Industry Forum Participation

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  ++ ESWC2005 Call for Industry Forum Participation ++

  ++ Early Registration until 15th April 05 ++
  ++ Full program available online! ++

  Industry Forum
  at 2nd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2005)
  May 30, 2005
  Heraklion, Crete (Greece)

  http://www.eswc2005.org/industryforum.html

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GENERAL INFORMATION

The Industry forum will be organised in the context of ESWC 2005, the 2nd
European Semantic Web Conference  that will be held in Heraklion, Creta,
Greece 29 May - 1 June 2005, in cooperation with the EC FP6-NoE  Knowledge
Web (Realizing the semantic web) and the EC FP6-NoE Rewerse (Reasoning on
the Web with Rules  and Semantics).

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SCOPE 

The goal of the Industry forum is to present the current and foreseen needs
in Business, Industry and Services to  the top leading research community
and technological solution providers in Semantic Web technology.

It will constitute a unique occasion to exchange and confront on concrete
facts the promises of the Semantic Web  with the leading stakeholders.
Moreover associated to the ESWC conference it gives the opportunity to keep
up  with the latest research agenda developments.

The forum is designed to maximize cross-fertilization between research and
industry. We will welcome concrete  business cases needs, vendor and analyst
reports on the state of the commercial marketplace, and case study
presentations from developers, implementers and customers.

The forum will include 10 invited presentations from key industrial leaders
in diverse economical sectors, it will also  feature two visionary
presentations from Research and Industry and lastly it will also provide a
technology  showcase from industry. The program of the forum will include
presentations on the following topics:

- Technology / Service challenge and vision 
- Semantics needs in Enterprise and Internet 
- Existing products and Semantic Web services envisioned solutions 
- Key business benefits expected 
- Partnership needs 
- Business Use Cases 
- Current practices and bottlenecks 
- Market needs 
- Business taxonomies and Vocabularies 
- Current problems in content and unstructured data in legacy systems 
- Current practices and difficulties in introducing knowledge technology 
- Business rules

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PROGRAM & MORE INFORMATION

http://www.eswc2005.org/industryforum_presentschedule.html

http://www.eswc2005.org/

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Dr. York Sure
Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH
phone: +49 (0) 721 608 6592
web: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ysu

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