Andrea Volpini is an entrepreneur, researcher, and systems architect with 25+ years of experience in semantic web engineering, SEO, artificial intelligence, online strategy, and web publishing. As Co-founder and CEO of WordLift, Andrea leads an AI platform processing millions of structured entity transformations and graph-backed context payloads daily for global e-commerce, digital publishing, and enterprise accounts. He is also the co-founder of Insideout10 and RedLink GmbH (a commercial spin-off focused on semantic content enrichment, natural language processing, and information extraction).
Pioneering the intersection of symbolic AI and modern language models, Andrea is a leading architect of Agent-Oriented Ontology Engineering (AOOE): an operational discipline that implements structured semantic, episodic, and procedural memory to eliminate state drift, execution failure, and hallucination in multi-agent fleets. His current research focuses on Sovereign AI and Ontology-Guided Model Alignment, demonstrating how enterprise ontologies act as deterministic reward judges (via techniques like GRPO) to train local open-weights models (4B–8B parameters) that outperform closed frontier LLMs on complex structural logic while ensuring compliance under EU AI Act and DORA mandates.
Andrea is both author and researcher and has contributed to industry publications including the Web Almanac by HTTP Archive, co-authored peer-reviewed research on multi-hop agentic memory (arXiv:2603.10700 and arXiv:2604.17056). He has demonstrated in 2025 how an OWL ontology used as a deterministic GRPO (Group Relative Policy Optimization) reward judge trains local small language models to navigate multi-hop domain logic.
Keynotes & Technical Sessions
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The Knowledge Graph Conference (KGC): Teaching AI to Think Like Writers: Ontology-Based Reinforcement Learning (with Beatrice Gamba); Enhancing LLM Generative Capabilities through Knowledge Graph Integration; Content Knowledge Graphs.
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AI Festival: Using Memory with AI Systems (Agent memory architectures).
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GS1 Global Forum: GS1 Digital Link & Product Knowledge Graphs (Supply chain data standardization).
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SEO Week: Unpacking why connected graph form the competitive advantage for AI-ready brands.
Executive & Global Summits
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Connected Data World / Connected Data London: Enterprise semantic layers, graph AI, and runtime enforcement.
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SXSW Interactive & TNW Conference: Machine-readable web infrastructures, structured entity data, and scaling enterprise context.
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G50 Summit: Digital marketing industry’s most exclusive invitation-only think tank (Stanglwirt, Austria), sharing advanced research on AI search, knowledge graphs, and machine-readable data structures.
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BrightonSEO & SMXL Milan: Entity-based AI search infrastructure, automated schema markup, and named-entity recognition (NER).