John Davies

Dr John Davies leads the next generation Web research group at BT. His current interests centre around the application of Semantic Web technology to knowledge management, information retrieval and Semantic Web services.

He is project director of the SEKT EU integrated project (www.sekt-project.com) and co-organiser of the European Semantic Web Conference. Dr Davies has written and edited many papers and books on Web-based information management, knowledge management and the Semantic Web. He has also served on the program committees of many conferences in related areas.

Whilst working at BT he developed a set of knowledge management tools that are now marketed through Exago Ltd (www.exago.com), of which Dr Davies is Chief Technology Officer. He is a member of the British Computer Society and a Chartered Engineer.