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 6, 2012 for a 30-minute presentation, 15-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 although in order to accommodate sponsors, who make the symposium financially viable, we are reserving abbreviated presentations slots for higher-level sponsors.

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 6, 2012. We will aim to notify you by July 17 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:

• Multi-/cross-lingual 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

Click here to proceed to the proposal form.

Solution Spotlights

Solution spotlights 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

Click here to proceed to the proposal form.

Lightning Talks/Start-Up Showcase

If you're from a solution provider -- a start-up or established vendor -- and haven't presented a sentiment-symposium lightning talk in the last year, please consider submitting a proposal. Lightning talks are 5-minute presentations/demos of your sentiment analysis technology, solution, or service. 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 or sponsor, but you are welcome to register after you talk has been accepted.

Thank you!