2025 Industrial Digital Ecosystem Summit Agenda
NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) [map]
9700 Great Seneca Hwy, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
Organizers
Serm Kulvatunyou (NIST), Farhad Ameri (Arizona State University), Jim Wilson (OAGi), Jim Logan (OAGi IOF / Ontogenesis), Barry Smith (NCOR), Michael Figura (OAGi), Jim Wilson (OAGi IOF), Dusan Sormaz (Ohio University), Milos Drobnjakovic (NIST), Arkopaul Sarkar (NIST), Alexandru Todor (DIN Software), Melinda Hodkiewicz (UWA), Gabriela Henning (Intech), Josh Ki (Lockheed Martin), Roger Hart (NIIMBL), Adlane Rebai (Merck Millipore Sigma), Stephen Wing (Merck Millipore Sigma), Elyse Eason (Merck), Dimitris Kiritsis,
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Tuesday, 8 April : Plenary, tutorials and working sessions (09:00 - 18:00)
Opening Plenary
Time | Agenda Topic | Speaker | Description |
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09:00 - 09:05 | Welcome from the organizers | Serm Kulvatunyou (NIST) | Welcome and logistics info from the organizers |
09:05 - 09:10 | Welcome from the host | Simon Frechette, Chief of the Systems Integration Division, NIST Engineering Lab |
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09:10 - 09:35 | Opening Remarks | Jim Wilson (OAGi President and CEO) | Introduce OAGi and OAGi IOF/Connect memberships and their organizational missions. Updates on the organizational changes, e.g., BMIC formation. |
09:35 - 10:15 | Knowledge Graph and AI | Jemin George (NSF Program Director and Army Research Laboratory) | NSF Proto-OKN Project |
10:15 - 10:45 | Use of IOF Ontology | Rebeca Arista (Airbus) | This talk will showcase the Execelab project at Airbus featuring the integration of design and simulation using an IOF Driven Semantic Hub. |
Break: 10:45 - 11:10 | |||
11:00 - 11:30 | Ontology and AI | Nicole Manno and Douglas Orellana (ManTech) | This talk, entitled “Enhancing Accessibility to Portfolio Analyses through an Ontologically-Backed Digital Thread”, will showcase ManTech’s Smart Portfolio Solution which uses AI and an ontologically-backed digital thread architecture to allow users to access and analyze complex data across information systems. |
11:30 - 12:00 | Metadata Modeling for Enterprise Integration | Yan Lu (NIST) | The talk introduces a uniform, general, and extendable metadata model which captures and represents the most essential metadata elements for finable, accessible, interoperable and reusable manufacturing data for Industry 4.0/5.0. |
12:00 - 12:30 | Industrial Data Sharing Security | Ian Phillips (Lockheed Martin) | This talk will describe a new initiative at OAGi to fill the standard gaps that would enable a Federated Data Security. Current shortcomings in current data sharing security and the need for a new Federated Data Security scheme will be described. |
Lunch: 12:30 - 13:30 |
Tue Breakout Sessions
Time | Breakout 1 | Breakout 2 |
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13:30 - 15:30 | Digital Thread and Digital Twins Discussion Organizers: Dusan Sormaz and Saruda Seeharit (Ohio University), Gabriela Henning (UNL-CONICET, Argentina), Adlane Rebai (MilliporeSigma) Synopsis: In this session, we will look into the relationship between the slot theory and counterpart theory as the patterns to represent digital thread and digital twins (virtual/simulated entities) in manufacturing. We will also be looking at the plans of the PPS and the Manufacturing Operation Management Ontology (MOMO) WG being formulated and discuss their relationships, | Enterprise Integration Governance with OAGi Connect Tutorial Organizers: Josh Ki (Lockheed Martin), Hakju Oh (NIST), Michael Figura (OAGi) Synopsis: This tutorial will demonstrate how Lockheed Martin has use the OAGi connectCenter tool, which has been co-developed with NIST, in enterprise integration governance. Recently released features such as the Business Information Entity (BIE) reuse and inheritance and BIE Package management will be covered. |
Break: 15:30 - 16:00 | ||
16:00 - 18:00 | IOF Core Tutorial Synopsis: This tutorial will walk the audiences through usages of entities in the IOF Core focusing on those added/changed in recent releases such as Event, State, and Situation. | Biomanufacturing Ontology Tutorial Synopsis: NIIMBL has recently donated biomanufacturing ontology to the IOF. While the ontology is still a work-in-progress, this tutorial will walk the audiences through use cases, discuss issues related to modeling and instantiations of various types of recipes. |
Reception (Yard House Rio) |
For tutorials, participants are expected to have their own laptop to do hands-on exercises. Protege, Mobi, or other applications may be used depending on the instructor.
Wednesday, 9 April: Plenary, tutorials and working sessions (09:00 - 18:00)
Time | Agenda Topic | Speaker | Description |
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09:00 - 09:30 | IOF Materials and Qualities Ontology Update | Thomas Hanke (Fraunhofer) Alexandru Todor (DIN Software) | This talk will provide updates about the materials and qualities ontology being worked on in the IOF Material Science and Engineering WG.
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09:30 - 10:00 | Smart Standards | Alexandru Todor (DIN Software) | This talk will describe the smart standard initiative which aims that setting a new standard for standard by encoding it using ontology for enhancing clarity, semantic precision, and testability. |
10:00 - 10:20 | Ontology Business Value | Sheila Elz (Bayer) | IDMP ontology implementation at Bayer. |
10:20 - 10:40 | Analysis of IOF Ontology | Claude Fauconnet and Jean-Charles Leclerc* (TotalEnergies) | Modeling business objects with IOF and the ontology development and exploration tool SousLeSens (SLS) |
Break: 10:40 - 11:00 | |||
11:00 - 11:20 | Domain Ontology Development | Stephen Kahman (CrownPoint Technology) | Pharmaceutical Industry Chemical, Manufacturing and Control Ontology Standard Effort. |
11:20 - 11:40 | Ontology Business Value | Ryan Ricucci (Department of Homeland Security) | In this talk Ryan will talk about how convince management of the of ontology. |
11:40 - 12:00 | Ontology Interoperability | Asiyah Lin (Pistoia Alliance) | Interoperability between ontologies |
12:00 - 12:20 | Lifecycle Assessment Ontology | Stephen Granite (CrownPoint Technology) and Ana Nikolov (NIST) | This talk will explore how ontologies can enhance life cycle analysis for biomanufacturing processes. |
12:20 - 12:40 | IOF Ontology Pattern | Arkopaul Sarkar (NIST), Jim Logan (OAGi IOF / Ontogenesis), Milos Drobnjakovic (NIST) | This talk will describe the detail of the first release of the IOF Ontology Patterns. |
12:40 - 13:10 | Data and Ontology project at NIIMBL | Roger Hart (NIIMBL) and Stephen Wing (Merck MilliporeSigma) | This talk will describe the current plan for data schema and ontology standard development driven by the needs in the biopharmaceutical manufacturing industry. |
Lunch: 13:10 - 14:00 |
Wed Breakout Sessions
Time | Breakout 1 | Breakout 2 |
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14:00 - 16:00 | IOF Architecture WG Meeting Organizers: Will Sobel Synopsis: The IOF Architecture WG Meeting covers the changes in the IOF development process, focusing on the high-level workflow and management of ontologies in source control (GitHub). The Architecture WG made progress in defining the rules for what constitutes a domain ontology, a module, and a sub-domain ontology to inform content organization when developing ontologies and achieve consistent structure across all working groups. The meeting will also cover changes made to the annotation vocabulary, how those changes impact the development processes, and how those changes need to be incorporated into existing ontologies. The ontology community has not adequately addressed many of these issues, so the IOF is doing some green field work specifying the rules and procedures for normative ontology development. | Ontology for Additive Manufacturing (AM) Organizers: Yan Lu, Shengyen Li, Lisha White (NIST) Synopsis: Despite its rapid interest, the use of models and simulations, which is critical in the era of digital twin (DT), remains a challenge for AM development. Currently, there is a lack of methods for characterizing digital twin models and computation technology to meet various requirements of AM decision makings. Thus, this session opens the conversation on how to potentially use ontology to achieve “fit-for-purpose” DT development and deployment for AM and start discussing notions related to modeling and simulation, and DT composition in the context of AM.
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Break: 16:00 - 16:20 | ||
16:20 - 18:00 | Supply Chain Ontology Tutorial Organizer: Farhad and Ali Synopsis: This session will feature hands-on exercise in utilizing the supply chain ontology for a supply chain use case. | Reasoning with Machine Learning Lifecycle Ontology Organizers: Perawit, Hakju Oh, and Ana Nicolov (NIST) Synopsis: This session will present the need and use cases for a Machine Learning Lifecycle Ontology (MLLO). Then, an overview of MLLO will be given. The audience will be walked through a hands-on tutorial on using the Machine Learning Lifecycle Explorer (MLLE) system. MLLE is a NIST-developed open-source tool for interacting with MLLO data, which aims to aid ML model understanding and reuse. Session chairs are working on an additional scenario to be included in the tutorial in order to demonstrate how MLLO may expedite ML development tasks such as feature selection. |
Banquet (Yard House Rio) |
Thursday, 10 April: Tutorials and working sessions (09:00 - 18:00)
Time | Breakout 1 | Breakout 2 |
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09:00 - 11:00 | BFO Tutorial Organizers: Barry Smith (University at Buffalo) and Jim Logan (OAGi IOF / Ontogenesis) Synopsis: The first hour will give general introduction to BFO, aimed at newcomers. The second hour will address issues that people are having with BFO. Issues will be collected in advance. | OAGi Connect Meeting (Detailed Agenda) Organizers: Jim Wilson (OAGi) and Serm Kulvatunyou (NIST) Synopsis: OAGi Connect Meeting is a half-day program where detailed updates and working sessions related to the OAGi connectCenter tool and OAGi connectSpec standard will be conducted. Cross-cutting topics across the Connect and IOF standards and tools will also be discussed in this session. Key topics this year includes the OAGi Roadmap for Standards-based Semantics Integration, Multi-standard Management, and Mapping Data Management. |
Break 11:00 - 11:20 | ||
11:20 - 13:00 | Visualizing Ontology in UML-Like Diagram with Opensource Tools Organizers: Arkopaul Sarkar and Evan Wallace (NIST) Synopsis: This session will go over a PlantUML pattern developed in the IOF for visualizing, brainstorming, and documenting OWL ontology and axioms. The audience will be guided through an exercise to use the pattern on some ontology expressions of their choice. A software tool is being develop to render OWL using the PlantUML pattern and the session may include a tutorial on such tool. | OAGi Connect Meeting (Detailed Agenda) Organizers: Jim Wilson (OAGi) and Serm Kulvatunyou (NIST) Synopsis: OAGi Connect Meeting is a half-day program where detailed updates and working sessions related to the OAGi connectCenter tool and OAGi connectSpec standard will be conducted. Cross-cutting topics across the Connect and IOF standards and tools will also be discussed in this session. Key topics this year includes the OAGi Roadmap for Standards-based Semantics Integration, Multi-standard Management, and Mapping Data Management. |
Lunch 13:00 - 14:00 | ||
14:00 - 16:00 | Core Working Group/Patterns Meeting Organizers: Arkopaul Sarkar (NIST), Jim Logan (OAGi IOF / Ontogenesis), Milos Drobnjakovic (NIST) Synopsis: This session will showcase IOF patterns that have been developed in the IOF WG over the past year. | OAGi Connect Meeting (Detailed Agenda) Organizers: Jim Wilson (OAGi) and Serm Kulvatunyou (NIST) Synopsis: OAGi Connect Meeting is a half-day program where detailed updates and working sessions related to the OAGi connectCenter tool and OAGi connectSpec standard will be conducted. Cross-cutting topics across the Connect and IOF standards and tools will also be discussed in this session. Key topics this year includes the OAGi Roadmap for Standards-based Semantics Integration, Multi-standard Management, and Mapping Data Management. |
16:00 - 18:00 | System Engineering Working Group Meeting Organizers: Jim Logan (OAGi IOF / Ontogenesis), Allen Chow (Boeing) Synopsis: The System Engineering WG will discuss use case and terms such as Model. |
Friday, 11 April: Breakout Sessions (09:00 - 13:00)
Time | Breakout 1 | Breakout 2 |
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09:00 - 11:00 | Demonstration of Airbus' System Engineering using IOF Ontology Organizers: Rebeca Arista (Airbus), Arkopaul Sakar (NIST) Synopsis: This is a demonstration of the Execelab project featuring the integration of system architecture and simulation models using an IOF ontology-driven Semantic Hub to facilitate design decisions for aircraft manufacturing using IOF ontologies. | Product Service Systems Working Group Meeting Organizers: Ana Correia (ATB Bremen) Synopsis: The session will present the PSS-Pass project (http://www.pss-pass.eu/) where we are creating Digital Passports for Product Service Systems in 3 industrial pilots (in different manufacturing sectors). This session will continue to discuss terms and plans to release the first version of the product service systems ontology. Bill of Materials and related notions will be discussed. |
11:00 - 13:00 | Aerospace Industry Roundtable (Detailed Agenda) Organizers: Rebeca Arista (Airbus), Jim Logan (OAGi IOF/Ontogenesis) Synopsis: This is an invitation only session. Please contact Jim Logan if you are interested in joining. In this session, Rebeca will present her vision about IOF ontology use to support Airbus' missions. Then a discussion will be opened to participants with the objective to identify action items that lead to an aerospace industry working together to create a shared aerospace industrial ontology. | IOF Core/CCO Mapping Workshop Synopsis: This session will discuss the relationship and potential mechanical linkage between CCO and IOF Core ontologies. |
Detailed Session Agenda
Digital Thread and Digital Twins Discussion
Time | Agenda Topic | Speakers / Moderators | Description |
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13:30 - 13:35 | Session Overview | Dusan Sormaz (Ohio University) |
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13:35 - 14:05 | Slot Theory and Pattern for Engineering Specifications | Arkopaul Sarkar and Milos Drobnjakovic (NIST) | Walk through the slot pattern. Give examples of representing specifications such as design, process plan with non-linear characteristics such as options, conditions, alternate routes. Show how to relate that to the actual object or occurrence. |
14:05 - 14:35 | Counterpart Theory and Pattern for Digital Twins
| Dusan Sormaz (Ohio University) and Arkopaul Sarkar (NIST) | This presentation shows preliminary thought about the application of the counterpart pattern to represent simulated entity and how to relate it to the actual object or occurrence. |
14:35 - 14:50 | PPS Ontology Plan | Dusan Sormaz (Ohio University) and Arkopaul Sarkar (NIST) | Briefly go through terms to be included in the PPS first release, terms that are in the future plan, and planned ontology modules. |
14:50 - 15:10 | MOM Ontology (MOMO) Plan | Gabriela Henning (CONICET) | Briefly go through terms to be included in the MOMO first release, terms that are in the future plan, and planned ontology modules. |
15:10 - 15:30 | PPS and MOMO WGs Relation | Moderated by Milos Drobnjakovic | Try to determine the relationship between the two WGs, e.g., whether there should be two WGs, whether one should be a subgroup of another, what their scopes should be, etc. |
OAGi Connect Meeting (Thursday)
Time | Agenda Item | Speakers / Moderators | Description |
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09:00 - 09:20 | Opening and Welcoming | Jim Wilson (OAGi) | Provide OAGi Connect organizational updates, achievement milestones, partnerships, and future outlook. |
09:20 - 10:10 | Standards-based Semantic Interoperability Roadmap | Nenad Ivezic (Stratevia)/Serm Kulvatunyou (NIST) | This session will present a vision on data integration, and discuss the intersection of traditional standard and ontology-based standard. |
10:10 - 11:00 | connectCenter application to Agriculture | Brent Kemp, Ben Craker (AgGateway) | This session will talk about the progress and the needs of the AgGateway in the adoption of the connectCenter. |
Break: 11:00 - 11:20 | |||
11:20 - 12:00 | Multi-standard HR-Open/Chem eStandards | Jim Wilson (OAGi)/Hakju Oh (NIST) | This session will present the new connectCenter support for multi-library visualization and management and discuss future direction. |
12:00 - 13:00 | connectCenter, connectSpec Roadmap Discussion | Jim Wilson (OAGi) | Best practices in business context management. What are the use cases for varying standard expressions such as as GenAI input, as object model for browsing |
Break: 13:00 - 14:00 | |||
14:00 - 15:00 | Flexible Supply Chain WG | Salifou Malick (NIST)/Elena Jelisic (NIST) | Mapping use cases and initial tooling |
15:00 - 16:00 | OAGi Data Security WG | Ian Philips (Lockheed Martin) | This session will work on a list of use cases, use case detail, and project plan for the industrial data sharing security |
Break: 16:00 - 16:20 | |||
16:20 - 17:00 | Modernizing EDI and API for AI | International Trade Administration (ITA) | This session will feature a presentation form ITA and its industry stakeholders in their initiative to modernize EDI and API in the supply chain and logistics in enable AI |
17:00 - 17:30 | Mapping Efficiency Evaluation | Elena Jelisic (NIST)/Nenad Ivezic (Stratevia) | Presentation about the mapping methods evaluation |
17:30 - 18:00 | Wrap up | Jim Wilson (OAGi) |
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Aerospace Industry Roundtable (Friday)
Time | Agenda Topic | Speakers / Moderators | Description |
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11:00 - 11:20 | Airbus Vision | Rebeca Arista (Airbus) - | Federated and value-added platforms for aerospace supply chain |
11:20 - 11:40 | Lockheed Martin Vision | Jan De Nijs (Lockheed Martin) | The need for ontology-based documentary standards. |
11:40 - 12:10 | Boeing Vision
| Bill Beavin (Boeing) Allen Chow (Boeing) | Collaborative Artifact, Specification, Context and Data Exchange Digital Transformation and Connectivity of Engineering Knowledge |
12:10 - 13:00 | Open Discussion | Moderated by Jim Wilson | The objective is to arrive at a shared problem and objective to use ontology to solve the problem. |