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Use Search to Tame Complexity and Discover Opportunity

Track Chair:
Larry Cannell
Analyst, Collaboration and Content Strategies
Gartner

The enterprise search market is rife with innovation that is often overlooked because of widely held assumptions that "search" involves merely typing text into a box and clicking a button and that it can index only webpages or documents. Innovative search solutions can now include information from other enterprise sources (e.g., data stored in database) and are taking on the growing onslaught of information coming from social media (e.g. social networking sites, RSS feeds).

This track will explore emerging opportunities to navigate and visualize the enormous amount of disparate information an enterprise worker must make sense from every day. Join us to learn new approaches that are enabling workers to quickly find information, discover relationships and patterns, and generate insight.

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Tuesday, June 15
8:00 AM–8:45 AM	New Approaches to Breaking Down Information Silos #e2conf-10 (Location: Grand Ballroom E) Today’s technology silos are preventing companies from distilling the information they need to better understand their customers, reduce risk, and discover opportunity. Attivio CTO Sid Probstein will discuss an advanced, yet simpler, approach to consolidating and exploring information from the multitude of sources that are overloading enterprises. While inheriting the best of search and delivering advanced analytics, this approach breaks down technical barriers that inhibit information flow enabling employees to find patterns and generate insight. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar Add to iCal Add to Outlook Calendar Speaker - Sid Probstein, CTO, Attivio Sid Probstein is the Chief Technology Officer at Attivio, Inc. He is responsible for product and technology strategy and implementation. He has over 15 years of experience in managing R&D organizations and delivering high-value enterprise software and solutions. Previously, he was the Vice President- Technology in the Office of the CTO at Fast Search & Transfer, where he was responsible for developed next-generation search, text mining and multimedia capabilities; Vice President- Engineering at Northern Light Technology, where he was responsible for production of the first enterprise version of the search engine; Director of Software Engineering at Freemark Communications, where he helped implement the first "free" email service; and a Principal Architect/System Manager at John Hancock Financial Services, where the integrated sales illustration and client management system he designed was featured as a Microsoft Solution in Action in 1994.
2:15 PM–3:15 PM	Search is Necessary but Not Sufficient #e2conf-20 (Location: Grand Ballroom E) Search is about finding what you're looking for. Text analytics is the science of telling you what is there to be found. Search without text analytics is a process guided only by what you already know, great for finding things like directions or getting a phone number; but not very good for discovering new avenues of inquiry. Spend some time with Jeff where he will show you the power of search when married with text analytics technology, it will open your eyes to the blindness of search. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar Add to iCal Add to Outlook Calendar Speaker - Jeff Catlin, CEO, Lexalytics Jeff Catlin has over 15 years of experience in the fields of search, classification and text analytics products and services. He has held technical, managerial and senior management positions within a variety of companies including Thomson Financial and Sovereign Hill Software. Prior to the formation of Lexalytics, Jeff acted as the General Manager for the unstructured data group of LightSpeed Software where he was responsible for sales, marketing and development efforts for the Knowledge Appliance and iFocus products. Prior to joining LightSpeed, he was co-owner of PleasantStreet Technologies which produced a news-filtering product. Jeff graduated from UMass Amherst with a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1987.
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Wednesday, June 16
1:00 PM–2:00 PM	Using Chaos Theory Principals to Overcome Information Overload within the Enterprise and on the Web #e2conf-31 (Location: Grand Ballroom E) With the addition of social media to the already increasing amount of Web content, companies are spending more resources trying to make sense of what is happening. In addition, the connections between formal, informal, structured and unstructured information are becoming more difficult to establish. It may only get worse with the advent of auto-generated content and other content "farms." In this session we will explore and discuss how the application of chaos theory to this issue can help break the silos of information and allow the emergence of meaningful awareness for better decision making. This new paradigm moves beyond Page Rank to reduce the impact of traditional SEO techniques that can elevate low quality content. We will look at how the visualization of connections between content related to a particular theme can reveal new relationships and help with the discovery and awareness of trends, both anticipated and unanticipated. Add to calendar - Add to Google Calendar Add to iCal Add to Outlook Calendar Speaker - Bill Ives, VP of Social Media, Darwin Ecosystem LLC Bill has served for over 25 years in leadership positions as a consultant in learning, knowledge management, other business applications of emerging technologies, and most recently is helping firms with social media such as blogs and Twitter. He is also leading the soclal media efforts at Darwin Ecosystems. Prior to his current roles, Bill led the Accenture Knowledge Management/Portals client practice. He obtained his Ph. D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Toronto. Bill can be reached at his own blog, Portals and KM and through Twitter @billives. Speaker - Thierry Hubert, CEO, Darwin Ecosystem LLC Thierry has over 20 years experience in Knowledge Management, Collaboration Technologies and online Social Networks. He is the co-founder of Darwin Ecosystem, a company currently building a next generation awareness engine based on emergence ranking from chaos theory principles. While working for Price Waterhouse, Lotus Development Corporation and IBM, he helped create and pioneer some of the first recognized collaborative, knowledge management and enterprise 2.0 solutions for Fortune 500 companies. His experience and passion for solving information consumption overload, in the increasingly chaotic and unstructured Web 2.0 communication flow, has lead him to embrace the chaos theory as a foundation for awareness, discovery and serendipity.
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