Workshop

Sunday 15th June

Pre - Summit Workshops From 5- 7pm

Brand new to this years summit, Text Analytics News, is proud to present two pre summit workshops taking place the evening before the summit. Specifically designed for the end users of Text Analytics. This is your opportunity to learn from some of the industries leading experts as they take you through a comprehensive introduction to Text Analytics. Looking to implement Text Analytics solutions in your organization? Want to understand which Vendor and solution is right for me? Want to know the best strategies for implement ting a solution in your organization? Then this is a must attend session for you.

Session 1: 5.00pm

Text analytics for dummies

A comprehensive introduction to text analytics from one of the industries leading experts

• The business case for text analytics
• Essential technical points
• Best practices for getting started with text analytics

Session hosted by Seth Grimes, President, Alta Plana & Summit Chairman

Session 2: 6.00pm

Marketplace Overview: Text Analytics Vendor Options

A comprehensive marketplace overview, taking you through the text analytics vendor options identifying the right option for you.

• Which text analytics vendors to consider
• Leading vendors' application specializations
• Leading vendors' market and technical position

Nick Patience , Research director, information management, 451 Group

CLARABRIDGE WORKSHOP Day 2 : 13.35- 14.35pm

Join Clarabridge's Justin Langseth and Best Buy's Jared Andersen as t he y attempt to break the text mining deployment speed record, by setting up a full Clarabridge end-to-end enterprise text mining system in under 1 hour. Live in front of the audience, Langseth with demonstrate how to install text mining software, connect it to a source of unstructured data, setup an unstructured data workflow, run the workflow, establish categories, tune sentiment, set up reports and dashboards, and perform time series, sentiment, and root cause analysis.   While the data is being processed, Jared Andersen from Best Buy will brief the audience on why his company needs text analytics, and the value that it will provide to various groups within his organization.

This feat has never been attempted before, and will be performed live in front of the audience. Audience participation will be encouraged, questions will be taken at any time, and anything could happen. Due to the nature of this session, competitors will not be allowed to attend.

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