Wednesday, 5/23/2007
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Level: Technical - Intermediate

Early implementations of Semantic Web solutions were frequently undertaken by academic research groups who used tools that were developed in-house. However, the Semantic Web has now reached a maturity level that allows large businesses to successfully adopt RDF and OWL. These business implementations may now use an increasing array of commercial software products that leverage Semantic Web technology. This presentation will provide a survey of the commercial software products that are now available, and will provide examples of implementations within large commercial organizations. For early adopters in the audience, the presenters will highlight some of the valuable lessons and develoAMent patterns that were learnt while working on enterprise Semantic Web implementations.

Dr Susie Stephens joined Oracle in 2002 to lead the develoAMent of the database, middleware and collaboration tools, to further enhance their capabilities as a powerful infrastructure platform and analytical engine for life sciences. As such, she was heavily involved in providing support for RDF within the Oracle Database. She now guides Oracle in its continued adoption of Semantic Web technologies, and represents Oracle in discussions with W3C regarding standards in this area. Dr. Stephens is chair of W3C’s Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest Group, and coordinates the BioRDF task force within the W3C Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group. She has presented at many Semantic Web conferences that include Semantic Technologies 2006, WWW 2006, and ISWC 2006, and has written articles on the Semantic Web that have been published in journals that include IEEE Intelligent Systems and the Journal of Web Semantics. Dr. Stephens worked at Sun Microsystems for many years prior to joining Oracle. Dr. Stephens recently joined Eli Lilly

Mr. Pollock is a technology leader and author of the enterprise software book "Adaptive Information" (John Wiley & Sons 2004). Currently a Senior Director with Oracle’s Fusion Middleware group, Mr. Pollock was formerly an independent consultant for the Defense Department, Vice President of Technology at Cerebra and Chief Technology Officer of Modulant, developing semantic middleware platforms and inferencedriven SOA platforms from 2001 to 2006. Throughout his career, he has architected, designed, and built application server/middleware solutions for Fortune 500 and US Government clients. Prior to Modulant, Mr. Pollock was a Principal Engineer with Modem Media and Senior Architect with Ernst & Young’s Center for Technology Enablement. He is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences, author for industry journals, active member of W3C and OASIS, and formerly an engineering instructor with University of California at Berkeley’s Extension on the subjects of object-oriented systems, software development process and enterprise systems architecture.