The Program

Welcome

09:20 - 09:30 | Sitzungssaal | English

Dr. Sebastian Tramp (eccenca GmbH)

We are excited to extend a warm welcome to all participants and share an overview of the day’s sessions with you.

Keynote

09:30 - 09:53 | Sitzungssaal | English

LSWT Keynote

Dr.-Ing. Nour Ramzy eccenca GmbH

Vita

Nour Ramzy is a Senior Knowledge Engineer at eccenca GmbH with several years of experience in the semiconductor domain, applying semantic technologies to model, integrate, and harmonize complex industrial data. During her PhD, she designed and implemented a synthetic semantic data generator for supply chain and manufacturing data, enabling the creation of realistic, interoperable datasets for testing and validation solution development. She also gained exposure to various manufacturing standards and industry consortia, further strengthening her expertise in semantic interoperability and data integration. Currently, she works as a consultant and Linked Data Expert collaborating with diverse customers across multiple domains to translate complex business challenges into scalable, production-ready solutions by leveraging semantic technologies and knowledge-driven approaches.

Keynote

09:53 - 10:15 | Sitzungssaal | English

LSWT Keynote

Marcel Fröhlich eccenca GmbH

Vita

Marcel is the director of service delivery at eccenca. He holds a degree in computer science (Uni Tübingen & VU Amsterdam) and an MBA from ESB Reutlingen. Marcel jumped early into the Berlin ecosystem in 2000 founding relevantive, a user experience startup. Afterwards he spent 10 years in the corporate world serving in various management positions in T‑Systems International GmbH. He was responsible for substantial project & consulting business in various industries mostly focused on business information management.

Session I Future Knowledge Experts (Students)

10:15 - 10:30 | Sitzungssaal | English

Prof. Dr. Thomas Riechert (Leipzig University of Applied Sciences (HTWK))

Session II Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models

11:00 - 12:30 | Sitzungssaal | English

In this session, we’ll explore Semantic Technologies as part of the broader landscape of Artificial Intelligence, diving into fascinating topics like ChatGPT and other exciting advancements. The presentations will be held in English.

• Prof. Dr. Lisa Wenige (Office for Statistics and Elections, City of Leipzig and Hochschule Merseburg): Use of LLMs for Metadata Enrichment and Question-Answering in the Open Data Domain – Some Results and Experiences
• Sandra Schaftner (University of Technology Chemnitz): Neuro-symbolic Consolidation of Crowdsourced Knowledge: The ORKG Use Case
• Lars-Peter Meyer (Institute for Applied Informatics) and Felix Brei (Institute for Applied Informatics): LLM Agents for Knowledge Graphs – Our Experience So Far
• Hannah Großer (Leipzig University of Applied Sciences (HTWK)): Capturing contextual data in production planning: Integration email communication into Knowledge Graphs
• Franziska Rudolph (Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology) and Sascha Genevieve Coelho (University of Technology Chemnitz): A Hybrid Ontology Modeling Approach for State Regulatory Documents
• Dr. Oliver Karras (Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB)): EmpiRE-Compass: A Neuro-Symbolic Dashboard for Sustainable and Dynamic Knowledge Exploration, Synthesis, and Reuse

Session III Knowledge Graph Use Cases in Industry and Administration

13:30 - 15:00 | Sitzungssaal | English

In this session, we’ll explore real-world applications and use cases using Knowledge Graphs as our foundation. The presentations will be held in English.

• TBA
• Lars-Peter Meyer (Institute for Applied Informatics): Supply Chain Security with Self-Learning LLM Agents
• TBA
• Tracy Arndt (German National Library): Practical Approaches to Large-Scale LOD: Lessons from Maintaining DNB’s Linked Open Data Service
• Magnus Knuth (GROPYUS Technologies GmbH): Building on Data: Semantic Modeling of 3D Geometry at Scale

Session IV Ontology Engineering and Semantic Technologies

15:30 - 17:00 | Sitzungssaal | English

This session will dive into the exciting world of building, modeling, and visualizing Knowledge Graphs. The presentations will be held in English.

• Johannes Frey (Federal Environmental Agency): umwelt.info: FAIR Data Portal und Suchmaschine für Umwelt- und Naturschutzwissen.
• Dr.-Ing. Miriam Eisenbart (fem Research Institute): Research project: KupferDigital2
• Florian Hahn (University of Technology Chemnitz): Interoperabilität und Best Practices in Open Data Portalen
• Patrick Westphal (HITeC - Hamburger Informatik Technologie-Center): Knowledge Graphs-Anwendungsfälle und Nachhaltigkeit: https://www.rescue-mate.de/
• Kirill Bulert (adorsys GmbH & Co. KG): Zombies alive, reviving Ontowiki with black magic

eccenca Poster Winner Awards and Closing

16:45 - 17:00 | Sitzungssaal | English

Dr. Sebastian Tramp (eccenca GmbH)