Social Media And Voice Of The Customer Front And Center At The Text Analytics Summit

Feb. 18, 2011 - PRLog -- Text Analytics News announces the launch of its 7th Annual Text Analytics Summit. The event will be held on May 18-19, 2011 in Boston, MA. It is the only conference that has a complete focus on the text analytics industry.

The Text Analytics Summit is the flagship event of Text Analytics News. The event is set to attract more than 200 senior-level executives from a multitude of industries that use or will soon use text analytics in their business practices.

The keynote topics will cover Voice of the Customer and Social Media Analytics, and will also explore other areas of interest such as sentiment analysis, semantics, and the latest technological advances in the industry.

Over the past 6 years, this event has established itself as a cornerstone of the text analytics community. All of the major text analytics providers attend each year, but also present are the users of the technology from the automotive, consumer packaged goods, financial services, hospitality, pharmaceuticals, legal, marketing, and retail sectors, to name just a few. The event provides a proper balance of vendors, consultants, analysts, and end users to create a solid foundation for networking and forming business relationships.

“The summit is a great place to learn, teach, network, and meet fellow end users, executives, analysts, and industry thought leaders,” says text analytics industry insider and conference chairman, Seth Grimes. “This Summit is the place to continue to shape the future of the industry.”

The conference will set out to maximize the commercial benefits of text analytics. Leading experts including Kevin English, IBM; Christopher Jones, Adobe; David Howlett, J.D. Power & Associates; Seth Grimes, Alta Plana; Ronen Feldman, Digital Trowel; Lisa Joy Rosner, NetBase; Don Springer, Collective Intellect; and Trevor Croop, Gaylord Entertainment are already confirmed to speak along with many others.

“Our research shows that 60% of companies now employ text analytics solutions in some capacity. The industry is rapidly growing, and showing no signs of slowing down. We want to help the industry grow and develop in any way that we can,” says Ezra Steinberg, the summit producer and chief editor of Text Analytics News.

The 7th Annual Text Analytics Summit is taking place on May 18-19 at the Radisson Hotel in Boston. For full event information, please visit the website at www.textanalyticsnews.com.

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About Text Analytics News: Text Analytics News is a business unit of FC Business Intelligence, providing focused news, events, reports, updates, and information for the Text Analytics Industry. It is a reference point for analytics professionals and a cornerstone for communications within the industry.