Agenda

The program for the March 5, 2014 "human analytics" workshops and the March 6, 2014 conference is outlined in the agenda that follows. Attend either or both. And whichever day(s) you attend, join us for the Wednesday evening, March 5 networking reception, starting at 5:30 pm.

March 5 Workshops Business Track Technical Track
Morning Session
9:00 am-12:30 pm
Stephen D. Rappaport, Stephen D. Rappaport Consulting LLC
with Vincent Santino, Kaplan Test Prep; Peter Fontana, We Are Social; and Maribel Lara, M80
Jason Baldridge, University of Texas
Afternoon Session
1:30 pm-5:00 pm
Steve Ramirez, Beyond the Arc
technology oriented presentations
Networking Reception
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Networking Reception
Join us for drinks and hors d'oeuvres
March 6 Conference
Morning Session
8:00 am-8:30 am Registration & Coffee
8:30 am-8:40 am
Chair's Welcome: The Sentiment Spectrum
Seth Grimes, Alta Plana Corporation
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8:40 am-9:15 am
Measure and Predict: Lessons in Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty
Bob Hayes, TCElab
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9:15 am-9:45 am
Adventures in Emotion Recognition
Rosalind Picard, MIT Media Lab
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9:45 am-10:10 am
Mapping Human Motivations to Move Product
David Rabjohns, MotiveQuest
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10:10 am-10:35 am Break
10:35 am-11:15 am
Visionaries Panel
Stephen D. Rappaport, Stephen D. Rappaport Consulting LLC, moderator
  • Jasme Bantens, consultant, ex-Digitas
  • Bradley Honan, KRC Research
  • Augie Ray, Amex
  • 11:15 am-11:40 am
    Social Intelligence at the Crossroads
    Chris Boudreaux, Accenture
    11:40 am-11:50 am
    Strategies for Successful Sentiment Analysis of Realtime Social Data
    11:50 am-12:15 pm
    Lightning Talks
    5-minute presentations/demos of human analytics technologies, solutions, and services
    • Voice of the Customer in the Financial Services Industry
      Antonio Matarranz, Daedalus
    • Ent-it-UP: A Live Service for Sentiment Analysis on Media Contents
      Federico Neri, SyNTHEMA
    • Do It Yourself Analytics
      Nick Poore, IBM
    • Sharing Emotions in Social Networks: Data Mining Tools for Sentiment Analysis of Audiences Vittorio Di Tomaso, CELI
    12:15 pm-12:30 pm
    Accuracy and Opportunity
    Seth Redmore, Lexalytics
    Lunch & Networking
    12:30 pm-1:30 pm Lunch & Networking
    Afternoon Session
    1:30 pm-2:05 pm
    Engagement: The Unspoken Connection
    Marie Wallace, IBM Corporation
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    2:05 pm-2:25 pm
    Forecasting the Spread of Sentiments and Emotion in Social Media
    VS Subrahmanian, Univ of Maryland and SentiMetrix
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    2:25 pm-2:45 pm
    Extracting Trading Signals from Investor Sentiment
    Sarah Biller, Capital Market Exchange
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    2:45 pm-3:05 pm
    Sentiment Analysis for Comment Moderation
    Maggie Xiong, The Huffington Post
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    3:05 pm-3:15 pm
    Deriving Social ROI Through Enhanced Text Analytics in Real Time
    Shree Dandekar, Dell Software
    3:15 pm-3:35 pm Break
    3:35 pm-4:10 pm
    Innovation Panel
    Steve Ramirez, Beyond the Arc, moderator
  • Catherine Havasi, Luminoso
  • John Hoskins, Amazon
  • Amit Phansalkar, MassMutual Financial Group
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    4:10 pm-4:30 pm
    Bleeding Edge NLP: Extract & Analyze Events, Relationships, Emotion, Intent, Identity, and Lots of Other Good Stuff
    Stephen Pulman, University of Oxford
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    4:30 pm-4:50 pm
    "Let's Get Emotional": Emotions in Speech
    Dan Emodi, BeyondVerbal
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    4:50 pm-5:10 pm
    Automatic Facial Expression Recognition for Emotion-Aware Computing
    Jacob Whitehill, Emotient
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    5:10 pm-5:30 pm
    A New Approach to Real Time Intent and Sentiment Analysis
    Aloke Guha, Cruxly & Hitachi Data Systems, and Kapil Tundwal, Cruxly
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    5:30 pm
    Conference Close: A Look Ahead

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