SemData@Sofia Roundtable

Day 1: 09:30-17:15

09:30 Welcome, announcements, introduction of the participants (Atanas Kiryakov)

10:00 Introduction to the SemData initiative (Reto Krummenacher, presentation)

10:30 Break

10:45 Session 1 - Topics

• Semantic Spaces (Dieter Fensel, presentation)
• Semantic Repositories (Atanas Kiryakov, presentation)
• RDBM Versus Graph-based Approaches (Orri Erling, presentation)

12:15 Lunch

13:30 Session 2 - Vendors

• Kavitha Srinivas (IBM, SHER, presentation)
• Bryan Thompson (SYSTAP, Bigdata, presentation)
• Damyan Ognyanov, Ivan Peikov (Ontotext, OWLIM, presentation)
• Orri Erling (Openlink Software, Virtuoso, presentation)

15:30 Break

16:00 Session 3 - Developers

• Eleftherios Sidirourgos (CWI, MonetDB)
• Spyros Kotoulas (VU Amsterdam, LarKC, presentation)
• Fabrice Huet and Reto Krummenacher (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, STI Innsbruck, SOA4All, presentation)
• Andreas Harth (KIT, SWSE/YARS, presentation)

17:30 Reception, Bulgarian wine tasting

20:00 Dinner, Bulgarian folklore show

Day 2: 09:45-16:00

09:45-11:15 Session 4 - First-Tier Users, Engine Extensions

• Michael Witbrock, (Cycorp, LarKC, presentation)
• Elena Simperl, Thanh Tran (KIT, PlanetData, presentation)
• Carlos Pedrinaci and John Domingue (Open University, SOA4All, presentation)

11:15 Break

11:30 Session 5 - Verticals (TBC)

• Massimo Paolucci (Docomolab, Mobile Operators, presentation)
• Vassil Momtchev (Ontotext, Life Sciences, presentation)
• Peter Haase (fluid Operations, Enterprise Data Management, presentation)

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Session 6 - Summary and next steps

16:00 Sofia sightseeing tour: Orthodox churches, Stalinist architecture, art galleries