Advertising, Marketing, & Publishing Luminaries to Highlight Newest Industry Innovations and Rich Customer Experiences Using Semantics-Driven Internet Applications at SemTech 2009 Conference

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Culver City, CA (PRWEB) June 1, 2009

SemTech 2009, the industry's largest conference on semantic technologies, today announced its Semantic Advertising, Marketing, and Publishing-oriented sessions--the industry's first in-depth dialogue on this emerging sector--as part of its more than 220 hours of business and technically-oriented presentations. The conference will take place June 14-18 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California.

SemTech has grown over the past five years to represent the most comprehensive spectrum of semantic technologies, attracting hundreds of executives, technologists, researchers, entrepreneurs, academics, and evangelists from across the globe. By bringing the community together to discuss current practices, address the industry's most important issues, debut new products, and debate strategies that impact the coming years, business leaders and technology influencers can gain valuable feedback from users and developers alike. SemTech's publishing and advertising-oriented sessions are led by world-renowned luminaries that include:

• Publishers' Panel | Presenters: Greg Stuart (moderator); Evan Sandhaus, The New York Times; Keith DeWeese, Tribune Company-Tribune Interactive; Jim Stanley, CBS Interactive; Paul Berry, HuffingtonPost.com; and Michael S. Dunn, Hearst Interactive Media
• Semantic Advertising Roundtable | Presenters: Brooke Aker, Expert System; Scott Brinker, ion interactive; Amit Kumar, Dapper; Greg Stuart, gregstuart.com; and Amiad Solomon, Peer39
• The Big Picture: How Semantic Technologies Introduce a New Paradigm for Interaction | Presenter: Tom Tague, Calais Thomson Reuters
• Semantics at The New York Times | Presenters: Rob Larson and Evan Sandhaus, The New York Times
• FRM: Fair Rights Management | Presenter: Slawomir Grzonkowski, DERI Galway
• Marketing in the Semantic Web | Presenter: Scott Brinker, ion interactive
• Web3-4-Web2 | Presenters: Uche Ogbuji, Zepheira; Alex Iskold, AdaptiveBlue; Andraz Tori, Zemanta; and Nathan R. Yergler, Creative Commons
• Tutorial: Semantic Publishing | Presenter: Kurt Alan Cagle, O'Reilly Media
• Mobile Semantics | Presenters: Mills Davis, Project 10X (moderator); Luca Scagliarini, Expert System; Terry Hughes, Widality; and Tony Lee, Saltlux
• Market-Blended Insight: Determining Propensity to Buy with the Semantic Web | Presenters: Nigel Shadbolt and Nicholas Gibbins, University of Southampton
• Contextual Awareness | Presenters: Alex Iskold, AdaptiveBlue, and Jeremy Bentley, Smartlogic
• Semantics at Google | Presenter: Othar Hansson, Google
• Executive Round Table: Semantic Search | Presenters: Carla Thompson, Guidewire Group (moderator); Tomasz Imielinski, Ask.com; Riza Berkan, hakia; Andrew Tomkins, Yahoo! Search; Peter Norvig, Google; Scott Prevost, Microsoft Live Search; Alex Iskold, AdaptiveBlue; and William Tunstall-Pedoe, True Knowledge
• Discovering the Semantics in Online Catalogs | Presenter: David Winchell, XSB, Inc.
• Panel: Semantic Approaches to Recommendation and Matching | Presenters: Paul Miller, The Cloud of Data; Marcus Trevisani, Bintro.com; Jonas Lamis, hakia; Andrew Tomkins, SciVestor; and Jörg Wurzer, iQser AG
• Panel: A Shift in SEO Strategy | Presenters: Jason Kreidman, Kreidman.com; Mark Birbeck, Backplane Ltd.; and Tim Musgrove, TextDigger

The Full Program At-A-Glance can be viewed HERE.

SemTech sponsors and exhibitors include: Platinum--Metatomix, Oracle, and STI International; Gold-- Calais/Thomson Reuters, Collibra, Franz, Ontotext, TopQuadrant, and Zepheira; Silver--AdaptiveBlue, BBN Technologies, Cambridge Semantics, Microsoft Live Search, Ontos, Saltlux, SemanticV, TextWise, and Yahoo!Search; Exhibiting Sponsors--Cycorp, Expert System, iQuest Analytics, KBSI, Syntactica, and TextDigger; and Supporting Sponsors--Guidewire Group, Peer39, Project10X, and W3C.

Select sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities are still available; please contact Steve Bastasini on +1 415 740 5528 or steve(at)semanticuniverse.com for more information.

Media Partners include KMWorld, Mashable, ReadWriteWeb, and SEMJ.org. Registration for SemTech is free of charge to credentialed members of the press and analyst community; for more information, or to become a Media Partner, contact Sally Khudairi on +1 617 921 8656 or sk(at)haloworldwide.com.

For the full conference program and to register, please visit the SemTech Website.

ABOUT SEMTECH
Now in its fifth year, SemTech is the world's largest conference on semantic technologies. SemTech is the only event focused on the commercialization of semantic technologies, bringing the most recognized names, knowledge, leadership, and innovation in the semantic community together at one location. SemTech is owned and operated by Semantic Universe--the semantic industry's trusted information resource. Semantic Universe is a joint venture between Wilshire Conferences and Semantic Arts, whose portfolio of services and events are the industry standard for education and professional development. They include Enterprise Data World; the international Data Governance series; Designing and Building Business Ontologies; Enterprise Information Management Conference; and Information and Data Quality Conference; as well as the Data Strategy Best Practices Council and Data Strategy Journal. For more information, visit SemanticUniverse.com.

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