We are pleased to anounce our next event: Extracting value from text. In this talk we will know from 3 industry leaders how they are using advanced text mining techniques to create value from unestructured data.

It is a great honour to have in our panel Hugo Zaragoza, CEO at Websays,  RJ Friedlander, CEO at ReviewPro and Alberto Robles, CEO at Expert Systems Iberia.

Hugo Zaragoza is the founding CEO at Websays, a start-up pioneering online opinion analytics. His research is at the frontier of machine learning and information retrieval, always pushing the boundaries of search engines and text mining technologies. Before Websays he worked in industrial research for over 10 years both at Yahoo! Research, where he led the Natural Language Retrieval group, and Microsoft Research, where he helped create the MSN Search engine (now Bing). He is the author of 20 patents and more than 50 articles in renown international conferences (such as WWW or SIGIR).

RJ Friedlander is the founding CEO at Review Pro, a leading provider in Guest Intelligence solutions to independent hotel brands worldwide, which includes both the Online Reputation Management and the Guest Survey Solution modules. The solution uses advanced text mining techniques to enable hoteliers to obtain deeper insight into operational and service strengths and weaknesses, increasing guest satisfaction, ranking on review sites and OTAs, and driving revenue. More than 17 years experience in Internet and technology in Europe, the US and Asia. Expertise both as an operating executive and entrepreneur. Led projects that have generated more than $300 million in revenue. Nearly 10 years as a senior executive in one of Spain's largest media companies most recently overseeing the business unit that included the group's digital media and eCommerce companies.

Alberto Robles is the CEO of Expert System Iberia and former Director of ICM (Intelligent Content Management) from iSOCO, a company acquired by Expert System in 2014. With a long professional experience in the technology sector, during his experience in Tecsidel contributed to the creation of a spin-off focused on the application of digital certificates in public administration, the launch of its division in Latin America and the creation of an independent business unit. At ICONUS (Comsa Emte Group company), his work helped increase profits and obtain better business efficiency ratios. Alberto holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC).

This event could not be possible without the collaboration of Mobile World Centre.