ESTC2009 - meet innovative start-ups and listen to leading semantic technology experts

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Dear all,

The ESTC2009 conference program covers high quality contributions from world's leading thinkers, innovators, developers, engineers and senior practitioners active in the field of semantic technologies. Invited talks by Susie Stephens from Johnson&Johnson and Michael Brodie from Verizon Communications, high quality panels with representatives from leading companies like AstraZeneca, iSOCO, Ontoprise, Ontotext, Thomson Reuters and Vulcan are only some examples of the impressive conference program.

 <http://www.estc2009.com/program> Click here to view the detailed conference program.


CONFERENCE DETAILS


3rd European Semantic Technology Conference 2009
December 2-3, 2009
Hotel Le Meridien | Vienna, Austria
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ESTC2009 INNOVATION SEED CAMP - we proudly present the best business ideas of 2009


 

22 high quality applications from 12 different nations didn’t make it easy to decide which ones should be present in the next round of the competition. In the end 16 applications were chosen by the jury and will take part in the 1st ESTC Innovation Seed Camp, which involves elevator pitches, mentoring sessions and an the highly interesting VC panel, discussing the actual market and finance situation for startups and revealing practical insights: how to approach VCs.

 <http://www.estc2009.com/seedcamp-menu> Click here to view the list of Innovation Seed Camp finalists. 

 <http://www.estc2009.com/program/panels> Detailed information about the VC panel and other panels available here. 

 


OPEN DEMO SPACE – ensure a time slot for your presentation!


 

This year ESTC2009 invites all interested parties to hold a 20 minutes presentation at the Open Demo Space. Present your business solution or application to the target audience! To request a slot at the Open Demo Space, send an email to  <mailto:submissions@estc2009.com> submissions@estc2009.com First come, first served. A few time slots are still available.

 


MATCHMAKING @ ESTC2009 – promote your business for free!


ESTC2009 is offering this year's conference participants a unique way to network and the chance to meet new business partners and refresh old co-operations.
The online matchmaking tool enables an efficient yet smooth way for participants to view business profile of other participants, make new business contacts and schedule bilateral meetings with other participants to take place during the two matchmaking sessions integrated in the conference program. 
Matchmaking @ ESTC2009 opens up a unique way to advertise your own business to the target audience.

 <https://seekda.com/conference/?conference=ESTC2009%0d%0a> To register for the ESTC2009 and participate in the Matchmaking Event please click here. 

 <http://www.estc2009.com/onsite-tools/estc2009matchmaking> Detailed information about Matchmaking @ ESTC2009 availble here. 

 


SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS


A huge thanks to all sponsors and supporters of the ESTC2009!


ESTC2009 is supported by:


*  <http://www.avco.at/AVCO.aspx?target=9195&SetLanguage=2> AVCO - The Austrian Private Equity and Venture Capital Organisation
*  <http://www.bmvit.gv.at/> BMVIT - Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology
*  <http://www.celtic-initiative.org/> CELTIC - Telecommunication Solutions for European Leadership in Telecommunications 
*  <http://www.ffg.at/content.php> FFG - The Austrian Research Promotion Agency
*  <http://www.isoco.com/> iSOCO - Intelligent Software Components S.A.
*  <http://www.ocg.at/> OCG - The Austrian Computer Society
*  <http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/> The University of Sheffield


ESTC2009 is sponsored by:


*  <http://www.active-project.eu/> ACTIVE - A consortium of twelve partner organisations from seven different European countries, co-ordinated by British Telecommunications, which aims to increase the productivity of knowledge workers in a pro-active, contextualised, yet easy and unobtrusive way.
*  <http://www.awsg.at/portal/> AWS - The Austrian National Promotion Bank
*  <http://www.franz.com/> Franz Inc. - The US company which developed AllegroGraph.
*  <http://www.matrixware.com/> MATRIXWARE - Provides the users of patent information worldwide with innovative solutions.
*  <http://www.iqser.ch/home> iQser AG - Based in Switzerland, designs and develops novel, innovative technologies in the area of intelligent information systems.
*  <http://www.neon-project.org/> NeOn - Aiming to advance the state of the art in using ontologies for large-scale semantic applications.
*  <http://www.ontotext.com/> Ontotext AD - A leading developer of core semantic technology. 
*  <http://www.seekda.com/> seekda GmbH - Based upon recent research results from the World Wide Web, seekda is developing high-end industry solutions for e-Tourism.
*  <http://www.serviceweb30.eu/> Service Web 3.0 - A support action from the EU whose mission is to prepare European research and industry for the emerging Internet of Services.
*  <http://www.soa4all.eu/> SOA4All - Aims at realizing a world where billions of parties are exposing and consuming services via advanced Web technology
*  <http://www.sti-innsbruck.at> STI Innbruck - Is a world leading research institute working on the Semantic Web, Semantic Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures.
*  <http://www.value-it.eu/web/guest/home> VALUE-IT - Aimes at promoting market driven alignment of EU RTD, fostering innovation and accelerating adoption of Semantic Technologies for the Enterprise. 
*  <http://www.x-media-project.org/> X-Media - Studies, develops and implements large scale methodologies and techniques for knowledge management able to support sharing and reuse of knowledge that is distributed in different media and repositories.

 


GENERAL CONTACT


STI International
Lejla Ibralic Halilovic
 <mailto:lejla.ibralic-halilovic@sti2.org> lejla.ibralic-halilovic@sti2.org
phone: +43 1 23 64 002
fax: +43 1 23 64 002-99





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