SEMANTiCS 2026 Developers Workshop: Announcement of invited speakers

Dear Semantic Webbers,

We invite you to participate in the SEMANTiCS 2026 Developers Workshop [1],
which is colocated with SEMANTiCS 2026 on September 15 (half day) in Ghent Belgium.
The core theme of this workshop concerns all development efforts related to the Semantic Web, Knowledge Graphs, and Linked Data.
Furthermore, we aim to connect academia and industry through these collective development efforts.

This year, the program focuses on 4 invited speakers that are developing highly impactful open-source Semantic Web software:

- "Developing SHACL Rules - specs, tests and code"
  Andy Seaborne (Apache Jena maintainer, SPARQL editor)
- "RDFLib: Everything RDF, done!"
  Tom De Nies, Nicholas Car (RDFLib for Python maintainers)
- "rudof: A Semantic-less tool for the Semantic Web"
  Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, Samuel Bustamante Larriet, Álvaro García Fernández (rudof maintainers, ShEx editor)
- "Oxigraph and the wider OLAP database ecosystem"
  Thomas Tanon (Oxigraph maintainer, SPARQL editor)

As such, this year won't be a typical workshop in the traditional academic sense, as we won't accept paper submissions.
Instead, we'll have talks by the 4 invited speakers in the first half of this workshop.
The second half will focus on discussions around the topics raised by the speakers, or other topics of interest by participants.
These discussions may result in one or more papers that will be included in the workshop's proceedings.

[1] https://semantics2026.semdev.org/


Looking forward to your participation!
Ruben Taelman, Jerven Bolleman

Received on Monday, 18 May 2026 07:47:42 UTC