Keynotes & Podcasts
Precision Digital Twins and a Strategic Knowledge Core
The GraphRAG Curator Podcast | Host: Alan Morrison | January 2026
How data management has evolved to become AI-ready, why Digital Twins are moving from visualisation to semantic reasoning, and why AI agents need to be treated as contractors with explicit scopes of work, not employees you hope will behave
From Data Chaos to Meaning: The Rise of Ontologies in AI
Enterprise Wide Search Podcast | Hosts: Emma McGrattan & Ole Olesen-Bagneux | January 2026
What an ontology actually is and why it matters in an AI-first world. The difference between a knowledge graph and a graph database. Why LLMs need structured knowledge, what Google, Netflix, and AstraZeneca get right about semantics, and the global shortage of knowledge graph talent.
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Embracing the Future of AI in Industry: Collaborative Efforts and Enhanced Solutions
Opening keynote, JUST Industry Data Week Linköping, Sweden | September 2024
Part of Linköping's European Innovation Capital celebrations
How Chief Data Officers balance AI innovation with governance. Practical pathways for industrial AI adoption from retrieval augmented generation to semantic knowledge graphs, drawing from TotalEnergies' enterprise AI work, including the 400+ knowledge worker Copilot rollout at TotalEnergies EP Danmark under enterprise governance controls.
→ Read the extended summary on Medium
Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs: Bridging Oil & Gas and Pharma
JUST Industry Data Week, Health and Pharma Day Linköping, Sweden | September 2024
The surprising parallels between pharmaceutical and energy sectors in managing complex uncertainties through data. Why semantic knowledge graphs are a cross-industry solution for breaking down silos, drawing from TotalEnergies EP Danmark's implementation connecting 10 data domains to power enterprise decision-making.
Integrated Operations and Semantic Interoperability
SNGS-Energistics Seminar Moscow, Russia | February 2011
Invited alongside Peter Eilsø Nielsen, Statoil's Chief Geologist Production, to present on Integrated Operations and standards-based interoperability to the Russian energy sector. During the IOHN programme coordinating semantic interoperability across 22 organisations on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
Integrated Operations
Petrobras Internal Seminar Salvador de Bahia, Brazil | 2005
Return invitation to Petrobras' internal Integrated Operations seminar.
Integrated Operations
Petrobras Internal Seminar Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 2004
Invited presentation on Integrated Operations at Petrobras' internal seminar.
Conference Leadership
Discussion Leader SPE Forum: "The 'Smart' Field: A Multidisciplinary Forum to Explore New Ways to Make Assets More Productive" Sainte-Maxime, France | 2002 The inaugural SPE forum that launched the Digital Energy movement in the oil and gas industry.
Organizing Committee SPE Forum: "Immersive Visualisation: A Way Towards Improving Decision-Making" Sainte-Maxime, France | 2003
Organizing Committee Semantic Days Stavanger, Norway | 2009-2011 Norway's annual conference on semantic technologies and interoperability in industrial applications.