Conference Program

LinkedData Planet's conference will provide industry professionals with insights into the technologies that will enable them to:

• connect data contained in silos within organizations in a meaningful way
• extract and correlate data from web sites and databases for purposes such as analyzing trends and decision support, customer and vendor relationship management, and social networking.

The evolution of the current Web of "linked documents" to a Web of "linked data" is steadily gaining mindshare among developers, architects, systems integrations, users, and the more than 200 software companies developing semantic web-oriented solutions. Organizations such as Adobe, Google, OpenLink Software, Oracle, the W3C, and the grassroots Linking Open Data community have actively provided technology and thought leadership during the embryonic stages of this evolutionary transition.

Notable examples on the Web today include, DBpedia, the Zoominfo search engine, the Bambora travel recommendation site, a number of social networking sites, numerous semantic web technology-based services, various linked data browsers, SPARQL query language and protocol-compliant data servers and data management systems, and a growing number of web sites exposing machine-readable data using microformats, RDFa, and GRDDL.

The LinkedData Planet audience will include system architects, enterprise architects, web site designers, software developers, consultants and technical managers, all looking to learn more about linking the growing collection of available data sources and technologies to get more value from their data for their organizations.

Conference Co-chairs

Bob DuCharme Solutions Architect/Author Innodata Isogen
Ken North Author, Consultant Ken North Computing, LLC