Agenda At-a-Glance
Full Schedule

Full Schedule Mon, Jun 21 Tue, Jun 22 Wed, Jun 23 Thu, Jun 24 Fri, Jun 25
Monday, 6/21/2010
OWLED 01:00 PM – 06:00 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
OWLED – MONDAY
SemTech 101 04:00 PM – 05:30 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Semantics for the Rest of Us Eric A. Franzon, Semantic Universe
Brian Sletten, Bosatsu Consulting, Inc.
Business / Non-Technical
Foundational Topics
Chairman’s Presentation & Reception 05:30 PM – 07:00 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
What Will We Be Saying About Semantics This Year? Dave McComb, Semantic Arts Inc.
Technical – Introductory
Foundational Topics
 
Tuesday, 6/22/2010
Morning Tutorials 08:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Introduction to Semantic Web Technologies Ivan Herman, World Wide Web Consortium
Technical – Intermediate
Semantic Web
Description Logic: A Formal Foundation for Ontology Languages and Tools (Part 1) Ian Horrocks, Oxford University
Technical – Introductory
Foundational Topics
Linked Enterprise Data David Wood, Zepheira, LLC
Bernadette Hyland, Zepheira, LLC
Technical – Introductory
Linked Data
Semantics for Enterprise Data
SPARQL 1.1 by Example Lee Feigenbaum, Cambridge Semantics Inc
Eric Prud’hommeaux, World Wide Web Consortium
Technical – Intermediate
Semantic Query
Auto-Categorization Workshop James W. Wessely, Advanced Document Sciences
Technical – Intermediate
Semantic Search
REST: Information Architecture for the 21st Century Brian Sletten, Bosatsu Consulting, Inc.
Technical – Intermediate
Business Applications
OWLED 08:30 AM – 04:45 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
OWLED – TUESDAY
AM Break 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Lunch provided to Attendees 12:00 PM – 01:15 PM
Face-to-Face Sessions 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
History and Genealogy Semantics Brian D. Eubanks, Build Software, LLC
Technical – Introductory
Ontology Design and Engineering
Linked Data for Sustainability Brian McBride, Epimorphics Ltd
Business / Non-Technical
Linked Data
Afternoon Tutorials 01:15 PM – 04:45 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Ontology 101: An Introduction to Knowledge Representation and Ontology Development Elisa Kendall, Sandpiper Software
Deborah L. McGuinness, RPI and McGuinness Associates
Technical – Introductory
Ontology Design and Engineering
Description Logic: A Formal Foundation for Ontology Languages and Tools (Part 2) Ian Horrocks, Oxford University
Technical – Intermediate
Foundational Topics
Integrating Semantic Systems John F. Sowa, VivoMind Intelligence, LLC
Technical – Intermediate
Knowledge Engineering and Management
Semantic Web Interface Design: Opportunities and Techniques Duane Degler, Design for Context
Technical – Introductory
Semantic Software Development
Semantic Wikis and Applications Mark Greaves, Vulcan Inc.
Denny Vrandecic, KIT
Jesse Wang, Vulcan Inc.
Michael Erdmann, Ontoprise GmbH
Technical – Introductory
Semantic Wikis
Ontology-driven SOA Governance Dave McComb, Semantic Arts Inc.
Simon Robe, Semantic Arts Inc.
Business / Non-Technical
Enterprise Semantics
Oracle Database Semantic Technologies: Understanding How to Install, Load, Query and Inference Zhe Wu, Oracle Corp.
Matthew Perry, Oracle Corp.
Vladimir Kolovski, Oracle
Technical – Intermediate
Semantics for Enterprise Data
PM Break 02:45 PM – 03:15 PM
Evening Conference Sessions 05:00 PM – 06:00 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Case Study: Using Ontologies for Opportunistic Systems Integration Elisa Kendall, Sandpiper Software
Dr. Reginald E Ford, SRI International
Technical – Intermediate
Enterprise Semantics
Semantic Rules (incl. RuleML, RIF, SILK, RL Profile)
New Business and Marketing Models with Semantics and Linked Data Scott Brinker, ion interactive, inc.
Ian Davis, Talis
Michael F. Uschold,
Rachel Lovinger, Razorfish
Business / Non-Technical
Marketing & Advertising
Rapid Prototyping with the Jena Command Line Utilities Mark Wallace, Modus Operandi
Technical – Advanced
Ontology Design and Engineering
Unhappy with Internal Corporate Search? Come Learn Tips and Tricks for Building a Controlled Vocabulary Ontology Bettina K. Schimanski, Sandia National Laboratories
Jennifer Miller, Sandia National Laboratories
Technical – Introductory
Enterprise Semantics
Reputation, community, Web 2.0, and games: incentives for semantics – about getting people involved Katharina Siorpaes, STI Innsbruck
Elena Simperl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Technical – Introductory
Knowledge Engineering and Management
User Interfaces for Semantic Web: Do They Have to Be Ugly? Andraz Tori, Zemanta
Technical – Introductory
Semantic Software Development
Lightweight Semantic Annotations for Web Services Dumitru Roman, SINTEF
Arne Jørgen Berre, SINTEF
Technical – Introductory
Semantic Web
Lightning Sessions 05:00 PM – 06:00 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
A framework for semantic advertising on Web 3.0 Edward J. Thomas, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Aberdeen
Visual Tools for the Web of Data Olivier Rossel, Datao.net
Technical – Introductory
Consumer Applications
SMOB – A Framework for Semantic MicrOBlogging Alexandre Passant, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland, Galway
Technical – Intermediate
Linked Data
Could SemTech Run Entirely on Excel? Lee Feigenbaum, Cambridge Semantics Inc
Business / Non-Technical
Business Applications
FanHu.bz — Community Annotations of Linked Data Using Twitter Leigh Dodds, Talis
Technical – Introductory
Linked Data
Supporting Networking at Conferences with Social Semantics and Sensors Harith Alani, KMi
Business / Non-Technical
Social Networks & Collaboration
Social Semantic Web for Problem Solving Anthony DeFilippo, Hypios Inc.
Technical – Introductory
Social Networks & Collaboration
Semantifying Print on Paper Bill McDaniel, DERI
Technical – Introductory
Research
Constructing Domain Ontologies and Integrating with the ‘Universal Core Semantic Layer’ to Facilitate Data Sharing and Intelligence Analysis Richard Lee, Booz Allen Hamilton
Technical – Intermediate
Industry: Government
Socially Powered eLearning Bill McDaniel, DERI
Business / Non-Technical
Social Networks & Collaboration
Developing An Information Delivery Web Business Model Roger Terence Barrow, The Knowledge Dynasty
Business / Non-Technical
Consumer Applications
Marketing & Advertising
Empire: RDF & SPARQL Meet Java & JPA Michael H. Grove, Clark & Parsia
Technical – Intermediate
Semantic Software Development
Evening Events 06:15 PM – 08:15 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Meetup of Meetups: Semantic Social Networks and Smart Mobs: Special Guest Howard Rheingold Business / Non-Technical
 
Wednesday, 6/23/2010
Conference Sessions 07:30 AM – 08:20 AM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Using a Controlled Vocabulary for Managing a Digital Library Platform Sean Boisen, Logos Bible Software
Technical – Intermediate
Business Applications
Knowledge Engineering and Management
Using SKOS and Semantic Technologies to support smart, sustainable growth in Europe Henric Stjernquist, European Commission
Johan De Smedt, TenForce
Technical – Intermediate
Industry: Government
Interactive Exploration of Enterprise- and Web-Datasets Andreas Harth, AIFB/KIT
Technical – Introductory
Semantic Search
Semantic Technology and Healthcare Reform: How to Decrease the Cost of Healthcare with Semantic Technologies Bill L. Victoria, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, Health Care Services Corp.
Business / Non-Technical
Industry: Pharmaceutical / Health Care
Maintaining Temporal Perspective Ian Emmons, BBN Technologies, Inc.
Douglas Reid, BBN Technologies, Inc.
Technical – Advanced
Knowledge Engineering and Management
Opening Keynote Session 08:30 AM – 09:45 AM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Semantic Web for the Working Enterprise Dean Allemang, TopQuadrant
James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Business / Non-Technical
Business & Marketplace
Conference Sessions 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Semantics for Intelligence and Security Oren Yosifon, MindCite
Paul Cichonski, Booz Allen Hamilton / NIST
Technical – Introductory
Industry: Government
Semantics in Publishing Bob DuCharme, TopQuadrant
Luca Scagliarini, Expert System
Business / Non-Technical
Industry: Publishing
Components of a Semantic Enterprise Christine JM. Connors, TriviumRLG LLC
Gary Carlson, Gary Carlson Consulting
Technical – Introductory
Semantics for Enterprise Data
Consumer-Led and Social Approaches to Semantic Representation and Deployment Anne Hunt, Primal
Peter Sweeney, Primal
Business / Non-Technical
Knowledge Engineering and Management
Social Networks & Collaboration
Semantic Applications for Financial Services David S. Newman, Wells Fargo
Business / Non-Technical
Industry: Financial
Using Knoodl.com to Facilitate the Human Resource Enterprise Information Web (HR-EIW) for the U.S. Dept. of Defense Michael A. Lang, Revelytix
Brooke Stevenson, Spry Enterprises, Inc
Case Study
Technical – Introductory
Industry: Government
Knowledge Engineering and Management
How Will Semantics Impact Marketing and Advertising? Scott Brinker, ion interactive, inc.
Bruce D. D’Ambrosio, DigitalScirocco
Scott Prevost, Microsoft
Business / Non-Technical
Marketing & Advertising
True Semantic Reasoning: Self-Constructing Ontologies Oliver “Olly” Downs, Atigeo
Jeff Jonas, IBM
Marc Davis, Invention Arts
Technical – Intermediate
Ontology Design and Engineering
Assistive and Automatic Tools for Tagging and Categorizing Anything Seth Maislin, Earley & Associates
Technical – Introductory
Enterprise Semantics
Conference Half-Sessions 10:15 AM – 10:45 AM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Natural Language Processing and Semantic Models in an Imperfect World Marc C. Hadfield, Alitora Systems
Technical – Advanced
Semantics for Enterprise Data
Conference Sessions 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Semantics for Situational and Contextual Awareness Mala Mehrotra, Pragati
David Kolas, BBN Technologies
Technical – Intermediate
Industry: Government
Accelerating the Adoption of Linked Data Georgi Kobilarov, Uberblic Labs
Dave Reynolds, Epimorphics Ltd
Business / Non-Technical
Technical – Introductory
Industry: Government
Linked Data
Introducing Semantics Concepts in a Television Broadcasting Organization Roger Roberts, RTBF
Guy N.L. Marechal, TITAN
Industry: Publishing
Semantic Technologies to Enable the Knowledge-powered Enterprise: The ACTIVE Approach Paul Warren, Eurescom GmbH
John Davies, BT
Technical – Introductory
Enterprise Semantics
Knowledge Engineering and Management
The Enterprise Data Management Council Semantics Repository Case Study Mike G. Bennett, EDM Council Inc.
Industry: Financial
From Relational Databases to the Semantic Web — New W3C Standards and Directions Ivan Herman, World Wide Web Consortium
Technical – Introductory
Linked Data
Semantics for Emergency Response and Disaster Management Systems Bob Smith, Tall Tree Labs
Rex Brooks, Starbourne Communications Design
Steven R. Ray, Carnegie Mellon University
Technical – Introductory
Industry: Government
Ontology Design and Engineering
Taking the Tech Out of Semtech Sean Martin, Cambridge Semantics
Technical – Intermediate
Business & Marketplace
Online Advertising Brooke Aker, Expert System
Ian Saunders, Crystal Semantics
Business / Non-Technical
Marketing & Advertising
Estimating and Managing the Costs and Benefits of Knowledge Structures Elena Simperl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Business / Non-Technical
Business Applications
The Characteristics of a RESTful Semantic Web and Why They Are Important Chimezie U. Ogbuji, Cleveland Clinic
Technical – Introductory
Semantic Web
Face-to-Face Meetings 12:45 PM – 01:45 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Lowering the Cost of Semantic Programming Model in Developing Business Applications Cirrus Shakeri, SAP Labs
Technical – Intermediate
Business Applications
Building User Interfaces for Semantic Web Applications Ralph Hodgson, TopQuadrant Inc
Technical – Intermediate
Semantic Software Development
Late Breaking News 12:45 PM – 01:15 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Wordnik: 8 Billion Words You Can Use Erin McKean, Wordnik.com
Business / Non-Technical
Consumer Applications
Conference Sessions 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Highly Available RDF Data at Enterprise Scale: The Bigdata® High-Availability Architecture Bryan Thompson, SYSTAP, LLC
Technical – Intermediate
Semantics for Enterprise Data
Using GPUs to Browse Through Billions of Linked Data Facts Atanas Kiryakov, Ontotext AD
Technical – Intermediate
Linked Data
Gist: The Minimalist Upper Ontology Dave McComb, Semantic Arts Inc.
Technical – Intermediate
Ontology Design and Engineering
How to integrate 10 databases and interlink them with 10 million documents in 10 weeks Vassil Momtchev, Ontotext AD
Technical – Intermediate
Enterprise Semantics
Semantic Relationships Within the Enterprise Wayne Haubner, SAP
Business / Non-Technical
Enterprise Semantics
Semantics at Salesforce.com Jari Koister, salesforce.com
Technical – Introductory
Business Applications
Semantic Applications in the Financial Services Industry Drew Warren, Recognos Financial LLC
Industry: Financial
What’s New in SPARQL 1.1? Lee Feigenbaum, Cambridge Semantics Inc
Andy Seaborne, Talis
Ivan Herman, World Wide Web Consortium
Matthew Perry, Oracle Corp.
Paul Gearon, Fedora Commons, Inc
Souripriya Das, Oracle
Technical – Introductory
Semantic Web
Semantic Tools for More Profitable Online Commerce Jay Myers, bestbuy.com
Barbara H. Starr, Ontologica
Martin Hepp, Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen
Paul Bruemmer, PB Communications
Business Applications
Marketing & Advertising
Sizzle for the Steak: Rich, Visual Interfaces for Ontology-driven Apps Michael K. Bergman, Structured Dynamics
Business / Non-Technical
Business Applications
The Ten Myths of the Semantic Web Debunked (and how they hurt your success) John Hebeler, BBN Technologies
Matthew Fisher, Progeny Systems
Business / Non-Technical
Enterprise Semantics
Semantic Wikis User Group 02:00 PM – 04:15 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Semantic Wikis User Group Mark Greaves, Vulcan Inc.
Technical – Introductory
Semantic Wikis
Building Community of Practice in Enterprise based upon Semantic Wiki Mingkai Dong, Corporate Technology, Siemens Limited China
Qinghai Wu, Corporate Technology, Siemens Limited China
Technical – Introductory
Knowledge Engineering and Management
Semantic Wikis
Effective Agile Software Development with Semantic Wiki Jesse Jiaxin Wang, Vulcan Inc.
Michael Erdmann, Ontoprise GmbH
Business / Non-Technical
Semantic Software Development
Semantic Wikis
Conference Sessions 03:15 PM – 04:15 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
The Challenge of Building DoD Business Enterprise Architectures with Semantic Technologies Dennis Wisnosky, U.S. Department of Defense
Business / Non-Technical
Enterprise Semantics
Innovations in Semantic Enterprise Search Terry Patten, Charles River Analytics
John B. Lowe, Qewz, Inc.
Product/Service Offering
Technical – Introductory
Enterprise Semantics
Semantic Search
Semantics in Publishing and Media: Recent Research Results Rachel Lovinger, Razorfish
Business / Non-Technical
Industry: Publishing
Information Made Accountable: The Data Projection Model Michel Biezunski, Infoloom
Industry: Financial
Industry: Government
Improving Institutional Portfolio Performance through Better Data Interoperability Chito Jovellanos, forward look, inc.
Business / Non-Technical
Industry: Financial
Change Impact Analysis: A Semantic Model-driven Approach Dean Allemang, TopQuadrant
Business / Non-Technical
Semantics for Enterprise Data
Sentiment Analysis and Market Intelligence Dmitri Soubbotin, Semantic Engines
Ian Hersey, Attensity Group
Shion Deysarkar, Extractiv
Marketing & Advertising
How to Make Linked Data More Than Data Prateek Jain, Kno.e.sis, Wright State University
Amit P. Sheth, Kno.e.sis, Wright State University
Kunal Verma, Accenture Technology Labs
Pascal Hitzler, Kno.e.sis, Wright State University
Peter Z. Yeh, Accenture Technology Labs
Technical – Intermediate
Linked Data
Jena User Group 03:15 PM – 05:45 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Jena User Group Jeremy J Carroll, TopQuadrant
Technical – Introductory
Semantic Software Development
A Jena-based Framework for Semantic Enterprise Information Integration (SEII) Sanjiva Nath, zAgile Inc.
Technical – Introductory
Enterprise Semantics
EXHIBIT HALL OPEN (Reception starts at 5:30 pm) 04:15 PM – 07:30 PM
Semantic Solutions 04:30 PM – 05:00 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Getting Started with Intellidimension Products Geoff Chappell, Intellidimension
Technical – Intermediate
Enterprise Semantics
Visual Analysis of the Web of Linked Data: The S*QL Plugin for Cytoscape Eric Neumann, Clinical Semantics Group
James McGurk, Daiichi Sankyo Pharma Development
Technical – Intermediate
Industry: Pharmaceutical / Health Care
OWLIM Cluster Allows Resilient Handling of Millions of Queries per Day Atanas Kiryakov, Ontotext AD
Technical – Intermediate
Industry: Publishing
Releasing Relational Data to the Semantic Web Alex Miller, Revelytix
Technical – Intermediate
Semantics for Enterprise Data
Selecting and Extending Popular Lightweight Ontologies for Enterprise 2.0 Use Alexandre Passant, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland, Galway
Keith Griffin, CISCO Systems
Technical – Intermediate
Enterprise Semantics
Pelorus: An Integrated Platform for Building Semantic Web Applications Michael H. Grove, Clark & Parsia
Technical – Intermediate
Semantic Software Development
Conference Sessions 04:30 PM – 05:30 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Enterprise Semantic Data Integration Fran Clark, Arpeggio Technology
Denisa Popescu, World Bank Group, Enterprise Architecture
Technical – Introductory
Industry: Financial
Semantics for Enterprise Data
Media & Publisher’s Panel Business / Non-Technical
Industry: Publishing
Semantic XBRL Data Search Using SPARQL Ashu Bhatnagar, GoodMorningResearch.com
Industry: Financial
Semantic Search
The Clean Energy Commons: Using Semantic Technologies to Share the World’s Energy Information Jamey Wood, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Stuart Macmillan, Consulting Professor Stanford University
Technical – Intermediate
Social Networks & Collaboration
The Implications of Semantic Technologies for Market Research Chris C. Arning, Creative Semiotics
Business / Non-Technical
Marketing & Advertising
Semantic Solutions 05:45 PM – 06:15 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Semantics and Travel Andy Denmark, TripIt
Technical – Intermediate
Semantic Web
Auto-Categorization with Linguistic Semantics Kathleen Dahlgren, Cognition Technologies, Inc.
Technical – Introductory
Semantics for Enterprise Data
Exploring Schema Spaces in Linked Open Data Jans Aasman, Franz Inc
Technical – Introductory
Linked Data
Real World Use Cases of Semantic Technology in the Cloud Steve Hamby, Orbis Technologies, Inc.
Case Study
Cloud Computing
CODE CAMP 06:30 PM – 08:30 PM
 
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)
 
Friday, 6/25/2010
Conference Sessions 08:30 AM – 09:30 AM
Title Speakers Audience Track
RDF Friday Part 1: The ABCs of RDF Vocabularies Brian Sletten, Bosatsu Consulting, Inc.
Technical – Introductory
Semantic Software Development
Semantics in the Cloud Kurt Rohloff, BBN Technologies
Geoff Brown, m2mi Corp.
Technical – Advanced
Research
Monitoring Healthcare Innovation: A Case Study in Using OWL, Linked Data and RDFa Mark Birbeck, Backplane Ltd.
Michael Wilkinson, National Innovation Centre, NHS
Technical – Introductory
Industry: Pharmaceutical / Health Care
Ontology Design and Engineering
Case Study Year 5: USAF 45th Space Wing Knowledge Management Initiative – Representing Semantic Points-of-View Using SITREP and Mission Ontologies Dr. Kent D. Bimson, Modus Operandi, Inc.
Randy Caldwell, Modus Operandi, Inc.
Technical – Intermediate
Semantics for Enterprise Data
Leveraging a Single Semantic Fabric to Drive Efficiencies from Accounting to Research and Everything in Between William Hayes, Biogen Idec
Technical – Intermediate
Industry: Pharmaceutical / Health Care
UMLS-SKOS: A Semantic Web Framework for Representation of Biomedical Terminologies Using Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) Parsa Mirhaji, University of Texas-Houston
Technical – Advanced
Industry: Pharmaceutical / Health Care
Ontology Design and Engineering
The Ontology Life Cycle: Integrated Tools for Editing, Publishing, Peer Review, and Evolution of Ontologies Tania Tudorache, Stanford University
Natasha Noy, Stanford University
Technical – Introductory
Ontology Design and Engineering
Morning User Groups 08:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
6th International Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering (SWESE 2010) Technical – Intermediate
SWESE
Workshop: Building Semantic Web Applications for Government — Using TopBraid Suite Dean Allemang, TopQuadrant
Technical – Intermediate
Open Government
Drupal and RDFa Tutorial 08:30 AM – 03:00 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
How to Build Linked Data Sites with Drupal 7 and RDFa Stéphane Corlosquet, MGH / Partners
Alexandre Passant, DERI Galway
Lin Clark, DERI Galway
Technical – Intermediate
Linked Data
Semantic Publishing with Drupal
AM Break 09:30 AM – 09:45 AM
Conference Sessions 09:45 AM – 10:45 AM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Wikipedia’s Structured Data Challenge Trevor Parscal, Wikimedia Foundation
Erik Moeller, Wikimedia Foundation
Technical – Introductory
Semantic Wikis
RDF Friday Part 2: Intermediate Technical Issues – Extending and Querying RDF David Booth, Cleveland Clinic
David Wood, Zepheira, LLC
James Leigh, Zepheira, LLC
Technical – Intermediate
Semantic Software Development
Semantic Health Solutions for Clinical Trials and Real-time Public Health Monitoring Matthew M. Vagnoni, University of Texas at Houston, Health Science Center
Ram Vedam, University of Texas at Houston – Health Science Center
Chintan Patel, Applied Informatics Inc.
Karthik Gomadam, Applied Informatics Inc.
Vivek Gard, Applied Informatics Inc
Product/Service Offering
Industry: Pharmaceutical / Health Care
The Research Intelligence Project Jerry Sheehan, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
Technical – Introductory
Research
Application of Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence Components (Planners and Heuristic Search) to Distributed Reasoning on Very Large Data Sets Reza BFar, Oracle USA
Technical – Advanced
Semantic Search
Conference Half-Sessions 09:45 AM – 10:15 AM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Avoiding a Semantic Web Road Block: URI Management and Ontology Evolution Michael F. Uschold,
Technical – Introductory
Linked Data
Semantic Web
Semantic Framework for Automatic Resource Brokering in Distributed Government Systems Eric Konieczny, Booz Allen Hamilton
Magnus Ljungberg, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Technical – Intermediate
Industry: Government
Semantic Modeling Notation: Making Ontologies Human-Accessible Robert W. Scanlon, Revelytix
Technical – Intermediate
Semantics for Enterprise Data
Conference Sessions 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
RDF Friday Part 3: Practical RDF – POWDER & Object Design Patterns John Hebeler, Raytheon BBN Technologies
Matthew Fisher, Progeny Systems
Bryan Thompson, SYSTAP, LLC
Martyn Cutcher, SYSTAP, LLC
Technical – Intermediate
Semantic Software Development
Configuring the Cloud: Automated Planning As a Semantic Technology Blazej Bulka, Clark & Parsia, LLC
Stuart Charlton, Elastra
Technical – Intermediate
New Products & Companies
Meaningful Use of Electronic Medical Records through Semantic Technologies: The Cleveland Clinic Experience Chris Pierce, Cleveland Clinic
Chris Deaton, Cycorp, Inc.
David Booth, Cleveland Clinic
Technical – Intermediate
Industry: Pharmaceutical / Health Care
Product Seminars & User Groups 01:00 PM – 04:30 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
360° Semantic Technologies: Web Mining, Text Analysis, Linked Data Search and Reasoning Atanas Kiryakov, Ontotext AD
Case Study
Business Applications
Overview of Entity Extraction Dan G. McCreary, Syntactica
Henry Neils, Syntactica
Business / Non-Technical
Semantic Web
Conference Sessions 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM