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The purpose of the SDForum Silicon Valley Search SIG is to offer a communication and collaboration platform to the Search ecosystem: search engines, marketers/advertisers, users and developers. Through a series of monthly events, the SIG will cover a large diversity of topics: from the latest developments in search to the needs of brands and advertisers, through the issues and key learnings of starting, funding, building, and exiting a search company.

We plan to use different formats for the SIG as well: fireside chats with key executives of the ecosystem, panels, presentations + Q&As, unconference - i.e the panel is the audience, etc. One thing we request, demand, beg for, is the participation of the audience.

We also want to give companies the opportunity to introduce themselves, launch their products, in short segments of 5/10 mins max. And at the end of each session, anybody having an announcement to make will be able to do so.

Sponsors:

The Search SIG is sponsored by Nokia and SAP Labs LLC.

The Search SIG is hosted at LinkedIn.

Next Meeting:

- September 9, 2010

Linked In

2027 Stierlin Court

Mountain View, CA

Topic: Intelligent Business Search
On September 9th, join FirstRain’s President and CEO Penny Herscher for a presentation on how they are improving the world of business search with their new approach called “Intelligent Business Search” in a joint meeting of both the Search and Marketing SIGs.

FirstRain’s Intelligent Business Search technology turns the hours spent on research online into minutes and delivers insightful, dynamic intelligence that supports smart decision-making and early mover advantage to businesses. The technology allows businesses to spot emerging trends, quickly and easily, grasp their significance, develop deep customer knowledge that enables you to accelerate revenue and sell more.

Speaker: Penny Herscher will discuss and present on this search technology that uses the web as its database and sorts information and relationships specific to a given business or industry and transforms the web into a “Database of Actionable Insights”, those key actions, incidents, junctures that taken and filtered collectively from all the billions of bits and pieces of information create new insights, often before the searcher is aware to ask.

Penny Herscher is a seasoned executive with extensive leadership experience, having previously guided Simplex Solutions, Inc. through a public offering and subsequent acquisition by Cadence Design Systems. Penny serves on the boards of JDSU, Rambus, the Anita Borg Institute and Planned Parenthood Mar Monte.

She holds a BA with honors in mathematics from Cambridge University.

Location:
Linked In
2027 Stierlin Court
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

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

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Past Events:

May 13, 2010	Search SIG: Search Intent Marketing
March 30, 2010	Search SIG: Social Search
November 12, 2009	Search SIG: Google, Kosmix and the Exploration of the Deep Web
September 29, 2009	Search SIG: Search User Experience (UX) Innovations with Bing, Google, and Yahoo!
May 12, 2009	Search SIG: Real-time Search
March 10, 2009	Search SIG: No meeting this month.

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Resources:

May 12, 2009

Collectas Press Release/Real Time Search (other files)

SIG Chairs:

Aditya Agarwal is Director of Engineering at Facebook and has a ton of experience in search.

Abhishek Gattani - Abhishek is the Principal Architect at Kosmix, has led the creation of technologies that power Kosmix.com and RightHealth.com, and is currently focused on bringing context to the web. Previously, at Stryker (SYK), he was responsible for new product strategy in the imaging division and led the development of several medical imaging products which generate 50+ million dollars in revenue. Abhishek has rich experience in search, computer vision,3D graphics, and mobile, and has filed 16 patents in these areas. He is a MS graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Robert Tri is our new co-chair. Robert is Director of Sales for Fast Search http://www.fastsearch.com.

To access the Search SIG Blog, please visit: Search SIG Blog

To contact the SIG Chairs email them at: SearchSIG@sdforum.org.

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