EKAW 2008 Industrial Panel

16th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management

Participatns > Reinvent - Conor Shankey

Conor Shankey - Reinvent Technology Inc

ImageConor Shankey is Chief Technology Officer at Reinvent. In 1990, Conor founded Visual Knowledge Software, Inc., a semantic technology company that became recognized as world leader in the emerging Web 3.0 space - a space that will define the future of the Internet. This technology platform, Visual Knowledge, is a "Web 3.0" application development environment and a world leading semantic database, which is capable of inferencing, reasoning and supporting very large scale ontologies. Conor is an accomplished software engineer, and was responsible for developing and implementing the largest WAN network and Intranet in North America. In 1991, he was awarded a substantial $8M contract with a large power utility company, BC Hydro, to replace the organization's mainframe systems with an innovative enterprise information system. Since joining Reinvent when the company acquired Visual Knowledge Software in 2007, Conor has been integrating the semantic platform into Reinvent's core business operations. Conor has been the guest speaker at a number of national and international workshops and conferences. He is on the board of several IT and biotech companies and has previously helped in the founding, financing and acquisition of several companies.

ImageThe Reinvent media group's mission is to be a global media company that enlightens and connects the hearts and soul of each person through words and visual information. The company's vision is to evolve from basic advertising boards into a thriving, universally-accepted and -accessible online enterprise, creating a powerful presence that provides useful content and relevant information to all industries. Through its domain names, global advertising networks, virtual cities, semantic technology and venture capital arm, Reinvent truly is on course for an unbounded future.