Late-Breaking News and Major Semantic Industry Announcements to be Unveiled at SemTech 2009
Includes Developments by Google,Yahoo!, bing (Microsoft LiveSearch), Thomson Reuters, Siri, Wolfram|Alpha, TrueKnowledge, Ask.com, Hakia, New York Times, Tribune Company, HuffingtonPost.com, CBS Interactive, Hearst Interactive, Sony, Adobe, Delve Networks, and more.
Culver City, CA (PRWEB) June 10, 2009 -- SemTech 2009, the world's leading conference on semantic technologies, today announced late-breaking news, industry announcements, and media briefing schedule for its fifth annual conference taking place June 14-18 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California.
What: SemTech is the industry's largest annual gathering of users, technologists, publishers, developers, innovators, academics, entrepreneurs, investors, and evangelists, bringing the most recognized names, knowledge, leadership, and innovation in the semantic community together at one location. The event is the only forum to offer the most comprehensive program in the industry, with more than 220 hours of presentations at levels demonstrating the strategic and commercial viability of semantic technologies. Conference highlights include tutorials, case studies, keynotes, panels, and sidebars, as well as vertical industry focus areas on financial services, pharmaceutical/healthcare/life sciences, application development, government/military, and semantic search/data discovery/linked data, among others.
I. Late-Breaking News:, SemTech 2009 includes the latest developments from Google, Yahoo!, bing.com (Microsoft), Adobe Systems, Sony, Oracle, Metatomix, STI International, and Delve Networks. New standards activities from W3C will be discussed. Also new to the conference: Semantic Search Day for $195 (Wednesday, June 17); a "Semantic Code Camp" gathering for latest innovations to be shared, sessions on: Multimedia Semantics, Linked Data, Semantics for Enterprise Data, online medical records, digital libraries, and "The Semantic Web Gang" doing their monthly podcast live and on stage.
II. Industry Announcements: SemTech is the premier platform for launching semantics-based initiatives and products; numerous industry announcements will be announced by companies ranging from Fortune 500s to innovative start ups. They include: AdaptiveBlue, Bintro.com, Cambridge Semantics, Collibra, Franz, Guidewire Group, iQuest Analytics, Ontos, Pragati, STI International, Thomson Reuters, TopQuadrant, W3C, and Zepheira.
III. Media Briefings: Members of the media and analyst community are invited to attend SemTech's daily briefing sessions, which offer excellent interview opportunities with industry leaders in a relaxed, round-table environment. The complete briefing schedule is available on the "News" section of the SemTech Website, and includes:
| | - Tuesday, 16 June: 10.30AM - TopQuadrant; 11.00AM - Thompson Reuters; 11.30AM - Franz; 12Noon - Zepheira; 2.00PM - Ontos; 2.30PM - AdaptiveBlue; 3.30PM - Textwise; 4.00PM - Bintro
- Wednesday, 17 June: 10.00AM - Ontotext; 10.30AM - Metatomix; 11.00AM - STI International; 11.30AM - Collibra; 12Noon - iQuest Analytics; 2.00PM - Expert System; 2.30PM - Saltlux; 3.00PM - SYSTAP; 3.30PM - zAgile
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Who: SemTech 2009's globally-recognized speakers and faculty include experts from: Accenture Technology Labs; AdaptiveBlue; Adobe Systems; The Analysis Group; Asemantics; ask.com; Babel-Ease Ltd.; BBN Technologies; bing/Microsoft; Bintro.com; The Boeing Company; Cambridge Semantics; CIC-IPN; Clark & Parsia; Cleveland Clinic; The Cloud of Data; Cognition Technologies; Collexis Holdings Inc.; Custom Technology Ltd.; Cycorp; Dan McCreary & Associates; DataPortability Project/Dow Jones; Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland, Galway; Emergent Intelligence Technology, Inc.; Earley & Associates; Expert System; Fedora Commons; Florida IHMC; Franz; Getty Research Institute; Google; Guidewire Group; hakia, Healthline Networks; IBM Rational; Intuit; iQser AG; iQuest Analytics; Jazz Foundation; James Leigh Services Inc.; JS-Kit; Kapow Technologies; KnowledgeHives; Kriedman.com; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Matrixware Information Services; Merck and Co.; Metatomix; Metaweb Technologies; MuseGlobal, Inc.; Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI); Ontos AG; Ontotext AD; Open Link Software; Oracle; Orbis Technologies; Oregon Health & Science University; Overtone; Oxford University; Palomar Ventures; Primal Fusion; Procter & Gamble; Progeny Systems; Project10x; Radar Networks; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Revelytix; Riot Games; RiverGlass; Sabre Holdings; Sandia National Laboratories; Saltlux; Sandpiper Software; SAP Labs; Sciova; Semantic Arts; SemanticCommunity.net; Semantic Discovery System; SemanticV; Siri; Smartlogic; Stanford University; Syntactica; TextDigger; TextWise; TopQuadrant; Travelocity; TriviumRLG; True Knowledge; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; University of California, San Diego; University of Cambridge; University of Texas, Houston; US Department of State; VIStology; Widality; the World Wide Web Consortium; Wolfram|Alpha; Wright State University; XBRL International; XSB, Inc.; Yahoo!; Zemanta; and Zepheira.
SemTech sponsors and exhibitors include: Platinum--Metatomix, Oracle, and STI International; Gold-- Calais/Thomson Reuters, Collibra, Franz, Ontotext, TopQuadrant, and Zepheira; Silver--AdaptiveBlue, BBN Technologies, bing (Microsoft), Cambridge Semantics, Ontos, Saltlux, Sandpiper Software, SemanticV, TextWise, and Yahoo!Search; Exhibiting Sponsors--Cycorp, Expert System, iQuest Analytics, KBSI, Syntatica, TextDigger; and Supporting Sponsors--Guidewire Group, Peer39, Project10X, and W3C.
Media Partners include KMWorld, Mashable, ReadWriteWeb, and SEMJ.org.
When: Sunday, June 14 through Thursday, June 18, 2009.
Where: Fairmont Hotel, San Jose: Tutorials, Conference, and Expo Hall - Ballroom Level; Media Briefings - SemTech Press Room (Terrace Room)
Register: The full conference program and registration is available at SemTech2009.com
About SemTech
SemTech is owned and operated by Semantic Universe--the semantic industry's trusted information resource. Semantic Universe is a joint venture between Wilshire Conferences and Semantic Arts, whose portfolio of services and events are the industry standard for education and professional development. They include Enterprise Data World; the international Data Governance series; Designing and Building Business Ontologies; Enterprise Information Management Conference; and Information and Data Quality Conference; as well as the Data Strategy Best Practices Council and Data Strategy Journal. For more information, visit SemanticUniverse.com
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