Dear colleagues and fellow enthusiast of the semantic web,
we are pleased to announce that the SEMANTiCS conference on Sep 4-5, 2014 in Leipzig, will become a major industry conference on semantic web and linked data applications in Europe.
With partners such as PoolParty, STI2, Eccenca, IntraFind, LOD2 Project, MarkLogic, Ontos and Wolters Kluwer as well as more than 50% of our currently registered attendees being from the industry sector, SEMANTiCS has lifted the primarily academic topic of semantic web to the next level of business application. From our keynote speakers Sofia Angeletou (BBC), Thomas Kelly (Cognizant), Phil Archer (W3C) and Orri Erling (OpenLink) to 40+ speakers on 5 parallel tracks and special events like the vocabulary carnival, H2020 networking event and conference dinner, SEMANTiCS offers a wide variety of industry insights and networking chances. You can see our programm here: http://www.semantics.cc/programme/
Hence, this year's SEMANTiCS conference is your chance to get in touch with potential business clients and industry partners to push your own projects and developments in the semantic web sector.
You can still submit to the Vocabulary Carnival: http://www.semantics.cc/vocarnival/ as well as the H2020 networking session. Furthermore, we will collect and print your H2020 organisation profile description in the program guide, so you can be approached at the conference for potential projects.
Being a fellow enthusiast in this future-defining field, we'd like to offer you a special discount of 20% on your ticket to the conference. Simply go to www.semantics.cc/registration/discount and claim your discount with the following promo code: “semantic-web-fellow” This offer is valid until 15th of August.
For further information on the programme and our keynote speaker, please visit www.semantics.cc Feel free to forward this email to any interested fellow.
See you in Leipzig,
Sebastian Hellmann on behalf of the all conference committee members
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