Speaking Engagements for May 2005

May looks to be a busy month! I'm only taking two trips (Japan and The Netherlands), but will have multiple speaking engagements in each place. Here's the list:

WWW 2005 in Chiba, Japan:

• 10 May, 10:50-12:20. Panel, "Can the Semantic Web be Made to Florish?" (convener).


• 13 May, 10:30-12:00. W3C Session on the Semantic Web. I will be presenting some information on existing SemWeb applications.


• 13 May, 16:30-18:00. Questions & Answers to the W3C Members and Team.


• 14 May, time TBD (morning). Kowari demonstration at the Dev Day.

The Gilbane Conference on Content Management in Amsterdam, The Netherlands:

• 24 May, 13:00-16:30. Smart Content Tutorial (with Wernher Behrendt, Mills Davis and Steven Newcomb).

Vrije University Amsterdam:

• 26 May, time TBD (afternoon). Seminar on a SemWeb topic to be determined.

XTech 2005 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands:

• 27 May, 09:45-10:45. Paper presentation: "Kowari: A Platform for Semantic Web Storage and Analysis" (written with Paul Gearon and Tom Adams). A preprint is available here.