Agenda at a Glance

April 13th, 2010

8:00am–

Registration & Coffee

9:00am–

Chair’s Welcome
Seth Grimes, Alta Plana

9:30am–

Visionaries Panel
Moderator: Suresh Vittal, Forrester Research
Bradley Honan, StrategyOne
Greg Radner, Thomson Reuters
Brad McCormick, Porter Novelli
Karla Wachter, Waggener Edstrom Worldwide

10:30am–

What Business Innovators Need to Know about Sentiment Analysis
Claire Cardie, Cornell University

11:05am–

Break

11:20am–

Lightning Talks
Jeff Catlin, Lexalytics
Steve Alexander, Serendio
Ravi Condamoor, Serendio
Justin Langseth, Clarabridge, Inc.
Mattias Tyrberg, Saplo
Fiona McNeill, SAS Inc.
Seth Altman, Mark Logic Corporation
Ole-Christoffer Granmo, University of Agder; Integrasco
Alec Go, Stanford Univ., Twitter sentiment
Brooke Aker, Expert System
Sally Church, Icarus Consultants
Dave Naffis, Intridea, Inc.
Breck Baldwin, Alias-i
Ian Hersey, Attensity
Laurel Earhart, SentiMetrix
Daniel Mayer, TEMIS
Bernard Chung, SAP

12:50pm–

Lunch & Affinity Tables

1:50pm–

Selecting a Social Media Analysis Platform/Provider: A Conversation
Moderator: Suresh Vittal, Forrester Research
Nathan Gilliatt, Social Target
Marshall Sponder, webmetricsguru.com AND Porter Novelli

2:35pm–

Pharma Sentiment Surprise! - Online Conversation Yields Unexpected Results
Stephanie Noble, Paden Noble Consulting

3:10pm–

Financial Markets
Richard Brown, Machine Readable News, Thomson Reuters

3:45pm–

Break

4:00pm–

Voice of the Market
Tom Anderson, Anderson Analytics

4:35pm–

Sentimental Market Segmentation
Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology

5:10pm–

Sentiment, News, and the Polarity Problem
Leslie Barrett, LBTechconsulting

5:45pm–

Conclusion
Seth Grimes, Alta Plana