Semantic Technologies for the Enterprise

Overall objective and topics to be addressed:

Finding the best possible paths at the best moment in time for the commercial exploitation of RTD outputs has become an unavoidable task for Europe. As a contribution to this challenge, this session will foster dynamic links for marketing innovative ICT solutions to the corporate business world.

Market research results based on the actual conditions for take up of Semantic Technologies for the Enterprise (STE) in key economic sectors will be shared with the participants, together with visions from actual experiences in transforming RTD outputs into products, services and revenues. Discussions based on these results will be directed towards maximising the discovery and description of market-gaps and the alternative ways to bridge such gaps in profitable ways.

The session gathered players who are either involved in STE development and marketing efforts, implementing semantics in their productive processes and/or involved in applied research and willing to create wealth and employment.

* Semantic Technologies for the Enterprise: Adding Value to RTD + Comments on the ICT 2008 website - http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/cf/item-display.cfm?id=697

* Technologies for Information Management at ICT 2008 on the ICTWeb - http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/content-knowledge/events-20081125-27-ict-lyon_en.html

Agenda and Speaker lineup:

The Networking session was coordinated by Rubén Riestra, INMARK, and opened by Richard Benjamins, TID. Find below the list of speakers and their presentations. The talks where followed by an open discussion on 'Ideas for Market driven RTD proposals'.