[CfP] 2023 Basic Formal Ontology Summit Meeting, Buffalo, May 23-25, 2023

This is to announce the *2023 BFO Summit Meeting*.

*Goals*

   1. to bring together researchers who have played an important role in
   the development and application of BFO, to highlight the practical impact
   and value of using BFO as a top-level architecture,
   2. to identify and work through outstanding issues experienced by users
   of BFO,
   3. to begin the creation of a set of BFO-conformant ontologies in the
   domain of government policy and data

The meeting information page, which will be updated at regular intervals,
can be found here
<https://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/Basic_Formal_Ontology_Summit_Meeting>
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*Keynote Speakers*

Werner Ceusters (Buffalo): *The Axiomatization of BFO 2020: The Good, The
Bad, and The Ugly*

Alan Ruttenberg (Buffalo):*Time Matters*

Janna Hastings (Zurich and St. Gallen): *Field Reports from Using BFO in
Scientific Ontologies*

Ryan Riccucci (Division Chief, US Border Patrol): *(On Government Ontology,
TBD)*

*Organization*

A variety of panels, workshops, and speaker sessions will be organized in
the course of the meeting, and proposals are welcome.

Those interested in participating should contact John Beverley as soon as
possible.