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Organizing Committee

Conference General Chairs

  • Jens Lehmann, Research Group Leader of the Agile Knowledge  Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW) Group, Institute of Computer Science,  Univ. of Leipzig
  • Stefanie Lindstaedt, Managing Director of  Know-Center GmbH, Head of Knowledge  Technologies Institute  (KTI) Graz University of  Technology (TUG)

Local Organisation Chair

  • Muriel Foulonneau (Knowledge Intensive Systems and Services, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)), Catalina Fiévez (LIST), and Slim Turki (LIST).

Program Chairs

  • Industry Program Chair: Norbert Koppenhagen (SAP)
  • Research Programme Chair: Bernardo Magnini (FBK, Trento, Italy)

Sponsor Chairs

  • R&D Sponsoring Chair - Tatiana Gornostay (Tilde, Latvia)
  • Industry Sponsoring Chair - Aidan McGuire (ScraperWiki)
  • Local Sponsoring Chair – Jean-Paul Zens (Department of Media and Communication, Ministry of State)

Dissemination Chairs

  • International dissemination R&D: Axel Polleres
  • International dissemination industry: Martin Kaltenböck (Semantic Web Company, Austria)
  • Local dissemination chair: Catalina Fiévez (LIST)

Advisors (alphabetical order)

  • Sören Auer (University of Bonn, Germany)
  • Francesco Barbato (European Commission)
  • Malte Beyer-Katzenberger (European Commission)
  • Simon Scerri (University of Bonn, Germany) 
  • Dieter Fensel (University of Innsbruck, Austria)

Liaison Chairs by Region

  • Austria: Anna Fensel
  • Baltic Region (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania): Andrejs Vasiljevs
  • France: Pierre Maret
  • Germany: Annette Weilandt, Walter Mattauch
  • Greece: Alexandra Garatzogianni
  • Ireland: Natalie Harrower
  • Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark): Jarl Magnusson
  • Switzerland: André Golliez, Oleg Lavrovsky
  • UK: Kush Wadwa