The Open World Forum is the leading global summit bringing together decision-makers from across the world to discuss the technological, financial and social impact of open technologies. On October 1,2 2009, the Open World Forum 2009 will bring together all the key players in the open source ecosystem to cross-fertilize initiatives for innovation and economic growth.

On this occasion, Mandriva is chairing a conference about the benefits of semantic technologies on the desktop. Professor Stefan Decker, director of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute will give a talk on the history and the future of the semantic desktop. Seif Lofty and Alexander Gabriel, co-authors of the Zeitgeist project will introduce the Zeitgeist' event centric approach to the semantic desktop. Sebastian Trüg, Mandriva, will outline the status of the Mandriva KDE task oriented desktop and the power of Scribo natural language processing technologies in this context.

The complete program can be read from the conference's page. Registration is free. We look forward to meeting you there!

Conference abstract: Semantic technologies are bringing a disruptive innovation to the desktop: they empower the users to organize their work entirely around the high-level concept of activities, giving birth to task oriented desktops which are progressively reframing the desktop metaphor. The semantic desktop vision is possibly one of the most important breakthrough since the emergence of personal computing paradigm in the early eighties. It paves the way for radically new ways in taming information overload and in dealing with knowledge at the personal or at the group levels.