Keynotes

Extraction and resolution capabilities for entities, events and facts
Peter Jackson - Chief Scientist Thomson Reuters Professional
Barak Pridor - CEO of Clearforest, a Thomson Reuters Markets company

Internet of Services
Orestis Terzidis - Director SAP Research Centre CEC

Getting at the Semantics of Texts
Hans Uszkoreit - Scientific Director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and Head of DFKI Language Technology Lab

Improving Search with Semantic Technologies: Current Research Directions
Hugo Zaragoza - Yahoo! Research Barcelona

Other Program Highlights

• Experts talking about Semantic Search: new kind of methodologies and innovative information retrieval technologies used for specialized search engines, like Hakia, Matrixware and seekda.
• Presentations dealing with the question of how Semantic solutions can improve Business Intelligence - interoperability of data, systems and organizations.
• Mills Davis of Project10x sharing forecasts on the growing market for semantic technologies.
• Pharma companies like UCB and AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals will present case studies about using semantics in managing pharmaceutical data
• Other highlights include talks on semantic wikis, the semantic desktop, semantic enterprise knowledge, large semantic data repositories and semantic mobile environments.
• Three panel discussions will complete the program.

Important Dates

Tutorials: 24^th September (half day)
Business Idea Contest: 25^th September (2 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.)
Main Conference: 24^th September (afternoon) – 26^th September 2008
Exhibition: 24^th September (afternoon) – 26^th September 2008