About
The Sentiment Analysis Symposium is 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.
Photos from the San Francisco symposium, Nov 9, 2011
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. Symposium media contact is Rebecca Metz, Metz Communications. Contact her at rebecca(at)metzpr.com or +1 512-560-5211.
We've held six very successful past symposiums:
- New York, May 8, 2013
- San Francisco, October 30, 2012
- New York, May 8, 2012
- San Francisco, November 9, 2011
- New York, April 12, 2011
- New York (inaugural symposium), April 13, 2010
Presentations, Testimonials
New York, 2013 presentations, attendees, and testimonials
- "It was a fabulous experience for me and was easily the best conference I have been to in several years. Great job organizing it." -- V.S. Subrahmanian, Univ of Maryland and Sentimetrix
- "I really enjoyed the NYC symposium in May, and learned a tremendous amount." -- Susan L. Madden
- "Great conference! Nice work." -- Bartt C. Kellermann, Global Capital
- "Excellent event. I really enjoyed the content that was shared, and meeting awesome people. First class." -- Brad Bokal, Gnip
- "Thank you for the opportunity to speak. It was very exciting to be part of this excellent event!" -- Martin Salo, Realeyes
San Francisco, 2012 presentations, attendees, and testimonials
- "Thank you for the Sentiment Symposium experience; I really enjoyed it and learned tons." -- Daniel Gray, Amazon.com
- "I really enjoy these conferences. Each time I walk away with a wealth of knowledge and education that I didn't have merely hours before." -- Banafsheh Ghassemi, American Red Cross
- "This is a high quality event and a great opportunity to learn and network with industry leaders." -- Daniel Ziv, VP Voice of the Customer Analytics, Verint Systems
- "All the players in Sentiment Analysis were present. So nice to see people so enthusiastic about this area." -- Rajiv Vij, Cisco
- "I thoroughly enjoyed and learned from the conference. Thanks for putting it on."
New York, 2012 presentations, attendees, and testimonials
- "It is truly one of the best conferences out there globally. You balance academic / corporate / vendor very well and do a phenomenal job getting interesting information out to the attendees. I learn more at your symposium than I usually do in a two-day conference." -- Carol Haney, Toluna
- "It was very informative and enjoyable." -- John Maloney, SRA
- "I hugely enjoyed the conference! Lineup was perfectly balanced and I met very nice people." -- David Nadeau, MediaMiser
- "Thanks for a great symposium. We found it to be very timely and very informative." -- James DeWaele, RAGE Frameworks
- "It was the best - you picked the most interesting people in the US and they gave their best." -- Huguette Guilhaumon, Sciencetech Communications
- "I think it was time very well spent indeed. I think the quality of your speakers was pretty high and I feel the quality of the attendees was as well. I met a lot of interesting, knowledgeable people across many industries. I would attend another of your events so please keep me in the loop... The way you structured this event was different from what I usually attend, pretty light on vendors and very heavy on committed users who pay real money to come." -- Jody Porrazzo, UBM
- "Another great show." -- Tom Anderson, Anderson Analytics
San Francisco, 2011 presentations, attendees, and testimonials
- "Awesome symposium!" -- Sarah A. Rice
- "I thought the symposium was great,... of tremendous value for me." -- David Bean, Salmon Partners and the Univ of Utah
- "Well worth it! Thanks to Seth Grimes, who really does an excellent job of assembling great speakers, topics and a packed agenda." -- John Blossom, Shore Communications
New York, 2011 presentations, attendees, and testimonials
- "The event was well thought out, very professionally organized, and consequently well attended." -- Armando Gonzalez, CEO, RavenPack
- "The Sentiment Analysis Symposium 2011 was a great place to meet with practitioners and discover how they are addressing real-world concerns." -- Nitin Indurkhya, eBay Research Labs
- "It's a rare conference that leaves participants asking for more. The subject matter and quality of presentations had me hoping the Sentiment Analysis Symposium would last another day." -- Neil Glassman, WhizBangPowWow
- "Coordination and blending of the symposium, speakers, and attendees were superb." -- Peter Snell
New York, 2010 testimonials
- "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
Sponsorship
Is your company interested in sponsoring the symposium? (Past sponsors are AlchemyAPI, Attensity, Clarabridge, Converseon, Crimson Hexagon, DataSift, Dow Jones, Gnip, Lexalytics, Lymbix, NetBase, OpenText, RAGE Frameworks, RavenPack, SAP, SAS, SocialNuggets, Texifter, TheySay, Topsy Labs, Viralheat, and WiseWindow. Thanks! We welcome media & organizational partner sponsors as well.) Please contact chair Seth Grimes at +1 301-270-0795 or via e-mail at grimes(at)altaplana.com.
Contact
Speaking Opportunities
Please visit the Call for Speakers page.
We neither ask a payment to speak (SAS is not that kind of conference!), nor do we pay speakers (sorry!), with only rare exceptions.
Contact Address
Alta Plana Corporation
7300 Willow Avenue
Takoma Park, MD 20912
USA
Social Media
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