Connecting Content with Data

The Future of Content community invites you to our in-person event, Connecting Content with Data. We have two incredible speakers from diverse backgrounds who will share their collective take on how data-driven publishing and semantic enrichment reshape how we create, manage, and deliver content.

We will start with a moderated panel discussion to demystify structured content, ontology and knowledge graphs—how they’re helping content professionals streamline workflows, improve discoverability, and deliver more personalized experiences at scale. Following the panel discussion, we will have an open Q&A session where you can bring your questions to one or more panelists and contribute to the discussion.

As always, we will end the evening with some great drinks, interesting one-on-one conversations, and networking.

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AGENDA
17:30 – 18:00 - Gather and mingle
18:00 – 18:15 - About Future of Content and this Event
18:15 – 19:15 - Moderated panel discussion
19:15 – 19:45 - Q&A and open discussion
19:45 – 21:00 - Drinks and Networking
21:00 - Venue closes

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PANELISTS

• Jarno van Driel, International Structured Data & Semantic SEO consultant
• Wouter Beek, Co-founder at Triply; researcher at VU University Amsterdam

MODERATOR

• Kelly Chambers, Director of UX Writing & Content Design at Booking.com | Future of Content organizer

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About Jarno van Driel
Jarno van Driel is an international Structured Data and technical SEO consultant. He started his career in 1998, during the early years of the web as a print and web designer, Flash and 3D artist, frontend developer, and accessibility engineer. Jarno has continuously embraced new and challenging roles to become a well-rounded digital professional.

Jarno’s activities can be categorized and classified in many different taxonomies and ontologies. Yet labeling Jarno’s job title is a near-impossible task because his activities overlap with a multitude of departments and specialists. An ambiguous state, because of which most simply know him as ‘just Jarno’, that structured-data fanboy from Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Jarno became fascinated with the ‘semantic web’ when he discovered something called ‘semantic metadata’ (2008). Semantic annotations piqued Jarno’s interest because of his background in web accessibility, which is about expressing structure and meaning. Things structured data markup takes to another level, making it the obvious path ahead.

As an early adopter of linked open data, his work was mentioned in several W3C discussion groups. Mentions for which Jarno is very grateful because it would lead him to start publicly participating in schema.org (2013). Through this, Jarno met and learned from many of the pioneers who are at the forefront of the semantic technologies being used today.

About Wouter Beek
Wouter Beek is co-founder of Triply BV, a company that offers Linked Data software and services, and guest researcher at the Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) research group at VU University Amsterdam. He is interested in the Semantic Web as a platform for knowledge-intensive applications, the deployment of large-scale knowledge bases for innovative reuse, and the interaction between Web semantics and pragmatics.

About Kelly Chambers, Moderator, Future of Content
Kelly has fifteen years of experience in product development, specialising in content strategy and UX leadership. She has a proven track record in driving creative projects from concept to scale, establishing global standards, and building craft communities from the ground up.
Kelly also made happen what most leaders dream of. She is responsible for successfully scaling the UX Writing and Content Design organisation at Booking.com from 2 to 80-plus, using experimentation and business impact to demonstrate and advocate for the value of the role.

About Future of Content
Technology is evolving fast – and so is the way we communicate. The Future of Content exists to recognise and reflect this gathering momentum. We’re excited to see innovation in creating, curating and harnessing content, so we’re creating a space to explore the possibilities together.

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