The Sentiment Analysis Symposium, May 8, New York, bridges technology and business in one of the most exciting applications to emerge in recent years: software that discovers business value in opinions and attitudes in social media, news, and enterprise feedback.

The symposium program features expert, authoritative, interesting speakers from research and industry. Come learn and network!   Extra: Join us for Practical Sentiment Analysis, an optional half-day tutorial, Monday afternoon, May 7, to be taught by Prof. Bing Liu of the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Should you attend the symposium? Yes, if you want to lead the competition – in customer satisfaction and support, brand and reputation management, financial services, product design and marketing, and an array of other business processes – if you understand the advantage you will gain in understanding customer, market, employee, investor, and political sentiment, emotion, mood, and opinion.

Meet and learn from experts, strategists, practitioners, researchers, and solution providers – experienced and new users and those evaluating solutions. With presentations covering important technologies and business applications, a series of tech-overview "lightning talks" – and peer-networking opportunities – the symposium is an event not to miss.