World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee declared the Semantic Web ‘open for business’ in 2008, celebrating the ratification of the SPARQL query specification by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C); the organisation of which he is Director. “I think we’ve got all the pieces to be able to go ahead and do pretty much everything,” he stated in an interview. “You should be able to implement a huge amount of the dream, we should be able to get huge benefits from interoperability using what we’ve got. So, people are realising it’s time to just go do it.”

Read more

Semantic Tech & Business Conference Returns to San Francisco

Semantic Tech & Business Conference returns to San Francisco in June! Join us from June 3-7 for complete coverage of Big Data, Linked Data, Extreme Information Management, and Semantic Web. From breakthrough approaches to solving business problems to the big data implications of fast–evolving technologies, SemTechBiz provides you with an unparalleled interactive experience and delivers tangible business value. We're offering a special early rate when you register by February 17. Sign up now!

This panel features prominent VCs, some of whom have made substantial recent investments in semantic technology companies. They will offer a variety of perspectives spanning both the opportunities and pitfalls they see in the emerging marketspace.

This session is particularly appropriate for CTOs developing new products and services based on semantic technologies, as well as entrepreneurs trying to understand where the money folks see the best business opportunities.

Attachment: Semantic Venture Panel: Investor Opportunities and Pitfalls (25.14 MB)

Presenters:

Stephen Hall
Vulcan Capital

Managing Director

Amanda Reed
Palomar Ventures

Partner

Eghosa Omoigui
Intel Capital
Investment Director