= 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 [[BR]]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''', Inger-Anne Ravlum, State Secretary of Government Administration and Reform||
||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 [[BR]]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 [[BR]]material became apparent. With raw data as the new web, the need has arisen for catalogs describing the quality [[BR]]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||"The Digital Agenda for Europe and Open Data in the Cultural Sector: Improving the Access to and use of Cultural Material", 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/ Ekebergrestauranten]||

=== 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. [[BR]]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 - [wiki:SD2011-research-session Open data and Linked Open Data]|| [[BR]] 
||||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''', "The Information Based Opportunity", 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 [[BR]]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 [[BR]]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", [[BR]]Dr. Marcus Spies, Professor, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich||

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

== 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