9:00 - 10:30 Session 1 - Framing Convergence

Time Title Speakers
9:00 - 9:15 Introductory RemarksSlides John Beverley
9:15 - 9:40 The Mercurial Top-Level Ontology of Large Language Modelsdraft Nele Köhler and Fabian Neuhaus
9:40 - 10:05 Improving the Accuracy of Black-Box Language Models with Ontologies: A Preliminary Roadmapdraft Marco Monti, Oliver Kutz, Nicolas Troquard, and Guendalina Righetti
10:05 - 10:30 How to Classify Domain Entities into Top-Level Ontology Concepts using Large Language Modelsdraft Alcides Lopes, Joel Carbonera, Luan Garcia, Fabricio Rodrigues, and Mara Abel

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 12:40 Session 2 - Convergence on Explainability

Time Title Speakers
11:10 - 11:30 Exploring SPARQL Query Types to Improve Ontology Mapping and Retrieval Augmented Modelling for Auto-Generated Questionsdraft Sairaj R. Tharaniya and S. R. Balasundaram
11:30 - 12:20 Leveraging Knowledge Graphs Inference for Semi-Explainable Systems based on Large Language Modelsdraft Carmelo Fabio Longo, Daniele Francesco Santamaria, Misael Mongiovì, Luana Bulla, and Emilio Sanfilippo

Lunch 12:30 - 2:00

2:00 - 3:30 Session 3 - Convergence on Application

Time Title Speakers
2:00 - 2:20 CEAR: Creating a Knowledge Graph of Chemical Entities and Roles in Scientific Literaturedraft Slides Stefan Langer, Fabian Neuhaus, and Andreas Nürnberger
2:20 - 2:45 OLIVE: Ontology Learning with Integrated Vector Embeddingsdraft Yinglun Zhang, Aryan Dalal, Caleb J Martin, Srikar Reddy Gadusu, and Hande Kucuk McGinty
2:45 - 3:30 Keynote: Creativity and the Limits of AITBD Barry Smith

3:35 - 4:00 Break

4:00 - 5:30 Session 4 - Convergence on Ethics

Time Title Speakers
4:00 - 4:45 Keynote: Building Trust in AITBD Jeremy Ravenel
4:45 - 5:30 Keynote: Full Stack Explainable AITBD Beth Rudden

Post-Sessions - Recorded Talks on Convergence

Owing to time constraints during the in-person meeting, the following talks were recorded separately and made available as part of the workshop

Title Speakers
My Ontologist: Evaluating BFO-Based AI for Definition Supportdraft Carter Benson, Alec Sculley, Austin Leibers, and John Beverley
Integrating Ontologies and Large Language Models to Implement Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)Draft Slides Michael DeBellis
Ontologies Enhancing Large-Language ModelsTBD Alex Cox and Cameron More
Panel: Hype and Hope about ConvergenceMaxwell Slides Beverley Slides Dan Maxwell, Mark Jensen, and John Beverley