Vienna,01.08. 2008

Learn how Europe is driving the market for semantic technologies forward in over 30 psentations by leading businesses and researchers

European Semantic Technology Conference (ESTC2008)

September 24-26, 2008, Vienna, Austria

www.estc2008.com

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**ABOUT ESTC2008

ESTC2008 is Europe's most prominent and authoritative conference focusing on the growth of the ICT semantic technology markets, highlighted by showcased industry practices, advancements in the field of semantic technologies achieved in the past year, and successful marketing strategies in delivering semantic applications that generate new revenues. While chasing to catch up, the large number of industrial attendees will provide a solid foundation for the long anticipated opportunity for semantic technologies to officially disseminate beyond the academic world.

Participants will learn how to develop a cohesive strategy for managing semantic technology initiatives and utilizing these to evolve the operations and effectiveness of their organizations. Additionally, ESTC2008 provides the invaluable opportunity for you to meet your fellow peers or rub shoulders with some of the ICT industry's major players.

ESTC2008 will not only contribute to exploiting the most mature semantic tools and technologies; further research results will be psented promoting the continued R&D of semantic technologies as they evolve into a fundamental backbone of ICT. This year's ESTC takes another step in bridging the broad knowledge transfer gap with demonstrations and industrial exhibitions of pragmatic, functional, and fully deployable applications that prove the progressing marketable value of semantic technologies.

**PROGRAM CONTENT

Over 30 psentations and invited talks will explore the business opportunities of semantic technologies, with a primary focus on applications in Telecommunications Life Science and eTourism. Program highlights include

- Mills Davis of Project10x sharing forecasts on the growing market for semantic technologies.

- Top repsentatives from BT, SAP and Thomson Reuters will give insights into how global enterprises are implementing semantic technology solutions in data integration and analysis and explain their vision of an Internet of Services that transforms services into tradable goods that are offered, sold, executed and consumed globally via the internet.

- Yahoo talks about semantics in future internet search

- Pharma companies like UCB and AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals will psent 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.

More about the conference program: http://www.estc2008.com/index.php/program

**TARGET GROUPS

The European Semantic Technology Conference 2008 (ESTC2008) is structured to target the following groups:

- Enterprise Experts/CIOs

- Market Analysts/CEOs

- Entrepneurs/VC

- Developers and Engineers

- Multi-domain Experts

- Researchers

More about the target groups: http://www.estc2008.com/index.php/program/target-groups