= Semantic Days 2011 =
Semantic Days 2011 will be held June 7-9 at the Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel, Holbergsgt. 30, Oslo. [[BR]] [[BR]] [https://www.posccaesar.org/svn/pub/SemanticDays/2011/NewFlyer2011.pdf Semantic Days 2011 flyer] [[BR]] [[BR]] Link to registration [http://bit.ly/fkJFV5 HERE] 

== Programme ==
'''Conference theme: Open data and Semantic technologies'''

=== Tuesday June 7th ===
|| '''13:00-18:00''' || '''Tutorials: Three parallel sessions''' ||
||||Industry - Practical use of ISO 15926, PCA||
||||Research - Semantic Web Programming, UiO||
|||| Public - Interoperability and open data in public sector, Brønnøysund Regsitry Centre (BRC) & Agency For Public Management and eGovernment (DIFI)||
||18:30-20:00 || Welcome to the Conference, Thore Langeland, Chair Semantic Days||

=== Wednesday June 8th ===
|| ''' 09:00-12:00''' || '''Opening ''' ||

||09:00-09:10 || Welcome, David Norheim, Chair Program Committee||
||09:10-09:40 || '''Keynote''', Rigmor Aasrud, Minister of Government Administration, Reform and Church Affairs||
||09:40-10:10 || '''Keynote''', Karl Johnny Hersvik, Director of Research, Statoil||
||10:10-10:40 || '''Keynote''', Hans Erik Gravdahl Sørensen, Norwegian Tax Administration||
||10:40-11:00 || Break||
||11:00-11:30 || "Knowing Something About Your Semantic Web Data", Steffen Staab, Professor, University of Koblenz-Landau||
||11:30-12:00 || "The Emergence of the Chief Data Officer and Journey to Data Quality", Richard Wang, Direction of MIT Information Quality Program (on leave) and Chief Data Quality Officer, US Army||
||12:00-13:00 || Lunch||
|| '''13:00-16:30''' || '''Theme: Interoperability and open data''' ||
||||2010 and 2011 have been the years where data finally came out of the silos as increasing demand for data as raw material became apparent. With raw data as the new web, the need has arisen for catalogs describing the quality and context of data, exposing the semantics of data, and linking to referencing master data.||
||13:00-13:30 || "Semantics, open data and interoperability", Rune Gløersen, Director of ICT, Statistics Norway||
||13:30-14:00 || "Open data and E&P industry: what to expect in 5 years from now?", Agustin Diz, Dir. Tech. Info. Mgmt, Repsol||
||14:00-14:30 || "New collaboration model for environmental monitoring", Vidar Hepsø, PhD, Principal Researcher, Statoil and Professor II, NTNU||
||14:30-15:00 || Break||
||15:00-15:30 || "Semantic activities in Libraries, Archives and Museums in EU", Yvo Volman, PhD, European Commission||
||15:30-16:00 || "Interlinking the web of data: challenges and solutions", Jerome Euzenat, Senior Researcher, INRIA, Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes||
||16:00-16:30 || "Ontologies and rules", Harold Boley, Adjunct Professor, University of New Brunswick, Canada||
||16:30-17:00 || Panel discussions||
||17:00-19:00 || Exhibitions and Late Breaking News||
||19:30-      || Sightseeing and Dinner at [http://www.ekebergrestauranten.com/en/ Ekebergresturanten]||

=== Thursday June 9th ===
|| '''08:30-11:30''' || '''Parallel project sessions''' ||
|| || Diving deeper into open data, interoperability and compliance issues, each sector has their own approach and special solutions. In this session we break up into parallel sessions where each track focuses on challenges and solutions in their sector.||  
|| ||Public sector - Information management, legal issues and data & information quality. ||
|| ||Industry - Integrated Operations in the High North ||
|| ||Research - Open data and Linked Open Data ||
|| ||Library, Archives and Museums - Open authoritative registries for linked content - places, people, events, topics ||
|| ||Information and Data Quality - Quality standard (ISO 8000) || 
|| 11:30-12:30 || Lunch ||
|| 12:30-13:00 || ''' Keynote ''', DNV||
|| 13:00-13:30 || ''' Keynote''', Morten Thorkildsen, Chief Executive Officer, IBM Norway||
|| '''13:30-16:30''' || '''Theme: Information Quality and Compliance''' ||
|| || Compliance is the the act of adhering to, and demonstrating adherence to, a standard or regulation. How can the expressiveness and explicitness that semantic technologies gives, help in achieving this? ||
||13:30-14:00 || "Event Processing", W. Roy Schulte, VP Distinguished Analyst, Gartner Group||
||14:00-14:30 || "Information Data Quailty", Dr. Yang Lee||
||14:30-15:00 || Break||
||15:00-15:30 || "The many dimensions of compliance - from semantic technologies to business use-cases", Ian Glendinning, Principal Consultant and Lillian Hella, Semantic Technology Expert, PCA||
||15:30-16:00 || SERES, Brønnøysund Registries Centre (BRC)||
||16:00-16:30 || "Governance, Risk and Compliance Management for Cloud Services – The Semantic Technology Perspective", Dr. Marcus Spies, Professor, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich||

[[BR]] Link to registration [http://bit.ly/fkJFV5 HERE] [[BR]] 

== Organisers ==
 * E&P Information Management (EPIM)
 * POSC Caesar Association (PCA)
 * Tekna
 * The Brønnøysund Register Centre (BRC)
 * The Norwegian Armed Forces
 * The Norwegian Oil Industry Association (OLF)
 * University of Oslo (UiO)

== Sponsors ==
 * Statoil
 * IBM
 * DNV
 * Computas