After 4 successful meetings in Europe, we will cross the Atlantic for the next one: we are happy to announce that the 5th DBpedia meeting will be held at Stanford University, Palo Alto, on November 5th 2015.

Please read below on different ways you can participate. We are looking forward to meeting all the US-based DBpedia enthusiasts in person.

The event will feature talks from Yahoo!, IBM Watson, Blippar, Netflix and Stanford amongst others.

Quick facts

• Web URL: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/California2015
• Hashtag: #DBpediaCA
• When: November 5th, 2015
• Where: MSOB x303, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA (map
• Host: Dumontier Lab, Stanford University
• Call for Contribution: Submit your proposal in our form
• Registration: https://event.gg/1742-5th-dbpedia-meeting-california (limited seats)

Acknowledgments

If you would like to become a sponsor for the 5th DBpedia Meeting, please contact the DBpedia Association

	Dumontier Laboratory for Biomedical Knowledge Discovery For hosting the meeting and helping with the organization
	Yahoo! For sponsoring the catering of the meeting
	Google Summer of Code 2015 Amazing program and the reason we are in US
	ALIGNED – Software and Data Engineering For funding the development of DBpedia as a project use-case and covering part of the travel cost
	Institute for Applied Informatics For supporting the DBpedia Association
	OpenLink Software For continuous hosting of the main DBpedia Endpoint

Organisation

• Michel Dumontier, Maastricht University
• Pablo N. Mendes, IBM Watson Research
• Marco Fossati, SpazioDati
• Dimitris Kontokostas, DBpedia Association and AKSW, Uni Leipzig
• Sebastian Hellmann, DBpedia Association and AKSW, Uni Leipzig

Registration

Attending the DBpedia Community meeting is free, but you need to register. There are 3 types of tickets that are booked separately:

• Ticket for the main event (50 people)
• Ticket for the pre-event (30 people)
• Optional DBpedia support ticket

Call for Contribution

Please submit your proposal through our form. Contribution proposals include (but not limited to) presentation, demos, lightning talks and session suggestions. All talks are accepted by default and will be added to the program in batches.

Location / Venue

The meeting will take place at Palo Alto CA,  Stanford University, MSOB x303 (map).

Parking info: There is a parking structure on Pasteur Dr. near the hospital as well as in L-17. Both are only 5 minutes away walking. The yellow [P] shows the area for paid public parking. see the Stanford transportation maps for details and especially the south-west map.

Pre-meeting: The Center for Clinical Sciences Research (CCSR) building is located at 261 Campus Drive, next to the Beckman Center. 4205 is on the fourth floor of the south CCSR building. (map, gmap)

Going from the pre-meeting to the main event: CCSR is a 7 min walk from Beckman to MSOB (https://goo.gl/maps/fAaTA7QaiZ52)

Schedule

16:00 pre-event meeting (room CCSR 4205)

Separate pre-meeting. Depending on the audience we can do hackathons, tutorials, QA sessions, etc (needs separate registration)

18:30 Main Event (Room MSOB x303)