Selection of Upcoming Conferences!

Once again, I will list here 3 conferences that I think are a no-miss for anyone wanting to stay ahead of the game. I included here the links to the programs so that you can have a quick idea about the content of the talks and make your decision for what is most relevant to you this year:

• The 2008 Semantic Technology Conference: May 18-20, San Jose California. Have a look at the program here. One sentence about this, so that you get an idea about the content. People like Deborah L. Mc Guinness and Elisa F. Kendall are holding the Ontology 101: An Introduction to Knowledge Representation, Ontology Development, and the Web Ontology Language (OWL). One cool feature of the website, you can use a scheduler to make your own program and include it into your calendar. On the website you can also like me download the "Semantic Wave 2008 Report: Industry Roadmap to Web 3.0 & Multibillion Dollar Market Opportunities", a 30 pages report on an industrial strategy to make semantics a real life business.
  

• The International Business Rules Forum, October 26-30, 2008, BUENA VISTA Palace, Orlando, Florida. Note the interesting pre-conference tutorial program, which you can consult here. Examples are: "Developing a Business Process Architecture and Program of Change", by Roger Burlton (Founder Process Renewal Consulting Group Inc.), and "SOA and Business Rules - Building a Powerful, Flexible Application Platform", by Michael Krouze (Chief Technology Officer and Director of Management Consulting Services, Charter Solutions). Finally, you may not miss this, " Business Rules from A-Z: What You Need to Know", by none other than Ronald G. Ross (Principal & Executive Editor, Business Rule Solutions, LLC, and www.BRCommunity.com)

• Last but not least is the international wirtschaftsinformatik conference, this year under the motto: "Business Services: Concepts, technologies, Applications". This year's edition will take place in Vienna, from the 25-27 february 2009. So you've got quite some time to register. The linked page os in German.

So, hope this information will be useful to you.

Marwane El Kharbili.