[Asis-l] Program for May 8 Sentiment Analysis Symposium in NY

[Seth Grimes]

We've announced the program for the May 8, 2013 Sentiment Analysis 
Symposium in New York (http://sentimentsymposium.com/) -- a program that 
will feature industry-leading speakers and panelists from Bloomberg, IBM, 
PayPal, Vision Critical, and Westat, start-ups, and academia -- covering 
social media and social intelligence -- for customer experience, finance, 
healthcare, market research, and media applications. Plus we have four 
great sponsors so far, Bloomberg, Gnip, Lexalytics, and Converseon, with 
others pending.

Speakers come from academic, research, business, and software development 
backgroups.

The symposium is designed for businesses that want to lead the competition 
-- in customer satisfaction and support, brand and reputation management, 
financial services, product design and marketing, and an array of other 
business processes -- for those who understand the advantage they will 
gain in understanding customer, market, employee, investor, and political 
sentiment, emotion, mood, and opinion.

The symposium will be preceded, on May 7, 2013, by an optional, half-day 
Research & Innovation session 
(http://sentimentsymposium.com/research.html) that will explore 
cutting-edge industry initiatives, and by an optional, half-day Practical 
Sentiment Analysis tutorial (http://sentimentsymposium.com/tutorial.html), 
designed for advanced business users, software developers, and solution 
providers. The tutorial will be presented by Prof. Ronen Feldman of the 
Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Prof. Feldman is a pioneer in the 
development and application of data mining and text analytics technologies 
to solve Big Data problems in finance, marketing, and social media.

The symposium kicks off with talks covering a range of sentiment analysis 
applications:

- Professor VS Subrahmanian of the University of Maryland will speak on 
"Sentiment and Signals," providing a leading researcher's view on the use 
of sentiment and semantic analysis and data mining for government, 
industry, and intelligence.

- Clinical psychologist Dr. Erin Olivo will speak on "Big Data, 
Linguistics, and the Science of Crowd Psychology."

- Gary Kazantsev of Bloomberg will cover "News Analytics in Finance."

- Vision Critical VP Stuart Shulman will speak on "Motivation Through 
Fear."

- PayPal Director of Customer Advocacy Han-Sheong Lai will describe how 
PayPal applied advanced technologies to boost revenue and decrease call 
volume and cost in a talk on "Customer Experience Improvement."

- Amelia Burke-Garcia of research-firm Westat will speak on identification 
of "Health Influencers to Impact Health Behavior."

Registration is online at http://sentimentsymposium.com/registration.html. 
A Super Early registration discount runs through February 8, 2013. (We 
also have a 50% government/academic discount and a special low rate for 
full-time students.)

The Sentiment Analysis Symposium series has drawn steadily growing 
numbers, at three New York symposium and two San Francisco symposiums held 
since 2010. (Videos of talks at earlier symposiums are available for free 
access at the symposium Web site, 
http://sentimentsymposium.com/about.html.) The symposium both builds on 
past success and aims to stay on the leading edge of sentiment 
technologies and applications. The symposium showcases ground-breaking 
sentiment-analysis applications and provides unique learning 
opportunities.

Other distinguished May 8 include David Rabjohns, CEO of MotiveQuest, a 
social intelligence company; market research innovator Leonard Murphy, 
founder of Gen2 Advisors; Sean Reckwerdt from Networked Insights, speaking 
on Social TV; Realeyes Managing Director Mihkel Jäätma, speaking on 
"Facial Recognition for Emotion Detection"; Prof. Philip Resnik of the 
Univ. of Maryland, on real-time polling; Dr. Catherine Havasi, of the MIT 
Media Lab and founder of start-up Luminso, on cross-lingual sentiment 
analysis; and Hal Bloom from Sage and Lindsey Sanford from the Bernard 
Hodes Group.

To maximize networking opportunities, the symposium will once again 
feature evening-before and post-symposium receptions.

Please join us!


 			Seth Grimes, symposium organizer



-- 
Seth Grimes    grimes at altaplana.com   +1 301-270-0795    @sethgrimes
Alta Plana Corp, analytics strategy consulting, http://altaplana.com
http://SentimentAnalysisSymposium.com, organizer, May 8, 2013, NY