Sounds like fun! Ron
What: Insights into Recommendation Service When: Wed, April 13, 2011 6:00 PM -- 9:00 PM Where: Bellevue City Hall Event style: Talks, Q&A and interactive discussion Admission: Registration required RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Sea-Tech-Forum/events/15861660/ Parking: Free (but limited) Food: Light snacks/drink provided at hallway (nofood/drink allowed in the conference room) Gifts: Swags from our sponsors are available,including a Galaxy Tab as door prize We are expecting 130+people from local companies, organizations and start-ups, notnecessarily technical people, but also marketing professionals, PM, recruiters, investors..., including 30+ VIP guests from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Zynga, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sony Ericsson, Hulu, Oracle, SAP, CA, UW, Dice, EMC, Expedia, Intel, IBM... Come on time and printout the confirmation page to guarantee a seat. -------------------------------------- Tentative Event Agenda,Speakers and Topics -------------------------------------- 6:00pm - 6:30pm, Snack& social (come early and meet interesting tech guru and investors, besidesfood) 6:50pm - 7:00pm,Introduction 7:00pm - 7:30pm, Talk Title: Recommendation Service in Consumer Applications Speaker: Maria Zhang, Founder & CEO of UrbanQ Abstract: I will go through a few examples of recommendation services in consumer facing online and mobile applications, including NetFlix, Pandora and Amazon. I will share how these recommendation services are differentiated, and the business value each brings. Lastly, I will share my experience in building a personalized mobile application with a recommendation service, and how recommendation service could be of tremendous value to a mobile application. Bios: 15 years of experience in large scale data mining and machine learning solutions. Maria led Zillow’s Data Integration and Warehousing team. She was the principal dev manager over the Personal Relevance team for MSN and delivered one of the largest real time optimization systems, serving 200 million users with significant lift in user engagement. Currently, she is the founder and CEO of UrbanQ, Inc. UrbanQ delivered award winning mobile applications and the Location Genome Platform which enables any app developer to offer 100% national location data coverage with intelligent personalized end user interactions 7:30pm - 8:00pm, Talk Title: An Introduction to Recommendation Engines Speaker: Mukund Narasimhan, Software Engineer of Facebook Abstract: In this talk, I'll present some of the statistical and computational issues in building a recommendation system. I'll give an overview of some of the commonly used algorithms,and discuss some of the challenges involved in adapting them to a social context, and to be more responsive to the users needs. Bios: Mukund Narasimhan is a software engineer in the Entities team at Facebook, where he works on building tools and systems for mining nformation from data. He has previously been a principal engineer at Amazon, a researcher at Microsoft and a chip designer at Intel. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, and a M.S. in Mathematics from Louisiana State University. 8:00 - 8:30pm, Talk Title: Content Recommendation and Personalization in Hulu Speaker: Ting-Hao Yang, VP of Hulu Abstract: Hulu is one of the leading premium video streaming services, with huge content and user base. This creates a great opportunity for recommender system to improve user experience, media partner and advertiser interest. In this talk, I will present a high level overview of how content recommendation and advertisement personalization technologies are used on Hulu, including the applications, algorithms, innovations and business impact. Bios: Ting-hao Yang is Vice President of Research and Development Center of Hulu.com, one of the leading premium video streaming services. He has managed Hulu’s R&D center in Beijing, China since late 2007. Ting has built and led the center to deliver several core technologies, including search, recommender system, AD targeting and frontend player components. Prior to joining Hulu, Ting worked as lead software developer and engineer at Microsoft. Ting obtained his M.S. in Computer Science from University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign in 2000. 8:30pm - 9:00pm, Q&Ato all speakers, and interactive free discussion 9:00pm, Door prize draw 9:00pm - 9:30pm, Social -------------------------------------- Intro of Sea-TechForum -------------------------------------- Seattle Technical Forumis a loosely coupled Seattle-wide discussion forum for technology (esp. IT,web, mobile, game, telecom ...). 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