Attend and Contribute to SEMANTiCS 2016 in Leipzig

The 12th edition of the SEMANTiCS, which is a well known platform for professionals and researchers who make semantic computing work, will be held in the city of Leipzig from September 12th till 15th. We are proud to announce the final program of the SEMANTiCS conference.

The program will cover 6 keynote speakers, 40 industry presentations, 30 scientific paper presentations, 40 poster & demo presentations and a huge number of satellite events. Special talks will given by Thomas Vavra from IDC and Sören Auer, who will feature the LEDS track. On top of that there will be a fishbowl session ‘Knowledge Graphs – A Status Update’ with lightning talks from Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI) and Andreas Blumenauer (SWC). This week, the set of our distinguished keynote speakers has been fixed and we are quite excited to have them at this years’ edition of SEMANTiCS. Please join us to listen to talks from representatives from IBM, Siemens, Springer Nature, Wikidata, International Data Corporation (IDC), Fraunhofer IAIS, Oxford University Press and the Hasso-Plattner-Institut, who will share their latest insights on applications of Semantic technologies with us. To register and be part of the SEMANTiCS 2016 in Leipzig, please go to: http://2016.semantics.cc/registration.

Share your ideas, tools and ontologies, last minute submissions

Meetup: Big Data & Linked Data – The Best of Both Worlds

On the first eve of the SEMANTiCS conference we will discuss how Big Data & Linked Data technologies could become a perfect match. This meetup gathers experts on Big and Linked Data to discuss the future agenda on research and implementation of a joint technology development.

• Register (free)

• If you are interested to present your idea, approach or project which links Semantic technologies with Big Data in an ad-hoc lightning talk, please get in touch with Thomas Thurner (t.thurner@semantic-web.at).

WORKSHOPS/TUTORIALS

This year’s SEMANTiCS is starting on September 12th with a full day of exciting and interesting satellite events. In 6 parallel tracks scientific and industrial workshops and tutorials are scheduled to provide a forum for groups of researchers and practitioners to discuss and learn about hot topics in Semantic Web research.

• Registration (free)

How to find users and feedback for your vocabulary or ontology?

The Vocabulary Carnival is a unique opportunity for vocabulary publishers to showcase and share their work in form of a poster and a short presentation, meet the growing community of vocabulary publishers and users to build useful semantic, technical and social links. You can join the Carnival Minute Madness on the 13th of September.

• Submit your vocabulary to the VOCARNIVAL here: http://2016.semantics.cc/vocarnival/submission

• More info: http://2016.semantics.cc/vocarnival

How to submit to ELDC?

The European Linked Data Contest awards prizes to stories, products, projects or persons presenting novel and innovative projects, products and industry implementations involving linked data. The ELDC is more than yet another competition. We envisage to build a directory of the best European projects in the domain of Linked Data and the Semantic Web. This year the ELDC is awarded in the categories Linked Enterprise Data and Linked Open Data, with €1.500,- for each of the winners. Submission deadline is August 31, 2016.

• Submit your product, story or project here: http://2016.semantics.cc/eldc

7th DBpedia Community Meeting in Leipzig 2016

Co-located with SEMANTiCS, the next DBpedia meeting will be held at Leipzig on September 15th. Experts will speak about topics such as Wikidata: bringing structured data to Wikipedia with 16.000 volunteers. The 7th edition of this event covers a DBpedia showcase session, breakout sessions and a DBpedia Association meeting where we will discuss new strategies and which direction is important for DBpedia. If you like to become part of the DBpedia community and present your ideas, please submit your proposal or check our meeting website: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Leipzig2016

Sponsorship  opportunities

We would be delighted to welcome new sponsors for SEMANTiCS 2016. You will find a number of sponsorship packages with an indication of benefits and prices here: http://semantics.cc/sponsorship-packages.

Special offer: You can buy a special SEMANTiCS industry ticket for €400 which includes a poster presentation at our marketplace. So take the opportunity to increase the visibility of your company, organisation or project among an international and high impact community. If you are interested, please contact us via email to semantics2016@fu-confirm.de.