Adam Pingel: Semiont at Graph Exchange
Semiont: A Semantic Knowledge Framework for Human/Agent Co-Creation Adam Pingel, IBM Semiont is an open-source semantic knowledge kernel where humans and AI agents co-create shared knowledge as equals — sharing job queues, annotations, and governance rather than bolting AI onto human workflows as an afterthought. Built on W3C Web Annotation and grounded in primary artifacts like PDFs and images, Semiont is designed for high-trust domains that demand provenance. Adam will walk through Semiont's five key flows — Attention, Annotation, Resolution, Context Correlation, and Resource Generation — and demo the system end to end. Adam Pingel is the Head of Open Tools and Applications for the AI Alliance at IBM. Adam has spent decades at the intersection of software engineering, AI, and knowledge systems. His career includes building AI-powered legal analytics at LexisNexis, where he served as CTO of Global Platforms following the acquisition of Ravel Law, and earlier roles at companies including Excite.com. He holds computer science degrees from UCLA and Stanford, where he studied programming languages, AI, and linguistics.