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See also [http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/past/?page=0 Past meetups at meetup.com]

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/78412762/ 2013-03-12]
* 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

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/78412762/ 2013-02-12]
* Richard Mallah, Cambridge Semantics: Leveraging Semantics for Text Mining and Text Analytics [https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzhKojM794ijODJlQS1oWmtFSDg/edit?usp=sharing Slides]
* Stéphane Corlosquet, MIND Informatics, MGH: WebID module for Drupal

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/89607962/ 2013-01-08]
* David Wood, Three Round Stones: Demos from "Linked Data" - An upcoming book for Web developers.

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/78412762/ 2012-11-13]
* Martin Hepp: Good Relations ontology in schema.org
* Kingsley Idehen: Data as a new kind of electricity conducted by hyperlinks [http://www.slideshare.net/kidehen/iswc-2012-linked-data-meetup slides]

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/74081762/ 2012-10-09]
* Ivan Herman, W3C: W3C Prov Ontology
* Jochen Rau: The Web as Application Platform driven by Semantic Technologies

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/72760802/ 2012-09-11]
* Sean Martin, Cambridge Semantics: A Semantic Web Startup's Experience
* Ben Szekely, Cambridge Semantics: Anzo--Semantic Web Software for the Enterprise

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/69687612/ 2012-08-14]
* Evren Sirin, Clark & Parsia: Stardog 1.0.
* Tom Plasterer, AstraZeneca: The Path to Linked Data in BioPharma.

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/60503452/ 2012-07-10]
* CANCELED FOR JULY

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/64093932/ 2012-06-12]
* 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.

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/57444532/ 2012-05-08]
* Christopher de Souza of Metaome: DistilBio 
* Jochen Rau: a Semantic CMS
* Oliver Ruebenacker: Knowomics Bioinformatics Network (10 mins)

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/47649192/ 2012-04-10]
* Kshitij Marwah (MIT), Gil Alterovitz (Harvard Medical School/MIT): Context-Specific Ontology Integration
* Rouben Meschian, Cambridge Semantics: Databinding in Anzo

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/47777482/ 2012-03-13]
* Stéphane Corlosquet: Drupal 7 and schema.org for a more structured Web
* Oliver Ruebenacker: Turning biological knowledge into mathematical models, automated

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/41871632/ 2012-02-14]
* Ted Slater, Consultant & OpenBEL Evangelist, Selventa: Update on OpenBEL & the BEL Framework
* Dexter Pratt, Consultant: Systems Biology and Knowledge-Based Applications / CTO Segterra Inc.

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/41243992/ 2012-01-10]
* Fuming Shih: "SaveFace", which crawls your facebook data and save them as RDF

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/38798622/ 2011-12-13]
* Lee Feigenbaum, Co-founder of Cambridge Semantics: SPARQL - Semantic Web Query Language Tutorial

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/33224262/ 2011-11-08]
* Lee Feigenbaum, Co-founder Cambridge Semantics: Overview of Semantic Web, by 

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/17709041/ 2011-10-11]
* Chris Bouton, Ph.D., Entagen: "TripleMap: Semantic Search & Associative Modeling for Big Data"

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/33740192/ 2011-09-22]
* Antonio Linari: Semantic approach to Categorization by Partial Disambiguation (CPD)
* Raul Rodriguez-Esteban, a Senior Scientist at Boehringer Ingelheim: using text analytics in pharma

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/17709011/ 2011-09-13]
* Julian Ray, Ph.D., Selventa: "The Biological Expression Language BEL and the BEL Framework"

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/16936047/ 2011-08-09]
* Oleg Shilovitsky: "Semantic approach in modeling CAD and Product Data"
* Dr. Paolo Ciccarese: "Annotating online documents with DOMEO and Annotation Ontology"

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/16836377/ 2011-07-12]
* William Hayes: Poolparty first impressions (SKOS-based thesaurus): how we are using at a bioPharma

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/16836370/ 2011-06-14]
* Daniela Bourges-Waldegg, PhD, Harvard Medical School: eagle-i: a national network of biomedical research resources

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/16754995/ 2011-05-10]
* Evren Sirin: Stardog, a commercial RDF database
* Jie Bao: Expressive Query Answering For Semantic Wikis

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/16703981/ 2011-04-12]
* 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

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/16477527/ 2011-03-08]
* David Booth: RDF data pipelines presentation

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/15614868/ 2011-02-08]
*  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)

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/15614848/ 2011-01-11]
* Ted Slater, Merck & Co., Conference Chair - C-SHALS 2011
* Josh Shortlidge, President of InterEthos
* Roland Benedetti, Nuxeo, VP Products

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/15614816/ 2010-12-14]
* Dave Forgianni: Semantic MediaWiki+ and Semantic Forms for use in Gym Management

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/14903776/ 2010-11-16]
*  Chris Welty, IBM Research: Linked Data in Watson: Using Linked Data as Evidence for Natural Language Processing

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/15046119/ 2010-10-12]
* 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 .

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/14685135/ 2010-09-14]
* 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.

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/14083345/ 2010-08-10]
* Sandro Hawke: Summary & discussion of the recent RDF Next Steps Workshop
* David Eddy: lessons learned from 30 years of metadata repositories

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/14014015/ 2010-07-13]
* Kingsley Idehen: WebID + OpenID demos WebID + OpenID Presentation

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/13517625/ 2010-06-08]
* Sandro Hawke: An Introduction to Linked Data

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/12977043/ 2010-05-11]
* 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

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/12833320/ 2010-04-13]
* 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.

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/12565297/ 2010-03-09]
*  William A. Woods: What's in a Link, Revisited
*  Kate Geyer: Massachusetts Open Data Initiative
*  Michael Uschold: Business Model for the Semantic Web

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/12303176/ 2010-02-09]
* Kevin Doyle: Teranode Fuel
* Glenn Mcdonald, Needle: data-modeling/collection/exploration/publishing platform

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/12047595/ 2010-01-12]
* Linked Data Product Development Lab.  (No specified speaker)

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/11845710/ 2009-12-08]
*  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

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/11620429/ 2009-11-10]
* Dean Whitney: Semantic Web Awareness Initiative – Marketing
* Chuck Rehberg: The SIRA Technology: Ontology + NLP + ? = Natural Language Understanding

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/11026524/ 2009-10-27]
* Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Global Semantic Web Meetup sponsored by the International Semantic Web Conference 2009.  

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/11322422/ 2009-10-13]
* Sean O'Connor: Rating World Project & Linked Data Potential

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/11089795/ 2009-09-08]
*  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?

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/10877390/ 2009-08-11]
* Eric Neumann: Cytoscape using a SPARQL plugin demo'd
* David Karger: Editable Exhibit and Wibbit (Semantic Wiki Exhibit) presented

[http://www.w3.org/wiki/CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/Meeting/2009-07-14_Gathering 2009-07-14]
* Sandro Hawke: SemTech Highlights presented
* David Kocis: Exhibit on top of Drupal presented

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/10165258/ 2009-06-15]
* This will be the global meetup at Semantic Technology conference in San Jose.

[http://www.w3.org/wiki/CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/Meeting/2009-06-09_Gathering 2009-06-09]
* 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)

[http://www.w3.org/wiki/CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/Meeting/2009-05-12_Gathering 2009-05-12]
* 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.

[http://www.w3.org/wiki/CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/Meeting/2009-04-14_Gathering 2009-04-14]
* 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

[http://www.w3.org/wiki/CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/Meeting/2009-03-10_Gathering 2009-03-10]
* Stephane Corlosquet: SW in Drupal
* Paolo Ciccarese: SWAN 1.2 ontology
* Eric Neumann: C-SHALS Conference Review

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/9716361/ 2009-03-10]
* Eric Neumann: 1. C-SHALS conference update
* Paolo Ciccarese: SWAN 1.2 ontology
* Corlosquet , DERI: RDF functionality in Drupal - Stephane "scor"

[http://www.w3.org/wiki/CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/Meeting/2009-02-10_Gathering 2009-02-10]
* 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

[http://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Group/events/9318601/ 2009-01-13]
* Tom Tague, Thompson Reuters: Calais 4.0 & The Burgeoning Linked Data Cloud

[http://www.w3.org/wiki/CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/Meeting/2008-12-09_Gathering 2008-12-09]
* 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

[http://www.w3.org/wiki/CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/Meeting/2008-11-11_Gathering 2008-11-11]
* 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

[http://www.w3.org/wiki/CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/Meeting/2008-10-14_Gathering 2008-10-14]
* 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]

[http://www.w3.org/wiki/CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/Meeting/2008-09-09_Gathering 2008-09-09]
* 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

[http://www.w3.org/wiki/CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/Meeting/2008-08-12_Gathering 2008-08-12]
* glenn mcdonald: Semantic Web Marketing
* Kingsley Idehen: OpenLink Data Explorer extension for FireFox

[http://www.w3.org/wiki/CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/Meeting/2008-07-08_Gathering 2008-07-08]
* Doug Burke: The Semantic Astronomer?
* Gus Muench: World Wide Telescope

[http://www.w3.org/wiki/CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/Meeting/2008-06-10_Gathering 2008-06-10]
* 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

[http://www.w3.org/wiki/CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/Meeting/2008-05-13_Gathering 2008-05-13]
* 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)

[http://www.w3.org/wiki/CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/Meeting/2008-04-08_Gathering 2008-04-08]
* Maximilian Schich: Adding Art Research Data to the Giant Global Graph - a Proposal

[http://www.w3.org/wiki/CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/Meeting/2008-03-11_Gathering 2008-03-11]
* Huajun Chen: Browser hosted Visual SQL-RDF Mapping & Linked Data Deployment
* Eric Prud'hommeaux and Lee Feigenbaum: Overviews of RDF, and GRDDL

[http://www.w3.org/wiki/CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/Meeting/2008-02-12_Gathering 2008-02-12]
* Andy Palmer: Vertica
* Kingsley Idehen: DBpedia & Related Linked Data efforts
* Mark Feblowitz: IBM - System S

[http://www.w3.org/wiki/CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/Meeting/2008-01-08_Gathering 2008-01-08]
* 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)

[http://www.w3.org/wiki/CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/Meeting/2007-12-11_Gathering 2007-12-11]
* 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)

[http://www.w3.org/wiki/CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/Meeting/2007-11-13_Gathering 2007-11-13]
* Laszlo Barabasi: Ubiquity of Networks
* Ben Szekely: Nala: A Semantic Data Capture Extension for Mozilla Firefox

[http://www.w3.org/wiki/CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/Meeting/2007-10-09_Gathering 2007-10-09]
* 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

[http://www.w3.org/wiki/CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/Meeting/2007-09-11_Gathering 2007-09-11]
* 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

[http://www.w3.org/wiki/CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/Meeting/2007-08-14_Gathering 2007-08-14]
* Eric Neumann: Ruby, Maglev, and the Semantic Web
* Max van Kleek, Ora Lassila, Nokia: ConnectingMe

[http://www.w3.org/wiki/CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/Meeting/2007-07-10_Gathering 2007-07-10]
* Metatomix: demo of their software
* Eric Prud'hommeaux: Demo of SPASQL
* Nicolas Vandenberghe of ITerating: Demo

[http://www.w3.org/wiki/CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/Meeting/2007-06-12_Gathering 2007-06-12]
* 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

[http://www.w3.org/wiki/CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/Meeting/2007-05-01_Gathering 2007-05-01]
* HCLSIG demo preview
* DavidHuynh: Exhibit / Potluck

[http://www.w3.org/wiki/CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/Meeting/2007-04-10_Gathering 2007-04-10]
* Xavier Lopez: semantic technology in Oracle DB's

[http://www.w3.org/wiki/CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/Meeting/2007-03-13_Gathering 2007-03-13]
* Tim Clark: SWAN demo
* MikeDiLascio, Susie Stephens, SamirBatla: Semantic Web OTN
* Huajun Chen: DartGrid

[http://www.w3.org/wiki/CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/Meeting/2007-02-13_Gathering 2007-02-13]
* Michael Belanger: Fuzzy semantic search demo
* Kingsley Idehen: Data Web Demo
* Manuel Peitsch: UltraLink

[http://www.w3.org/wiki/CambridgeSemanticWebGatherings/Meeting/2007-01-22_Past_Gathering 2007-01-22]
* Guus Schreiber: demo of his cultural heritage / museum stuff
* Ben Adida: gave a demo of RDFA