Call for Participation: SEMANTiCS 2015, 11th International Conference on Semantic Systems

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Below you will find useful information and links about the program, our 
satellite events and registration opportunities for

SEMANTiCS 2015 -- 11th International Conference on Semantic Systems

15-17 September 2015, Vienna / Austria
http://www.semantics.cc/ // #semantics2015 // #semanticsconf

*— Conference Scope ---*
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.



*— Conference Program ---*

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:

http://www.semantics.cc/programme



*— Keynote Speakers --- *

·Jeanne Holms -- Chief Knowledge Architect at NASA

·Peter Mika -- Director Semantic Lab at Yahoo

·Oscar Orcho -- Associate Professor for Artifical Intelligence, 
Universidad de Madrid

·Klaus Tochtermann -- Leibniz Information Center for Economics

·Sam Rehman -- CTO at EPAM Systems

*— Workshops & Satellite Events ---*

*MeetUp: SMART DATA SOLUTIONS*

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. 
McKinsey lists data as a key factor for production alongside with labor 
and capital in one of their recent reports. Furthermore, Data is 
produced in huge amounts by sensors, social networks or mobile devices 
and the amounts of data available worldwide grow exponentially…

Place: Haus der Ingenieure, Eschenbachgasse 9, 1010 Wien
Date: 15.09.2015, Entrance: 18:30pm CET ; Start event: 19:30 - 22:30pm CET

*2nd International Workshop on Geospatial Linked Data*

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.

Chairs: Alejandra Garcia-Rojas M. (Ontos AG), Robert Isele or Rene 
Pietzsch, Jens Lehmann (AKSW, University of Leipzig)
Date: 15th of September 2015, 09.00 to 13.00 CEST


*The SEMANTIC EXPERIENCE Coffee & Cocktail LOUNGE*

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.

Date: 15th of September 2015, 15.45 to 18.00 CEST
Room: LC Club Room

*Linked Data in Industry 4.0*

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.

Chairs: Thomas Moser (FH St. Pölten), Stefan Hupe (IoT Austria)
Date: 15th of September 2015, 14.00 to 17.00 CEST

*European Data Economy Workshop - Focus Data Value Chain & Big and Open 
Data*

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 theEuropean 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

Chairs: Nelia Lasierra (STI Innsbruck), Martin Kaltenböck (Semantic Web 
Company)
Date: 15th of September 2015, 09.00 to 13.00 CEST

*1st Workshop on Data Science: Methods, Technology and Applications 
(DSci15)*

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.

Chairs: Bernhard Haslhofer (AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology), 
Elena Simperl (Univ. Southampton), Rainer Stütz (AIT - Austrian 
Institute of Technology), Ingo Feinerer (FH Wiener Neustadt)
Date: 15th of September 2015, 09.00 to 17.00 CEST

*Workshop on Linked Data Strategies - Commercialisation of Interlinked Data*

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.

Chairs: Christian Dirschl (Wolters Kluwer), Andreas Blumauer (Semantic 
Web Company), Tassilo Pellegrini (FH St. Pölten)
Date: 15th of September 2015, 14.00 to 15.30 CEST

*Hackathon on "The power of Linked Data in Agriculture and Food Safety"*

“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”.

Chairs: Christian Blaschke (Semantic Web Company, Vienna), Stasinos 
Konstantopoulos (Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications of the 
NCSR Demokritos, Athens)
Date: 18th of September 2015, 10.00 to 16.00 CEST



*— Registration ---*

To register, please go to:
http://www.semantics.cc/registration

We are looking forward to meet you at SEMANTiCS 2015!