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Making Data AI-Ready with Knowledge Graphs | CDO Matters REPLAY
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Every CDO is being told to make their data AI-ready. What that actually requires is a harder conversation — and this episode gets into it.📌 In this episode:Why vector embeddings alone aren't enough for enterprise AI — and what knowledge graphs provide that vectors fundamentally can'tHow the Semantic Web's original vision for open metadata standards maps directly to what CDOs are being asked to build for AI todayWhy knowledge graphs aren't as technically heavy a lift as most CDOs assume — and what a practical starting point looks likeHow MDM and knowledge graphs can work together to get CDOs beyond the 360-degree view they've been chasing for decades💬 The takeaway: "The knowledge graph is kind of a translator between natural language and the data and by that, far more people can make use of the data and ask questions across different data silos." — Andreas BlumauerAbout the host and guestMalcolm Hawker is a former Gartner analyst, Chief Data Officer at Profisee, Editor-in-Chief of CDO Matters on Substack, and host of the CDO Matters Podcast. Andreas Blumauer is SVP Growth & Marketing at Graphwise and founder of the Semantic Web Company.🔗 Watch + full transcript: [profisee.com/podcast/making-data-ai-ready-with-knowledge-graphs-summer-replay]Subscribe to CDO Matters Monthly → https://profisee.com/cdo-matters-community/#join-communityFollow Malcolm on LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/malhawker/Guest → https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreasblumauer/
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Every CDO is being told their data needs to be AI-ready. Very few know what that actually requires. Andreas Blumauer, SVP Growth at Graphwise and founder of the Semantic Web Company, makes the case that the missing piece isn't another pipeline or governance framework it's a knowledge graph. Malcolm Hawker sits down with Blumauer to work through what knowledge graphs actually do, why vector embeddings alone fall short for enterprise AI, and how CDOs can start small and build toward an infrastructure that lets AI reason across data silos instead of just searching through them. Originally released August 2025.
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