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title: "Hands-On Workshop: Human Expertise, Agent Intelligence"
description: Transform your team's expertise into actionable AI knowledge at our hands-on lab. Learn to build ontologies and knowledge graphs that enhance AI agents for better business insights.
image: https://info.stardog.com/hubfs/handsonlab-12-9-26-1.png
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#### Hands-On Ontology Workshop

# Human Expertise, Agent Intelligence

A Hands-On Lab with Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs for AI

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   Wednesday, December 9, 2026
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   3 hours
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   Midtown East, New York City

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### What It's About

Your people already have the expertise AI needs. The challenge is making that expertise **usable by AI agents**.

Domain rules. Business logic. Entity relationships. Exceptions. Definitions. The understanding of how your business actually works.

This human expertise is what makes AI useful in the enterprise.

Join Stardog Co-Founder & SVP of EngineeringMike Grove, VP of Training Helen Lightner, and Stardog trainers in New York City on December 9 for a three-hour, hands-on workshop. Learn how to transform human expertise into an ontology and knowledge graph that AI agents can query, understand, and reason over.

Instead of searching documents and hoping an agent finds the right answer, participants will build a structured, traceable representation of business knowledge that provides agents with the context and understanding behind the data.

**Choose from two sessions:** Morning (9:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET) or afternoon (1:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET). Both sessions offer the same interactive learning experience, so select whichever works best for your schedule. Breakfast or lunch will be provided.

**Seats are limited!** Registration does not confirm attendance and it’s subject to Stardog Approval. Once approved you will receive location, arrival instructions and materials for the lab. 

 

### **Who Should Attend?**

*No ontology or knowledge graph experience required.*

**Enterprise companies across Manufacturing, Pharma, Life Sciences, Financial Services and Insurance**

- AI and Data Leaders and Practitioners
- Enterprise Architects
- AI / Application Developers
- AI, Data & Knowledge Engineers
- Business Domain Experts
- Data Governance & Risk Leaders
- Innovation and Digital Transformation Leaders

### Meet your Instructors

- ![mikegrove](https://info.stardog.com/hs-fs/hubfs/mikegrove.webp?width=800&height=800&name=mikegrove.webp)
  
  #### Mike Grove
  
  Co-Founder & SVP Engineering,
  
  [![linkedin](https://info.stardog.com/hubfs/linkedin-icon.webp) LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhgrove/)
- ![Helen](https://info.stardog.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Helen.jpg?width=397&height=397&name=Helen.jpg)
  
  #### Helen Lightner
  
  VP, Training & Enablement
  
  [![linkedin](https://info.stardog.com/hubfs/linkedin-icon.webp) LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenmacintyrelightner/)

### What You'll Do:

- **Capture Human Expertise** — Identify the business concepts, relationships, rules, and definitions that matter.
- **Build an Ontology** — Create an ontology from scratch that turns domain expertise into a reusable semantic model.
- **Connect Knowledge to Data** — Connect the ontology to data and see how meaning and relationships are applied.
- **Put Knowledge in the Hands of AI Agents** — See how agents query structured knowledge and reason over business context.
- **Make AI More Trustworthy** — Explore how semantic context enables more consistent, contextualized, traceable, and explainable answers.

### **What Participants Walk Away With**

- A practical understanding of how to transform human expertise into machine-readable knowledge
- Experience building an ontology from scratch
- An understanding of how semantic models connect to enterprise data
- A view into how ontologies and knowledge graphs can strengthen AI agents
- Practical experience moving beyond document-centric RAG
- **Stardog Ontology Builder Certification** upon completion