Why AI Needs Ontologies with Juha Korpela - The Business Thinking Podcast

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In this episode, we sit down with Juha Korpela — data and semantics expert — for a deep-dive conversation following his presentation on semantics and ontologies at our Data Community Meetup.

We explore why ontologies are having a moment right now, what's holding back the tooling, and why the real challenge isn't technical at all.
Topics covered:

Why AI is driving renewed interest in ontologies and the semantic web
✅ The "silo problem" — why building isolated AI agents works short-term but breaks at scale
✅ Why every organization needs a semantic architecture vision before it's too late
✅ The current state of semantic layer tooling (and why it's still too platform-specific)
✅ The gap between data catalogs, semantic models, and what AI actually needs
✅ Why your organization's unique understanding of its own data is its greatest competitive advantage — and why no LLM can generate that for you

About the guest:
Juha Korpela is a data modelling and semantics practitioner with over a decade of experience. His master's degree focused on ontology visualization, and he now works at the intersection of AI, knowledge graphs, and enterprise data architecture.

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