ESWC'05 Industry Forum

Business applications of Semantic Web challenge Research
Iraklion, Crete, 30 May, 2005
http://www.eswc2005.org

Call for Participation

The Industry forum will be organised in the context of ESWC 2005, the 2nd European Semantic Web Conference that will be held in Heraklion, Creta, Greece 29 May - 1 June 2005, in cooperation with the EC FP6-NoE Knowledge Web (Realizing the semantic web) and the EC FP6-NoE Rewerse (Reasoning on the Web with Rules and Semantics).

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The goal of the Industry forum is to present the current and foreseen needs in Business, Industry and Services to the top leading research community and technological solution providers in Semantic Web technology.

It will constitute a unique occasion to exchange and confront on concrete facts the promises of the Semantic Web with the leading stakeholders. Moreover associated to the ESWC conference it gives the opportunity to keep up with the latest research agenda developments.

The forum is designed to maximize cross-fertilization between research and industry. We will welcome concrete business cases needs, vendor and analyst reports on the state of the commercial marketplace, and case study presentations from developers, implementers and customers.

The forum will include 10 invited presentations from key industrial leaders in diverse economical sectors, it will also feature two visionary presentations from Research and Industry and lastly it will also provide a technology showcase from industry. The program of the forum will include presentations on the following topics:

• Technology / Service challenge and vision
• Semantics needs in Enterprise and Internet
• Existing products and Semantic Web services envisioned solutions
• Key business benefits expected
• Partnership needs
• Business Use Cases
• Current practices and bottlenecks
• Market needs
• Business taxonomies and Vocabularies
• Current problems in content and unstructured data in legacy systems
• Current practices and difficulties in introducing knowledge technology
• Business rules