ESTC 2008 - Impressions

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W3C
STI Innsbruck
iSOCO
Ontotext
matrixware
ontos
metatomix
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DERI Galway
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Seekda
Semantic Exchange
Franz Inc
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Semantic Wave 2008 Report: Industry Roadmap to Web 3.0 and Multibillion Dollar Market Opportunities PDF Print E-mail

This guide to the next stage of internet evolution is must reading for investors, technology developers, and enterprises in the public and private sector who want to better understand how semantic technologies will shape applications, business models and markets, and change how we use and experience the internet for pleasure and profit. The Semantic Wave 2008 Report is 400+ pages, comprehensive, well illustrated, and written to be readily understood by business and government executives as well as IT professionals. We invite you to download a free 32-page summary of this report at the following link: Semantic Wave 2008 Report: Executive Summary 

The Semantic Wave 2008 Report:

  • Charts the evolution of the Internet from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 and beyond
  • Explains value drivers for semantic technologies in consumer and enterprise markets
  • Examines role of semantic technologies in over 100 application categories — some great examples
  • Summarizes 150 case studies in 14 industry sectors showing current adoption and returns — good proof cases
  • Surveys 300+ companies with R&D, products and services in the web 3.0 space
  • Annotated bibliography of nearly 1,000 sources
  • Sizes emerging markets and projects growth rates
  • Profiles opportunities for executives, developers, entrepreneurs, and investors.
 

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Program Highlights

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