SDS Academy

Build the internal capability to own your semantic layer.

Role-based learning for executives, domain experts, data architects, ontology engineers, governance teams and AI practitioners. Every workshop is anchored in your business questions and representative non-sensitive examples.

Learning portfolio

From strategic literacy to production practice.

Durations are indicative and adapted to audience, domain and delivery mode. No external certification is implied.

EXECUTIVE · ½ DAY

Ontology for Executives

For data, AI, risk and business leaders. No technical prerequisite.

  • Recognize high-value semantic problems
  • Understand operating-model choices
  • Leave with an opportunity map
FOUNDATION · 2 DAYS

Ontology Engineering Foundations

For architects, analysts and domain modelers with data-modeling experience.

  • Competency questions and concepts
  • Classes, properties and identity
  • Create a reviewed domain model
ENGINEERING · 3 DAYS

RDF, OWL, SKOS & SHACL

For engineers comfortable with schemas or graphs.

  • Build interoperable RDF models
  • Apply inference deliberately
  • Author executable SHACL constraints
FINANCIAL · 2 DAYS

FIBO Implementation

For financial data architects and ontology engineers.

  • Navigate FIBO modules
  • Evaluate reuse and extension
  • Create traceable candidate mappings
ARCHITECTURE · 2 DAYS

Knowledge Graph Architecture

For platform and solution architects.

  • RDF versus property graph choices
  • Virtualization and materialization
  • Design a deployable graph architecture
AI · 2 DAYS

Ontology-Grounded GraphRAG

For AI engineers and knowledge teams.

  • Entity-aware retrieval
  • Evidence paths and policies
  • Evaluation for grounded answers
GOVERNANCE · 1 DAY

Semantic Data Governance

For stewards, owners and governance leaders.

  • Decision rights and review workflow
  • Quality, lineage and change impact
  • Draft an operating charter
OPERATIONS · 2 DAYS

OntologyOps & Version Management

For engineering and operations teams.

  • Release and dependency strategy
  • Automated quality gates
  • Rollback and migration planning
RESILIENCE · 1 DAY

Cyber-Financial Ontology

For cyber, resilience and financial-risk teams.

  • Connect threat to business impact
  • Align STIX/UCO and financial concepts
  • Build an explainable scenario graph
Delivery formats

Designed for organizational adoption.

Private instructor-led workshop

Remote or on-site, adapted to the organization’s vocabulary, architecture and decision context.

Architecture clinic

Bring a current model or platform question and leave with reviewed options and an action record.

Team apprenticeship

Structured enablement inside an active ontology program so internal teams learn by building.

Build independence

Train the team that will govern the meaning.

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