#ESTC2010: Program Highlights

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4th European Semantic Technology Conference 2010
December 2-3, 2010
Vienna, Austria
www.estc2010.com

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The 4th European Semantic Technology Conference - ESTC2010 - will be organized in Vienna, Austria for the fourth time in a row. The aim of the conference is to bring together the world's leading thinkers, innovators, developers, engineers, and senior practitioners responsible for information technology to learn about how to integrate this advanced technology into their current systems. The ESTC2010 program will consist of several interesting workshops, keynotes by prominent international experts, round tables and the innovation seed camp. This newsletter contains a small teaser of what is to come.

We are looking forward to meeting you at the ESTC2010!

TABLE OF CONTENT

ESTC2010 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
RESERVE YOUR ROOM AT THE CONFERENCE VENUE!
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION UNTIL THE 17^TH OF OCTOBER
SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS

1. PROGAM HIGHLIGHTS

aws ESTC Innovation Seed Camp will take place on the 2nd of December, 2010.
We will select the best applicants to demonstrate their business ideas to a panel of high level mentors and investors. Applicants should submit their business idea by the 18th of October.
Attractive cash prizes are awaiting the winners of the competition.
Selected Startups will receive two free passes to the conference for team members.
Submit your business idea before OCTOBER 18th, 2010!
More information available at:
http://www.estc2010.com/calls-menu/innovation-seed-camp

Peter Mika from Yahoo! Research will be talking about semantic technologies for search and social media in his keynote on the 3rd of December, 2010. Yahoo! attracts hundreds of millions of users every month through its innovative technology, engaging content, and practical services, making it one of the most trafficked Internet destinations and a world class online media company. In this talk, he will discuss and illustrate some of the ways in which Yahoo employs semantic technologies to improve the user experience for both Web search users and the visitors of its Internet sites. Read more about the keynote and Peter Mika at:
http://www.estc2010.com/program-menu/keynote

A VC Forum and Panels with interesting discussions will offer the unique possibility to get insight into prominent experts’ and investors’ views on topics such as Linked Open Data, Future Internet, and the challenges of creating a successful startup. To read more about the scheduled panels please visit:
http://www.estc2010.com/program-menu/panels

ACTIVE Industry Showcase will take place on 2nd of December, 2010. Increasing a number of leading organisations from industry and research have joined forces in the ACTIVE project to develop technology which radically improves group and personal productivity. The result is a software prototype available for you to evaluate, either as a standalone system or as a portfolio from which you can select components to develop or enhance your IT systems. ACTIVE’s technology is based on a lightweight approach to using semantic technologies, and state-of-the-art machine intelligence techniques. The ACTIVE Industry Showcase will present three case studies on how ACTIVE technology is being used in different business sectors. For more information about the workshop, please visit:
http://www.estc2010.com/program-menu/workshops

Linked (Enterprise) Data Workshop organized by LOD2 project
Making insightful business decisions in a corporate environment relies mostly on the data managed in its internal information systems. The availability, reliability and quality of this data can have a significant impact in the efficiency of the internal enterprise processes and tools. Unfortunately, internally available enterprise data is usually not sufficient to meet the competitiveness challenges. In addition to this, a 360° vision of the business information is missing since most of the used tools do not capture the semantics of business oriented information. Integrating advanced semantic tools and mashing up additional data sources from the LOD cloud for example are straightforward to solve the previous problem. This presentation introduces the enterprise use case of LOD2 project where these two ideas will be implemented. For more information about the workshop, please visit:
http://www.estc2010.com/program-menu/workshops

ESTC2011 Evening Reception will take place in the Palmhouse on the evening of the 2nd of December. Don't miss you opportunity to get together with other conference participants and your future business partners in a relaxed atmosphere with drinks and food, accompanied by live music. More information about the reception and the venue available here:
http://www.estc2010.com/evening-reception

2. RESERVE YOUR ROOM AT THE CONFERENCE VENUE!

The ESTC2010 will take place at the Imperial Riding School Vienna, a Renaissance Hotel (Marriott Group) in the 3rd district of Vienna.
For more information about the venue and how to get there, please visit:
http://www.estc2010.com/general/venuemenu

The ESTC2010 participants can book their accommodation at a special group price. For more information about the accommodation and the special discount, please visit:
http://www.estc2010.com/general/accommodation

PLEASE BOOK YOU ROOM UNTIL 22ND OF OCTOBER!

3. EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION UNTIL THE 17^TH OF OCTOBER

Register now and get the early bird registration discount. STI International member organizations and startup companies receive a special discount fee.
Don't hesitate – register now!
All registration options, prices and online form available here:
http://www.estc2010.com/join-in/as-participant

4. SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS

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.
AVCO - The Austrian Private Equity and Venture Capital Organisation
AWS - The Austrian National Promotion Bank
BMVIT - Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology
FFG - The Austrian Research Promotion Agency
OCG - The Austrian Computer Society
KiWi - Knowledge in a Wiki is a service-oriented platform for building Social Media applications augmented by semantic technologies.
LOD2 – An European project that aims to contribute high-quality interlinked versions of public Semantic Web data sets, promoting their use in new cross-domain applications by developers across the globe.
seekda GmbH - Based upon recent research results from the World Wide Web, seekda is developing high-end industry solutions for e-Tourism.
Semantic Web Company – Provides companies, institutions and organizations with professional services related to the Semantic Web, semantic technologies and Social Software.
Sesame – SEmantic SmArt Metering: Enablers for Energy Efficiency
StartEurope – The best partner to help accelerate the successful development of YOUR ideas.