The highly-anticipated program for the Semantic Technology and Business Conference (#SemTechBiz), June 2-5, 2013 in San Francisco has been announced. The conference returns to the Hilton Union Square for four comprehensive days of fresh insight and immersive learning from global experts. #SemTechBiz brings together today’s industry thought leaders and practitioners to explore the challenges and opportunities  impacting both corporate business leaders and technologists.

When asked about the program, Conference Co-Chair Eric Franzon said, “When we launched this conference in 2005, the discussion focused around a question: ‘We have this marvelous set of technologies. How can we use them practically?’ Today, we are in a very different place. With impressive case studies demonstrating cost savings, new revenues, and practical implementations, Semantic Technologies have become an important thing for technologists, executives, marketing experts, data professionals, investors, and other stakeholders to pay very close attention to.”

“In June, we will learn from the experience of those who have leveraged Semantic Technologies to make money, save money, gain more value from existing business assets, shorten development times, and solve very real problems. We will hear about how Semantic Technologies are being used to glean insight from ‘Big Data.’ ”

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Cambridge Semantics continues to add new lessons at Semantic University. Some of the latest tutorials include:

What is Linked Data? – “This lesson is a short video lecture from Manu Sporny. He forgoes PowerPoint for whimsical, hand-drawn pieces of paper and hand gestures to introduce the subject of Linked Data for non-technical people. This lessons is more approachable than the longer, more in-depth Introduction to Linked Data, which you should visit after watching the video.” Read more

Cambridge Semantics has added a number of new lessons to their Semantic University. Some of the latest topics include the following:

SPARQL 101: “SPARQL (pronounced “sparkle”) is the query language for the Semantic Web. Along with RDF and OWL, it is one of the three core technologies of the Semantic Web. This lesson introduces the SPARQL query language, starting with simple queries. Future lessons will build on this material with more advanced SPARQL concepts.” Read more

As part of their Semantic University, Cambridge Semantics has published a number of helpful “lessons” covering concepts related to the Semantic Web. Since we last checked in with this excellent tutorial series, they have added several lessons:

Semantic Web vs. Semantic Technologies – “That Semantic Web technologies and semantic technologiesboth start with semantic is often a source of confusion. This short lesson clarifies the relationship between Semantic Web technologies and semantic technologies.” Read more

This year’s Semantic Technology & Business Conference in San Francisco (#SemTechBiz) will feature some of the best and brightest minds in the world of semantic web technology. The conference — which will run June 3-7 at the Hilton San Francisco in Union Square — will start off strong with a welcome session presented by Tony Shaw, SemTechBiz co-chair and CEO of Dataversity, and Dave McComb, President of Semantic Arts, Inc.

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Since 2005, the Semantic Technology Conference has been going strong and growing. As we have reported here, the 2011 series is expanding into new markets, with conferences scheduled in London and Washington DC later this year.  This is an exciting development, but has also raised questions from the community about the similarities and differences between the three events.  Following are brief descriptions from the SemTech Conference series Co-Chair, Tony Shaw. For information about registration and sponsorship opportunities for each event, see the links after each listing below. Discounts are available for multi-event sponsorships.

SemTech SF is “Everything Semantic.”  It’s by far the largest of the 3 events, in terms of both attendance (approx 1200) and the size of the conference (9 tracks).  SemTech SF has business and technical content, and covers all the major topics from enterprise IT to web-scale infrastructure, and application areas including search, data integration, sentiment analysis, information infrastructure, content management, knowledge management, text analysis, etc.  We also have a research component to the San Francisco program.

WHEN: June 5-9, 2011

WHERE: San Francisco, California – Hilton Union Square

ACTIONS: Register, Sponsor

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Semantic Universe and Cerebra today announced the launch of the "Semantic Universe Network", a vibrant educational and networking hub for the global semantic technology marketplace. Semantic Universe Network will be the educational and information resource for the people and companies within the high-growth semantics sector, covering the latest news, opinions, events, announcements, products, solutions, promotions and research in the industry.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) January 27, 2009 — Semantic Universe and Cerebra today announced the launch of the "Semantic Universe Network", a vibrant educational and networking hub for the global semantic technology marketplace. Semantic Universe Network will be the educational and information resource for the people and companies within the high-growth semantics sector, covering the latest news, opinions, events, announcements, products, solutions, promotions and research in the industry.

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According to Tony Shaw, Editor of Semantic Universe Network, "The semantic community needs a vehicle to communicate the comprehensive business applications and benefits of semantic technology, as well as a better way to connect developers, customers, entrepreneurs and investors. Semantic Universe Network will be that vehicle."

Says Brian Crook, President of Cerebra, "Today’s launch is an important milestone towards the semanticuniverse.com vision. We now have the technical framework to facilitate the growth and interaction of the community and an online sandbox for all of us to showcase, discuss and advance the enabling benefits of semantic technology."

The semantic community needs a vehicle to communicate the comprehensive business applications and benefits of semantic technology, as well as a better way to connect developers, customers, entrepreneurs and investors. Semantic Universe Network will be that vehicle.

Today’s launch is an important milestone towards the semanticuniverse.com vision. We now have the technical framework to facilitate the growth and interaction of the community and an online sandbox for all of us to showcase, discuss and advance the enabling benefits of semantic technology.

Launch editorial includes extensive new and archived material. Dozens of editorial contributors and industry bloggers are committed to participate in the Semantic Universe Network and over 30 original articles (by 30+ authors) have been published today. Among the contributors are prominent industry analysts and commentators.
Technical articles, case studies and research have been contributed by organizations including: Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, Metatomix, Zemanta, Expert System, Ontos, Collibra, NetBase, IQser, General Electric, and two dozen more. Archived content draws upon a rich media library generated from the Semantic Technology Conferences and the Semantic Report including blogs, webcasts, slide decks, video recordings, executive interviews, audio recordings, profiles, photos, press releases, product information and vendor announcements.

Charter sponsorships are now being offered to product and tool developers within the semantic sector, as well as industry participants such as venture capitalists, consulting firms, educational institutions and other services organizations.

For information about advertising and site sponsorships contact Steve Bastasini +1-415-740-5528 (steve (at) semanticuniverse (dot) com). For information about editorial participation contact Tony Shaw +1-310-337-2616 x102 (tony (at) semanticuniverse (dot) com).

About Semantic Universe:
Semantic Universe is the creator of the Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech), the world’s foremost symposium on the business of semantic technology now in its fifth year. Semantic Universe is also the creator of the Semantic Report and the Semantic Universe Webcast Series. Semantic Universe is a joint venture of Wilshire Conferences and Semantic Arts.

About Cerebra, Inc. – Cerebra is the developer of the Cerebra Server, a content matching and discovery platform combining the respective strengths of natural language processing and semantic reasoning techniques. Cerebra products augment publisher sites with relevant content and advertising delivered as small widget applications to embed maps, reviews, videos, images, products and domain content contextually into publisher web pages.