Program chair Bob DuCharme has most the of the program and speakers for our first Semantic Web Strategies tradeshow posted.

It is interesting for me to see an acquaintance from the early days of the Internet as a speaker - Nova Spivack. Nova was a founder of Earthweb. Earthweb went public in 1998 and ultimately we bought the Web sites in late 2000. Nova is a true original thinker and was recently featured in an article on the future of the Semantic Web in Business 2.0 magazine.

In the meantime our new Web site Semantic Web Zone is gaining significant daily page views for a fledgling Web site on a somewhat obscure topic. Generally gaining traffic on a Web site is a good sign for the future of a new tradeshow, but of course we will have to await results from the our first show to see if this correlation is a correct one.