Maria Stefanova Hristova

Maria Hristova is a Solution Architect, author, and inventor working at the intersection of enterprise data, semantics, knowledge graphs, and artificial intelligence.

She is the author of "AI Doesn’t Know What Your Data Means", which explores one of the fundamental challenges facing enterprise AI: giving an AI system access to data does not mean it understands what that data represents. Her work focuses on how semantic models, ontologies, identity, provenance, and knowledge graphs can provide the foundation for more grounded, explainable, and trustworthy AI.

Maria is also the inventor of "Ontelyx", an approach designed to transform fragmented enterprise information into connected, machine-understandable knowledge that can support semantic discovery, AI reasoning, and intelligent agents.

Drawing on her experience as a Solution Architect, Maria bridges practical enterprise architecture with emerging AI technologies. Her work focuses on a central question for the next generation of enterprise AI: "how do we move beyond simply connecting AI to data and build systems that understand its meaning, context, and relationships?"