The Future of Data

Join us for an in-depth exploration of AbbVie’s semantic Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) experiments with IT policy and architecture guidance documents. The session illustrates the innovative use of GenAI in a secure, on-premise environment and how the project addresses critical challenges such as data security, accuracy in AI-generated insights and integration of AbbVie data, ensuring accurate and reasonable answers. Key technical goals, including relevance-based search, content classification and semantic search driven by a custom Knowledge Model will also be covered. The session targets leaders and professionals focused on the secure and effective deployment of GenAI in highly regulated industries.

Patricia Kelley

Director, Data Architecture and Engineering, AbbVie

Content personalization and dynamic delivery often get a bad rap. When done right, however, the content consumer can make informed decisions faster. See how Salesforce uses content auto-classification and a tightly governed taxonomy to find, serve, and analyze content not only in its Marketing organization, but across the company. While keeping content in its original silo, proper taxonomy application allows for the success of Creating Once, Publishing Everywhere (COPE).

Arthur Patterson

Director, Global Taxonomy, Salesforce

Join Mr. Kelly for an insightful exploration of the challenges and successes of institutionalizing knowledge management at The Canadian Press. Canadian Press is a news agency providing real-time, bilingual multimedia stories across Canadian print, broadcast and digital platforms. To meet the challenges of a volatile industry, the Canadian Press has upgraded its CMS, DAM and enhanced its content delivery with a knowledge management system: Progress Semaphore. The initial goal of automatically tagging stories brought along a new seriousness regarding metadata leading to broader technical and organizational changes.

Paul Kelly

Associate Director Content Operations, The Canadian Press

Financial institutions in the US and around the world are adopting ISO 20022 as the native language for payments and financial transactions. This XML-based language and message schema is finally being adopted as the standard for all high-value US dollar payments, domestically and internationally. As of April 2024, almost two trillion US dollars are exchanged between banks every day using ISO 20022; by March 2025, daily volumes using this format will double to four trillion US dollars.
What’s the impact of this change? Besides its universality, this message format also delivers a much richer (and more complex) set of data attributes for each payment transaction and every participant. Reliably understanding and processing payments will depend on implementing XML technologies to preserve, manage, and share this data securely with other systems and use cases, such as search and AI/ML applications. As the payments industry evolves, so will the need to “speak” ISO 20022.

Bijan Chowdhury

SVP of Core Product Engineering, The Clearing House

This session will explore the transformative power of Knowledge Graphs and AI in turning data into actionable insights. It will cover the integration of structured and unstructured data into a unified Knowledge Graph, the application of AI to enhance data understanding and discovery, as well as real-world use cases of these technologies driving innovation across industry verticals. Attendees will see a demo of two real-world use cases and gain insights into practical strategies for implementing these technologies to harness the full potential of their data, ensuring competitive advantage in an increasingly data-driven world.

Balvinder Dang

CEO and Co-founder, DataVid

In the post-pandemic supply chain world, disruptions have become the new normal. Replacing the ERP or migrating all applications to the Cloud does not give the supply chain efficiency and resiliency an enterprise is looking for. It is time we adopted an enterprise-centric supply chain ontology which can communicate with all ERPs, market signals, partner data, partner APIs, IoT and AI models. If we could fast track that journey with precomposed unified supply chain data models, composable integrations and English-like orchestrations, then we get a jump start on focusing on the efficiency and resiliency that we are looking for.

Shan Muthuvelu

CEO, UCBOS, Inc.

Discover how the Progress MarkLogic and Semaphore comprehensive data suite—ranging from semantics and AI to geo-spatial intelligence—are not just tools but catalysts for transformation. Through the lens of three inspiring success stories across healthcare, security and publishing, we’ll illustrate how our enterprise clients are harnessing these capabilities to not only navigate the complexities of today but to confidently chart a course toward a future brimming with potential. Experience firsthand how MarkLogic and EBCONT’s AI Hub pattern is driving the next wave of data evolution. 

Colin O’Neil

Senior Consultant, EBCONT

Jürgen Ritschka-Kohl

Executive Vice President, EBCONT

Sometimes we need to put away our degrees, step out of our ivory towers, set aside our pride and do what needs to be done to squeeze performance out of our semantic databases. This session will discuss how to create an expressive data model using pragmatic concepts that will perform. And once that model is in place, we will review some tricks for querying your data quickly and without blowing out memory.

Derek Brouwer

This session will dive deep into how to maximize your investment in the Progress MarkLogic and Semaphore technology and your skilled experts. Explore how to leverage the work you have done so far and turn it into benefits for more areas of your company, enable new business use cases and expand existing ones.

David Kaaret

Senior Principal Solutions Engineer, Progress

This session will introduce a library of React UI components for quickly developing search-driven applications on MarkLogic. FastTrack lets you easily connect a React application to the MarkLogic REST API, configure a faceted search and visualize different types of data stored in MarkLogic Server, including graph, geospatial and time-based information. During this session, you will watch a MarkLogic FastTrack-enabled search application built in real time.

Mike Wooldridge

Engineering Lead, Progress

You're using Progress MarkLogic to handle your complex data problems—but how can you quickly respond to executive demands to visually make sense of that data? Traditional BI/UI tools don't cover the breadth of data formats or techniques necessary to visualize complex relationships and the interplay between all your information. Enter MarkLogic FastTrack, a UI component library that meets that challenge and allows developers to get compelling UIs into production faster than before.

Stephen Crook

Principal Solutions Engineer, Progress

Brian Griffin

Principal Solutions Engineer, Progress Federal Solutions

Gartner predicts that 30% of all GenAI projects will fail due to poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, escalating costs, and unclear business value. Learn from industry experts about creating trustworthy, cost-effective GenAI solutions that unlock true business potential. Discover practical strategies to mitigate risks and ensure your AI initiatives deliver clear, measurable value.

Imran Chaudhri

Head Architect AI, Progress

Biju George

Principal Solutions Engineer, Progress

LLMs and GenAI technologies require context to properly leverage insight locked in unstructured data formats. Without it, LLMs are prone to errors, hallucinations and simply not understanding the questions. Join Stephen Reed and Jim Morris as they explore the challenges and best practices of effectively leveraging your unstructured data in the world of LLMs.

James Morris

Principal Solutions Engineer, Progress

Stephen Reed

Senior Account Executive, Progress

Deliver value for a modern hyperconnected enterprise looking to get the maximum return from their intellectual capital. An enterprises intellectual property is spread across multiple systems, applications, and individuals. It is important to retain this valuable knowledge while maintaining security and privacy. Explore success cases of managing such disparate data sets and discovering information that was previously hidden.

Drew Wanczowski

Senior Principal Solutions Engineer, Progress

Steve Ingram

Senior Solution Engineering Manager, Progress

Knowledge modeling plays a key role in organizational transformation by capturing enterprise knowledge and applying it throughout the organization. Accelerate your knowledge model development processes with Progress Semaphore and improve time to value for new opportunities and growth.

Lance Thieshen

Principal Sales Engineer, Progress

This presentation will showcase the Progress Semaphore platform’s ability to automatically classify and tag various contract types within a SharePoint repository, facilitating improved searchability, information governance, and compliance. A live demo will offer insights into integrating semantic technology with SharePoint to optimize document discoverability, streamline workflows and enhance compliance.

Lance Thieshen

Principal Sales Engineer, Progress

Steve Ingram

Senior Solution Engineering Manager, Progress