ArcelorMittal is the world's number one steel company, with 310,000 employees in more than 60 countries. It has led the consolidation of the world steel industry and today ranks as the only truly global steelmaker.

Be Informed is an independent software supplier that specialises in solutions for complex and knowledge-intensive processes. By providing the right knowledge in a direct and context-specific way, organisations can improve the interaction with their customers, staff and partners. They can also streamline their working processes and make significant gains in efficiency.

BT is one of the world’s leading providers of telecommunications solutions and services, operating in 170 countries. BT’s portfolio of ICT services includes IP infrastructure, CRM, security, applications, managed mobility, hosting and outsourcing. In the financial year ending March 2005, BT’s total revenue for networked IT services was around €6 Billion, more than 20% of a total revenue of around €27 Billion.

Collibra was founded mid 2008 as a spin-off from STARLab at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Collibra is backed by venture capital, including the Brussels Imagination, Innovation and Incubation Fund, Brustart (GIMB), and business angels.

Franz Inc. was founded in early 1984 as a vehicle to produce and sell Macsyma. While that never developed into a business, Franz Inc. did sell Franz Lisp while working on their own Common Lisp implementation. Franz Lisp died out in the 80s as Common Lisp became more popular. Today, they sell Allegro Common Lisp, which is a direct descendant of the Common Lisp they developed in the mid-80s, and a series of products like AllegroCache built on it.

Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena was founded in 1558 as the State University of Thuringia, a role it serves until today. In 2006 FSU had an enrolment of more than 20.000 students in a wide area of subjects like medicine, biology, law, economics, mathematics, computer science and informatics, etc.

The Department of Computer Science and Informatics(CIS) was newly established in 1993 on the basis of existing competencies and professorships. The Department is part of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics.

Lixto Software GmbH empowers better decisions by searching & aggregating information in real-time and delivering end-to-end connectivity solutions. The company’s solutions and services are used in metasearch, online market intelligence and web process integration, thus allowing companies and end users to achieve better and more structured results for their queries.

STI Galway

Digital Enterprise Research Institute

DERI is a Centre for Science, Engineering and Technology (CSET) established in 2003 with funding from the Science Foundation Ireland.

Leading European supplier of knowledge generation solutions that use semantic technologies and artificial intelligence to extract knowledge from varied Internet sources and integrate it with business processes. Netbreeze semantic solutions have been developed for early warning, risk management, marketing and sales tools, media monitoring, asset management, corporate governance and compliance, issue management, anti money laundering, know-your-client, executive search, project management, and other business applications.

Homepage: http://www.netbreeze.ch/

Ontonym GmbH was founded in Spring 2008 as spin-off from the Freie Universität Berlin. Onytonym developes and markets semantic web applications. Ontonyms focus lies on the development and maintenance of domain specific background knowledge describing the language utterance of users, currently for german speaking countries.

seekda GmbH is an Austrian spin-off company of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI Innsbruck) at the University of Innsbruck. seekda was built on the results of the European Union funded DIP, and Austrian FIT-IT (Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft mbH) RW2 projects. The corporate headquarter is located in Innsbruck, Austria. seekda developed the first global Web Service Search Engine based on focused crawling, allowing access to publicly available Web Services and currently indexes and monitors over 27K Web Services from over 7K service providers.

The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona was founded in 1968. The founders aimed to establish four principles of autonomy: freedom to select teaching staff, admission available to all students (but with a limited number), freedom to create its own study plans and freedom to administrate the University's capital. It is therefore a young university, but in its short history it has moved forward at a rapid pace.

Website: http://www.uab.es/

XimetriX was created on 2003 to help organizations in the access and management of content. Through the development and deployment of a Semantic Content Management System called ximDEX, XimetriX has accompanied their customers in the strategic management of content and services in electronic formats, using W3C standards and Semantic Technologies.