About

The Sentiment Analysis Symposium is being organized and produced by Alta Plana Corporation. Alta Plana was founded by Seth Grimes in 1997 to deliver business analytics strategy consulting and implementation services with a focus on advanced analytics: BI, text mining, data visualization, analytical databases, and complex event processing.

Seth Grimes is conference chair. Contact Seth at +1 301-270-0795 or via e-mail at grimes(at)altaplana.com or click to follow @SethGrimes on Twitter. Christine Sierra is Sentiment Analysis Symposium marketing director. Contact her at +1 978-809-9640 or via e-mail at clbsierra(at)gmail.com. Christine is on Twitter at @sierrasez.

Seth organized the very successful inaugural Sentiment Analysis Symposium, held April 13, 2010. What did attendees think?

"It really was a great day and your audience make up was stellar." -- Karla Wachter, senior vice president, Waggener Edstrom
"An extremely beneficial and well-run conference. The presentations were relevant, engaging, and thought provoking." -- Stephanie Noble, Paden Noble Consulting
"Brought together a high-powered crowd of experienced practitioners, technology builders and analysts to highlight what works, the kind of ROI one can expect and what to avoid. To get all that in one day is remarkable" -- Brooke Aker, US CEO, Expert System
"An excellent opportunity to catch up on the sentiment industry and interact with the major players." -- Breck Baldwin, president, Alias-I
"I think it was great. The talks [were] well balanced, informative and educational, and I like the lightning talks, great way to showcase many products." -- Tom Zeng, software architect, Intridea