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Government Focus Area
Overview

This year, the Semantic Technology Conference introduces its Government Focus Area – designed to address the unique concerns of semantics in federal, state and local governments.

Scheduled sessions include:
Tuesday

Semantics for Net-Centric Operations
Mills Davis, Project10X

Todd Schneider, Raytheon

Geospatial Semantics: Vision and Activities
Nancy Wiegand, Senior Scientist, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Mastering the Semantics of Intelligence Exploitation
Marguerite Ellen Ardito, Chief Information Architect, Information Exchange
David C. Roberts, APPS CTO and Chief Data Architect, CIA

Privacy-Preserving Inference: How to Answer Queries Using Private Knowledge without Compromising Private Knowledge
Vasant G Honavar, Professor, Iowa State University

NeOn -- Lifecycle Support for Networked Ontologies
Peter Haase, Researcher, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe
Marta Iglesias, Information and Knowledge Management Officer, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)

Wednesday

Case Study Year 3: USAF 45th Space Wing Knowledge Management Initiative
Kent D. Bimson, President, Bimson Consulting

Getting to Web Semantics for Spreadsheets in the U.S. Government
Lee Feigenbaum, VP Technology and Standards, Cambridge Semantics Inc

Government *Sidebar*: A special, focused discussion tailored to attendees that are
Federal, State or Local Government employees and government contractors.

Steve Hamby, Chief Semantic Architect, Orbis Technologies, Inc.

Consequence Planning and Management using Semantics
Richard D. Hull, Modus Operandi, Inc.

A Semi-Autonomous Knowledge Extraction Capability
Perakath C. Benjamin, KBSI
John Hamilton, KBSI

Unraveling the National Information Exchange Model with Semantic Technology
Arthur R. Culbertson, Raytheon

Semantic Data Integration for Situational Information in the Military Domain
Rolf E. Rasmussen, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI)
Tommy Gagnes, Integrate

A Citizen Centric Government Enabled by Semantic Technologies
Jan Verbeek, CTO, Be Informed
Geert Rensen, Director of Marketing & Sales, Be Informed

Thursday

Semantics for Integration, Interoperability, and Unification of Enterprise Operations
Roy Roebuck, Senior Director, Enterprise Management Methods, BRMi Consulting, Inc.

Semantic Interoperability across the NATO Network Enabled Enterprise
J. Troy Turner, Principal Engineer/Section Head C4 Interoperability Standardization, NATO - Allied Command Transformation


There are numerous additional sessions covering foundational and advanced topics that are applicable to government.
For details, see the full agenda.

 


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