Ora Lassila: "Reimagining the Semantic Web - a retrospective", keynote address at the 12th Conference on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Health Care and Life Science (SWAT4HCLS), Basel (Switzerland), February 2023. (video)
2022
Ora Lassila: "From raw bits to knowledge", keynote address at the 4th Ibero-American Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web Conference (KGSWC-2022), Madrid (Spain), November 2022.
Ora Lassila & Mark Myslin: "Yes, you can use knowledge graphs in real life!" presentation at the 4th Knowledge Graph Conference, New York City, May 2022.
Ora Lassila: "Accessing and Querying Semantic Web Data", invited talk at the Seminar on New Trends on Intelligent Systems and Soft Computing, University of Granada, Granada (Spain), February 2012
Ora Lassila: "Introduction to Context Awareness", invited "teaching sample lecture", Aalto University, Espoo (Finland), February 2012
Ora Lassila: "Introduction to Context Awareness", keynote address at Pitney Bowes' "Mobile Day", Stamford (CT), October 2011.
Ora Lassila: "Semantic Web Platform for Personal Information Management", invited talk at Semantic Days, Stavanger (Norway), April 2008
Ora Lassila: "The Semantic Web, Why the Open-Source Community Should Care, and Other Thoughts...', keynote address at ApacheCon US 2007, Atlanta (GA), November 2007
Ora Lassila: "Semantic Web, quo vadis?", keynote address at the Scandinavian Conference on AI and the Finnish AI Symposium, Espoo (Finland), October 2006
Ora Lassila: "Identity Crisis and Serendipity", invited 'lightning' talk at the W3C Advisory Committee meeting, Edinburgh (Scotland, UK), May 2006
2000-2004
Ora Lassila & Lutz Heuser: "Semantically Augmented Mobile Access for a Service-enabled Enterprise", invited talk at SAP 'Sapphire' (SAP Users' Conference), New Orleans (LS), May 2004
Ora Lassila & James Hendler: "Semantic Web @ 5", keynote address at the Semantic Technology 2006 conference, San Jose (CA), March 2006
Ora Lassila: "Applying Semantic Web in Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing: Will Policy-Awareness Help? ", invited talk at the Semantic Web Policy Workshop at the 4th International Semantic Web Conference, Galway (Ireland), November 2005
Ora Lassila & Lutz Heuser: "Semantically Augmented Mobile Access for a Service-enabled Enterprise", invited talk at SAP "Sapphire" (SAP Users' Conference), New Orleans (LS), May 2004
Ora Lassila: "Knowledge Assembly for Life Sciences", panel discussion at the BioIT World 2002 conference, Boston (MA), March 2002 (position statement: "It's Just Semantics")
Ora Lassila: "The Semantic Web", panel discussion organized by Mass eComm,
Framingham (MA), October 12, 2001
Ora Lassila: "The Semantic Web Elephant: What Do The Blind Men See?", panel
discussion at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'01), Seattle (WA), August 2001 (position statement: "Semantic Web:
Hopes and Fears").
Ora Lassila: "Semantic Web: What Does It Mean?", invited presentation at the
Boeing Shadow Works, Bellevue (WA), August 2001.
Ora Lassila: "Nokia RDF Software", presentation at the DARPA Agent
Markup Language program kickoff meeting, Cambridge (MA), August 2000.
Ora Lassila & Henry S. Thompson:
"RDF:
A Frame System for the Web", presentation at the workshop on "Semantics
for the Web" at Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany, March 2000
1990-1999
Ora Lassila: "Resource Description Framework", presentation at the
XML'99 Conference, Philadelphia (PA), December 1999
Ora Lassila: "Why Your Microwave Oven Needs (to Surf) the WWW", invited
talk at the 3rd Annual Nokia Wireless Data Conference, San Francisco (CA),
June 1999
Ora Lassila & Franklin Reynolds: "Composite Capability/Preference
Profile", presentation at WWW8 Conference in Toronto, May 1999
Ora Lassila & Robert Schloss: "Metadata, RDF, and Dublin Core",
tutorial given at the XTech'99 XML Developers Conference, March 1999
Carl Lagoze, Eric Miller, Ora Lassila, Ralph R. Swick, Renato Iannella,
Robert Schloss & Stuart Weibel:
"Using
Web Metadata", tutorial given at the WWW7 conference, Brisbane (Australia),
April 1998
Ora Lassila: "Resource Description Framework - what is it?", presentation
given at the MCC/OMG/DARPA Workshop on Compositional Software Architectures,
Monterey (CA), January 1998
Ora Lassila: "Mobile Communication Services of the Next Century: the
Internet Approach", presentation at the IBC Mobile Internet conference,
Orlando (FL), February 1997
Ora Lassila & Seppo Törmä: "Using a Distributed Frame
System to Implement Distributed Problem Solvers", presentation at the International
Working Conference on Cooperating Knowledge Based Systems (CKBS-90), University
of Keele, Keele (Great Britain), October 1990; published in report form
as [Lassila & Törmä 1991]
Martti Mäntylä & Ora Lassila: "Object-Oriented Programming",
invited tutorial at STeP-90, the Finnish Artificial Intelligence Symposium,
Oulu (Finland), August 1990