1. Semantic Interoperability 25th March 2008, Berlin, Germany
Open Workshop
Semantic Interoperability
A Practical Approach
25th March 2008, Berlin, Germany

2. Sponsoring project: STASIS Stuart Campbell Chief Technology Officer TIE STASIS Project Manager

3. Objectives
The workshop brings together ICT innovators, from industry and academia, to present and discuss practical approaches to enhance the agility of business processes through semantic technologies. New ideas and directions, work in progress, and practical user perspectives will be presented on a range of topics.

4. Today - am
11:00 Welcome
Stuart Campbell, Chief Technology Officer (TIE) & STASIS Project Manager
11:05 Keynote: Semantics for Profit and Fun
Tim McGrath, General Manager (Document Engineering Services)
11:35 Sponsoring project: STASIS Aims and Innovations
12:05 Sponsoring project: BREIN Aims and Innovations
Eduardo Oliveros, R&D Engineer (Telefónica I+D) & BREIN Project Manager
12:35 Software, Services, and Semantics in FP7
Arian Zwegers, Project Officer (European Commission)
13:00 LUNCH

5. Today - pm 14:00 NeP4B Aims and Innovations
Sonia Bergamaschi, Professor (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
14:20 SEAMLESS Aims and Innovations
Juan Vte. Vidagany, Chief Technology Officer (Antara Information Technology)
14:40 An overview of Semantic Interoperability Challenges related to Resource Provisioning in Business Grids
Ioannis Kotsiopoulos, Software Engineer (University of Manchester)
15:00 STASIS Technical Innovations: Simplifying eBusiness Collaboration by providing a Semantic Mapping Platform
Sven Abels, EU Projects Coordinator (TIE)
15:30 Using semantics to enhance task requirements and resources capabilities to allow a scheduler to get better scheduling decisions based on SLA's and system state
Marc de Palol, Researcher (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
15:50 Discussion/Q&A
16:00 COFFEE BREAK

6. Today - pm
16:30 Modelling Interoperability: The Modelling Framework of BREIN
Hannes Eichner, Research Engineer/Developer (BOC Asset Management)
16:40 OKKAM: Enabling an Entity Name System for the Semantic Web
Paolo Bouquet, Associate Professor (Università degli Studi di Trento)
16:50 Ontology based Integration of IEC TC 57 standards
Mathias Uslar, Project Manager (German National IEC Mirror Committee)
17:00 Discussion and Close