About

Pete Rivett has spent his career in data management, metadata management and now knowledge graphs; working on both sides of the Atlantic for everything from large and established to small and startup; from product vendors to consultancies and standards organizations. He's helped create many standard ontologies, as well as organization-specific ones, coupled with scalable data. His mantra is to be driven by practicality and use cases to deliver business value, rather than theoretical purity. He’s a frequent conference speaker and right now he’s exercised by how we can trust the data we use every day, and any processing done on it.

Pete has been heavily involved in many ontology and knowledge graph efforts, both enterprise-specific and industry-wide including the Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO) and the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) LEI ontology. He is founding director of Enterprise Knowledge Graph Foundation (EKGF) and for many years sat on the Architecture Board of Object Management Group (OMG), active in most OMG modeling and ontology standards. Most recently he worked with Golden as their Ontologist.