When planning a conference it’s essential to arrange the preparations so that your event doesn’t end up in a timing conflict with potentially competing events. Since our [Semantic Days] conference targets an audience who are engaged within the much wider ‘information management’ space, «juxtaposed» subjects also need to be checked out.

1. Semantic Days ’13:
Investigation of potential collisions with competing events
Searches cover terms indicated with star/asteroid (*) below, plus the text string «conference 2013». Obviously,
one will get a large number of hits; first screening gave approx. 40 events (of variable coverage; partly global,
regional and national) spread across a 15-month period. This overview is organized alphabetically according to
terms, and subsequently sorted chronologically (with clickable links). Even though none of the identified events
collide directly with the tentative timing for our event, I’ve included all more-or-less relevant hits within the
first half of the year (’13), because the overview can be of interest from more than one point of view. Put
together, there’s a strikingly broad offering in this space.
By-the-way: Some events that take place in 2012 are included, because I consider them particularly relevant as
‘competitors’ to us, – and because the sequel for ’13 doesn’t appear to be set /defined yet. These are empathized
with italic text.
This overview was originally up-to-date by early June ’12:
* Analytic* (plural forms)
- Sept. ’12: IRM Business Analysis Conf. Europe 2012
- Feb. : Visualization and Data Analysis
- April: Google Analytics User Conference and
INFORMS Conf. on Business Analytics & Ops. Research
Predictive Analytics World
- May : Google Analytics Conference 2013
- June: Industrial Conf. on Data Mining
- July: International Conf. on Machine Learning and Data Mining
* Business Intelligence/BI
- Sept. ’12: TDWI BI Symposium → don’t know when the next one will be!
- Nov. ’12: TDWI World Conf. Emerging Technologies → coincides with
IRM’s double conference on ‘Data Mgmt. & Info. Quality’ and ‘Data Warehouse & BI’
- Feb. : Gartner BI Summit (Barcelona)
- March: ——— " ——— (Grapevine, Texas)
- May : Conference BI & Reporting (the Oslo event; other cities/countries at other times)
* Big Data
- Jan. : Big Data Hack Day
- Feb. : BIG Data Europe (Stockholm)
- March: ––—–– " —––– (Warszawa)
- April: ––—–– " —––– (Istanbul)
- Aug.: International Conf. on Very Large Data Bases
* Data Warehous* (in multiple phrasings/formats)
- See other conferences listed under topics like BI and MDM
* Enterprise Search
- May ’12: Enterprise Search Europe
- Oct. ’12: Enterprise Search Summit (coincides with e.g. KMWorld & Taxonomy BC.)
Note! The ’13-edition is tentatively scheduled close to SemDays13; May 21-22nd.
- March ’13: Intranet, SharePoint and Enterprise Search (platform-specific; narrow?)

2. * Master Data Management
- Feb. : Gartner MDM Summit 2013 (coincides with their BI Summit)
- April: IRM MDM Summit Europe 2013 – coincides with their
Data Governance Conf. Europe 2013
* Semantic* (multiple formats)
- June ’12: Semantic Technology & Business (San Francisco)
- Aug. ’12:RuleML – coincided with Pragmatic Web
- Sept.’12: Semantic Technology & Business (London)
- Oct. ’12: ——————— " ——————— (New York)
- Nov. ’12: International Semantic Web Conf. (Boston)
- Oct. ’13: International Semantic Web Conf. (Sydney)
* «Other»
Explanation: Cross-disciplinary events (such as TED) and other more peripherally associated
functions that I’ve stumbled across.
- Oct. ’12: Internet Librarian
- Jan. : Conf. on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR)
- Feb. : TED (Technology - Entertainment - Design)
[Norwegian Computer Society annual event:] Software [2013]
-March: International Conf. on Informatics & Computer Sciences
- April: International Conf. on Data Engineering and Computers in Libraries, plus
International Conf. on Intelligent Materials, Applied Mechanics & Design Science
- July : International Conf. on e-Business
Semantic Technology and Knowledge Engineering
- unknown: [previous annual event by Norwegian Computer Society] Topic Maps
Besides, I can tell that I’ve screened most major IT industry brands (like Gartner and Google).
This investigation was conducted as-is; I can not eliminate having missed something!
* Additions (…discovered little by little)
– ECIM: [E&P] Expert Center for InfoMgmt → Haugesund, Sept. 10-12th ’12 (Oil & Gas)
– European SharePoint Conf. → Copenhagen, February 4-7th ’13 (vendor-specific)
– E&P Info & Data Mgmt. → London, February 6-7th (Oil & Gas)
– GigaOM: Structure:Data → New York, March 20-21st
– The AIIM Conf.: Extreme Information → New Orleans, March 20-22nd
– European Data Forum → Dublin, April 9th-10th
– TMforum: Big Data Analytics Summit → Nice, May 13th-16th (telecoms industry)
– Extended Semantic Web Conf. → Montpellier, same as ours!  (Sem. & Big Data)
– DATA: 2nd Int. Conf. on Data Mgmt Tech’s & Apps → Reykjavik, July 29-31st
– I-SEMANTICS / I-KNOW Conf. → Graz, <sometime after Aug.>
– O’Reilly Strata: Making Data Work → London, (+3x in the US; earlier), Nov. xx-yy ’13
∑ ~ 40 different events of more-or-less relevant format, only 10 of these took place in ’12.
Parallel and/or repeating events have only been counted once.