The 4th Annual Gilbane Conference Boston Draws Record Attendance and Exhibitor Numbers
On the 4th December 2007, Business Wire http://www.businesswire.com, the global market leader in corporate news circulation, published a press release that the Gilbane Conference Boston http://gilbaneboston.com gained an increase of 18% in attendees and attracted more than 70 exhibitors. The companies from which representatives attended included Caterpillar, General Motors, Morgan Stanley and Hilton Hotels. The conference, which was held 27 – 29 November, provided analyses by experts of the latest technologies for content management from a commercial perspective.
The conference program included three sessions about semantic web technologies, along with a number of other topics such as web content management, publishing technology, collaboration, enterprise wikis and blogs, “Enterprise 2.0” technologies and social computing, enterprise digital rights management, and content localization and globalization. The significant numbers of speakers and and attendees from the corporate domain demonstrates the shift semantic technologies are making from academia into commerce, and the rising interest of global companies in these techniques.
The first session on semantic web technologies presented the operational functions and features of two of IBM’s software products, OmniFind and Schemalogic, which claim to return more semantically relevant results to the user. The speakers included Mike Moran from the IBM software group, and Gary Carlson from Schemalogic. In the second session, K.T. Noerr, the CEO of MuseGlobal, and Colin Britton, the CTO of Metatomix, discussed content retrieval options for organizations, in the context of semantic technologies. They proposed guidelines for managing external content, fact extraction and search technologies. The final session related to semantic technologies was presented by representatives of 3 technology companies, Connotate Technologies, Cambridge Semantics, and PA Consulting Group. They exhibited a number of semantic search technologies which are already in commercial distribution, despite being challenged by the major players such as Google and IBM.
The Gilbane Group is a group of IT industry analysts and consultants who also organize educational conferences and publish the IT newsletter the Gilbane Report. The next upcoming conference will be held in San Francisco on June 18 – 20, 2008.
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