KNoWS at SEMANTiCS 2026

The 2026 edition of SEMANTiCS is taking place from the 15th till the 17th of September in the beautiful city of Ghent, Belgium. You will spot the following KNoWS team members in the crowd or on stage.

15 September - Pre-conference day

  • "Automated Validation of ODRL Policies for Usage Control and Data Spaces" by Wout Slabbink and Beatriz Esteves (NXDG workshop, 13:15 - 13:45)
  • "Building Thoroughly Tested Semantic Rule Engines in the Age of GenAI" by Patrick Hochstenbach, Jos De Roo, Wout Slabbinck, Beatriz Esteves, Pieter Colpaert (SAGE workshop)
  • "Does SRL Pave the Road to Explainable Reasoning? Lessons Learned from an Implementer's Perspective" by Lander Maes, Bryan-Elliott Tam, Jitse De Smet, Jos De Roo, Pieter Colpaert, Ruben Taelman (SAGE workshop)
  • "Combining Large Language Models & Knowledge Graphs for Energetic Renovation Suggestions" by Emma Nuyts, Mathias De Brouwer, Arne Vervaet, Bertrand Fontaine, Sofie Van Hoecke, Marc Delghust, and Femke Ongenae (SKGi workshop)
  • Ruben Taelman is co-chair and organizer of Developers Workshop (SemDev) (14:30 - 17:30)
  • Beatriz Esteves is co-chair and organizer of NeXt-generation Data Governance (NXDG) (12:40 - 17:30)
  • Julián Rojas is co-chair and organizer of Semantics for Transport and Logistics (Sem4tra) (10:20 - 14:10)

16 September - Conference day 1

  • "From Server-centric to Client-centric Data Integration over Decentralized Knowledge Graphs with Personal Query Engines" by Ruben Taelman (Blue Sky paper, presented as poster during the Posters and Demos Walk, 15:00 - 16:30)
  • "Towards Neurosymbolic Learning for the Semantic Web with Kolibrie" by Pieter Bonte (Posters and Demos Walk, 15:00 - 16:30)
  • "Demonstration of RDF and SPARQL 1.2 Interoperability through Query Rewriting" by Jitse De Smet (Posters and Demos Walk, 15:00 - 16:30)
  • "The Eyeling Playground: N3 rules in your browser" by Patrick Hochstenbach, Jos De Roo, Wout Slabbinck, Beatriz Esteves, Pieter Colpaert (Posters and Demos Walk, 15:00 - 16:30)
  • "FnO-Convert: Automatic Semantic Annotation of ML Pipelines Using the Function Ontology" by Pol Nachtergaele, Ben De Meester, Femke Ongenae (Posters and Demos Walk, 15:00 - 16:30)
  • "Putting the Athlete in Control of their Performance Data through Privacy-Preserving Aggregators across Data Vaults" by Maarten Vandenbrande, Pieter Bonte, Femke Ongenae (Posters and Demos Walk, 15:00 - 16:30)
  • "Urban Drone Traffic Safety with Semantic Web Enhanced Stream Reasoning through DatalogMTL^RDF" by Volodymyr Kadzhaia, Pieter Bonte
  • Ruben Taelman is the chair at "Querying Knowledge Graphs" session (11:00 - 12:30)
  • Pieter Colpaert is the chair of invited talk by Alessandra Mileo (16:30 - 17:00)
  • Pieter Colpaert represents the local team during the opening ceremony (9:00 - 9:30)

17 September - Conference day 2

  • "Synthology: Ontology-Based Data Generation for Neurosymbolic Reasoning" by Vincent Van Schependom, Cas Proost, Pieter Bonte ("Ontologies and Knowledge Representation" session, 10:30 - 12:00)
  • Beatriz Esteves is the chair of the "Semantic Applications" session (10:30 - 12:00)
  • Pieter Bonte is the chair of invited talk by Daniel Garijo (15:10 - 15:40)
Published on 2026-09-10