Gold Sponsors

Austria Wirtschaftsservice is the central winding up place for the enterprise-related economic support.

DERI is a Centre for Science, Engineering and Technology (CSET) established in 2003 with funding from the Science Foundation Ireland. After nearly five years of operation DERI has become an internationally recognised institute in semantic web research, education and technology transfer which directly contributes to the Irish government’s plan of transforming Ireland into a competitive knowledge economy. As a CSET, DERI brings together academic and industrial partners to boost innovation in science and technology, with its research focused on the Semantic Web.

iSOCO - Intelligent Software Components S.A. is a privately held company founded in 1999 as a spin-off of the Spanish Artificial Intelligence Research Institute.
iSOCO is the leading Spanish company in Semantic Web Technologies, evidenced by its participation in a dozen large, ambitious (international) R&D projects in this area. iSOCO commercializes several products: GETsee: a content aggregator for financial online information; Quotes: a powerful e-sourcing solution for conducting online negotiations between a buying company and its suppliers; and e-Invoicing, an innovative solution to exchange and manage electronic invoices between enterprises. iSOCO has also started to commercialize results of other EU projects, in particular the KnowledgeParser software that turns non-structured information into structured information.

The Vienna, Austria based company Matrixware Information Services GmbH was founded in 2005 and is active in the field of patent retrieval, a subarea of information retrieval (IR). IR falls under the heading of information science and informatics and uses computer-assisted methods to conduct content-based information searches.
With its 51 employees - a team of expert software developers, computer engineers, mathematicians, linguists and patent information domain specialists - Matrixware provides the users of patent information worldwide with innovative solutions. The company's aim is to use recent scientific findings in natural language processing (NLP) to sustain the increasing workload and accessibility needs in the Intellectual Property Information community.

Founded in 2000, Metatomix is the leading semantic integration provider. The Metatomix Semantic Platform integrates data, uncovers and defines information relationships, and provides meaning and actionable insight to applications. It does so by creating a real-time virtual integration layer that non-invasively accesses data from any source (static and dynamic) and allows it to be understood & leveraged by practically any application. Metatomix solutions intelligently link data from existing disparate systems to create a common semantic understanding of your information across the enterprise. As a result, business applications can leverage information that comes from across all data sources.

NeOn project started in March 2006 and has a duration of 4 years. The aim of NeOn is to create the first ever service-oriented, open infrastructure, and associated methodology, to support the development life-cycle of such a new generation of semantic applications, with the overall goal of extending the state of the art with economically viable solutions. These applications will rely on a network of contextualized ontologies, exhibiting local but not necessarily global consistency.

Ontos, founded in 2001 in Switzerland, is a provider of semantic technologies and solutions. The Ontos Semantic Framework and Web service allows to automatically annotate Internet pages by applying an ontology driven information extraction. The easy-to-implement technology can integrate the semantic content on your site and enrich the experience of your readers. The immediate benefit is that readers spend more time on your site and this leads to new revenue opportunities. Further, Ontos has launched a semantic portal for news and business information using semantic technologies. The business portal can be integrated with a CRM system, has an iPhone interface and integration with MS Outlook.

The Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck was founded as DERI Innsbruck in 2002 by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dieter Fensel, and has since developed into a challenging and very dynamic research institute of approximately 60 people. Current research involves an international network of other institutes in Asia, Europe and the USA, as well as ties to global industry partners.
STI Innsbruck is a founding member of STI International, a collaborative association of leading European and world wide institutions semantic technology development.

THESEUS ist ein vom Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie initiiertes Forschungsprogramm mit dem Ziel, eine neue internetbasierte Wissensinfrastruktur zu entwickeln, um das Wissen im Internet besser zu nutzen und zu verwerten. Unter dem Dach von THESEUS sollen hierzu anwendungsorientierte Basistechnologien und technische Standards erarbeitet und erprobt werden. Als Ergebnisse werden neuartige Produkte, Tools, Dienste und Geschäftsmodelle für das World Wide Web sowie die Dienstleistungs- und Wissensgesellschaft von morgen erwartet. Das Programm hat eine Laufzeit von fünf Jahren und wird vom BMWi mit ca. 90 Mio. Euro gefördert. Das in der ersten Programmphase gebildete THESEUS-Konsortium besteht aus ca. 30 Partnern aus Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft. Die für Forschung und Entwicklung zur Verfügung stehenden Mittel verteilen sich je zur Hälfte auf Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft. Zusätzliche 90 Mio. Euro werden als Eigenmittel der beteiligten Partner aus Industrie und Forschung aufgebracht, so dass insgesamt rund 180 Mio. Euro in die zukunftweisenden Forschungsarbeiten fließen. Das THESEUS-Konsortium schätzt das Marktpotenzial internetbasierter Dienste im Jahr 2011 auf weltweit rund 100 Mrd. Euro.

Nähere Informationen zum THESEUS Programm und zum Wettbewerb findet man unter: http://www.theseus-programm.de

Ontotext Lab
Sirma Group Corp 
Tsarigradsko Shosse 135
1784 Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
Tel: 359-2-8091-565

About:
Ontotext is a semantic technology lab of Sirma Group. Ontotext researches and develops core technology for knowledge discovery, management,and engineering, Semantic Web, and web services.
Ontotext lab develops software products and contributes to open-source platforms. The lab is a proven, competent and cost-effective, partner in:
Development of tools and solutions based on semantic technologies
Software engineering, performance optimization, ontology design
Analysis, evaluation, feasibility studies based on cutting-edge expertise
Ontotext lab is currently taking part in research projects with total budget of more than 100 million EURO. The lab carries out research in: natural language processing including information extraction, retrieval, and lexical semantics; upper level ontologies; ontology middleware and scaleable repositories; knowledge representation and reasoning; semantic web services; and business process management.
Ontotext technology delivers real-world applications in Web Services and Enterprise Application Integration, Knowledge Management and Textmining, Business Intelligence, Media Research, and Life sciences.

seekda is a spin-off of the University of Innsbruck, Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck. seekda is built upon the results of the European Union funded project DIP (flagship project of the EU Framework 6th Program) and Austrian FIT-IT project RW2 (funded by BMVIT and FFG). seekda is supported by the Center for Academic Spin-offs Tyrol (CAST) and the Austrian Economic Service (AWS).
seekda's mission is to facilitate on-demand use of services over the Web. As a first step we are operating a search engine providing access to publicly available Web Services. seekda will simplify purchases across different providers and unify the use of services in bundles.

The W3C Semantic Web activity provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. It is a collaborative effort led by W3C with participation from a large number of researchers and industrial partners.
Learn more at http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

ACTIVE aims to increase the productivity of knowledge workers in a pro-active, contextualised, yet easy and unobtrusive way. ACTIVE will integrate concepts, methods and tools from the fields of (i) Social Software and Web 2.0, (ii) Semantic Technologies, (iii) Context Mining, Context Modelling, and Context Sensitive Task Management, and (iv) Knowledge Process Mining, Knowledge Process Modelling and Pro-Active Knowledge Process Support into highly innovative application systems. The key result of ACTIVE will be a breakthrough which empowers enterprises to make knowledge technology effective for a much larger share of their essential knowledge. ACTIVE will generate sustainable impact by deploying the tools and applications in three industry sectors: consulting, telecommunication and engineering ("ACTIVE technology").

Semantic Exchange Partners

Semantic Exchange is a collaborative industry news, research, and education initiative about all things web 3.0 and semantic web, and sponsored by industry leading semantic technology providers. Whether you are a newcomer to semantic technologies or already have experience developing and applying them, the goal of Semantic Exchange is to answer your questions, help you better keep up with the rapid pace of technology and infrastructure development, and connect with the people and companies making the next stage of the internet happen. 

Aduna 
Prinses Julianaplein 14 b 
3817 CS Amersfoort, Netherlands 
Tel: +31 33 465 99 87

About:
Aduna offers a range of information access products that overcome the abundance of information silos and their IT barriers, bringing new information to light and delivering on the promise of true information management. One key is an information integration layer based on open standards and semantic web technologies. This handles complex, heterogeneous information sources in continuously changing environments. Another key is feature-rich search and exploration components, which accommodate a wide spectrum of use cases, from straightforward enterprise search to advanced serendipitous discovery and intelligence tasks. 

Be Informed
De Linie 620
7325DZ Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands
Tel: +31-55-368-1420

About:
A leading supplier of semantic software and infrastructure for knowledge management. Semantic framework integrates subject and process ontologies with business rules to deliver intelligent e-forms, knowledge bases over heterogeneous information sources, advisory services, auto-classification, decision trees, calculators, and semantic search and navigation.

Expert System
Via Virgilio, 56/Q - Staircase 5
41100 Modena - Italy
Tel: +39 059 894011
Fax: +39 059 894099

Expert System USA
PO Box 370155 
West Hartford CT 06137 
Tel: +1-860-614-2411 
Fax: +1-508-445-6205

About:
Expert System is the leading provider of semantic software, which discovers, classifies and interprets text information. The company develops a patent pending technology, Cogito, that enables organizations to:
Extract, discover and understand the connections in your strategic information sets – the thousands of files, e-mails, articles, reports, web pages you have access to everyday; and
Understand automatically the meaning of any text written in the language we use to communicate (natural language). Cogito improves business decisions in real time for the majority of corporate functions.

iQser 
Chlupfgasse 2 CH-8303 
Bassersdorf Switzerland
Tel: + 41 (0)43 266 20 80

About:

iQser provides semantic middleware for the integration and evaluation of data in networks of information. The iQser GIN server does not need to modify or migrate information. It virtually integrates the pieces of information from various data sources. Semantic analytics to link and interpret diverse sources of information are fully automatic. Reasoning capabilities over linked data resources are extensive.

Netbreeze GmbH
Ringstrasse 12
CH-8600 Dübendorf Switzerland
Tel: +41 44 824 32 90

About:
Leading European supplier of knowledge generation solutions that use semantic technologies and artificial intelligence to extract knowledge from varied Internet sources and integrate it with business processes. Netbreeze semantic solutions have been developed for early warning, risk management, marketing and sales tools, media monitoring, asset management, corporate governance and compliance, issue management, anti money laundering, know-your-client, executive search, project management, and other business applications.

Project10X
2853 Ontario Road NW #501 
Washington, DC 20009 USA 
Tel: 1-202-667-6400
Fax: 1-800-713-8049

About:
Project10X is a Washington, DC based research consultancy that specializes in smart technologies, semantic solutions, and Web 3.0 business models. We provide research, advisory, development, communications, and education services. Project10X publishes the Semantic Wave research series including the Semantic Wave 2008 Report. The firm's clients include global 3000 corporations, government agencies, technology providers, and start-ups.

Semantic System AG
Flughofstrasse 55
CH-8152 Glattbrugg Zurich Flughafen Switzerland
Tel: +41448284530

About:
Semantic System ag manufactures hardware technology for intelligent computer systems. Its first generation computer chip “thinks” like a biologic brain making it possible to run complex thought and analyzing processes in hardware to obtain results equivalent to those obtained manually by a skilled humans.
The ai-one™chip processor provides autonomic, self-organizing, intelligence that combines external information, with a knowledge and rule base to spontaneously recognize patterns /information forms, reach decisions autonomously, trigger actions, and learn from the reaction of the environment to improve future decision-making processes. Features include intrinsic information detection, recognition of semiotic relationships in any data format, and automatic knowledge capture.
Target application areas:

·        Biometrics (pattern and concept recognition)

·        Forensics (profiler)

·        Archiving (semiotic and associative data bases)

·        DMS/Workflow (automatic classifications)

·        Information matcher (comparison of content)

·        Data mining/search (semantic search, associative brainstorming, semiotic conclusion)

·        Knowledge management with autonomic knowledge formation

·        Intelligent computing (robotics, dialog systems, chat robots, intelligent events)

Silver Sponsors

Franz Inc is a leading vendor of semantic technology tools featuring AllegroGraph RDFStore. AllegroGraph is the industry’s first RDF database to integrate GeoTemporal Reasoning and Social Networking Analytics in a high-performance persistent database for storing and querying billions of RDF statements. AllegroGraph provides solutions for customers to address the challenge of storing and combining unstructured and structured data for new Web 3.0 style applications, as well as new types of Business Intelligence for the Enterprise. AllegroGraph’s “Activity Recognition” package provides a new and more powerful means for aggregating and analyzing data about individual and organizational behaviors, preferences, relationships, and spatial and temporal linkages between individuals and groups. AllegroGraph provides the core capabilities for making Web 3.0 a reality. Based in Oakland, California, Franz Inc. is an American owned company that delivers leading-edge development products that enable software developers to build flexible, scalable, semantic applications quickly and cost-effectively. Franz is committed to market-driven product development, the highest levels of product quality and responsive customer support and service.

INNORAISE finds the best human expert matching your needs and enables you to interact in a secure and trusted online environment. INNORAISE creates a modern agora for knowledge exchange between humans and creates a market, where you can even earn money by sharing your knowledge.

The aim of the EU FP 7 Large-Scale Integrating Project LarKC is to develop the Large Knowledge Collider (LarKC, for short, pronounced "lark"), a platform for massive distributed incomplete reasoning that will remove the scalability barriers of currently existing reasoning systems for the Semantic Web. The fundamental assumption is a suitable reasoning infrastructure for the Semantic Web must go beyond the current paradigms that are strictly based on logic. By fusing reasoning (in the sense of logic) with search (in the sense of information retrieval), and taking seriously the notion of limited rationality (in the sense of Herbert Simon), we will obtain the paradigm shift that is required for reasoning at Web scale.

It is the mission of Service Web 3.0 to address these emerging developments and contribute to the implementation of framework programmes and their projects, and support the preparation of future community research and technological development.

SOA4All will help to realize a world where billions of parties are exposing and consuming services via advanced Web technology. We will provide a comprehensive framework and infrastructure that integrates four complimentary and revolutionary technical advances into a coherent and domain independent service delivery platform: 1) Web principles and technology as the underlying infrastructure for the integration of services at a world wide scale. 2) Web 2.0 as a means to structure human-machine cooperation in an efficient and cost-effective manner. 3) Semantic Web technology as a means to abstract from syntax to semantics as required for meaningful service discovery. 4) Context management as a way to process in a machine understandable way user needs that facilitates the customization of existing services for the needs of users.

The Talis Platform is an open technology platform for mass collaboration and human-centric and information-rich applications. A platform for semantic applications, it combines Semantic Web, information retrieval, collective intelligence and behavioral mining technologies. Provides data management, organization and analysis components that can learn and understand patterns of behavior and present them through an API to be interwoven appropriately into any application. Interaction with the Talis Platform is via a suite of RESTful Web services.