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.
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)
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
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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