Summary: Babur Ozden is founder and CEO of Maana, a software based Knowledge Platform. Our conversation explored the origins of the company, which focuses on capturing best practices and tacit knowledge of business processes to provide employees with domain-specific software assistance created through extensive analysis of historical data. He discusses the challenges of deriving actionable knowledge from silo-ed data, and the principles behind the creation of the Maana Computational Knowledge Graph that powers the company’s solutions. He also shares why and how the company turned its focused to the energy industry and provided examples of successful use cases of the platform, shared insights around competition, risks and vision for the future.
