<html><body><p><font face="Arial">16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017)</font><br><font face="Arial">Vienna, Austria, October 21-25, 2017</font><p><br><font face="Arial">*******************************************</font><br><font face="Arial">*** Discounted registration available until October 5, 2017</font><br><font face="Arial">*** Full program available online: </font><a href="https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/program"><font face="Arial">https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/program</font></a><br><font face="Arial">*******************************************</font><p><br><font face="Arial">Website: </font><a href="http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/"><font face="Arial">http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org</font></a><br><font face="Arial">Facebook: </font><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/113652365383847"><font face="Arial">https://www.facebook.com/groups/113652365383847</font></a><br><font face="Arial">Twitter: @iswc2017 (</font><a href="https://twitter.com/ISWC2017"><font face="Arial">https://twitter.com/ISWC2017</font></a><font face="Arial">)</font><br><br><font face="Arial">In this announcement:</font><br><font face="Arial">1. Program</font><br><font face="Arial">2. Keynote Speakers</font><br><font face="Arial">3. Job Fair</font><br><font face="Arial">4. Call for Business Ideas and Startup pitches</font><br><font face="Arial">5. ISWC Jam Session</font><br><font face="Arial">6. Registration</font><br><font face="Arial">7. Important dates</font><p><br><font face="Arial">1. Program</font><br><font face="Arial">==========================================</font><br><font face="Arial">The full program of ISWC2017 is now available online.</font><br><font face="Arial">Check all details of workshops, tutorials, main conference and social events.</font><br><font face="Arial">Don’t forget also this year the Job Fair and the Business Treff.</font><p><br><font face="Arial">Detailed info: </font><a href="https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/program/"><u><font color="#1155CC" face="Arial">https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/program/</font></u></a><br><br><font face="Arial">2. Keynote Speakers</font><br><font face="Arial">==========================================</font><br><font face="Arial">The three keynote Speakers of ISWC2017 are:</font><p><br><font face="Arial">- Deborah L. McGuinness, Senior Chair of Tetherless World Constellation, Professor of Computer, Cognitive, and Web Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute</font><br><font face="Arial">Deborah’s talk will give an historical perspective on ontologies and their usage, and discuss a model of building and maintaining large collaborative, interdisciplinary ontologies.</font><p><br><font face="Arial">- Nada Lavrač, Head of Department of Knowledge Technologies at Jožef Stefan Institute, Vice Dean at Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School and Professor of Computer Science at University of Nova Gorica.</font><br><font face="Arial">Nada will be talking about the recent advances in Semantic Data Mining.</font><p><br><font face="Arial">- Jamie Taylor, Manager of the Knowledge Graph Schema Team at Google.</font><br><font face="Arial">Jamie will be talking about knowledge graphs beyond catalogs and acting as semantic APIs for the real world.</font><p><br><font face="Arial">Detailed info: </font><a href="https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/program/keynotes/"><u><font color="#1155CC" face="Arial">https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/program/keynotes/</font></u></a><font face="Arial"> </font><p><br><font face="Arial">3. Job Fair</font><br><font face="Arial">==========================================</font><br><font color="#222222" face="Arial">ISWC 2017 will host the first edition of the Job Fair! </font><br><font color="#222222" face="Arial">We hope that this initiative will help organisations in both industry and academia to find great candidates and to present new career opportunities to conference attendees. </font><p><br><font color="#222222" face="Arial">When registering to the conference (</font><a href="https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/registration-page/"><u><font color="#1155CC" face="Arial">https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/registration-page/</font></u></a><font color="#222222" face="Arial">) you can tick the option to register your organisation for the job fair. This will provide your organisation with: </font><br><font color="#222222" face="Arial">- A table (with a sign showing your organisation name and three seats) close to the permanently open coffee corner (in the seated lunch/coffee area) for a 1.5 hour slot in parallel to one of the conference sessions</font><br><font color="#222222" face="Arial">- A special identification sticker on the badge of each member in charge of recruiting for your organisation. That will allow conference attendees to approach you and your colleagues at any time during the days of the conference to learn about the job opportunities offered by your organisation.</font><p><br><font color="#222222" face="Arial">This option is only additional 50 euros on the registration fee. Organisations that have purchased a regular sponsorship package (which includes other additional benefits!) are **exempt from this extra fee**.</font><p><br><font color="#222222" face="Arial">If you are a student, post-doc or simply someone looking for a career opportunity you can get a special identification sticker on your badge for free. This will allow recruiters to approach you at any time during the conference days and explain you the opportunities that they offer.</font><p><br><font face="Arial">Detailed info:</font><br><a href="https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/program/job-fair/"><u><font color="#1155CC" face="Arial">https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/program/job-fair/</font></u></a><font color="#222222" face="Arial"> </font><p><br><font face="Arial">4. Call for Business Ideas and Startup pitches</font><br><font face="Arial">==========================================</font><br><font face="Arial">If you attend ISWC 2017 and have an innovative “semantic” business idea, don’t miss out on the unique opportunity to pitch it at the </font><a href="https://wirtschaftsagentur.at/veranstaltungen/business-treff-semantics-in-the-field-524/"><u><font color="#1155CC" face="Arial">business event “Semantics in the Field”</font></u></a><font face="Arial">. This event will showcase innovative applications and solutions and bring together semantic web researchers and the business community - from local entrepreneurs to large multi-national enterprises. You will get insight into the work of successful companies in the field and be able to pitch your ideas to a diverse and highly competent target audience. The event will provide ample opportunity for networking. Make sure to submit your pitch deck until September 30 to </font><a href="mailto:linkedstartup@googlegroups.com"><u><font color="#1155CC" face="Arial">linkedstartup@googlegroups.com</font></u></a><font face="Arial"> (see the CfP for details)!</font><p><br><font face="Arial">Information on the event: </font><a href="https://wirtschaftsagentur.at/veranstaltungen/business-treff-semantics-in-the-field-524/"><u><font color="#1155CC" face="Arial">https://wirtschaftsagentur.at/veranstaltungen/business-treff-semantics-in-the-field-524/</font></u></a><br><font face="Arial">Call for pitches: </font><a href="https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/call-for-startup-pitches/"><u><font color="#1155CC" face="Arial">https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/call-for-startup-pitches/</font></u></a><p><br><br><font face="Arial">5. ISWC Jam Session</font><br><font face="Arial">==========================================</font><br><font face="Arial">The ISWC Jam Session officially returns!<br>The Semantic Web community is crowded with music lovers and several of our fine researchers are also excellent music players! After the great success of the Sydney-Jam-Session at ISWC2013 we launch the Vienna-Jam-Session at ISWC2017, sponsored by data.world! (</font><a href="https://data.world/"><font face="Arial">https://data.world</font></a><font face="Arial">).<br>This is a call for musicians in the Semantic Web community that want to share their musical skills and contribute to a very fun night after the ISWC 2017 poster and demo session. <br>We will try and cater for all music tastes: blues, funk, soul jazz, rock, latin… feel free to suggest anything interesting! </font><br><font face="Arial">If you want to get involved (sharing tunes, ideas, music sheets) request access to the shared drive </font><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B29uZ3ZR9sx4OGtqdlI2NHlJeTQ"><u><font color="#1155CC" face="Arial">https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B29uZ3ZR9sx4OGtqdlI2NHlJeTQ</font></u></a><br><font face="Arial">and join the facebook group </font><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/420886798297740"><u><font color="#1155CC" face="Arial">https://www.facebook.com/groups/420886798297740</font></u></a><font face="Arial">, where we can all contribute with links, videos, suggestions, etc.</font><p><br><font face="Arial">There will be time to rehearse before the jam. We have a studio reserved at</font><font color="#1D2129" face="Arial"> "Studio 5" (</font><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Frehearsal.at%2F&h=ATM4PGjDNfahXwkzJLYK6KSwKp4jIgh96LGKJmIcpb-MSwpvFxepS-fdnUd0bv0b4p81Hh2c-UNMzcvoWl48QcBULxv5pwCvxv-o3XAgzPa2UqL19ENVR5PBYXSTNVDR1IHzRH74shws373hkN3dgeMcxJQzI--wSAgINPGd&enc=AZOGmcLr6_6eVkSAVz2-mlnJPgn-TKMF08tJLlucrGuDIY0Y987KF3qY0r6KJ6NnKGhsuNkrPUhl6NdAd0UGRuPYNKxWmA-a0F9xziJLgKf1p1N40wgwpgPXwCodZMjb6_aoLP56jpEQHJTO4O-PKy23dr9olsdlax6g-eMP0-pw4tvUeB8sxbhvsPGQ3lzwsNk&s=1"><u><font color="#365899" face="Arial">http://rehearsal.at</font></u></a><font color="#1D2129" face="Arial">) on 21st October between 19:00-22:00, with standard equipment. At the jam venue there will equally be mics, guitar- and bass-amps,, a drumset, and a keyboard.</font><p><br><font face="Arial">Jam Session Chairs</font><br><font face="Arial">* Aldo Gangemi, Université Paris 13, Paris, France and ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy</font><br><font face="Arial">* Anna Lisa Gentile, IBM Research Almaden, US</font><br><br><font face="Arial">6. Registration</font><br><font face="Arial">==========================================</font><br><font face="Arial">Discounted registration has been extended to ** October 5th 2017**</font><p><br><font face="Arial">You can find all details and register at: </font><a href="https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/attending/registration/"><u><font color="#1155CC" face="Arial">https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/attending/registration/</font></u></a><br><br><font face="Arial">7. Important Dates</font><br><font face="Arial">==========================================</font><br><font face="Arial">Discounted Registration until October 8, 2017</font><br><font face="Arial">Workshops & Tutorials October 21 & 22, 2017</font><br><font face="Arial">Conference October 23, 24 & 25, 2017</font><br><br><font face="Arial">We thank our platinum sponsor IBM Research and Elsevier and our gold sponsors Big Data Europe, data.world, metaphacts, Ontotext, Oracle, Semantic Web Company, Siemens,Thomson Reuters, Videolectures, Ontoforce and Fujitsu for their support. To learn more about ISWC 2017 sponsorship opportunities, please visit </font><a href="https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/sponsorship/"><font face="Arial">https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/sponsorship/</font></a><p><br><font face="Arial">The ISWC Organising Committee (</font><a href="http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/organization/"><font face="Arial">http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/organization/</font></a><font face="Arial">)</font><br><BR>
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