Agenda At-a-Glance
Thursday, June 24

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Thursday, 6/24/2010
Early-Bird Conference Sessions 07:30 AM – 08:20 AM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Consuming Linked Data Juan Sequeda, Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin
Linked Data
Basic Level Categories for Knowledge Representation: Combining Cognitive Science and Library Science Tom Reamy, KAPS Group
Business / Non-Technical
Foundational Topics
Is the Age of Predicate-Oriented Programming upon Us? Dann Martens, TOMOTON
Business / Non-Technical
Business Applications
Using A-tree Technology to Keep Ontologies Up-to-date Harry Ellis, Babel-Ease Ltd.
Technical – Intermediate
Data Portability
Orthopaedia – A Semantic Platform for Collaborative Knowledgebase Development in Orthopaedics Sanjiva Nath, zAgile Inc.
Christian Veillette, University of Toronto
Technical – Introductory
Industry: Pharmaceutical / Health Care
Knowledge Engineering and Management
Semantic Wikis
Using SPARQL Server Pages Jeffrey A. Schmitz, The Boeing Company
Technical – Intermediate
Making Web 3.0 Web Sites
Keynote – The Power of Pull 08:30 AM – 09:15 AM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Pull: The Business Shift Behind the Semantic Web David Siegel, The Power of Pull
Business / Non-Technical
Business & Marketplace
Marketing & Advertising
Keynote – Facebook 09:15 AM – 09:45 AM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Facebook’s Open Graph David Recordon, Facebook
Business / Non-Technical
Case Study
Making Web 3.0 Web Sites
Semantic Web
Social Networks & Collaboration
AM Break 09:45 AM – 10:15 AM
Exhibits Open 09:45 AM – 03:30 PM
Poster Sessions 09:45 AM – 03:30 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
From Concepts to Production: Semantic Technology Solves Real Life Sciences and Healthcare Challenges Robert Stanley, IO Informatics
Chuck Rockey, IO Informatics
Erich Gombocz, IO Informatics
Jason Eshleman, IO Informatics
Product/Service Offering
The Hospital Dilemma: Integrating Electronic Medical Records for Detection of H1N1 Outbreaks (Poster Session) Matthew M. Vagnoni, University of Texas at Houston, Health Science Center
Technical – Introductory
Industry: Pharmaceutical / Health Care
Collaborative Authoring and Sharing of Semantic Web-based Applications Daniel Schwabe, Dept. of Informatics, PUC-Rio
Technical – Intermediate
Linked Data
OASIS Integrated Collaboration Object Model (ICOM) Deirdre Lee, DERI Galway
Eric Chan, Oracle Corporation
Laura Dragan, DERI, NUI Galway
Technical – Intermediate
Social Networks & Collaboration
Social Space: A Novel Approach to Analyzing Social Networks by Bringing Data and Graphs Together Charalampos Chelmis, Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California
Karthik Gomadam, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California
Technical – Intermediate
Social Networks & Collaboration
Semantic Solutions 10:15 AM – 10:45 AM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Leveraging Unstructured Data in Business Intelligence with xPatterns Patrick Quigley, Atigeo
Technical – Intermediate
Enterprise Semantics
Future of Search is Millions of Community built Search Apps Shree Pragada, SEMANTIFI
Product/Service Offering
Semantic Search
Real-Time SemanticWeb with Twitter Annotations Joshua Shinavier, RPI – Tetherless World Constellation
Jans Aasman, Franz Inc
Technical – Intermediate
Data Portability
The Talis Platform: A Linked Data Engine Leigh Dodds, Talis
Business / Non-Technical
New Products & Companies
PelletDb: Scalable, Expressive Semantic Reasoning for the Enterprise Héctor M. Pérez-Urbina, Clark & Parsia, LLC
Product/Service Offering
Business Applications
Information Access: How Semantic Web Helps Implementing Non-Discrimination Adrian Gschwend, netlabs.org
Bart van Leeuwen, netlabs.org
Business / Non-Technical
Industry: Government
Six Step SAFARI from the Dublin Core to the Semantic Web Ron Daniel, Elsevier
Business / Non-Technical
Linked Data
Rules Track – Part 1 10:15 AM – 12:05 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
RIF: Rules for the Semantic Web Christopher Welty, IBM Research
Business / Non-Technical
Semantic Rules (incl. RuleML, RIF, SILK, RL Profile)
Semantic Web
Leveraging Rule Standards Christian de Sainte Marie, IBM
Technical – Intermediate
Semantic Rules (incl. RuleML, RIF, SILK, RL Profile)
The SILK 2 System and RIF Dialect: Semantic Rules Grow Up Benjamin Grosof, Vulcan Inc.
Technical – Intermediate
Semantic Rules (incl. RuleML, RIF, SILK, RL Profile)
Conference Sessions 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Building Web 3.0 Web Sites John Walker, SemanticClarity
Mark Birbeck, Backplane Ltd.
Mark Windholtz, AgileDNA
Business / Non-Technical
Making Web 3.0 Web Sites
Marketing & Advertising
Transparent, Open Government with Linked Data – Data.gov and Data.gov.uk Suzanne Acar, U.S. Federal Data Subcommittee
Ian Davis, Talis
Business / Non-Technical
Industry: Government
Linked Data
Open Government
Semantic Solutions 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Applying Semantic Extensions and New Services to Drupal Daniel Hladky, Ontos AG
Business / Non-Technical
Making Web 3.0 Web Sites
Semantic Publishing with Drupal
ai-one™ biologically inspired intelligence Walter Diggelmann, ai-one inc.
Product/Service Offering
New Products & Companies
Using a Visual Ontology Modeler to create a financial product selection ontology James Rhyne, Sandpiper Software
Technical – Intermediate
Ontology Design and Engineering
Using Semantics to Leverage Information Hidden in Excel: 2 Case Studies Rob Gonzalez, Cambridge Semantics
Business / Non-Technical
Business Applications
True Knowledge: Open-Domain Question Answering at Scale using a Triple Store and Inference William Tunstall-Pedoe, True Knowledge
Technical – Intermediate
Semantic Search
Analyzing unstructured information and inferring new knowledge with Ontology-driven Content Analytics Hans-Peter Schnurr, ontoprise GmbH
Marie Wallace, IBM
Product/Service Offering
Enterprise Semantics
Replicating the semantics of databases using search engine technology Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead
Business / Non-Technical
Business Applications
Corporate Knowledge Management Using Semantic Technology: A Practical Experience in Repsol, a Major Oil Company in Spain Jesus Contreras, iSOCO
Domingo Valhondo Solano, Repsol
Francesco Carbone, Intelligent Software Components S.A.
Luis M. Lovaco Werd, Repsol
Business / Non-Technical
Enterprise Semantics
Semantic Solutions 11:45 AM – 12:15 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Semantic Social Network Analysis & Case Study Bokju Lee, Saltlux
Case Study
Semantic Search
Investment Banking, Structured Products, Open Datas and Semantic Technologies: a encouraging Success Story Leo Keller, Blue Ocean Semantic Web Solitions GmbH Zürich-Switzerland
Business / Non-Technical
Business Applications
Industry: Financial
How Semantic Technology Enhances the Productivity of Scientific Researchers Darrell W. Gunter, Collexis Holdings, Inc.
Business / Non-Technical
Semantic Search
Social Networks & Collaboration
Comprehensive Validation: Pragmatically Join the “Web of Data,” the Easy and Supported Way Giovanni Tummarello, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI)
Technical – Intermediate
Semantic Software Development
Adobe® Story and Creative Suite 5 Semantic Technologies for the Motion Picture and Video Industry Walter W. Chang, Advanced Technology Labs, Adobe Systems
Marci Meingast, Digital Video Engineering, CSBU, Adobe Systems
Technical – Introductory
Semantics for Enterprise Data
Conference Sessions 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Semantic Search: New Technologies, Ideas and Companies Anand Rajaraman, Kosmix
Dmitri Soubbotin, Semantic Engines
Shree Pragada, ExeCue, Inc.
Business / Non-Technical
Making Web 3.0 Web Sites
Marketing & Advertising
Semantic Search
Semantic Technologies in Oracle Database 11gR2: Capabilities, Interfaces, Performance Xavier R Lopez, Oracle Corp
Souripriya Das, Oracle
Technical – Introductory
Semantics for Enterprise Data
Open Architectures for Open Government Cory B. Casanave, Model Driven Solutions
Brand L. Niemann, Semanticommunity.net
Business / Non-Technical
Industry: Government
Linked Data
Open Government
Data as the New Marketing Channel Scott Brinker, ion interactive, inc.
Dhruv Bansal, Infochimps
Gil Elbaz, Factual, Inc.
Josh Jones-Dilworth, Jones-Dilworth, Inc.
Business / Non-Technical
Marketing & Advertising
Drupal and the Semantic Web: from RDF to Whitehouse.gov Jeff Walpole, Phase2 Technology
Business / Non-Technical
Making Web 3.0 Web Sites
Semantic Publishing with Drupal
Face-to-Face Meetings 12:45 PM – 01:45 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
The Use of Semantic Analytics to Achieve Data Transparency Using Government Standards for Information Sharing (Face-to-Face Session) Bill Stewart, Jeskell
Technical – Introductory
Industry: Government
Open Government
Late Breaking News and Announcements 12:45 PM – 01:45 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Semantic Web Tools for Video and Social Change Hannah Eaves, ViewChange.org
Consumer Applications
Industry: Publishing
Making Web 3.0 Web Sites
The Next Generation Consumer Business – Semantic Real Time Intelligent Decision Automation Bill Guinn, Amdocs Product Business Unit
Business / Non-Technical
Consumer Applications
Conference Sessions 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Ontology-centric knowledge discovery in a Contact Centre for Technical Product Support Christopher J. O. Baker, Innovatia Inc.
Technical – Introductory
Marketing & Advertising
Semantics for Enterprise Data
Mergers & Acquisitions in SemTech Steve Bastasini, Semantic Universe
Ian Hersey, Attensity
Jeff Pollock, Oracle
Shawn T. Carolan, Menlo Ventures
Will Hunsinger, Evri
Business / Non-Technical
Business & Marketplace
Applications of Biomedical Ontologies and Resources M. Scott Marshall, Leiden University Medical Center
Jeffrey Grethe, Center for Research in Biological Systems, University of California, San Diego
Mark Musen, Stanford University
Business / Non-Technical
Industry: Pharmaceutical / Health Care
Applications and Examples of Linked Data in Government Kevin Ford, Network Development & MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress
Deborah L. McGuinness, RPI and McGuinness Associates
James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Li Ding, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Business / Non-Technical
Industry: Government
Linked Data
Open Government
Evaluating and Evolving Semantic Search: From the Deep Web to User Impact Peter Mika, Yahoo! Inc
Technical – Intermediate
Semantic Search
Using Semantics to Build a Scouting Knowledgebase Michael McGlashen, Merck & Co., Inc.
Technical – Intermediate
Industry: Pharmaceutical / Health Care
Google Rich Snippets Kavi Goel, Google
Pravir Gupta, Google
Business / Non-Technical
Making Web 3.0 Web Sites
Marketing & Advertising
Semantic Social Networks – Ontology Marco Neumann, KONA
Breck Baldwin, Alias-i, Inc.
Technical – Intermediate
Social Networks & Collaboration
Rules Track – Part 2 02:00 PM – 03:30 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
An Enterprise-Class Inference Engine Inside Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Zhe Wu, Oracle Corp.
Vladimir Kolovski, Oracle
Technical – Introductory
Semantic Rules (incl. RuleML, RIF, SILK, RL Profile)
The Practical Use of Rules with Ontologies Christopher John Matheus, VIStology, Inc.
Technical – Intermediate
Semantic Rules (incl. RuleML, RIF, SILK, RL Profile)
PM Break 03:00 PM – 03:30 PM
Conference Sessions 03:30 PM – 04:30 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Capturing Tweet Semantics to Foster Responsive and Transparent Governance Abir Qasem, Bridgeawater College
Technical – Introductory
Open Government
Social Networks & Collaboration
The Personal Data Locker David Boardman, Atigeo
David Siegel, The Power of Pull
Chris Messina, Google
Drummond Reed, International Card Foundation & Open Identity Exchange
Marc Davis, Invention Arts
Business / Non-Technical
Consumer Applications
Data Portability
Making Web 3.0 Web Sites
Semantic Registry for eGov Interoperability David Norheim, Computas AS
Business / Non-Technical
Industry: Government
Open Government
Knowledge Provenance Deborah L. McGuinness, RPI and McGuinness Associates
Peter Fox, RPI
Technical – Introductory
Semantic Web
Text Analytics and Semantics C. David Seuss, Northern Light Group
Stefan Andreasen, Kapow Technologies
Business / Non-Technical
Semantic Search
Mobile Semantics Brooke Aker, Expert System
Lars Hard, ExpertMaker
Business / Non-Technical
Marketing & Advertising
Knowledge Sharing Using Semantic Technologies Vijay Bulusu , Pfizer Inc
Business / Non-Technical
Business Applications
Industry: Pharmaceutical / Health Care
Using OWL in Closed World Applications Evren Sirin, Clark & Parsia, LLC
Technical – Intermediate
Knowledge Engineering and Management
The Social Fabric of Semantics Jamie Taylor, Metaweb Technologies, Inc.
Business / Non-Technical
Marketing & Advertising
Social Networks & Collaboration
Conference Half-Session 03:30 PM – 04:00 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Commodity Semantic Search: A Case Study of DiscoverEd Nathan R. Yergler, Creative Commons
Technical – Introductory
Semantic Search
Enterprise Data and Knowledge Integration Tools 03:30 PM – 04:30 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
OASIS Integrated Collaboration Object Model (ICOM) Deirdre Lee, DERI Galway
Eric Chan, Oracle Corporation
Laura Dragan, DERI, NUI Galway
Technical – Intermediate
Social Networks & Collaboration
KnowleSuite: Bringing Deep Search to End-Users with Semantic Technologies Wee-Tiong Ang, Institiute for Infocomm Research
Technical – Intermediate
Knowledge Engineering and Management
Solving the Pain Points of System Integration and Business Intelligence Jörg H. Wurzer, iQser AG
Technical – Intermediate
Business Applications
Ontology-Driven Enterprise Information Lifecycle Management Mary Catherine Parmelee, MITRE Corporation
Technical – Introductory
Semantics for Enterprise Data
Pitch Slam 03:30 PM – 05:45 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Pitch Slam Mike Sigal, Guidewire Group
Business / Non-Technical
Business & Marketplace
Rules Track – Part 3 04:00 PM – 05:30 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Semantic Complex Event Processing – The Future of Dynamic IT Paul Vincent, TIBCO Software Inc
Adrian Paschke, Freie Universitaet Berlin
Harold Boley, National Research Council Canada
Technical – Intermediate
Knowledge Engineering and Management
Semantic Rules (incl. RuleML, RIF, SILK, RL Profile)
Experts Panel on Semantic Complex Event Processing Technical – Intermediate
Semantic Rules (incl. RuleML, RIF, SILK, RL Profile)
Conference Sessions 04:45 PM – 05:45 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Enterprise Requirements for Graph Databases – Your Best NoSQL Choices Jans Aasman, Franz Inc. – AllegroGraph
Technical – Intermediate
Semantics for Enterprise Data
A Semantic Search, Semantic Clustering and Semantic Knowledge Base Engine for Health Information Tamas Doszkocs, National Library of Medicine
Technical – Introductory
Industry: Pharmaceutical / Health Care
Semantic Search
MIKE2.0 for the Semantic Enterprise Michael K. Bergman, Structured Dynamics
Business / Non-Technical
Enterprise Semantics
The Role of Semantic Technologies in the National Airspace System Elisabeth B Huffer, Next Generation Air Transportation System Joint Planning and Development Office
Technical – Introductory
Industry: Government
Semantic Social Networking Panel Amit P. Sheth, Kno.e.sis, Wright State University
Jamie Taylor, Metaweb Technologies, Inc.
Kimberly Chulis, Core Analytics, LLC
Wen Ruan, TextWise
Business / Non-Technical
Product/Service Offering
Making Web 3.0 Web Sites
Marketing & Advertising
Social Networks & Collaboration
Trust, Confidence and Security on the Semantic Web Andy Hickl, Swingly
Technical – Intermediate
Knowledge Engineering and Management
Finding a Good Ontology: The Open Ontology Repository Initiative Mike Dean, Raytheon BBN Technologies
Peter P. Yim, CIM3
Todd Schneider, Raytheon
Technical – Intermediate
Ontology Design and Engineering
Linking Data: The Legal Implications Mark Leyden, DERI
Business / Non-Technical
Business & Marketplace
Marketing & Advertising
Evening Events 06:00 PM – 08:00 PM
Rules track – Evening Sessions 06:00 PM – 08:00 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Evening Session: Rules Community Storm Technical – Intermediate
Semantic Rules (incl. RuleML, RIF, SILK, RL Profile)