (using some other methodology than KGs)?

[12:46] MikeBennett: @Janet that sounds good.

[12:47] MikeBennett: @Ravi comparisons of with and without are a great thing to explore. I have banks asking for this kind of information.

[12:48] Mark Underwood @knowlengr: W3C calls it linked data of course

[12:48] Mark Underwood @knowlengr: That group is currently pretty active (I'm on the listserv)

[12:51] MikeBennett: Standards is a good idea. So is linkages to various concepts and technologies i.e. semantic networks (Cog Science); AI and NLP; Linked Data (W3C); Ontology based applications (OWL) etc. There are standards for some of these but that's a distinct point.

[12:56] Mark Underwood @knowlengr: @Mike +1

[13:05] Gary: Discussion of kickoff and how we will provide a vision of the sessions and issues.

[13:05] Gary: Amit Sheth can provide some history of KGs, early in the sequence.

[13:08] MikeBennett: Dave McComb - good speaker proposal.

[13:08] MikeBennett: I know those guys

[13:10] AlexShkotin: Have a nice time!

[13:12] janet singer: Order: Kickoff, Whence - History, Who where when - Use Cases, Why from data to business value, Whither - future directions

[13:15] janet singer: Forgot How - details of mechanics, maybe after Why and before Whither

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