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lang="EN-GB">Below you will find useful information and links
about
the program, our satellite events and registration opportunities
for</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
lang="EN-GB">SEMANTiCS 2015 -- <span>11th International
Conference on Semantic Systems</span><br>
<br>
15-17 September 2015, Vienna / Austria<br>
<a href="http://www.semantics.cc/" target="_blank">http://www.semantics.cc/</a>
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<b>— Conference Scope ---</b><br>
The annual SEMANTiCS conference is the meeting place for
professionals who make
semantic computing work, and understand its benefits and know
its limitations.
Every year, SEMANTiCS attracts information managers,
IT-architects, software
engineers, and researchers, from organisations ranging from
NPOs, universities,
public administrations to the largest companies in the world.</span></p>
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lang="EN-GB"><br>
<br>
<b>— Conference Program ---</b></span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
lang="EN-GB">The 2015 edition offers a rich program consisting
of 5
keynotes, 24 scientific presentations, 30 industry talks, 38
posters and various
workshops and social events. For details please visit our
program page:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.semantics.cc/programme"
target="_blank">http://www.semantics.cc/programme</a></span></p>
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<b>— Keynote Speakers --- </b></span></p>
<p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol"
lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New
Roman"">
</span></span></span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">Jeanne
Holms -- Chief Knowledge
Architect at NASA</span></p>
<p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol"
lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New
Roman"">
</span></span></span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">Peter
Mika -- Director Semantic Lab
at Yahoo </span></p>
<p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol"
lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New
Roman"">
</span></span></span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">Oscar
Orcho -- Associate Professor
for Artifical Intelligence, Universidad de Madrid</span></p>
<p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol"
lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New
Roman"">
</span></span></span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">Klaus
Tochtermann -- Leibniz
Information Center for Economics </span></p>
<p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol"
lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New
Roman"">
</span></span></span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">Sam
Rehman -- CTO at EPAM Systems</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">—
Workshops <span> </span>& Satellite Events ---</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB"><br>
<br>
<b>MeetUp: SMART DATA SOLUTIONS</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%">An
outlook
into the world of data centric business, technologies and
innovations: Data is everywhere these days and efficient data
management is
THE key factor for success in nearly all industries in the
meantime. </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">McKinsey
lists data as a key factor for production alongside with labor
and capital in
one of their recent reports. </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%">Furthermore, Data is
produced in huge amounts by sensors, social networks
or mobile devices and the amounts of data available worldwide
grow
exponentially…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%">Place:
Haus
der Ingenieure, Eschenbachgasse 9, 1010 Wien<br>
Date: 15.09.2015, Entrance: 18:30pm CET ; Start event: 19:30 -
22:30pm CET</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">2nd
International Workshop on Geospatial Linked Data</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%">In
recent
years, Semantic Web technologies have strengthened their
position in the areas
of data and knowledge management. Standards for organizing and
querying
semantic information, such as RDF(S) and SPARQL are adopted by
large academic
communities, while corporate vendors adopt semantic technologies
to organize,
expose, exchange and retrieve their datasets as Linked Data.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
lang="EN-GB">Chairs: Alejandra Garcia-Rojas M. (Ontos AG),
Robert
Isele or Rene Pietzsch, Jens Lehmann (AKSW, University of
Leipzig)<br>
Date: 15th of September 2015, 09.00 to 13.00 CEST</span></p>
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lang="EN-GB"><br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">The
SEMANTIC
EXPERIENCE Coffee & Cocktail LOUNGE</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
lang="EN-GB">Sponsored Event: Enjoy semantic technology
inspiration
in a relaxed atmosphere. Refresh yourself with Viennese coffee
or a cocktail
and get in touch with semantic industry experts.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
lang="EN-GB">Date: 15th of September 2015, 15.45 to 18.00 CEST<br>
Room: LC Club Room</span></p>
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lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">Linked
Data
in Industry 4.0</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
lang="EN-GB">The overall goal of the workshop is to identify
challenges and limitations from the manufacturing engineering
industry in the
scope of the mentioned design principles, and bring them
together with experts and
solution approaches from the linked data community in the scope
of Industry
4.0.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
lang="EN-GB">Chairs: Thomas Moser (FH St. Pölten), Stefan Hupe
(IoT
Austria)<br>
Date: 15th of September 2015, 14.00 to 17.00 CEST</span></p>
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lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">European
Data
Economy Workshop - Focus Data Value Chain & Big and Open
Data</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
lang="EN-GB">This workshop is to overview the state of the art
in
Europe regarding Big and Open Data initiatives and its impact in
the Europan
economy and benefits for the<span> </span>European
society. Representatives from the Big Data Value Association,
the annual
European Data Forum and data related projects will participate
during the first
session of the workshop. Furthermore it gives information about
the Austrian
Big Data Study carried out in 2014 by AIT and IDC</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
lang="EN-GB">Chairs: Nelia Lasierra (STI Innsbruck), Martin
Kaltenböck
(Semantic Web Company)<br>
Date: 15th of September 2015, 09.00 to 13.00 CEST</span></p>
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lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">1st
Workshop
on Data Science: Methods, Technology and Applications (DSci15)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
lang="EN-GB">This workshop is meant as an opportunity to bring
together researchers and practitioners interested in data
science to present
their ideas and discuss the most important scientific, technical
and
socio-economical challenges of this emerging field.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
lang="EN-GB">Chairs: Bernhard Haslhofer (AIT - Austrian
Institute
of Technology), Elena Simperl (Univ. Southampton), Rainer Stütz
(AIT - Austrian
Institute of Technology), Ingo Feinerer (FH Wiener Neustadt)<br>
Date: 15th of September 2015, 09.00 to 17.00 CEST</span></p>
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lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">Workshop
on
Linked Data Strategies - Commercialisation of Interlinked Data</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
lang="EN-GB">In this workshop, we will give several demos and
concrete examples of how Linked Data can be used by enterprises
in various
industries. The workshop aims to give users and providers of
Linked Data
valuable methods and best practices at hand, which help them to
make profound
decisions in their Linked Data projects.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
lang="EN-GB">Chairs: Christian Dirschl (Wolters Kluwer), Andreas
Blumauer (Semantic Web Company), Tassilo Pellegrini (FH St.
Pölten)<br>
Date: 15th of September 2015, 14.00 to 15.30 CEST</span></p>
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lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="EN-GB">Hackathon
on
"The power of Linked Data in Agriculture and Food Safety"</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
lang="EN-GB">“Data+Need=Hack”, this is the idea of a hackathon
that
brings together like-minded people to develop, in a short time
frame, novel
solutions to problems around the theme “Agriculture and Food
Safety”. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
lang="EN-GB">Chairs: Christian Blaschke (Semantic Web Company,
Vienna), Stasinos Konstantopoulos (Institute of Informatics
&
Telecommunications of the NCSR Demokritos, Athens)<br>
Date: 18th of September 2015, 10.00 to 16.00 CEST</span></p>
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lang="EN-GB"><br>
<br>
<b>— Registration ---</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
lang="EN-GB">To register, please go to:<br>
<a href="http://www.semantics.cc/registration" target="_blank">http://www.semantics.cc/registration</a>
</span></p>
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lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%"
lang="EN-GB">We are looking forward to meet you at SEMANTiCS
2015!</span></p>
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