This year's premier European conference brings together the worlds of web development, open source, Web 2.0 and open standards. The 2008 conference will be held in Dublin at the Radisson SAS Royal Hotel from 6th - 9th May.

Ian Davis, Chief Technology Officer at Talis will present on the creation and ongoing evolution of a RESTful API. His presentation will focus on the design of API URLs, versioning strategies and techniques for preserving backwards compatibility, using real examples from The Talis Platform API. More information.

Widely recognised as the world's foremost symposium on the commercialisation of semantic technologies, Talis is delighted to announce its support for this year's Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose, California. The event, which takes place from 18-22 May, gathers an impressive programme of speakers from across the semantic technology space, and promises to illustrate the many ways in which semantic technologies are already at work within the enterprise.

Talis staff will be involved before and during the event in various ways, beginning with a set of podcast interviews with a number of high profile speakers. On Wednesday May 21st, Talis CEO Dave Errington will participate in a panel of senior executives including Nova Spivack (Radar Networks) and Alex Iskold (Adaptive Blue). During the main conference programme, our CTO Ian Davis will present Talis' perspective on 'The Semantic Web as a Blue Ocean Opportunity'. In a half-day workshop entitled 'Developing Semantic Web Applications with the Talis Platform', Danny Ayers and Ian Davis will demonstrate the ease with which developers can engage with semantic technologies. To find out more about Talis’ involvement in this conference, or to arrange a time to meet our team at the event contact platform@talis.com.

Talis is delighted to be sponsoring a prize for the Scripting Challenge, part of the 4th Workshop on Scripting for the Semantic Web, co-located with ESWC2008 in Tenerife this year. The challenge is open to anyone interested in developing applications, services, or infrastructure for the Semantic Web, using Scripting Languages. For more information about the challenge visit www.semanticscripting.org/SFSW2008/challenge.htm

Talis is delighted to be a premier sponsor for this year's LinkedData Planet conference, being held in New York City.

The conference and exhibition provide attendees with opportunities to explore the new web of Linked Data, showcasing technologies that enrich such diverse business requirements as trend analysis, customer relationship management and social networking.

Talis CTO Ian Davis will be delivering a keynote presentation entitled ‘The Semantic Web as a Blue Ocean Opportunity’, alongside distinguished keynote speakers Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Kingsley Idehen and Antanas Kiryakov. Ian's presentation will examine trends and analyse the global commercial opportunity that the Semantic Web presents in the context of the evolution of the World Wide Web and Semantic Technology. www.linkeddataplanet.com/conference/keynotes.php#K2

Talis’ Tom Heath will also be delivering a presentation entitled ‘How to Publish Linked Data on the Web’ which outlines the principles of Linked Data and highlights the practical steps that data owners need to take in joining the new Web of Data.
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Talis is pleased to announce its sponsorship of this year's Defrag Conference. The event has an established reputation as a congenial meeting place for the Web's innovators. With this year's themes including Enterprise 2.0, the Implicit Web, the Semantic Web and Collective Intelligence, Technology Evangelist Paul Miller will be sharing Talis' perspectives on the evolving Web and its increasing utility.

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