SemTech 2010 Rules Track Call for Presentations

Call for Presentations

Special Rules Track at SemTech 2010, co-organized by RuleML

Presentation proposals are now being accepted for the special Rules Track at the Semantic Technology Conference, co-organized by RuleML. The special Rules Track is new this year.

Topic Background: The area of semantic rules is perhaps the most important frontier today for the Semantic Web’s core technology and standards. Rules extend databases and ontologies with more powerful, flexible, and active forms of “structured” knowledge (as opposed to “unstructured” knowledge such as text), and have a number of close relationships to other aspects of the overall Semantic Web such as ontologies, query and search, policies and trust, wikis, and services. Recent progress includes:

· Major initial industry standards adopted or nearing finalization from W3C (Rule Interchange Format, OWL 2 RL profile) and OMG (Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules, Production Rules Representation)

· Demonstrations of radical technology advances in expressiveness and knowledge integration (e.g., SILK)

· Accelerating investments/acquisitions, e.g., by several of the largest software companies

Submissions:

· Submissions will be reviewed by a track-specific committee drawn from and organized by RuleML as well as SemTech’s usual organization.

· Submissions should be made through the regular SemTech process and submission system. There are a variety of kinds of presentation opportunities. See details in the overall SemTech CFP (appended below). However, the timeline differs from the rest of SemTech (see next bullet).

· An EXTENDED submission deadline of Feb. 8, 2010 applies for the Rules Track only (due to its late-breaking nature). Speaker notification for it will accordingly be Feb. 22.

· As usual for SemTech, submissions are encouraged about application use cases and experiences, as well as about technology systems and standards.

Sponsorship: Sponsorship opportunities specific to the Rules Track are also available, including for rules-community oriented sessions that are in process of being organized.

Contacts: For questions about Rules Track submissions or sponsorship, please contact Said Tabet (stabet@comcast.net) of RuleML. Benjamin Grosof (http://www.mit.edu/~bgrosof/) and Mike Dean (mdean@bbn.com) are other RuleML lead organizers for the Track.

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Below is the overall CFP for SemTech 2010.

SemTech 2010:
THE SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE
June 21-25, 2010
Hilton Union Square, San Francisco, California
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CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

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Presentation proposals are now being accepted for the Semantic Technology Conference. After 4 years of continuous growth, SemTech moves back to San Francisco for the first time since its inception. Over 1200 people are expected to attend.

This will be the 6th Annual SemTech Conference, and based on enormous demand from prior years we are providing numerous new opportunities to speak at the conference in 2010. In particular, these new formats will provide more opportunities for product developers and entrepreneurs to bring their work to the attention of customers, business partners and investors.

The SemTech agenda comprises multiple educational sessions, including tutorials, technical topics, business topics, product demonstrations and case studies. As always, we are very interested in presentations on currently implemented semantic applications in both the enterprise and consumer environments. A number of topic areas are identified, but speakers are invited to offer additional topic areas if they wish.

The SemTech conference is produced by Semantic Universe, LLC. Questions regarding speaking opportunities can be addressed to Tony Shaw at tony@semanticuniverse.com.

Sponsorship opportunities are available for appropriate vendor and media organizations. For sponsorship information, please contact Steve Bastasini at +1-415-740-5528 or email steve@semanticuniverse.com.

Topic Areas Include:

Business Applications
Consumer Applications
Data Portability
Enterprise Semantics
Foundational Topics
Knowledge Engineering and Management
Linked Data
New Products & Companies
Ontology Design and Engineering
Research
Semantic Rules (incl. RuleML, RIF, SILK, RL Profile)
Semantic Publishing
Semantic Search
Semantic Software Development
Semantic Web
Semantics for Enterprise Data
Smart Marketing and Advertising
Social Networks & Collaboration
Web 3.0 Web Sites

Presentation Formats

The conference program includes the following presentation options and formats:

Reviewed and Invited Presentations

SemTech has always been noted for the high quality of its educational conference. This is because the formal educational conference comprises presentations that are reviewed by a committee of industry experts and the best are invited to participate. In 2010, reviewed presentations will be invited in the following formats:

Full Conference Session – 60 minutes
The classic SemTech presentation format is a full-hour presentation or panel session, selected for inclusion after a comprehensive review by the conference committee. Multiple speakers may be proposed. The first (primary) speaker receives complimentary conference attendance. Additional speakers or panelists register at the special speaker rate of $495.

Half-Conference Session – 30 minutes
Similar to a full conference session only shorter. We often combine these half-sessions to fill a full-hour timeslot. The first (primary) speaker receives complimentary conference attendance. Additional speakers or panelists register at the special speaker rate of $495.

Full and Half-Day Tutorials - 6 hours and 3 hours
In-depth educational presentations, designed to provide the audience with detailed technical information, skills or methodologies. Tutorial speakers receive an honorarium (fee) for their participation, which is $600 for a half-day and $1200 for a full day. An additional 25% bonus is paid to tutorial speakers who provide their presentation slides by the materials deadline.

Presentation Opportunities for All Conference Registrants

We're introducing some new presentation formats so as to give more opportunities for attendees to notify the community about their work. Some of these are very short but will enable you to speak to a broad audience of potential customers, partners and investors. Others are designed to provide better professional networking opportunities to the entire Semtech community.

Elevator Pitch – 1 minute, no slides

Every year we get LOTS of requests to speak from people who are developing products to sell into the SemTech market. Typically they want some way to tell the world that they exist, and say something about their idea or project. Until now, we’ve not had a good outlet for all of those requests. The Elevator Pitch is that outlet - a one-minute talk that allows anyone with a semantic product (or product idea) to pitch themselves in front of the SemTech audience, including potential investors, VCs, customers, business partners and employees. The Elevator Pitch may have only one speaker and that person must be a registered attendee of the conference (either a paid attendee, reviewed speaker, or sponsor). ALL Elevator Pitches submitted by the January 18 submission deadline WILL BE ACCEPTED. You must submit your request using the official Call for Presentations form, however you do not have to submit an abstract or title at this time if you wish to keep your information confidential. Just indicate "TBA" when you complete the CFP forms.

Lightning Talk – 5 minutes/10 slides maximum

Lightning talks are 5-minute presentations. We combine numerous lightning talks on a common subject into 30 or 60 minute sessions within the formal conference agenda. Lightning talks can be about ideas, solutions, methods, products, research projects or implementation experience and they can be on any topic you like. The topics that are included in the conference agenda will ultimately be selected by the conference committee based on a combination of factors, including speaker proposals, audience input and perceived need. Lightning talks may have only one speaker and that speaker must be a registered attendee of the conference (either a paid attendee, reviewed speaker, or sponsor). Lightning talks are the most likely way to be selected to speak at the conference because of the short format. Lightning talks can be proposed nearer to the conference date however the earlier you submit your proposal, the greater your chances of selection.

Face-to-Face Conversations - 30 minutes

We all know that the best conference conversations happen in the corridors, but too often these encounters occur purely by chance. This year at SemTech we are doing everything possible to enable more of those great conversations to happen. You can now request a Face-to-Face conversation which means you’d like to meet other attendees who are interested in the same topics as you, and that you’re organizing a get-together – maybe a lunch group or a coffee break – and we’ll publish your meeting along with the rest of the agenda. Plus we’ll help you organize everyone before the conference. The Face-to-Face can have as many attendees as you want, but everyone must be a registered attendee of the conference (either a reviewed speaker, paid attendee or sponsor). ALL Face-to-Face meetings submitted by the January 18 submission deadline WILL BE ACCEPTED.

Questions and Inquiries

All questions and inquiries about speaking at the conference may be directed to Tony Shaw via tony@semanticuniverse.com.

All questions and inquiries about exhibiting and sponsorships may be directed to Steve Bastasini via steve@semanticuniverse.com.

General inquiries about the conference may be directed to: info@semanticuniverse.com.

Start the proposal process HERE.

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Topic Areas Include:

Presentation Formats

Reviewed and Invited Presentations

Presentation Opportunities for All Conference Registrants

Sponsored Presentations

Key Dates & Speaker Deadlines

Questions and Inquiries