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We’re pleased to share that Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc., will be speaking at STIDS 2026 — Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense, and Security, taking place May 27–28, 2026 at George Mason University’s Fuse at Mason Square in Arlington, Virginia.

STIDS brings together leaders from academia, government, and industry to explore the role of semantic technologies in intelligence, defense, and security. This year’s program highlights a timely theme: integrating AI with semantic technologies, knowledge graphs, and data fabrics to support trustworthy and explainable reasoning across complex data ecosystems.

Jans’ joint presentation with Dave McComb and Ryan Hohimer - "Semantic Interoperability in Cybersecurity: Harmonizing Threat Intelligence with gist and gistCyber"

Cybersecurity data is fragmented across organizations, standards, and formats, making semantic interoperability a critical challenge. This paper presents gistCyber, an ontology that extends the minimalist enterprise framework gist into the cybersecurity domain. By harmonizing reference datasets such as MITRE ATT&CK, CAPEC, CVE, and NIST SP 800-53, gistCyber enables unified reasoning, federated querying, and scalable threat analysis. We demonstrate its utility through a practical use case involving SPARQL-based integration of vulnerabilities, weaknesses, attack patterns, and controls. The results show that semantic alignment is not only feasible but essential for intelligent cyber defense.

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Dr. Aasman was interviewed for this article - AI’s Impact on Data Silos and Knowledge Hubs https://buff.ly/1GD5Su7

Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc., will be participating on the KGC 2026 panel “From Knowledge Graphs to Digital Twins: Are Our Models Ready?”

The Knowledge Graph Conference brings together leaders across industry and research to explore how knowledge graphs unlock the full potential of AI in real-world enterprise applications. This year’s theme, “Make Your Enterprise Data AI Ready,” is especially relevant as organizations look beyond isolated AI pilots toward governed, explainable, and operationally useful intelligence.

Digital twins, to be truly useful, require more than data integration or simulation. They need semantic models that capture relationships, constraints, provenance, context, and meaning across complex systems.

Jans will bring a Knowledge Graph and Neuro-Symbolic AI perspective to the discussion, focused on how semantic technologies can help enterprises build AI-ready models that are trustworthy, interoperable, and grounded in real-world knowledge.

Join the conversation at KGC 2026, May 4–8, 2026, at Cornell Tech NYC and online.

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