Alexandre Passant

I gave a talk on "Using Semantics to Improve Corporate Online Communities" yesterday at the COIN@MALLOW workshop. The talk was mainly based on the work done during my Ph.D. thesis, demonstrating how to manage and combine various layers of semantics on the top of Enterprise 2.0 ecosystems and let users create and take advantage of the related semantic annotations. Here are the slides of the talk.

I've just uploaded the slides of the two Semtech tutorials I was invoved in today. They are embedded below, but you can also access them directly on slideshare. It was a busy day - actually, I'm in the same meeting room from 7:30 am ! - but really interesting and I guess (and hope) the tutorials were well recieved, with interesting feedback and questions from the audience. As said previously and during both presentations, if you have any questions, feel free to drop an e-mail or directly come to have a chat if you want to discuss some of these topics more in detail.

I just arrived in San Jose for SemTech as I will speak in two tutorials tomorrow (i.e. the 15th of June - oh btw, I'll be 29 that day :-) :

• The first one, in the morning, "Hello Open World" is an updated version of our WWW2009 tutorial (given with Michael Hausenblas) that will be given that time with Giovanni Tummarello. We will emphasize on some recent developments as well as on practical use-cases of these technologies in order to improve existing applications as well as building new ones.
• The second one, in the afternoon, "Semantic Enterprise 2.0" will focus on the shortcomings of Enterprise 2.0 systems and how to apply Semantic Web technologies to such ecosystems to solve these issues. In addition to the "theoretical" part, we will describe various uses-cases on the topic. You can also read a short interview on the subject that was recently blogged on semanticweb.com - in which I briefly present the topics that we will address during the tutorial.

That said, that's my first time in SemTech and I should be in the conference venue for the whole event in addition of these two tutorials. If you want to discuss some of these topics or anything related to the Semantic Web - or just say hello - , feel free to ping me here and I'll be happy to have a chat. In addition, I'll also attend the upcoming VoCamp Sunnyvale in Yahoo on thursday afternoon and friday, that sounds also really exsiting, and then will finally take some holidays in San Francisco ... unplugged.