Q&A of Session 5 with Bethany Sehon, Brian Donohue, Radu Marian and Nicolas Seyot.

Bethany leads a team of product managers, ontologists, data scientists, and data analysts, enhancing Capital One’s data management capabilities around metadata collection, quality and best practices. Bethany is also responsible for establishing the Ontology practice, a capability that is being used to facilitate a common understanding of the data and analytics across the Capital One ecosystem.

As an Ontologist in Enterprise Data Management, Brian is responsible for leveraging semantic technology to mitigate data risk and promote a shared understanding of data across Capital One. Prior to joining Capital One, Brian spent 3 years at a Research and Defense company as a developer and curator of the Common Core Ontologies: a suite of open source, mid-level ontologies currently under consideration as a NIST Standard in Artificial Intelligence. Brian holds a Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo (SUNY), and is also an affiliate member of the National Center for Ontological Research. His research has focused on applications of formal ontology to cybersecurity, situational awareness, aircraft maintenance, geopolitics, natural language user interfaces, and legal and regulatory compliance.

Nic Seyot serves as Head of Information Management for Morgan Stanley and as Head of Data & Analytics for the Legal and Compliance Division. Nic joined Morgan Stanley in 2014 to help create services and tools to better organize, retrieve, retain and protect the firm’s information. Since 2019, Nic leads the Data & Analytics team who provides advanced analytics and visualization for trade and financial crimes surveillance. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley he worked at GE Capital, where he held increasingly senior roles in information management. Nic earned his Master’s in Information Sciences and Knowledge Management from the Sorbonne in Paris.

Radu Marian is a Solution Architect at Bank of America, Research and Innovation Team of Global Information Security. Radu has specialized in building semantic knowledge graph solutions for cyber security domain - specifically W3C Cyber Control Ontology and Knowledge Graph new submission initiative. Other interests are Bible Knowledge Graph and building domain specific languages for interacting with knowledge graphs, creating and building knowledge graph Thesaurus using NLP of existent corpora.

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