1. Extended Semantic Web Conference ESWC Elena Simperl STI Board, Crete, May 2011www.sti2.org 1

2. Overview Main European conference on semantic technologies. Organized since 2004, multi-track since 2010. Number of participants in 2010: ~ 300. Coordinated by Steering Committee Chair: John Domingue, KMI, The Open University, UK & STI International, AT Members: Lora Aroyo, VU University of Amsterdam, NL Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester School of Computer Science, UK Fabio Ciravegna, University of Sheffield, UK Enrico Franconi, KRDB Research Centre, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, IT Eero Hyvnen, Aalto University, FI Michael Kifer, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA Paolo Traverso, FBK, Center for Information Technology - IRST, IT Rules: GC of last four events, PCs of the last four events who have not acted as GC.www.sti2.org

3. Structure of the conference Technical program organized into tracks Invited speakers Posters and demos Workshops Tutorials PhD symposium Co-located eventswww.sti2.org

4. Technical program Tracks (26 chairs) Social Web and Web Science Ontologies Reasoning Semantic Data Management Linked Open Data Software and Services Natural Language Processing Sensor web Mobile Web Semantic Web In-Use Special tracks: Inductive and probabilistic reasoning/Digital libraries Papers received: 247 Accepted: 58 Rejected:189www.sti2.org

5. Invited speakers: 6 + 1 7 years award Fausto Giunchiglia, Pavel Shvaiko, Mikalai Yatskevich: S- Match: an Algorithm and an Implementation of Semantic Matching. Runner-up: Marc Ehrig, York Sure: Ontology Mapping - An Integrated Approach.www.sti2.org 5/12/2007 - Vienna

6. Co-located events Project-specific: Insemtives, digital libraries, eGovernment Proposal day AI Mashup challengewww.sti2.org 5/12/2007 - Vienna

7. Location 2012: Paphos, Cyprus 2013: TBC From 2014 on: call for bidswww.sti2.org