The Future of SEO and Social Media
There are major implications for the SEO and Social Media industries with the rapid advancement of HTML5 technologies, the exponential growth in mobile applications, and the rise of big data analytics and tools alongside machine learning and artificial intelligence. Â For our first event in 2012 we plan to cover these issues and bring some insight into how to...
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The Future of SEO and Social Media
There are major implications for the SEO and Social Media industries with the rapid advancement of HTML5 technologies, the exponential growth in mobile applications, and the rise of big data analytics and tools alongside machine learning and artificial intelligence. Â For our first event in 2012 we plan to cover these issues and bring some insight into how to prepare for the future.
Speakers
Kontagent
Owen Martin is a Data Scientist at Kontagent, where he explores one of the largest available online gaming datasets in search of trends, benchmarks, and other stories about online gaming that can be useful to the marketplace.
The Talk: Owen will discuss modern statistical methods, including those which have not yet left the purely academic realm, and how they may (and may not) be applied to the most contemporary large data sets.
BloomReach
Ashutosh is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of BloomReach and a true guru of all things search, with 10 years of information retrieval, machine learning and search experience. Previously, he was a Staff Scientist at Google for 4+ years, which spanned 8 product launches. Prior to that, he was at IBM research. He is also a prolific publisher/inventor, with a book on machine learning, 30+ papers, and 50+ patents. Ashutosh holds a BTech from IIT-Delhi and a PhD from U of Illinois UC. Ashutosh has numerous awards, including best thesis award at IIT Delhi, IBM Fellowship and outstanding researcher award at UIUC.
Founder of SMSEO Society
Michael Latulippe is the Founder of the Social Media and SEO Society and is an expert HTML5 developer who has spoken on HTML5 Microdata and its implications for creating machine readable content on Websites and applications to the San Francisco HTML5 User Group.
The Talk: Michael will discuss how HTML5 technologies are impacting the SEO industry and how the mobile app revolution will completely change the paradigm to app discovery and making Websites act more like applications. Â Michael will also cover HTML5 Microdata and how easy it is now to put Website content in context for machines such as Google's search engine.
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Sponsors
Kontagent
Kontagent is the leading user analytics platform for developers, marketers, product managers and strategic partners. Our proprietary platform kSuite has been built from the ground up to provide deep social data pattern visualization and analysis that delivers actionable insights via an on-demand service. Kontagent tracks more than 1,000 social applications, over 150 million monthly active users, and in excess of 15,000 messages every second.  Kontagent is funded by ALTOS Ventures and Maverick Capital, with additional funding from Facebook and other well known angel investors.
Founded in 2007, the company is headquartered in the SOMA district of San Francisco with additional offices in Los Angeles and Toronto, Ontario.
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BloomReach
BloomReach is the worldâs first Web Relevance Engine exposing the best content to the right consumers seeking it on search engines and social platforms.
BloomReach exists to create a more relevant Internet.
In a BloomReached web, the best and most relevant content, products and services get found on the platforms consumers use every day.
To create a more relevant Internet, BloomReachâs web service ensures that the thousands of web businesses with high quality information, products and services get found on the front doors consumers use every day â