ESTC 2007 Newsletter - 1st European Semantic Technology Conference, Vienna, May 31 - June 1, 2007

[Ilona Zaremba]

ESTC 2007 Newsletter 


ESTC2007 announces the Semantic Technology Business Idea Contest


Individuals or teams are invited to submit ideas to commercial exploitation
of semantic technologies. 

>> More Details <http://www.estc2007.com/contest/>


Programme


The programme is now available. Workshops and tutorials are already fixed.
Call for participation on workshops and tutorials is open.

>> More Details <http://www.estc2007.com/programme/>



Early Registration discounts available until 04/05/2007


Online registration is now open.

>> More Details <http://www.estc2007.com/registration/> 


Keynotes


Frank van Harmelen: "Semantic Technologies - solved, halfway, or still in
the starting blocks?" 

Mark Greaves: "The relationship between Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web" 

Benjamin Grosof: "Commercializing Semantic Web: Rules, Services, and
Roadmapping" 

Ora Lassila: "From Semantic Web to a Broader Vision of Personal Computing" 

Dave Pearson: "The business value of semantic technology" 

Susie Stephens: "Integrating Enterprise Data with Semantic Web Technologies"


>> More Details <http://www.estc2007.com/invited-speakers/> 


Commercializing New Technology


Workshop with Hermann Hauser (Amadeus Capital, Cambridge Network) Gerhard
Plasonig (ETeCH AG), Helmut Leopold (Telekom Austria), Georg Buchtela (aws) 

>> More Details <http://www.estc2007.com/home/details/workshop


Social Event


Join ESWC forum and enjoy the guided tour from Vienna to Innsbruck via
Salzkammergut and Saltzurg on June 2nd 

The 4th European Semantic Web Conference is hosted in the heart of Alps, the
unique city of Innsbruck, June 3 - 7, 2007

>> More details <http://www.eswc2007.org

Ilona Zaremba
DERI Innsbruck
University of Innsbruck
Technikerstrasse 21a
A-6020 Innsbruck
Tel.: +43/512/507/96818
Fax +43/512/507/9872
E-mail: ilona.zaremba at deri.org