Title:  Search User Experience (UX) Innovations with Bing, Google, and Yahoo!

On Tuesday, September 29th, join Bing, Google, Yahoo!, and your fellow Search SIG members and guests for a lively conversation on innovations in search user experience.

Microsoft Catering will provide dinner at no additional charge.

Confirmed Panelists:

Sean Suchter[quasi-German for "searcher"] runs Microsoft’s Search Technology Center - Silicon Valley. Sean has nearly eleven years experience in web search and previously ran the Yahoo! Search Technology team, where he was responsible for all aspects (engineering, research and product management) of the algorithmic side of Yahoo! web search. Previously to working on web search, Sean did speech recognition research. Sean holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Applied Science from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA. 
  
Johanna Wright is the Director of Product Management responsible for Web Search.  She oversees the development of Google's search user interface and features and was the initial product lead on Universal Search, having driven it from inception to launch. Prior to Google Johanna worked at a number of software start-ups in New York City. Johanna holds an MBA from UCLA and a BA in Mathematics from Barnard College.

Dr. Larry Cornett is the vice president of the Yahoo! Search consumer products division. In this capacity, he is primarily responsible for the Yahoo! web search experience and heads up a multinational team of product managers, designers, and developers focused on creating a world-class search experience.
 
 
SafaRashtchy - Moderator SafaRashtchy is well known for his expertise on search and for hosting the teen panel at Web 2.0 Summits and for his prescient investor analysis on the search space as Piper Jaffrey’s Managing Director for Global Internet Media.
 
Agenda
The now well established Search SIG Agenda format will be used:
6:30-7:00pm - Registration / Food & Drink
7:00–7:05pm - A few words about the Search SIG
7:00-9:00 pm - Program

Price
$15 at the door for non-SDForum members
No charge for SDForum members

Location:

Microsoft Silicon Valley Conference Center, 1065 La Avenida Building 1, Mountain View, CA

Agenda

The now well established Search SIG Agenda format will be used:
6:30-7:00pm - Registration / Food & Drink
7:00–7:05pm - A few words about the Search SIG
7:00-9:00 pm - Program

For more information about the Search SIG visit: www.sdforum.org/SearchSIG