Join Factor’s Bram Wessel for a conversation with Kurt Cagle, ontologist and Editor-in-Chief of the weekly LinkedIn newsletter and podcast The Cagle Report.
In this first episode of The Activator Conversation series, Bram and Kurt will discuss agentic grounding and “now” vs. eternal graphs—and why these ideas should matter to enterprises. This wide-ranging conversation and Q&A will cover topics including:
- The temporal component of context
- Reifications: What are they and how do they fit into the context layer?
- How to get started with the context layer
- WC3 inquiry into this area
Kurt Cagle is an ontologist, and writer and editor (with his AI assistant Chloe Shannon) of The Cagle Report, The Ontologist, The Inference Engineer, and AI Newsbytes. He has worked as a consultant for multiple Fortune 50 companies, US and Canadian Agencies, the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund, and is the author of 25 books on data technologies and methodologies. He is an Invited Expert with the W3C and Chair of the W3C Holon Community Group.
With more than two decades as a user-centered design and research professional, Bram Wessel believes that technology should enable natural experiences for real people. Bram has developed human-centered digital experience designs and strategies for such high-impact brands as Adobe, Amazon, Backcountry, the City of Seattle, Crate & Barrel, and many more. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and is committed to educating the next generation of practitioners through his advanced User Experience and certificate Information Architecture classes at the School of Visual Concepts and as a guest lecturer at the University of Washington’s MCDM and MLIS programs.