"The International Semantic Web Conference is a major international forum at which research on all aspects of the Semantic Web is presented." as they say on the site.

A bit off topic, to remind myself where and how things stand...
I am still trying to introduce myself to the exciting world of semantic web. Still looking for a definition that I could relate to. The latest I have dug up was that there two ways to deal with information that currently available on WWW and constantly added to it.
One is to use sophisticated technics to parse existing text on WWW and process it using probably even more complicated technologies (which is what search engines are doing today).

At the heart of semantic web is knowledge representation via RDF. There is a content rich W3C site for all RDF purposes.
Start my RDF explorations there ...

Some of the projects associated with semantic web:

• The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project
• MusicBrainz
• RdfAndSql wiki page
• RdfCalendar wiki page

Among other many great pages this is from the father of the web and semantic web in plain english.
Business Model for the Semantic Web

I read somewhere that semantic web is an evolving collection of knowledge that cab be understood by computers. That understanding certainly implies that the vast knoweledge can be consumed and processed by computers for human benefit. Things like ticket ordering according with changes in your schedule, investment strategy adjustments, weight watching if you scale talks to your computer all can be done very intellegently utilizing the vast sematic web.
I find it very inspirational, but knowledge representaion schemes, ontologies, tools that extract and process data published on the web to turn it into semantic web take time to understand and digest.