5th Annual SemTech Conference Showcases How Semantic Technologies Drive Rich Information Solutions Across the Financial Sector

SemTech 2009, the fifth annual Semantic Technology Conference and leading forum on real-world applications of semantic technologies, today announced its sessions on financial services. Addressing some of the hottest issues in the industry such as data integration, governance/compliance, risk management, software innovation, and the latest trends in venture-backed startups and services, the full conference program is available at www.SemTech2009.com. "The Financial industries are always early adopters of promising new technologies and semantics are no exception," said Tony Shaw, SemTech Conference Chair and Editor of SemanticUniverse.com. "Within the financial sector, semantic technologies are being used in a wide range of contexts, from rapid news analysis to risk assessment, and from fraud detection to large-scale data integration."

Taking place June 14-18, 2009 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California, the five-day event is the most extensive ever assembled, drawing hundreds of executives, technologists, researchers, entrepreneurs, academics, and evangelists from across the globe. Heading its financially-oriented sessions is a world-class roster that includes: George Roth and Drew Warren, Recognos Financial, on "Introducing and Applying Semantic Technologies to the Financial Services Industry" Diane Mueller, XBRL International, and Dave Ragget, W3C, on "XBRL, RDF and the Semantic Web" Mark Greaves, Vulcan Inc., on "The Evolving Semantic Web: From Military Technology to Venture Capital" Tony Sarris, Unisys Corporation - Systems & Technology, and Peter Sweeney, Primal Fusion, on "Ideas for Future Semantic Applications" Steve Hamby, Orbis Technologies, on "Semantic Technology Industry Analysis - Review of Semantic Integration Market Segment" Elisa Kendall, Sandpiper Software, and Deborah McGuinness, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, on "Ontology 101: An Introduction to Knowledge Representation, the Web Ontology Language, and Ontology Development" Kendall Grant Clark, Clark & Parsia LLC, and Xavier Lopez, Oracle Corp, on "Managing OWL: Using Oracle and Pellet for as Massively Scalable, Highly Expressive OWL Infrastructure" Stephen Holcomb and William Nadal of Full Capture Solutions on "Adoption of Semantic Technologies in the Insurance Industry" The conference features more than 220 hours of technical and business-focued presentations on topics that include: Business/Marketplace; Collaboration and Social Networks; Data Integration and Mashups; Application Development; Foundational Topics; Government/Military; Pharma/Healthcare/Life Sciences; Knowledge Engineering and Enterprise Information Management; Linked Data; Publishing; Advertising/Marketing; Semantic Web and Web 3.0; Semantic Rules; Query/Search; Service Oriented Architectures; Ontologies; Taxonomies; and Unstructured Information.

Event sponsors and exhibitors include: Platinum -- Metatomix, Oracle, and STI International; Gold -- Calais by Thomson Reuters, Collibra, Franz, Ontotext, TopQuadrant, and Zepheira; Silver -- AdaptiveBlue, BBN Technologies, Microsoft Live Search, Ontos, Saltlux, SemanticV, TextWise, and Yahoo!Search; Exhibiting Sponsors -- Cycorp, Expert System, iQuest, Syntactica, KBSI, and TextDigger. Additional sponsorship opportunities are available; please contact Steve Bastasini on +1 415 740 5528 or steve[at]semanticuniverse.com for more information.

Media Partners include KMWorld, Mashable, and ReadWriteWeb; to become a media partner or for press and analyst registration, contact Sally Khudairi on +1 617 921 8656 or sk[at]haloworldwide.com.

About SemTech Now in its fifth year, SemTech is the world's largest conference on semantic technologies. SemTech is the only event focused on the commercialization of semantic technologies, bringing the most recognized names, knowledge, leadership, and innovation in the semantic community together at one location. SemTech is owned and operated by Semantic Universe--the semantic industry's trusted information resource. Semantic Universe is a joint venture between Wilshire Conferences and Semantic Arts, whose portfolio of services and events are the industry standard for education and professional development. They include Enterprise Data World; the international Data Governance series; Designing and Building Business Ontologies; Enterprise Information Management Conference; and Information and Data Quality Conference; as well as the Data Strategy Best Practices Council and Data Strategy Journal. For more information, visit SemanticUniverse.com (http://www.semanticuniverse.com/).

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