Throughout this year, GCA found that knowledge technologies were taking center stage in its XML conferences (Europe and US) and the Extreme Markup Conference (Montreal).  In light of the strong interest in knowledge technologies, GCA is offering a new conference in 2001. This new conference, Knowledge Technologies 2001, (or KT2001) is a natural consequence of the rapidly growing interest in technologies that will provide solutions for the knowledge management community and make the Semantic Web a reality. 

While most of the GCA conferences in recent years have focused on markup or more specifically XML and related standards, KT2001 focuses on the technologies that enable knowledge.  So while XML may be relevant in some cases, it is not the focus of this conference.  KT specifically reaches beyond the typical GCA Conference audience.  In fact, KT2001 has been designed as a conference that will provide a bridge between knowledge communities that have no forum for interaction.  KT will provide a meeting of the minds, so that each knowledge community can learn from the other for mutual benefit. Communities that this new conference will address include:

• Knowledge Representation / Artificial Intelligence
• Knowledge Organization / Libraries
• Internet / Semantic Web
• Document / Asset Management
• Knowledge Management

This year's program content has been guided by the input of the Board of Advisors.  In particular, GCA has the program committee, consisting of Dan Connolly (W3C), Eric Miller (OCLC), Holger Rath (empolis), and Ann Wrightson (Ontopia) to thank for the high quality of this year's program.

KT2001 will consist of 3 concurrent tracks;  Management, Implementers, and Technical.  Subject matter from the 5 knowledge communities make up the program.  Emphasis will be placed on the Business of Knowledge, Managers Technology Overviews, Ontologies and Taxonomies, Topic Maps, Tools and Applications, Knowledge Visualization, Knowledge Acqusition, Asset Management, Core Standards, and Case Studies.

KT2001 also boasts outstanding keynote speakers.  Opening Keynote presentations will be provided by Douglas B. Lenat, President/CEO, Cycorp, Dr. Nic Fulton, Chief Technology Strategist, Reuterspace, a division of Reuters, and Al Zollar, President/CEO, Lotus Development Corporation, a division of IBM.  Edd Dumbill, Managing Editor, XML.com will provide the closing keynote presentation.

You can learn more about KT2001 at www.knowledgetechnologies.net.

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