2023 Basic Formal Ontology Summit Meeting, Buffalo, May 23-25, 2023

[Barry Smith]

This is to announce the 2023 BFO Summit Meeting. 

Goals

1. to bring together researchers who have played an important role in the development and application of BFO, to highlight the practical impact and value of using BFO as a top-level architecture,
2. to identify and work through outstanding issues experienced by users of BFO,
3. to begin the creation of a set of BFO-conformant ontologies in the domain of government policy and data

The meeting information page, which will be updated at regular intervals, can be found here.

Keynote Speakers

Werner Ceusters (Buffalo): The Axiomatization of BFO 2020: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly 

Alan Ruttenberg (Buffalo):Time Matters

Janna Hastings (Zurich and St. Gallen): Field Reports from Using BFO in Scientific Ontologies

Ryan Riccucci (Division Chief, US Border Patrol): (On Government Ontology, TBD)

Organization

A variety of panels, workshops, and speaker sessions will be organized in the course of the meeting, and proposals are welcome. 

Those interested in participating should contact John Beverley as soon as possible.