Published: August 10, 2011
Social Media and Customer Experience Analytics Highlight the First Ever West Coast Text Analytics Summit
SAN JOSE, Calif. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - The Text
Analytics Summit, a staple of the analytics community for the past 7
years, has been recognized as the only established business conference
with a complete focus on the text analytics industry. This year's
conference, the first summit to take place on the West Coast, is
designed to help business professionals unlock the power of text
analytics to leverage new and profitable business opportunities.
The event is set to attract hundreds of senior-level executives, across
a wide range of industries, who utilize text analytics for business
intelligence and for supporting better business decision making. The
event provides a proper balance of thought leaders, end users,
consultants, analysts, and vendors to create a solid foundation for
networking and forming business relationships.
"The text analytics industry is rapidly growing. It will pass the $1
billion mark by the end of this year, and shows no signs of slowing down
in the near future. Our goal is to provide west coast analytics
professionals with a unique, intimate forum that will help define the
future of the text analytics industry," says Ezra Steinberg, the Chief
Editor of Text Analytics News.
The keynote topics in San Jose will cover Text Analytics for Social
Media and Customer Experience Analytics, and will also explore other
areas of interest such as multi-channel analytics and the cutting-edge
technological advances of text technologies. Full conference
information, including the topic and speaker lineup, can be found in the Text
Analytics Summit West Brochure.
The summit caters to a wide audience, as the need for text analytics is
growing across a plethora of industries. These emerging analytics
dependent industries include automotive, consumer packaged goods,
electronics, financial services, healthcare, hospitality, information
technology, insurance, legal, marketing, retail, and travel, just to
name a few.
"Whether you work in customer experience, market research, competitive
intelligence, social media analytics, risk and fraud, investing, or
another business focus area, the San Jose summit will be THE place to
learn, teach, and network," says Text Analytics Summit founding chair
Seth Grimes.
The conference will cover a wide range of developments and advancements
that are pushing text analytics into the mainstream of businesses
worldwide. The diverse and expert speaker lineup includes Laura Brown,
Director of Customer & Business Intelligence, Cisco; Nitin Indurkhya,
Principal Research Scientist, eBay; Bill Tuohig, Senior Director of
Product Management, J.D. Power & Associates; Vincent Granville, Founder
and Executive Director, AnalyticBridge; Catherine van Zuylen, Vice
President of Products, Attensity; and Chris Jones, Senior Director of
Text Analytics, Zynga.
Text Analytics Summit West is taking place on November 10-11 at the
Convention Plaza Hotel in San Jose. For full event information, please
visit www.textanalyticsnews.com.
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.

Text Analytics News
Doug Lavender, 201-204-1819
VP, Business
Development
dlavender@textanalyticsnews.com
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