Hear From More Than 30 World-Class Text Analytics Experts

Catherine serves as VP of Products for Attensity, the leader in multi-channel customer analysis and engagement software. She has over fifteen years of experience in marketing and product management for both large and small technology and services companies. Catherine came to Attensity from SAP BusinessObjects through their acquisition of Inxight Software, where as Sr. Director of Product Management she delivered text analytics products for OEM and government clients, leading Inxight’s “going beyond Google” strategy. Catherine also oversaw product management and marketing at Kovair, where she played a key role in the development and marketing of Kovair’s strategic account management application and led the team at iSyndicate responsible for the mid-market internet content syndication product line. Catherine holds an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley and a BA in English from the Johnston Center at the University of Redlands.

Robin Seidner is Director of Strategic Alliances, Insights, for Radian6, a salesforce.com company. She currently runs partnerships for Radian6 Insights, the advanced social media analytics platform that helps companies gain new understanding from social media data. In her current position, Robin seeks out and vets text analytics vendors for inclusion in the Insights platform.

Robin has worked in various roles in marketing, sales and business development in the social media monitoring and analytics since the industry was in its infancy. Prior to that, she ran a successful marketing consultancy practice serving the technology industry and start-up community..

Steven is responsible for business operations, he drives the company’s efforts to grow revenues and leads teams of data and strategy consultants that help clients leverage customer and social media data, combined with text analysis, to drive customer acquisition, understand service breaks, and build community.

Beyond the Arc provides clients with services that are designed to understand and improve the customer experience across multiple touch points, including social media. Steven has led numerous projects to develop multi-channel solutions, including retail stores, online commerce, mobile, and social media. His firm also helps clients develop communications strategies that drive sales and strengthen customer relationships.

Steven created and taught courses in business management for UC Berkeley, where he earned a BA and MBA, and has been a speaker at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

Attensity CTO Ian Hersey Ian began his commercial career at IBM as a computational linguist, and has more than 20 years of experience delivering innovative research technology into the commercial mainstream. At Attensity, Ian provides the technical and strategic product vision to complement the company’s business vision, setting the tone and direction for Attensity’s technologies and business applications. Prior to Attensity, Ian was vice president of technology development and strategy at Business Objects, an SAP company. He came to Business Objects through its acquisition of Inxight Software. As co-founder of Inxight, Ian led the definition and development of what became the industry’s broadest text analysis platform.

Mr. Mancini has been involved in data mining since 1996, working with OneSource Information Services (a Lotus Development Corporation spin-off) and later with Seibel Systems, Sprint PCS and Digital Reasoning Systems. He is currently an independent consultant working for commercial and military interests. At Digital Reasoning he became exposed to high level semantic data mining of unstructured text and became a true believer in the power and promise of text analytics. His journey has taken him from the National Ground Intelligence Center and INSCOM to seeming unlikely clients such as large, regional fast food chains. His current projects involving text analytics consist of measuring the impact of competing social media campaigns and the discovery of potential social connection through the study of concept maps of open conversations.

He is the author of "The New Landscape of Enterprise Search", published in June 2011 by Pandia Press, based in Oslo, Norway. This monograph amplifies the information in the first three editions of The Enterprise Search Report, which he wrote between 2004 and 2007, his "Beyond Search" monograph published by the Gilbane Group, and "Successful Enterprise Search Management", published by Galatea in the United Kingdom.

Craig Rhinehart is the Director of ECM Strategy and Market Development for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) which is part of IBM’s Software Solutions Group. He has more than 20 years of experience bringing innovative and successful products to market in the areas of enterprise content management including records management, electronic discovery and content analytics. Rhinehart is also helping to lead IBM’s efforts to commercialize Watson, the breakthrough technology recently showcased on Jeopardy!

Rhinehart comes to IBM through the 2006 acquisition of FileNet, where he served as Vice President of Product Marketing. Prior to joining FileNet, He was Vice President of Marketing for Tarian Software, which was also acquired by IBM in 2003.

Considered an expert in ECM, content analytics, electronic records and the US Department of Defense 5015.2-STD certification program, he has led and served as an advisor on several key industry initiatives.

Diane Burley is a serial entrepreneur who has launched and managed information companies and media divisions of varying sizes, and who has had executive experience at CBS Software, Gannett and Lucent Technologies. A former editor and an Internet pioneer, Burley is a rare combination of technologist and communicator — who understands how to harness technology for audience development, engagement, retention and persuading them to take action. 

With astute business sense, a metaphorical communication style, no fear of technology and an enviable C-level rolodex. At MarkLogic she is responsible for strategic business development. With astute business sense, a metaphorical communication style, no fear of technology and an award-winning writer, Burley provides fascinating insights on the technology that impacts us through her monthly webinar series, byline articles, blog, SiliconValet.blogspot.com and public speaking.

Laura Brown is the Director of Customer & Business Intelligence for Cisco’s Services. Her organization delivers actionable intelligence to improve the Customer experience with Cisco. Laura’s team leverages capabilities such as social media and verbatim analytics as well as surveys to deliver insight to all levels of the organization. The team also develops strategic measures and manages target setting for executive objectives.

Prior to joining Verint, Daniel was Vice President of Business Development and Marketing at mPrest Technologies, leading deployments and partnerships with IBM, Compact (HP), Motorola, France Telecom and others. Prior to mPrest Daniel consulted on quality, strategy and innovation to multinational corporations and coached executives at Northeastern University’s High-Tech MBA program.

Casey brings Voci extensive sales, marketing and operational experience, having spent over 25 years in small to medium private and public high tech companies. Much of her career has been in the semiconductor design automation and semiconductor intellectual property markets. Casey’s background includes VP-level positions at public companies including Cadence, Artisan (ARM), Avanti (Synopsys), and Integrated Silicon Solutions. Executive team start-up experience includes PSI (which she co-founded and served as president), InTime, Silicon Navigator and ChipEstimate. Casey was a management consultant with Strategic Planning Associates (Oliver Wyman), and has taught at Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon and Boise State, primarily focused on entrepreneurship. She received her BA and MA from Stanford, and her MBA from Carnegie Mellon.

Not satisfied with accepted norms, Frank is passionate about applying analytics, emerging technology and methods to the task of uncovering deep, actionable insights that drive financial performance.

John Furey was born in the USA in 1960. He grew up in Lugano and then Geneva, Switzerland and received a traditional English education in England from the age of eight. His passion for observing and understanding human nature blossomed, particularly during the five years he spent living on the Africa continent (‘81-’86) where he was confronted with the stark differences between European and African thinking.

He developed the first online thinking style profile in 1994, which some regard as a watershed moment for the field of psychology, and later leveraged his Time Style Profile as the cornerstone for a successful consulting and organizational development firm that he built called HumanAge. By 1997 he had launched his first academic efforts to establish what he later named the MindTime Theory as a scientifically validated theory of thinking. His collaboration with scientists and thought leaders became known as the MindTime Project, and the MindTime Theory would prove to be much more important than he could have then imagined.

He has written two books and co-authored a number of scientific papers with his colleague Dr. Vincent Fortunato, who believes that John's theory of how people think will become the dominant theory of individual differences in psychology. The MindTime Theory describes the human mental operating system and its functioning.

Chris Jones is the Sr. Manager of Text Analytics at Zynga and is responsible for the business, technical, and strategic elements of the text analytics platform. The platform empowers Zynga to drive optimal outcomes using experience analysis and behavior analysis rooted in customer satisfaction. Chris has over 13 years of experience building Business Intelligence applications across a number of companies including Citigroup, Gateway, AAA, CNET Networks, Intuit, Adobe and now Zynga.

Manya is the Director of Advanced Analytics and Solutions at Attensity. Having joined Attensity in 2010, Manya is tasked with expanding Attensity’s offerings beyond business intelligence and reporting style analytics to predictive and advanced analytics in focused solutions areas. Manya brings over 15 years experience in text and data mining at SAS, helping customers in industries including manufacturing, finance, telecommunications and retail identify triggers for churn, early warning, customer satisfaction and more. She has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Waikato, New Zealand.

Michal Wroczynski is the founder and CEO of fido intelligence. He has more than 10 years of experience in the field of natural language analysis. Medical doctor by education. Likes jazz, skydiving and sailing.