Ontopic's origin and mission
We founded Ontopic as a spin-off of the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen to develop innovative products and services in the field of data integration and data access through the emerging technology of Virtual Knowledge Graphs (VKG).
We empower organizations to understand and make use of their data. We do so by virtually combining data from different sources into an always up-to-date knowledge graph, which is easy to explore and allows for new insights and better business decisions.
The founders
Ideator and Co-Founder
Diego is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at unibz and Wallenberg Guest Professor in Artificial Intelligence for Data Management at the Department of Computing Science of Umeå University.
He is well known for his scientific contributions in knowledge representation and reasoning in AI, and database theory. Diego is one of the inventors of VKG approach and the initiator of Ontop. Within Ontopic he is a strategic and scientific advisor of the board.
CEO and Co-Founder
Peter has formal training as a physicist and a long experience in the software business. He mainly worked in the field of Geographical Information Systems, Industrial Automation, and Statistical Process Control. Before joining Ontopic he was a project manager at unibz. Peter is the CEO of Ontopic.
President, CTO and Co-Founder
Benjamin is a former researcher at the Faculty of Computer Science at unibz where he worked on virtual knowledge graphs. He is a core developer of Ontop. Within Ontopic he is the President of the company and CTO.
Chief Scientist and Co-Founder
Guohui is an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at University of Bergen, Norway. His main research interests are knowledge representation, description logics, semantic web, database theory and virtual knowledge graphs. Guohui is the leader of the Ontop development team. Within Ontopic he covers the position of Chief Scientist.
Scientific Advisor and Co-Founder
Marco is Full Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at unibz and his research interests are techniques based on artificial intelligence, logic, and formal methods for the intelligent management of business processes and data.
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