These slides accompany the webinar hosted by Ecosystem.ai on 16 September 2026, presented by Graham McLeod.
Building a Business Ontology is a practical look at how to go from agreed business language to a formal ontology that can support reliable automation and AI agents. The session includes a live demo of Sapiento.
We cover:
The five different meanings of “semantic layer”, and why it matters which one you need
Shared business vocabulary with SKOS
The canonical domain model
The BI and integration semantic layers
Formal ontology with OWL, SHACL and CLIF, and why it matters for reliable agentic AI
How to produce an ontology: inputs, process and outputs, including reuse of existing source ontologies (BFO, gist, FIBO, schema.org and others)
Usage and benefits: generating schemas and code, reliable BI, compliance, and agentic workflows at scale
The two-course pathway from data models to reliable agentic AI
Sapiento: a graph-based modelling and execution environment, with demos of a G-OWL model, aligning two ontologies and exporting to Turtle
Perfect for enterprise architects, data modellers, BI practitioners and AI engineers who want to build the structured knowledge that makes AI more reliable.
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