Call for Speakers
The key to a great conference is great presentations.
Please help make the San Francisco symposium a great event by submitting a speaking proposal by July 1, 2011 for a 30-minute presentation, 20-minute solution spotlight, or 5-minute lightning talk. Late submissions will be considered on a space-available basis. Each form is described in a section below.
Presentation proposals from end users, analysts, researchers, and consultants in one of the areas that follow are especially welcome, but we will happily consider all proposals. We do aim for a "no sales pitch" policy to discourage product focused presentations. (**See note below.) Vendors are welcome to propose a lightning talk.
Note that we expect to receive MANY presentation proposals and will be able to accept only a fraction of the talks proposed. We will not accept any basic, "This is Sentiment Analysis" type talks.
Please submit your proposal by Friday, July 1, 2011. We will aim to notify you by July 4th whether your proposal is accepted. Selected speakers -- one per presentation (except lightning talks) -- will receive a free conference pass.
Click here to proceed to the proposal form.
Presentations
Priority presentation topics include:
- Asian-language sentiment analysis
- Beyond polarity: emotion, mood, attitude, and intent
- Crowd-sourced analytics
- Emotion in speech
- Identity resolution and entity analytics
- Influencers and influence: sentiment and social networks
- Opinion mining
- Research frontiers
- Sarcasm, slang, idiom, and irony
- The sentiment software/services marketplace
- Visual analysis
Solution Spotlights
Solution spotlights are shorter talks that profile particular applications or industries. Example topics include:
- Brand and reputation management
- Competitive and market intelligence
- Contextual advertising
- Customer Experience Management, customer service, customer support
- Enterprise Feedback Management: Surveys, e-mail, contact center, warranty claims, ...
- Financial markets and trading strategies
- Market research
- Marketing and public relations
- Media analysis and tracking
- Policy and politics
- Sentiment and Search
- Semantics, Web 3.0, and the Semantic Web
- Social media analysis
- Voice of the Customer / Employee / Patient / Market
Lightning Talks
If you're from a solution provider -- a start-up or established vendor - please consider submitting a proposal for a lightning talk -- a 5 minute presentation/demo of your sentiment analysis technology, solution, or service -- length to be determined based on the number of accepted submissions. Just use the form to tell us who you are and what you propose to demonstrate. Click here to proceed to the proposal form.
NB to present a lightning talk you must be a paid attendee, but you are welcome to register after you talk has been accepted.
Vendor Presentations
For our purposes, a vendor is a sentiment software or annotation-service provider that sells directly into the space but not a company that offers a value-added application tool built on sentiment software/services, whether its own or a third party's. We will consider speaking proposals from vendor-affiliated researchers and technologists, but if your title includes "marketing," "sales," or "business development," this probably isn't the right speaking opportunity for you.
Symposium sponsors will have the opportunity to demo their wares in the exhibition area.
Thank you!
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