The Ontopia tutorial teaches how to use the Ontopia product to build Topic Maps-based applications of all kinds. It consists of two parts: a half-day introduction to Ontopia for non-developers, followed by a half-day introduction for developers. The last half-day builds on the first. It is possible to attend only the first half.

The first half provides an overview of the Ontopia product suite, showing what functionality can be found there, its architecture, and covers approaches for building applications with the suite. There is also a tutorial on how to use Ontopoly to create ontologies and maintain instance data.