SEMANTiCS 2019

Knowledge sharing and networking at the cross-section of research and business

SEMANTiCS conference is the leading European conference on Semantic Technologies and AI. Researchers, industry experts and business leaders can develop a thorough understanding of trends and application scenarios in the fields of Machine Learning, Data Science, Linked Data and Natural Language Processing. The 15th edition will be hosted this year in Karlsruhe (Germany).

About the conference

Semantics 2018 set the stage for the legal profession, what a great move! You could feel the pioneering spirit in all the presentations and discussions. Semantics and law are natural twins, so certainly more to come.

Stefan Stockinger

Corporate Legal, Contracts & Projects - OMV

The SEMANTiCS conference offers a good mix of academic and industry participants, making it a great place for exchanging ideas and views on different topics. Its Job Fair offers industries the possibility to contact people with very interesting profiles.

Josiane Parreira

Senior Research Scientist, Siemens AG Austria

The SEMANTiCS Conference is a really great place to come and look for inspiration, implementation, partners, for ideas and for business models.

EMILIE BOILLAT

Information Architect and Business Developer at Liip Zürich, Founder twygg

The level of conversation, the level of expectation of the participants and the level of sophistication of what they’re presenting is really astounding.

Jeanne Holm

former Chief Knowledge Architect and Digital Strategy Manager at NASA

Keynote speakers

Michael J. Sullivan

Principal Cloud Solutions Architect

Hybrid Knowledge Management Architectures

Andy Boyd

Knowledge Management Principle Expert

High-grading Business Decisions through Semantic Technology

Katja Hose

Querying the Web of Data

Brendan Nielsen

Knowledge Management Advisor

High-grading Business Decisions through Semantic Technology

Valentina Presutti

Coordinator at Semantic Technology Laboratory

Looking for Common Sense in the Semantic Web

Andreas Harth

Professor of Information Systems

From Representing Knowledge to Representing Behaviour

Michel Dumontier

Distinguished Professor of Data Science

Accelerating biomedical discovery with an Internet of FAIR data and services

News

This was SEMANTICS 2019

We chose Karlsruhe for the 15th edition of the SEMANTiCS conference series. A place we know as Germany's hotspot for technology. An indeed it was a great event having an on-the-edge topic on our agenda: Knowledge Graphs and AI.

SEMANTiCS Innovation Award goes to Karin Mock - OMV

The annual SEMANTiCS Innovation Award rewards outstanding activities in bringing Semantic Technologies into Industry Environments. The conference participants voted together with a jury that awarded this year’s prize to Karin Mock, Information Governance Manager at OMV.

Voices: A review of SEMANTiCS 2019 by Heather Hedden

This article was originally posted on Heather Heddens's blog "The Accidental Taxonomist"., and shares some impressions of SEMANTiCS 2019 at Karlsruhe.

DBpedia’s Databus: An strategic initiative to facilitate 1 Billion derived Knowledge Graphs

Sebastian Hellmann is member of the Board of Trustees of the DBpedia Association. In this article he gives insights into the DBpedia Databus platform.