What: Basics of Recommendation Service
When: Wed, April 13th, 2011 6:00 PM -- 9:00 PM
Where: Bellevue City Hall
Co-host company: BeyondSoft
Event style: Talks, Q&A and interactive discussion
Admission: Registration required
Parking: Free (but limited)
Food: Light snacks/drink provided at hallway (no food/drink allowed in the conference room)
Gifts: Swags from our sponsoring companies are available, including a Galaxy Tab & a BlackBerry 9800 as door prize.
We are expecting 130+ people from local IT companies, organizations and startups, not necessarily technical people, but also marketing professionals, PMs, recruiters, investors...
Also 30+ VIPs from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Zynga, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sony Ericsson, Hulu, Oracle, SAP, CA, UW, EMC, Expedia, Intel, Dice, IBM...
Come on time and print out the confirmation page to guarantee a seat.
===Tentative Agenda =====
6:00pm - 6:50pm, Snack & social (come early and meet interesting tech guru and investors, besides food)
6:50pm - 7:00pm, Introduction
7:00pm - 7:30pm, Talk
Title: Recommendation Service in Consumer Applications
Speaker: Maria Zhang, Founder & CEO of UrbanQ
7:30pm - 8:00pm, Talk
Title: An Introduction to Recommendation Engines
Speaker: Mukund Narasimhan, Software Engineer of Facebook
8:00 - 8:30pm, Talk
Title: Content Recommendation and Personalization in Hulu
Speaker: Ting-Hao Yang, VP of Hulu
8:30pm - 9:00pm, Q&A to all speakers, and interactive free discussion
9:00pm, Door prize draw
9:00pm - 9:30pm, Social
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