CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/ListOfPastSpeakers
Reverse chronological order. See also Past meetups at meetup.com
- Panel Discussion: Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship Outlook for Semantic Web in 2013. Panelists:
- Richard Dale -- Managing Director, Big Data Boston Ventures
- David de Graaf -- CEO, Selventa
- Anthony Philippakis -- Venture Partner, Google Ventures
- David Steinberg -- PureTech Ventures
- Richard Mallah, Cambridge Semantics: Leveraging Semantics for Text Mining and Text Analytics Slides
- Stéphane Corlosquet, MIND Informatics, MGH: WebID module for Drupal
- David Wood, Three Round Stones: Demos from "Linked Data" - An upcoming book for Web developers.
- Martin Hepp: Good Relations ontology in schema.org
- Kingsley Idehen: Data as a new kind of electricity conducted by hyperlinks slides
- Ivan Herman, W3C: W3C Prov Ontology
- Jochen Rau: The Web as Application Platform driven by Semantic Technologies
- Sean Martin, Cambridge Semantics: A Semantic Web Startup's Experience
- Ben Szekely, Cambridge Semantics: Anzo--Semantic Web Software for the Enterprise
- Evren Sirin, Clark & Parsia: Stardog 1.0.
- Tom Plasterer, AstraZeneca: The Path to Linked Data in BioPharma.
- CANCELED FOR JULY
- Rob Gonzalez of Cambridge Semantics: the Semantic University (http://www.cambridgesemantics.com/semantic-university)
- Eric Neumann, Ph.D., of Clinical Semantics Group: the translation of BEL (the Biological Expression Language,http://openbel.org/) to RDF and back again.
- Christopher de Souza of Metaome: DistilBio
- Jochen Rau: a Semantic CMS
- Oliver Ruebenacker: Knowomics Bioinformatics Network (10 mins)
- Kshitij Marwah (MIT), Gil Alterovitz (Harvard Medical School/MIT): Context-Specific Ontology Integration
- Rouben Meschian, Cambridge Semantics: Databinding in Anzo
- Stéphane Corlosquet: Drupal 7 and schema.org for a more structured Web
- Oliver Ruebenacker: Turning biological knowledge into mathematical models, automated
- Ted Slater, Consultant & OpenBEL Evangelist, Selventa: Update on OpenBEL & the BEL Framework
- Dexter Pratt, Consultant: Systems Biology and Knowledge-Based Applications / CTO Segterra Inc.
- Fuming Shih: "SaveFace", which crawls your facebook data and save them as RDF
- Lee Feigenbaum, Co-founder of Cambridge Semantics: SPARQL - Semantic Web Query Language Tutorial
- Lee Feigenbaum, Co-founder Cambridge Semantics: Overview of Semantic Web, by
- Chris Bouton, Ph.D., Entagen: "TripleMap: Semantic Search & Associative Modeling for Big Data"
- Antonio Linari: Semantic approach to Categorization by Partial Disambiguation (CPD)
- Raul Rodriguez-Esteban, a Senior Scientist at Boehringer Ingelheim: using text analytics in pharma
- Julian Ray, Ph.D., Selventa: "The Biological Expression Language BEL and the BEL Framework"
- Oleg Shilovitsky: "Semantic approach in modeling CAD and Product Data"
- Dr. Paolo Ciccarese: "Annotating online documents with DOMEO and Annotation Ontology"
- William Hayes: Poolparty first impressions (SKOS-based thesaurus): how we are using at a bioPharma
- Daniela Bourges-Waldegg, PhD, Harvard Medical School: eagle-i: a national network of biomedical research resources
- Evren Sirin: Stardog, a commercial RDF database
- Jie Bao: Expressive Query Answering For Semantic Wikis
- Andy Seaborne of Epimorphics: The Linked Data API: Use of linked data by web-developers
- Howard Burrows: SKOS, eScience, and work on using semantics to model discourse in healthcare and life sciences
- Jochen Rau: Publishing Linked Data Content with TYPO3
- David Booth: RDF data pipelines presentation
- Dave Kolas: Semantic Web technologies developed at BBN
- Kurt Rohloff, BBN: SHARD - A distributed triple-store built on top of Hadoop
- Greg Milbank, Reveltix: Semantic Software Architecture: Using Semantic Technology to Build the Enterprise Information Web (EIW)
- Ted Slater, Merck & Co., Conference Chair - C-SHALS 2011
- Josh Shortlidge, President of InterEthos
- Roland Benedetti, Nuxeo, VP Products
- Dave Forgianni: Semantic MediaWiki+ and Semantic Forms for use in Gym Management
- Chris Welty, IBM Research: Linked Data in Watson: Using Linked Data as Evidence for Natural Language Processing
- Free flowing QA + Demo session covering Linked Data oriented topics such as:
- 1. Linked Open Data v 2.0 (LOD2) Project -- how the EU is aiding Linked Data adoption
- 2. Linked Open Data Cloud -- the story so far re. growth
- 3. Linked Open Commerce Cloud -- how Linked Data aids smarter Commerce .
- Mohan Bavirisetty, VP of BPM On Demand: Semantic BPM and SOA
- Tom Morris: Freebase. Tom is the top external contributor to Freebase, having contributed more than 1.4 million facts.
- Sandro Hawke: Summary & discussion of the recent RDF Next Steps Workshop
- David Eddy: lessons learned from 30 years of metadata repositories
- Kingsley Idehen: WebID + OpenID demos WebID + OpenID Presentation
- Sandro Hawke: An Introduction to Linked Data
- Hector Perez Urbina: PelletDb: Scalable, Expressive Semantic Reasoning for the Enterprise
- Evren Sirin: Integrity constraint semantics for OWL: Using OWL as a data validation language for Linked Data
- David Booth: Making Meaningful Use of Electronic Medical Records at Cleveland Clinic
- Kingsley Idehen: Linked Data Open House Session. That will include discussions and demos covering:
- 1. Basic Introduction to Linked Data
- 2. Simple Demonstration of what Linked Data adds to the Web Experience (User Perspective)
- 3. Discussing Real Problems solved via Linked Data
- - Identity (via WebID using FOAF+SSL protocol)
- - Precision Search & Find
- - Strucutured Profiles
- - Data Access & Integration (e.g. how it builds on SOA and fixes Data Integration Challenges)
- 4. Business of Linked Data.
- William A. Woods: What's in a Link, Revisited
- Kate Geyer: Massachusetts Open Data Initiative
- Michael Uschold: Business Model for the Semantic Web
- Kevin Doyle: Teranode Fuel
- Glenn Mcdonald, Needle: data-modeling/collection/exploration/publishing platform
- Linked Data Product Development Lab. (No specified speaker)
- Ragu Bharadwaj, MIT Sloan: Prediction Markets as a tool to increase information sharing in Pharma
- Rajiv Salimarth, GIV Venture Partners: Semantic Web for knowledge discovery - specifically focused on Health and Life Sciences
- Brooke Aker, Expert System: Theories of Human Comprehension & The Semantic Web
- Dean Whitney: Semantic Web Awareness Initiative – Marketing
- Chuck Rehberg: The SIRA Technology: Ontology + NLP + ? = Natural Language Understanding
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Global Semantic Web Meetup sponsored by the International Semantic Web Conference 2009.
- Sean O'Connor: Rating World Project & Linked Data Potential
- David Eddy: A Brief Presentation on the History of Metadata Repositories
- Oshani Seneviratne: Policy Aware Content Reuse
- Lee Feigenbaum: SPARQL 2 - What's coming down the pipe?
- Eric Neumann: Cytoscape using a SPARQL plugin demo'd
- David Karger: Editable Exhibit and Wibbit (Semantic Wiki Exhibit) presented
- Sandro Hawke: SemTech Highlights presented
- David Kocis: Exhibit on top of Drupal presented
- This will be the global meetup at Semantic Technology conference in San Jose.
- Wayne Haubner (SAP): A Semantic Approach to Contract Management
- Kenny Luck (CSAIL / MIT): Proof Examination in Tabulator
- Eric Prud'hommeaux (W3C) and Fatih Turkmen (CSAIL / University of Trento): Expressing Security Policies in SPARQL Wayne Haubner (SAP)
- Security e.g. FOAF+SSL
- Data Access -- Publishing Linked Data URIs and Querying etc.
- Real-world usecases demonstrating how use of Linked Data to shrink medium of value exchange
- Anything else.
- William Hayes: crowdsourcing to develop public Collaborative Thesaurus development plan
- Sanjiva Nath, zAgile: Semantic Enterprise Wiki for software development and project management Live JIIRA Demo Instance
- Stephane Corlosquet: SW in Drupal
- Paolo Ciccarese: SWAN 1.2 ontology
- Eric Neumann: C-SHALS Conference Review
- Eric Neumann: 1. C-SHALS conference update
- Paolo Ciccarese: SWAN 1.2 ontology
- Corlosquet , DERI: RDF functionality in Drupal - Stephane "scor"
- Elizabeth Wu: SWAN Alzheimer's Disease, Hypothesis Knowledgebase
- Sudeshna Das and Ben Melancon: A Semantically aware Drupal distribution or Science Collaboration Framework (SCF) for building biomedical web communities
- Kingsley Idehen: Linked Data in Action / State of affairs update
- Tom Tague, Thompson Reuters: Calais 4.0 & The Burgeoning Linked Data Cloud
- RdfXG: RDBMS to RDF Incubator Group Update -- Ashok Malhotra, Oracle http://esw.w3.org/topic/Rdb2
- ericP: SPARQL Continuation at W3C
- Sandro Hawke: Last Call - Working Draft OWL2
- Kingsley Idehen: Deploying DBpedia & Neurocommons knowledgebases via Amazon's Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) based Machine Images
- Jim Hendler: Winners of the Semantic Web Challenge
- Nigel Shadbolt: Web Science: a Semantic Web Perspective
- Eric Neumann: Semantic Architecture for Biologics Research at Merck
- Susie Stephens: Semantic Web Solutions at Lilly
- Eric Prud'hommeaux: Introduction to W3C's Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group -
- Stefan Decker: Message in a Bottle - Towards an appealing message what the Semantic Web is - a suggestion
- Pat Hayes: Improving RDF
- Christine Connors: Semantic Web Usage at Dow Jones & Company
- David Provost: On The Cusp: A Global Review of the Semantic Web Industry
- Michael Brodie: Review of ESTC and FIS2008; see also [1]; Media:CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings$$Meeting$$2008-10-14_Gathering$Evolving Semantic Web Mark Greaves (Vulcan) Oct08.pdf [2]
- Cambridge Semantics
- Aaron Swartz: Watchdog.net -- government data and Linked Open Data
- Christopher Matheus (Vistology) & Jakub Moskal (Northeastern): A comparison of the Jena, Jess, and BaseVISor rule engines
- glenn mcdonald: Semantic Web Marketing
- Kingsley Idehen: OpenLink Data Explorer extension for FireFox
- Doug Burke: The Semantic Astronomer?
- Gus Muench: World Wide Telescope
- Neil Sarkar, Marine Biological Laboratory: Harnessing the Semantic Web for Managing Biodiversity Data
- Arnon Rosenthal, MITRE: Contrasting typical SW and DB approaches to semantic integration
- David Booth, HP: RDF as the Lingua Franca for Information Exchange: A small proof-of-concept in IT management
- Ivan Herman: FOAF & RDFa
- Oliver Ruebenacker: System Biology Pathway Exchange (SBPAX) - Gluing SBML-type Models to BioPAX-type Pathways
- Kingsley Idehen: Linked Data Update (covering LODW, LOD Cloud, and UMBEL)
- Maximilian Schich: Adding Art Research Data to the Giant Global Graph - a Proposal
- Huajun Chen: Browser hosted Visual SQL-RDF Mapping & Linked Data Deployment
- Eric Prud'hommeaux and Lee Feigenbaum: Overviews of RDF, and GRDDL
- Andy Palmer: Vertica
- Kingsley Idehen: DBpedia & Related Linked Data efforts
- Mark Feblowitz: IBM - System S
- Discussion Panel: The social barriers to data integration - good and bad, how to overcome or work with them
- Melli Annamalai (Oracle)(TBD)
- Michael Brodie (Verizon)
- Marcus Collins (Novartis)
- Noah Mendelsohn (IBM)
- Elgar Pichler (AZ)
- Discussion Panel: The social barriers to data integration - good and bad, how to overcome or work with them
- Melli Annamalai (Oracle)
- Michael Brodie (Verizon)
- Marcus Collins (Novartis)
- Noah Mendelsohn (IBM)
- Elgar Pichler (AZ)
- Laszlo Barabasi: Ubiquity of Networks
- Ben Szekely: Nala: A Semantic Data Capture Extension for Mozilla Firefox
- Alan Ruttenberg: Introduction to OWL 1.1
- Chitro Neogy: Demo of rule based product for compliance
- Susie Stephens: Next steps for Semantic Web Education and Outreach
- Raj Bala: BigSwerve: The Social Semantic Web
- David Provost: Observations from the business side of the Semantic Web
- Tim Berners-Lee: Tabulator (RDF Browser) as a Firefox Extension Demo
- Eric Neumann: Ruby, Maglev, and the Semantic Web
- Max van Kleek, Ora Lassila, Nokia: ConnectingMe
- Metatomix: demo of their software
- Eric Prud'hommeaux: Demo of SPASQL
- Nicolas Vandenberghe of ITerating: Demo
- Prof. Benjamin Grosof, MIT Sloan: "SweetRules and Example Rule-based Business Policy Applications"
- Kingsley Idehen: Linked Data variation of Microsoft's Astoria & Northwind Database Demo
- HCLSIG demo preview
- DavidHuynh: Exhibit / Potluck
- Xavier Lopez: semantic technology in Oracle DB's
- Tim Clark: SWAN demo
- MikeDiLascio, Susie Stephens, SamirBatla: Semantic Web OTN
- Huajun Chen: DartGrid
- Michael Belanger: Fuzzy semantic search demo
- Kingsley Idehen: Data Web Demo
- Manuel Peitsch: UltraLink
- Guus Schreiber: demo of his cultural heritage / museum stuff
- Ben Adida: gave a demo of RDFA