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

Conference Program online!
The conference program is now available and contains over 55 presentations, keynote talks, tutorials, panel sessions and social events

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In our new program section, you find the preliminary list of accepted papers and tutorials - over 35 presentations tutorials and workshops held by well-known experts will give you a clear, unleashed picture about the state of the art in Semantic Technology.

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Do you have ideas about innovative and new future Semantic Applications which have commercial value?

Participate in the Business Idea Contest 2008 at the ESTC2008 and win one of the elevated prizes:

• 1^st  €5000
• 2^nd €2500
• 3^rd €1000 
• Business Lunch with outstanding Business & Technology Leaders

Use the opportunity to get in touch with prominent business and technology leaders and seize the chance to get seed funding for your ideas.

Click here to get more information on the Business Idea Contest 2008.