Ontology Summit 2026 Ontologies and AI

AI and Ontologies: Past, Present and some future views Gary Berg-Cross Board Member Ontolog Forum
- This talk will briefly summarize some of the recent Ontology summits were looking at the relationship between modern AI capabilities such as GenAis and knowledge/meaning/representation issues such as abound with ontologies. Some current efforts and issues in integrating GenAI into KE/KG tasks will be discussed. How do GenAIs assist in KE and what are the limits? Looking the other way, how can the knowledge formalized in semantic resources such as ontologies help improve intelligent systems.
  There are many views of the future including how to enable interoperability through hybrid architectures. Some kinds of hybrids including how to use ontologies for GenAI Robustness. Hybrid robot types provide some interesting examples and raise questions such as: “How should common-sense knowledge be learned and reasoned about?”
  Finally the presentation will take another look at the AI’s track mission, rack plan & speakers who in turn may discuss the question: Is there a role for meaningful explanation in the future of AI and ontologies?
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Ancient Indian View of Ontologies Ram D. Sriram Board Member Ontolog Forum
- Exploring concepts of being, existence, and categories
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Conference Call Information

	Session
ConferenceCall 2026 02 25	Retrospective
ConferenceCall 2026 02 18	Overview