The panel will include Tom Tague, OpenCalais Initiative lead for Thomson Reuters, Amra Tareen, CEO of Allvoices.com, Nate Weiner from The Idea Shower and Edwin Khodabakchian of Feedly.

Schedule:
7pm- Drinks, snacks
730p-830p – Panel discussion
830p-9 – More discussion, networking

Attendees will be asked for a $10 donation at the door to cover costs of drinks, food and the space.

Hacks/Hackers is a group for journalists and technologists looking to build the future of media. More details can be found at http://meetup.hackshackers.com.

WHO: The event will bring together people working on semantic projects with people in other spaces (media, advertising, science, etc.) to see where ideas and products can solve people’s problems.

IDEA: The idea of Semantic garage is to encourage entrepreneurs and developers to  build a network of business practices, open services (APIs) and open code to lower the barrier for planning and developing semantic companies.  It also is a network of peers who help each other plan, scale, fund, and monetize semantic start up companies.  This meetup it in the spirit of DIY attitude of the statup community.  It’s members taking on the jargon laid myth of complexity surrounding the semantic web and break it open for all to benefit.

The first Semantic Garage Meetup will have three demos, plenty of conversation, and diverse crowd.

The presenting companies are:

RadarMail is the result of a $40M DARPA investment in R&D for email productivity.  It connects email to other software by pushing task-relevant information found in text into productivity tools such as spreadhseets, todo lists and CRM systems.  Variations of the basic product target particular work roles, providing a user experienced designed for a person’s particular tasks, tools and data.  Here, we demonstrate RMcore, the role-neutral version of the product.

Michael Freed – Founder

Factual is an energetic team of folks from Google, Yahoo, Idealab, LinkedIn and various other places that are focused on providing open access to structured data.  We’ve built a platform that empowers the world to share and collaborate on open data, as well as develop applications that leverage it.  We believe there is potential for a wave of innovation as developers are freed from having to concentrate on data collection and maintenance, and publishers have access to accountable, high-quality data.

Bill Michels – VP Developer Platform

MyBantu is a Smart Personal Manager, and a new way of getting your needs done ! and its Free to the consumer !

MyBantu helps you to just Get Done with your Needs like a real person. Interacting with myBantu is really effortless. State your need – it could be, a good Lunch place nearby, book movie tickets, connect with a friend, a reminder to do a grocery etc.,  – myBantu works like a real person, gets you the relevant recommendations from web and your friends and not only that – finally gets it done once you make a decision.

Bharath Yadla – Product Marketing & Strategy

In this Semantic Web Programming session we have a good mix of hands-on coding and a selection of programming related presentations.

Agenda:

12.00pm kick-off, introduction
12.30pm presentations
3.30pm Lunch break
4.00pm Coding projects discussions
4.30pm Coding
6.00pm Round up -project presentations
7.00pm closing
8.00pm dinner off-site

Introduction to Jena – Jeremy Carroll TopQuadrant
- Jena and Semantic Web Standards
- The Model API
- Overview of the Graph API + Inference

Java Application Development – Taylor Cowan
- JenaBean
- JenaBean fluent interface pattern
- jpa4jena and annotated SPARQL named queries

GeoSparql and Geospatial Relationship Processing – Marco Neumann
- Standards
- Geospatial Relationship Types RCC8
- spatial indexing and access methods

Architecture review for integrated product development with Jena – Sanjiva Nath
- Integration as a Web service
- UI

Graph SPI, and why you might want to implement your own graphs – Jeremy Carroll TopQuadrant
- The Graph SPI is useful for advanced application developers, who can add additional middleware type function