Semantic Data New York 2026

Michael Pool works in the Office of the CTO at Bloomberg, where he is working on tooling to create and deploy ontologies and other semantic artifacts across the firm. Previously, he was a principal ontologist on the Amazon Product Knowledge team, and has also worked to deploy semantic technologies/approaches and enterprise knowledge graphs at a number of big banks in New York City. Michael once worked on the famous Cyc project and has evaluated knowledge representation technologies for DARPA. He has also worked on tooling to integrate probabilistic and semantic models and oversaw development of an ontology to support a consumer-facing semantic search engine.