Our mission is to exploit semantic technologies to address the various challenges associated with communication and collaboration at large scales. We acknowledge that these challenges include technical, social, policy and economic strands and thus our approach uses a hybrid combination of research, technology creation, exploitation, networking, dissemination, education and standardisation. In short our aim is to maintain semantics as an integral component of modern-day Information Systems leveraging the expertise and skillset of our Partners, Members and the wider semantic community.