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Biography:
Hilmar Lapp (@hlapp, http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9107-0714) is the Assistant Director for Informatics at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent). His research interests are in reusable and interoperable software and data, large-scale data integration, and in building open sustainable eScience infrastructure. A biologist by training, he has also more than two decades worth of experience developing software, databases, and other informatics resources. He is co-PI of the NSF-funded Phenoscape project (http://phenoscape.org) on ontological annotation of evolutionary phenotype observations, co-convener of the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Interest Group on Phylogenetics Standards, senior personnel in the Dryad digital data repository project (http://datadryad.org), and a participant in the Data Integration and Semantics Working Group of DataONE (http://dataone.org).

Abstract:
Big Data is the buzz word du jour for the media. But this phrase only scratches the surface of the problem-space that the Industry is faced with today. The issues of Fast Data extreme cardinality, disparate data formats, the demand for data mining, are but a few of the challenges that call for new approaches. A host of technologies from RDF to NLP hold tremendous promise in addressing many of these issues. During the presentation Ron will discuss the evolution, adoption, and state of computer science within Industry from the perspective of an applied engineer; and address some of the limiting factors that are hindering the adoption of Semantic Technologies.

Biography:
From Punch Cards to Big Data, Mr. Collette has spent the better part of 3 decades working in the field of technology. During that time he has worked with in industries that encompass the various sectors aerospace, engineering, construction, finance, cyber security, life sciences, commercial food, and various entities within the federal government. This variety of experience, coupled with the innate need constantly push the envelope, has garnered him a reputation of solving difficult technical issues with practical solutions that blend mature and cutting-edge technologies.

Ron Collette is a regular speaker at a number of security and IT related events such as International Standards Organization (ISO) conference, SecureWorld Expo, ISMS, and InfoSeCon. He is also a regular columnist and research analyst for Computer Economics and has co-authored two books on information security. The CISO Handbook: A Practical Guide to Securing Your Company and the companion publication CISO Soft Skills: Securing Organizations Impaired by Employee Politics, Apathy and Intolerant Perspectives.  Both of these books are utilized as course material for a number of post-graduate programs on security leadership.

Abstract:  Barend will talk about the role of semantic technologies, (under)standards and the nanopublication ecosystem in particular. He will challenge several established views in the field of the semantic web, scholarly communication, intellectual networking, science metrics, peer review and ‘data publishing’ with an emphasis on the barriers to break down in order to allow effective data exposure, sharing and integration in the Big Data era. The context of his talk will be the need for eScience approaches to ‘in silico’ knowledge discovery.

Biography:  Barend Mons holds a chair in Biosemantics at the LUMC and is one of the scientific directors of NBIC. In addition he acts as a Life Sciences 'eScience integrator' in the Netherlands eScience centre.  Currently, he coordinates the creation of the Data Integration and Stewardship Centre (DISC-ELIXIR) and in that capacity he is also the scientific representative of The Netherlands in the interim board of the ELIXIR ESFRI project.

Barend Mons is a molecular biologist by training and received his PhD on genetic differentiation of malaria parasites from Leiden University (1986). In 2000 he focused on the development of semantic technologies to manage big data and he founded the Biosemantics group. His research is currently focused on nanopublications as a substrate for in silico knowledge discovery. Barend is also one of the founders of the Concept Web Alliance, with 'nanopublications' as its first brainchild. Nanopublications are currently implemented in the semantic project of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) called Open PHACTS.

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