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Dear Data Enthusiasts, We're excited to welcome you on 20 November at Magenta Telekom for an evening of two great talks: how AI search is changing the way brands get found, and how knowledge graphs and AI agents turn scattered industrial data into real insight. Stay afterwards for the open mic, food, drinks and plenty of time to connect with fellow data enthusiasts! **How AI Search Is Rewriting the Buyer’s Journey** **Speaker:** [Klaus-M. Schremser](https://www.linkedin.com/in/klausmschremser/), Co-Founder & CRO at OtterlyAI Search is shifting from short keyword queries to conversational questions. Instead of comparing a list of links, users increasingly receive a short list of recommended brands from AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini or Google AI Mode. This talk looks at what that means for how brands are discovered and evaluated, and how the effect can be measured. It draws on OtterlyAI's customer data and on 30+ experiments in Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), covering around 200M AI citations. The session covers the rise of zero-click search, the role of third-party sources in what AI systems cite, and the limits of web analytics when attributing AI-driven traffic. It also presents technical and content measures tested in the experiments and closes with practical first steps for engineering and data teams. **About the speaker** Klaus-M. Schremser has been building software companies since 1999, with three exits along the way. He co-founded Wikidocs, whose real-time collaboration technology was acquired by Atlassian, the company behind Jira and Confluence. Today, he is co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer of OtterlyAI, a Vienna-based AI search monitoring platform. OtterlyAI tackles a new measurement problem: understanding what AI recommends, which sources it cites, and how its answers influence what people buy. **Neurosymbolic AI and Agents for Industrial Data Intelligence** **Speaker:** [Daniel Dobriy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/semantic/), AI Researcher at WU Vienna & Managing Director of Dobriy AI Every day, industrial companies announce new factories, expand production lines, invest in infrastructure and enter new markets. These developments generate valuable information, but the relevant signals are disconnected and scattered across social media, news articles, corporate websites, public databases and various documents. How can we transform this fragmented information into structured, reliable and actionable knowledge? In this talk, we will explore how modern data engineering, knowledge graphs and AI agents can be combined to analyse complex industrial ecosystems. Using real-world industrial scenarios, we will look at how AI systems can identify relevant events, resolve company identities across different sources and discover relationships between organisations. We will also look at practical data engineering challenges: data quality, entity resolution and disambiguation, provenance, hallucinations, and the trade-offs between traditional data pipelines and agentic AI approaches. **About the speaker** Daniel Dobriy is an AI researcher and lecturer at WU Vienna, working at the intersection of knowledge graphs, computational semantics, neuro-symbolic AI and industrial AI applications. His interests include connecting structured and unstructured data to build intelligent systems that solve the hardest problems. He is also the Managing Director of Dobriy AI, which specialises in real-world industrial and business applications: scalable knowledge graph hosting, data-based AI agents and web-scale data search. **Open Mic** We are going to open up the stage after the talks for community announcements. If you'd like to announce something, open [this slide deck](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yvFI_Lm7KjgletICOQ1hLW1hHKmCIPA1OWQF2EeZieo/edit), make sure you are signed in with a Google account, and click "View Only" -> "Request Edit Access". Explain in the text box what you want to announce, and we'll give you edit access to the slide deck. **Food & Drinks** We’ll have some food and drinks after the event. **Photos** Please note that during the event, photos might be taken and later posted on VDSG's social media page. Please notify us if you do not agree. **Food Allergies** Attention attendees with food allergies: please be aware that the food and drinks provided may contain or come into contact with common allergens, such as dairy, eggs, wheat, soybeans, tree nuts, peanuts, fish or shellfish. Best, The Organizer Team