Telefonoca I+D of Spain paid a visit to Saltlux Inc. in Seoul, Korea.

A group of representative staff members of Spanish Telefonica I+D lead by Mr. Fernando Fournon Gonzalez-Barcia, the Executive Chairman paid a visit to Saltlux Inc. on November 19th, 2007 and discuss on the business cooperation for the “Open Technology Observatory” project being planned by Telefonica.
Telefónica I+D, (or Telefónica Research and Development) is the innovation company of the Telefónica Group. Owned 100% by Telefónica, this subsidiary was formed it 1988, with the aim of strengthening the Group's competitiveness through technological innovation.
Telefónica I+D is the most important private R&D company in Spain, in terms of both activities and resources, and in terms of number of staff, and it is one of the most important companies on the continent as regards participation in European Research projects.
Saltlux Inc. (Tony Lee, the President and CEO) is one of the global leaders in semantic technology from Asia located in Seoul, Korea.
The representatives of Saltlux Inc. and Telefonica I+D introduced their company to each other and Dr. Richard Benjamins lead the discussion on the Open Technical Observatory project. The OTO project is to perform a continuous and systemic analysis of emerging technologies from the industry (competitors, start-ups, suppliers, etc.) and academic worlds (universities and technology centres, etc.)
Both companies verbally agreed to cooperate for the project and the written agreement will soon be contracted for the efficiency. When the project will be started, the cooperation results will be printed in report form and shared each other.

Saltlux Invites ISWC2007 Foreign Delegates to a Reception

Saltlux Inc., one of the leading Semantic web specialized company announced that foreign delegates to the 6th ISWC and the 2nd ASWC being help during November 11 through 15th at BEXCO in Busan will be welcomed to a reception. Saltlux is an Emerald Sponsor for the conference.

Saltlux is doing business in the field of semantics for the application into search, ubiquitous and intellectual mobile service as number one company in Asia.

Delegates from DERI Galway of Ireland, ontoprise GmbH of Germany, Franz Inc. of U.S.A., Keio University of Japan and other world renowned institutions has accepted to attend to the Saltlux’s reception that will be held in the afternoon of November 11th at the venue of the conference.

The key members for the SUPER (Semantics Utilized for Process management within and between EnteRprises) Project and LARKC (the LARge Knowledge Collider) Project will also be attending to the conference. These two projects are to be enforce in full scale.

Saltlux’s plan is to discuss on the sharing the information, expanding the semantic technology and commercialization during this conference and reception period. Saltlux wants to draw a roadmap of the discussion topics.

Saltlux will operates a demonstration booth where they show demonstration of semantic products and a poster session on a new system of OPTIMA (Ontology Population Tool based on Information extraction and MAtching) together with ETRI.

Tony Lee, the president and CEO of Saltlux will be a General Person in the session of “Semantic Web in Use” at the conference.