Organizations are struggling when it comes to unlocking value from their data silos, as of lack of context, relationships, and structure within their current data storage systems. This makes it difficult to power AI applications and retrieve reliable and explainable business insights.

While centralizing data in a data lake or warehouse may seem like a solution, it fails to address the root problem, as the data is often stored in a way that limits its analytical potential.

Moreover, the pursuit of becoming data-driven has led many organizations to create complex data integrations and reconciliations across various data silos, resulting in a substantial portion of the technology budget—between 40% to 60%—being consumed by these efforts. This phenomenon is known as the "Bad Data Tax."

A Semantic Layer at the core of your Enterprise Information Architecture allows you to create a data and information environment that is robust, adaptable, and scalable.

• Learn more about the current problems of data silos
• Explore why such data can only provide poor AI-powered insights with huge costs 
• Learn about the power of a Semantic Layer to solve these problems: what is it and how it can help
• Get insights on how to set up a Center of Excellence to enroll a Semantic Layer across the organisation, and
• Thereby, how to get management buy-in for your Semantic Layer program and start implementing it!  

Speaker: Martin Kaltenboeck

Martin studied communication, psychology, and marketing at the University of Vienna, Austria. As co-founder and managing partner of Semantic Web Company / PoolParty Software Ltd, and CFO he was responsible for all financial, and legal matters from 2009-2024.

With end 2024 and in the course of the merger of Ontotext and SWC, Martin is Co-Founder and SVP Customer Success at Graphwise.

Martin leads and works in international industry, government and research projects, mainly in the areas of project management, requirements engineering and customer success management. He is a tutor and publishes in the fields of data-, information- and knowledge management, as well as Knowledge Graphs in the combination with (gen)AI. He is a lecturer at national and international conferences and business events. Martin is Certified Management Consultant, working as invited expert of W3C, and Advisory Board Member of SEMANTiCS conference, the biggest industry event for semantics in Europe.