About the Conference

The Semantic Technology & Business Conference (SemTechBiz) brings together today’s industry thought leaders and practitioners to explore the challenges and opportunities jointly impacting both corporate business leaders and technologists. Whether your most pressing issues are strategic, tactical, or a complex combination of both, you’ll benefit from this unique opportunity to explore how semantic solutions and linked data are being embraced throughout companies across a diverse range of business categories.

SEMTECHBIZ 2012 Program

This year’s SemTechBiz program combines innovative panels, case studies, tutorials, roundtables, keynotes, and lightning sessions to give you an unparalleled interactive experience. From breakthrough approaches to solving business problems to the big data implications of fast–evolving technologies, SemTechBiz offers you practical advice, hands-on guidance, and meaningful takeaways that our business luminaries and subject matter veterans bring to the table. Highlights from this year’s program include:

KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS

The SemTechBiz keynote speakers will share insights about how semantic technology is being used within their organizations to solve business problems in innovative ways. We’re happy to announce the following SemTechBiz keynotes:

Steve Harris                                         Jay Myers                                      
CTO, Garlik                                            Web Architect, Best Buy

Bart van Leeuwen                               Daniel Tunkelang 
Architect/Firefighter, netage.nl               Principal Data Scientist, LinkedIn

CASE STUDIES

SemTechBiz goes beyond the technical talks to deliver business case studies that highlight semantic technology applications in action. These real-world examples will touch on a number of topics, including:

• How Semantic Information Integration is Transforming the Healthcare Sector
• How Semantic Technology can Prevent Legal Risks and Damages
• How to Develop a Semantic Strategy for a Large Enterprise
• How Adaptive Semantic Techniques are used to Deliver High-Impact Real-time Information
• How to Transform Enterprise Data Islands into Linked and Living Knowledge

View all case studies here.

FEATURED WORKSHOP

“Enterprise Ready RDF with OWLIM: New Features and Use Cases”
Join SemTechBiz Platinum Sponsor Ontotext on Thursday, June 7 from 1:30-4:30 PM for a special workshop exploring OWLIM.  Since last year’s conference, OWLIM has matured in a number of ways to make it better, faster, more reliable and easier to use. Discover what the semantic technology application actually does and what features it has that make it the RDF database of choice for the BBC, the Press Association, and the British Museum. This workshop will give an overview of the W3C technologies that OWLIM supports as well as its powerful features that go beyond this technology stack.

Find out full details here.

TUTORIALS

Monday, June 4 will feature 14 tutorial sessions designed to educate individuals whose firms are just beginning to learn what semantic technologies are, as well as, organizations who wish to enhance ongoing efforts to leverage semantics in their enterprise and web-based systems. Gold passport registrants receive access to all tutorials. Can’t make it to the entire conference, but still interested in attending these sessions? Sign up for a Pre-Conference Tutorial pass to join us on June 4.

View all tutorials here.

Who Should Attend

SemTechBiz brings together forward-thinking technology and business leaders from around the world representing the entire marketplace, including:

• IT/Software Managers
• Startups
• Venture Capitalists
• Marketers
• Government Agencies
• Customers
• Linked Data Specialists
• Big Data Specialists
• Extreme Information Management Specialists
• Information Architects
• Computer Scientists
• Taxonomists
• Semantic Web Job Seekers
• Developers
• Researchers

Start-up Competition

SemanticWeb.com and WebMediaBrands is awarding one company the prize as "Top Semantic Technology Start-Up" at this year’s SemTechBiz. Semantic Technologies are no longer a discovery of the future. Companies are using Semantic Technologies today to make money, save money, and solve business problems in ways they simply could not before, and the wide variety of start-ups in the Semantic Tech space is one exciting effect of this trend. More details on the contest are available here.

Interested in Sponsoring or Exhibiting?

Contact Frank Fazio at eventsales@mediabistro.com or 203.662.2887 for available opportunities.

Interested in Speaking?

The 2012 Call for Presentations is closed, however you can still submit your speaking proposal. We will continue to accept proposals to fill any cancelled presentations, and for our “Late Breaking News” sessions. Click here to learn more about submitting your proposal.