Top Speakers
We are early in the process of recruiting speakers for this event, and certainly appreciate speaker requests!
Please see below for a list of some of the excellent speakers that have already committed to speaking at the Text Analytics Summit in June:
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Seth Grimes
President
Alta Plana |
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| Seth Grimes is an analytics strategist with Washington DC based Alta Plana Corporation. He is contributing editor at TechWeb's InformationWeek, founding chair of the Text Analytics Summit, Sentiment Analysis Symposium, and Smart Content conference, and text analytics channel expert for TechTarget's BeyeNETWORK.com. He is the leading industry analyst covering text analytics. Seth consults, writes, and speaks on business intelligence, data management and analysis systems, text mining, visualization, and related topics. |
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Jeff Fried
CTO & VP Engineering
BA Insight |
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| Jeff Fried, BA-Insight’s CTO, is focused on strategic applications of search technology. Prior to joining BA-Insight, Jeff was a VP of Advanced Solutions for FAST Search and Transfer, and with FAST’s acquisition by Microsoft, he served as core product manager for FAST Search for SharePoint and then technical product manager for all Microsoft enterprise search products. Jeff is a frequent speaker and writer in the industry; holds 15 patents; and has authored more than 50 technical papers. He is a co-author of two books: Professional SharePoint 2010 Development and Professional Microsoft Search. |
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Tom Anderson
Managing Partner
Anderson Analytics |
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| Tom H. C. Anderson is Managing Partner of Anderson Analytics, developers of marketing research text analytics platform OdinText.com. In 2005 Anderson Analytics was the first company to advocate the use of modern NLP in the marketing research industry, and in 2007 he popularized the idea that traditional research firms need to embrace “Next Gen” Research. His firm counts several leading companies including Unilever, Starwood Hotels, MTV and Facebook as clients. Tom is a frequent lecturer at University and market research events and examples of his firms work has been widely published in trade journals and decision science text books. Anderson Analytics has been recognized for leadership and innovation in text analytics by several research industry trade organizations including the AMA, ARF, and ESOMAR. |
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Other Speakers include:
- Lewis Tierney, Director of Voice of Customer Analytics, American Express
- Daphne Guericke, Vice President of Linguistic Consulting, Appen Butler Hill
- Sobhan Hota, Principal Consultant, Fidelity Investments
- Mattias Tyrberg, CEO & Founder, Saplo
- Doug Fuller, Lead Analyst, Social Science Automation
- Gretchen Brandt, Analyst, Social Science Automation
- Stuart Shulman, President and CEO, Texifter
If you have any suggestions regarding speakers, or are interested in speaking yourself, please feel free to contact us directly:
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Testimonials
The event was very informative. Great content, great location and great networking opportunities. I learned some new tricks and met many new and worthwhile contacts. Well worth the trip!
Ravi Prasad, State Street Corporation
This was the best Summit I've attended. They did a great job of covering text analytics, social media analytics, and sentiment analysis, and how these technologies can be used to garner valuable information from data sources.
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The conference gave a good overview of the text analytics space, both from a technology perspective as well as a real life usage perspective.
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Fascinating speakers on a wide-range of relevant industry topics. Well-worth it!
Meta Brown, LinguaSys
 I am new to the Text Analytics world, however I still came away in awe of the work being done in the field and all the different ways of trying to harness the spoken word.
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The Text Analytics Summit is a unique and high-focused event that covers in-depth the commercial potential of text mining and sentiment analysis.
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Refreshing to attend a conference where the emphasis is on pure topic information gathering and not blatant vendor marketing ploys.
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A must attend summit for anyone who wants to know how content can be analyzed and leveraged to make better decisions and improve process.
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