ESTC2009: Early Bird and Innovation Seed Camp Reminder

Dear all,

as the deadline for the early bird registration is approaching, we would like to remind you not to forget to register in time. We also want to seize the opportunity to announce the interesting workshops and the tutorial which are parts of the conference program. Furthermore we would like to inform you about the thrilling networking tools which you will have the opportunity to use onsite.

CONFERENCE DETAILS

3rd European Semantic Technology Conference 2009
December 2-3, 2009
Hotel Le Meridien | Vienna, Austria
www.estc2009.com

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION UNTIL OCTOBER 30

Register online by October 30th at latest and save up to 25%! The conference fees range from 220 EUR to 360 EUR. Companies who bring 4 business partners to the conference will receive a free registration voucher.
Register here...

WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS

OKKAM TUTORIAL: "Using the Entity Naming System for Managing and Interlinking Entities in Networks of Data"
(Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento)
December 2 | 14:00 - 18:00 | Flaming Red II

IQSER WORKSHOP: "Rapid Development of Semantic Applications and Services"
(Jörg Wurzer, iQser)
December 2 | 14:00 - 18:00 | Flaming Red I

X-MEDIA WORKSHOP: "Our Vision - X-Media: Knowledge Sharing and Reuse across Media"
(Rolls Royce, FIAT, University of Sheffield, University of Koblenz, Quinary spa)
December 2 | 14:00 - 18:00 | Blazing White

VALUE-IT WORKSHOP:"Market Analysis for Semantic Technologies"
(OVUM, Inmark, DFKI, Telefonica and iSOCO)
December 3, 2009 |14:00 - 18:00 | Flaming Red I

Detailed conference program available here...

MATCHMAKING AND ONSITE TOOLS

Matchmaking @ ESTC2009
Schedule your private business-to-business meetings with the provided matchmaking software. Create your business profile, view profile of other participants and schedule your meetings.
The matchmaking sessions will take place on both conference days:
December 2 | 18:00 - 19:30
December 3 | 16:30 - 18:00
Please don't forget to activate the matchmaking box in the conference registration form.

Networking terminals
All ESTC2009 participants have the unique opportunity to try the newest networking tools during the conference:

• - Automatically exchange vCards with several people via email
• - Compare up to 4 participants' online presence (based on forename and surname) based upon multiple sources

For more Information about the onsite networking tools and the matchmaking sessions please click here...

INNOVATION SEED CAMP SUBMISSION DEADLINE APPROACHING

Don't forget to submit your idea by November 2!
Best ideas will be rewarded with up to 5000 EUR!
Submit your idea here...

SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS

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

ESTC2009 is supported by:

• AVCO - The Austrian Private Equity and Venture Capital Organisation
• BMVIT - Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology
• CELTIC - Telecommunication Solutions for European Leadership in Telecommunications
• FFG - The Austrian Research Promotion Agency
• iSOCO - Intelligent Software Components S.A.
• OCG - The Austrian Computer Society
• The University of Sheffield

ESTC2009 is sponsored by:

• 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.
• AWS - The Austrian National Promotion Bank
• Franz Inc. - The US company which developed AllegroGraph.
• MATRIXWARE - Provides the users of patent information worldwide with innovative solutions.
• iQser AG - Based in Switzerland, designs and develops novel, innovative technologies in the area of intelligent information systems.
• seekda GmbH - Based upon recent research results from the World Wide Web, seekda is developing high-end industry solutions for e-Tourism.
• 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.
• SOA4All - Aims at realizing a world where billions of parties are exposing and consuming services via advanced Web technology
• STI Innbruck - Is a world leading research institute working on the Semantic Web, Semantic Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures.
• VALUE-IT - Aimes at promoting market driven alignment of EU RTD, fostering innovation and accelerating adoption of Semantic Technologies for the Enterprise.
• 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
lejla.ibralic-halilovic@...
phone: +43 1 23 64 002
fax: +43 1 23 64 002-99

ESTC2009 - brought to you by STI International