Semantic Technology Conferences and Seminars

Franz Inc. offers a variety of events where AllegroGraph users can network with other developers and learn about latest developments.

Upcoming Events

Enterprise Data World - Taking Graphs to the Next Level with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - April 22-27, 2018, San Diego, CA

Recorded Webcasts

Date Topic Panelists Slides Duration
3/28/18 A Jupyter Notebook for Learning AllegroGraph (Bonus n-Dimensional GeoSpatial) Jans Aasman here 12 min.
3/22/18 Navigating Time and Probability in Knowledge Graphs Jans Aasman here 41 min.
8/23/17 A Time Machine for your Graph Jans Aasman here 32 min.
3/1/17 The Power of Machine Learning and Graphs Jans Aasman here 42.39 min.
11/7/16 IC FOODS Conference 2016 - afternoon speakers Jans Aasman here 49 min.
6/15/16 The Power of Cognitive Probability Graphs Jans Aasman here 54 min.
11/7/15 Meetup at Franz, Inc. - "Introduction to AllegroGraph" Jans Aasman and Ahmon Dancy here 59 min.
12/2/15 Enriching the Property Graph with Relationship Objects Jans Aasman here 38 min.
2/25/15 Maximizing New Multi-dimensional Indexing for Complex Location Aware Applications with AllegroGraph v5.0 Jans Aasman here 33 min.
1/21/15 Haystax presents: Advanced Analytic Techniques for Insider Threat Detection Jans Aasman, Robert Kerr, Robert Schrag here 53 min.
7/23/14 Graph vs. Semantic Graph Databases - Selecting the Right Database for Your Next Project Jans Aasman here 28 min.
12/11/2013 Taxonomies and Ontologies for Graph Search Jans Aasman here 31 min.
11/20/2013 Augmenting Hadoop for Graph Analytics Jans Aasman here 36 min.
11/6/2013 Scalable Property and Hypergraphs in RDF Jans Aasman here 25 min.
10/30/2013 Tracking Moving Objects in a Graph Database Jans Aasman here and here 35 min.
8/7/2013 Semantic Indexing of Unstructured Documents Using Taxonomies and Ontologies Jans Aasman here 30 min.
7/25/2013 Real-Time Graph Search for Corporate Risk Mitigation Jans Aasman here 26 min.
7/11/2013 Semantically Augmenting Hadoop with GeoTemporal Reasoning and Social Networking Analytics Jans Aasman here 40 min.
4/24/2013 Gruff v5 - Tips and Tricks to become a Power User Jans Aasman here 70 min.
3/6/2013 Graph Search Using Ontologies and Content Intelligence Jans Aasman, Matthieu Jonglez here, here 43 min.
12/12/2012 A Semantic Platform for Tracking Entities in Real Time - As presented at Semtech SF, NY, and London Jans Aasman here 32 min.
10/3/2012 Big Data, Fast Data, and Complex Data - Defining and Overcoming Challenges Jans Aasman here 27 min.
5/24/2012 How to Use Graph Databases to Analyze Relationships, Risks and Business Opportunities Jans Aasman here 43 min.
3/28/2012 Making Solr Search Smarter using RDF Jans Aasman here 23 min.
2/14/2012 Javascript - The Key to Successful SemWeb Deployments Jans Aasman here 35 min.
10/12/2011 MongoGraph - MongoDB Meets the Semantic Web Jans Aasman here 30 min.
6/22/2011 AllegroCache (and Lisp) - Driving Operational Support (OASIS) for the Department of Defense Glenn House, Jans Aasman here 52 min.
5/12/2011 AllegroGraph - A General Purpose Graph DBJans Aasman here 45 min.
1/20/2011 Google AI Contest Winner Gabor Melis - Conversation and PresentationGabor Melis, Jans Aasman here, here 60 min.
12/16/2010 Semantic Real Time Intelligent Decision AutomationCraig Hanson, Jans Aasman here, here 48 min.
10/14/2010 Never Write SPARQL Again - Build your Queries VisuallyJans Aasman here 32 min.
8/5/2010 Enterprise Requirements for Graph Databases - Your Best NoSQL ChoicesJans Aasman here 47 min.
7/15/2010 Enhance Entity Extraction using an RDF Store Brooke Aker, Jans Aasman here 58 min.
4/15/2010 Generate SPARQL visually using Sentient and AllegroGraph Jans Aasman, Robert Stanley, Kashef Qaadri N/A 20 min.
1/21/2010 Linked Data, Life Sciences, and RDF Stores - Exploration and Demonstration Jans Aasman here 35 min.
10/21/2009 Enhance Entity Extraction using an RDF Store (updated for AllegroGraph 4.0) Brooke Aker, Jans Aasman here 58 min.
8/6/2009 Geospatial Reasoning for Moving Objects Jans Aasman here 36 min.
5/7/2009 Solving Scale and Reasoning in Large RDF Datasets Jans Aasman here 35 min.
3/5/2009 Optimizing SPARQL for Diverse Ontologies Jans Aasman here 36 min.
1/22/2009 New Advances in GeoTemporal Reasoning with AllegroGraph Jans Aasman here 44 min.
11/20/2008 Selecting the RIGHT Database for your Project Jans Aasman here 46 min.
10/9/2008 A New Python Client for AllegroGraph RDFStore Bob MacGregor tutorial 51 min.
8/08/2008 GeoTemporal Reasoning in a Web 3.0 World Jans Aasman here 46 min.
8/12/2008 Create an Elastic RDF Store in Amazon's EC2 Jans Aasman here 39 min.
5/7/2008 Social Network Analytics using an RDF Database Jans Aasman here 63 min.
2/21/2008 Querying Federated Knowledge for Web 3.0 Applications Gary King here 52 min.
7/16/2007 Scaling the Semantic Wall with AllegroGraph and TopBraid Composer Jans Aasman, Dean Allemang here 70 min.
7/11/2007 Practical Reasoning on a Web 3.0 Database Jans Aasman here 69 min.
6/7/2007 SPARQL Queries on a Web 3.0 Database Jans Aasman N/A 59 min.
4/11/2007 Understanding Web 3.0 Database Technology Jans Aasman N/A 131 min.

Past Conferences and Product Seminars

Analytics in 2018: AI, IoT and multi-cloud, or bust - March 1-2, Dayton, OH

Data Day Texas 2018! - January 27th, Austin, TX

The Open Data Science Conference (ODSC West), November 2-4, Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport

Text Analytics Forum' 17 - November 8-9, Washington DC

Semantics Amsterdam 17 Conference - September 11-14

The Enterprise Data World Conference in Atlanta, April 4th

Financial Industry Business Ontology, April 4 - 5, Atlanta

The TTI/Vanguard Data Big and Small Conference, February 16-17, San Francisco

The Smart Data Conference Sofitel - Redwood City, CA - Jan. 31 - Feb. 1

The Knowledge Management World Conference (KMWorld 2016), November 14-17 - Washington D.C.

The 11th International Conference on Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense, and Security (STIDS 2016) - November, 15-16 - Fairfax, Virginia

IC-FOODS Inaugural Conference - Nov. 7-9, Davis, California

The 11th International Knowledge Management in Organizations Conference (KMO 2016), July 25-28 - Hagen, Germany

Seattle/Bellevue Graphs - Data, Processing, Algorithms Meetup, May 3rd

Franz's CEO, Jans Aasman to Present at the Enterprise Data World Conference in San Diego, April 20th

Franz's Customers (Haystax, Noblis) present at Intelligence, Defense and Security Conference, Fairfax, Virginia - November 18-21 - Noblis presentation 1 - Noblis presentation 2 - Haystax presentation

Taxonomy Boot Camp - November 4-5, Washington DC

NoSQL Now! Conference will feature Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc. - August 19-21, San Jose, CA

GraphLab Conference 2014 - July 21-22, San Francisco

Text Analytics World - San Francisco, March 17

Franz to present at San Francisco DAMA Day 2013, Dec. 11

Jans Aasman to Keynote Seventh IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2013) - September 18, Irvine, CA

2013 NoSQL Now! - Aug. 20-22, San Jose, CA, Franz' Talks - Tracking Moving Objects in a Graph Database, - Semantically Augmenting Hadoop with GeoTemporal Reasoning and Social Networking Analytics

The Semantic Technology & Business Conference (SemTechBiz) - June 2-5, San Francisco - Jans Aasman's talk - Real-Time Graph Search for Corporate Risk Mitigation - Jans Aasman's talk - Semantic Indexing of Unstructured Documents Using Taxonomies and Ontologies

Enterprise Data World: April 28 - May 2. Jans Aasman's Presentation - What to do with the Social Networks in your Customer Data?

Text Analytics World - San Francisco, April 17-19. Jans Aasman's Presentation - AllegroText: Text Mining with an RDF Graph Database

SFDAMA (San Francisco Chapter of the Data Management Association) March 13th - Graph Search Using Ontologies and Content Intelligence

CSHALS 2013 - Jans Aasman's Presentation - Semantic Indexing of Unstructured Documents Using Taxonomies and Ontologies

The Los Angeles Semantic Web Meetup - December 5 Graph & Document Databases in Relationship Analysis & New Business Opportunities

Semantic Technology & Business Conference - New York City, October 15-17

SemTech - London 2012 - Jans Aasman's presentation

NoSQL Now! 2012 - San Jose, CA - August 21-23

SEMTECH 2012 - June 3-7, San Francisco, CA - Join us for 3 presentations - Talk 1 Talk 2 Talk 3 Talk 4

Enterprise Data World - April 29 - May 3

SF DAMA DAY - December 14 - 15

The Semantic Tech & Business DC Conference (#SemTechBiz) - Nov. 29 - Dec. 1

Silicon Valley Area Meetup: Join us October 13

DC Area Meetup: Join us October 19

The London Semantic Tech & Business Conference (#SEMTECHBIZ) - Sept. 26 - 27

2011 NoSQL Now! - August 23-25, San Jose, CA

International Summer School on Semantic Computing 2011 - August 8 - 12, Berkeley, CA

Silicon Valley Semantic Technology Group Meetup - Semantic vs. NoSql Databases: Getting what you want out of a database - May 17, 2011

2011 Semantic Technologies Conference - June 5-9, San Francisco

The 2nd International Workshop on Graph Data Management: Techniques and Applications (GDM 2011) - April 16, Hanover, Germany

Enterprise Data World Conference (EDW) - April 3-7

Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (CSHALS) - Feb. 23-25

Published papers from the Feb. 13th Visual Interfaces to the Social and Semantic Web (VISSW 2011) conference, see "RDF Browser for Data Discovery and Visual Query Building"

San Francisco Semantic Web Meetup - January 18 The RDFa - SEO Wave: Learn How to Catch It and Why

Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences, SWAT4LS Workshop - December 10th, Berlin, Germany

ISWC 2010 - Shanghai, China - November 7 - 11

The 4th International Web Rule Symposium, RuleML 2010 - October 21-23

Silicon Valley Semantic Technology Group Meetup - Semantic Technology: The Basics 2 - October

Silicon Valley Semantic Technology Group Meetup - Semantic Technology: The Basics - October 5

Workshop on Semantic Data Management (SemData) - Singapore, September 17

IEEE 2010 Summer School on Semantic Computing, July 25 - 31, Berkeley, CA.

Semantic Technologies Conference, June 21 - 25, San Francisco, CA.

Washington, DC Semantic Web Meetup, June 17

Extended (Formarly European) Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2010), May 30 - June 3, Heraklion, Greece. We will be conducting a half day tutorial.

Enterprise Data World, March 14-18, San Francisco, CA. Download the presentations slides here.

Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (CSHALS), February 24-26, Cambridge/Boston, MA.

San Diego Semantic Web Meetup, January 30.

European Semantic Technology Conference 2009 - December 2-3 at Le Meridien, Vienna, Austria. Franz was a Silver Sponsor.

The New York Semantic Web Meetup - December 10, New York City. We gave a talk on GeoSpatial-Temporal Reasoning with AllegroGraph.

US Intelligence Community presentation (OIC 2009) on using AllegroGraph. Full paper Presentation

3rd International Symposium on Rules, Applications and Interoperability - November 5-7 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Franz was a Silver Sponsor.

The 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009) - October 25-29 in Washington, DC. Franz was a Silver Sponsor.

SQL Free NYC Conference - October 5, New York. Download the slides

Semantic Web Seattle Meetup - September 15th, Seattle, WA.

Semantic Web Austin Meetup - September 19th, Austin, TX. We gave a hands on full day tutorial on AllegroGraph.

International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-SEMANTICS '09) - September 2-4, Graz, Austria.

GeoWeb 2009 - July 27-3, Vancouver, BC. We gave three talks, "Moving Objects: Look in the Past, Manage the Present and Predict the Future", "Efficient Encoding of 2-D and 3-D Geospatial RDF Data with Near-Linear Search Time", and "GeoTemporal Reasoning in Diverse Data Sources".

Semantic Technologies Conference (SemTech 2009) - June 14-18, San Jose, CA. Franz was a Gold Sponsor.

Meetup for Palo Alto Semantic Web (PAWS) Group - May 08, we gave a talk on "Semantic Technology: The Basics".

Where 2.0 (Where2009) - We gave a a demonstration, GeoTemporal Reasoning in a Web 3.0 World. You can see the same presentation in this video.

Intelligent Event Processing: (AAAI-SSS-09) - Part of the AAAI 2009 Spring Symposia.

Social Semantic Web: Where Web 2.0 Meets Web 3.0: (AAAI-SSS-09) - Part of the AAAI 2009 Spring Symposia.

22nd Annual Geographic Information Sciences Conference (TUgis09) - We gave a talk "GeoTemporal Reasoning in a Web 3.0 World."

The New York Semantic Web Meetup Group - We gave a talk "GeoTemporal and Social Network Reasoning with AllegroGraph."

Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (C-SHALS) - We gave a talk, "Optimizing SPARQL for Diverse Ontologies".

Ontology For The Intelligence Community (OIC 2008) - The theme was "Towards Effective Exploitation and Integration of Intelligence Resources". We gave talks on "Common Logic for an RDF Store" and "Unification of Geospatial Reasoning, Temporal Logic, & Social Network Analysis in an RDF Database". Link to OIC Proceedings

2008 DAMA-NCR/Wilshire Symposium - Leveraging Information Asset Management - November 6. We gave a talk, "Evolving Web 3.0 Technologies".

Web 3.0 Conference and Expo - Web 3.0 - Santa Clara, CA - October 16-17. We were on the panel discussion, "Death of the Relational Database?"

European Semantic Technology Conference - Vienna, Austria - September 24 - 26, 2008. We gave talks on "GeoTemporal Reasoning and Social Network Analytics for Business Intelligence" and "Federation Approaches for Querying Remote RDF Knowledge Stores".

IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing - Santa Clara, CA - August 4 - 7, 2008. We conducted a tutorial, "Utilizing Federated Knowledge in Semantic Web Applications", and participated in an Industry Panel, "Getting Traction and Not Skid Marks: The Rubber Meets the Road".

GeoWeb 2008 - Vancouver, BC, Canada - July 21 - 25, 2008. We gave a talk titled "GeoTemporal Reasoning in a Web 3.0 World".

International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies - Orlando, Florida - July 7 - 10, 2008. We presented a paper titled "A Unified Web 3.0 Framework for GeoTemporal Reasoning and Social Networking Analysis".

International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems - Rome, Italy - July 1 - 4, 2008. We presented a paper on "Unification of Geospatial Reasoning, Temporal Logic & Social Network Analysis in Event-based Systems".

LinkedData Planet Conference and Expo - LinkedData Planet - New York City - June 17 - 18, 2008. We were a sponsor and gave a talk on "Improved Services Through Behavior and Activity Recognition".

European Semantic Web Conference - Tenerife, June 1-5, 2008. Franz was a sponsor.

Semantic Technologies Conference - San Jose, May 18-22, 2008. We gave 3 talks, sat on one panel, and released AllegroGraph 3.0.

JavaOne Conference: - May 6 - 9, 2008. We participated on a panel, PAN-5542 Developing Semantic Web Applications on the JavaTM Platform.

Japan Seminar - November 22, 2007 in Tokyo, Japan; see AllegroGraph-based application demos.

The 2007 International Semantic Web Conference November 11 - 15, 2007 in Busan, Korea. Franz was there conducting an in depth half day tutorial titled, "Using Social Network Analysis, Geotemporal Reasoning and RDFS++ Reasoning for Business Intelligence". For more details, see here.

The 2007 Semantic Technology Conference - May 20 - 24, 2007, Franz was there with talks and exhibiting the new AllegroGraph version 2.0! See here.

Japan Lisp Seminar - Join us November 20 - 22, 2006 for our annual Lisp seminar in Tokyo, Japan. This year's speakers include Carl Shapiro, Ralph Hodgson, Taiichi Yuasa, Shiro Kawai, Hisao Kuroda and many more, Japan Seminar.

The 2006 Semantic Web Conference - Visit our booth at the 2006 Semantic Technology Conference, March 6-9 in San Jose to learn more about our RDF Triple Store solutions.

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