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ICT 2008 Networking: build future partnerships
Semantic Technologies for the Enterprise: Adding Value to RTD
Networking session N.21: 25 November 2008, 14:00-15:30 – Passage Foyer Lumiere

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.

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'.

Speakers:

Richard Benjamins, TID
Welcome
Rubén Riestra, INMARK
Presentation: The Value-IT Support Action (5.633KB)

Tilman Becker and Massimo Romanelli, DFKI
Presentation: The Supply-side: From the Lab to the Market (176KB)

Mike Davis and Mark Radoff, OVUM
Is there a market for Semantic Technologies?
Presentation: Work Package 3 - OVUM's approach and interim analysis (728KB)

Jesús Contreras, ISOCO
Challenges in commercializing Semantics
Presentation: Semantic Technologies for Enterprise: Semantic Open Innovation (A Success Story) (690KB)






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