SIIA Previews
Each year, Summit attendees gain access to exciting early-stage content and content-technology companies selected to present during the Previews sessions at the conference. We're pleased to announce this year's Previews companies and presenters:
BestVendor is a free online resource that helps professionals quickly find the best work apps based on the recommendations of people like them. The company's vision is to provide a Yelp-like "social discovery" resource for all business products, starting with web, desktop, and mobile applications.
Crowd Fusion, the “publish everywhere” platform, helps publishers rapidly deliver new products across multiple platforms and devices. Built to solve the pain points of publishers at scale, Crowd Fusion’s platform is plugin-based and cloud-hosted – for maximum flexibility and performance. Crowd Fusion powers digital media solutions as diverse as the Daily, News Corp’s tablet-based subscription news product, TMZ.com and Tecca.
First Stop Health, is a health 2.0 patient-focused health concierge service for insured middle class consumers sold exclusively online and directly to consumers. FSH provides solutions to minor and major, urgent and chronic, health issues by using an integrated technology platform to deliver a package of health services and information including telemedicine , health advocacy services, proprietary patient-friendly disease and condition news and information and integrated databases of physician, urgent care and ER location and availability.
Narrative Science transforms data into stories and insights. Our proprietary artificial intelligence authoring system, Narrwhal, produces reports, articles, and summaries that are automatically created from structured data sources. Narratives are created in multiple formats, including long-form articles, headlines, Tweets and business reports helping customers save time and money by combatting data overload, time constraints, cost restrictions and scale issues.
The Praetorian Group is the leading online media company in the public safety market. Our properties are visited by more than 2 million first responders and public safety professionals every month. We are deeply committed to providing resources and cutting edge information that help first responders stay safer and better protect their communities.
Reportlinker is professional search engine that finds all market research reports published by thousands of private and public organizations (governments, embassies, statistics agencies, trade unions, private firms, etc.). Reportlinker.com provides full access to 1,000,000 industry reports and 450,000 company profiles covering 300 industries worldwide.
Alternate Presenting company:
Newslook curates a database of premium video content from nearly all major global news and information suppliers. NewsLook vets videos and enhances metadata to ensure the highest journalistic standards and reliability to our partners. We filter and customize feeds to ensure targeted delivery to meet clients' video content needs.
Previews Judges
- Larry Schwartz, President, Newstex (Previews Chair)
- Jim Kollegger, Genesis Partners
- Abs Kotulski, The McGraw-Hill Companies
- Randy Marcinko, MEI
- Teri Mendelsohn, Mendelsohn Consulting
- Ken Wasch, SIIA
- Mary Jo Zandy, Berkery Noyes
Most likely to Succeed Award
Summit attendees will be asked to vote for the Preview company best poised for success. The winner will be awarded "Most Likely to Succeed" during the CODiE Awards Dinner.
