Schedule

Registration & Networking Breakfast

The doors open up at 8AM. Come on in, enjoy the coffee, the breakfast and get business started. There are plenty of tables and areas for formal and informal business meetings.

Opening Remarks

Host:

Kathy Greenler Sexton, VP and General Manager, Content Division, SIIA

Keynote: Technology Thunderstorms

Digital disruption approaches without warning – like a thunderstorm, changing the way we live and work. How can you prepare your organization to thrive amid the social, business and demographic changes fueled by emerging technologies? Forrester Research Chairman and Chief Executive Officer George F. Colony outlines four technology thunderstorms that will change how you do business. Companies that become “digital disruptors” will build better product experiences that create stronger customer relationships and bring it all to market faster.

Keynote:

George Colony, Chairman and CEO, Forrester Research, Inc.

Technology Thunderstorm: They Rain On Us Too!

Enterprise-level buyers and sellers of information respond to George Colony’s Keynote.

Reactor:

Craig Wingrove, Director, KPMG LLP

Joanna Woodward, Director, Library Services, Pfizer

Previews Showcase

5 minute presentations from the winners of our annual PREVIEWS Competition. These companies are the most innovative young companies currently transforming the information industry who have no more than a Series A round of financing, generate less than $10 million in sales and have actual customers.

Host:

Larry Schwartz, President, Newstex, LLC

Delve

Each day, news is shared across organizations in scattered, haphazard ways that fail to inform employees and educate teams. Enormous amounts of knowledge are frittered away due to a lack of proper tools. Delve offers a powerful alternative: a personalized, curated news reader for each employee, and a simple social layer to share relevant stories with colleagues. It saves professionals time and turns news into knowledge inside organizations.

Presenter:

Sandeep Ayyappan, CEO, Delve

Automated Insights

Automated Insights is the leading provider of high-quality, real-time content automation services. Automated Insights' technology can automatically transform raw data into narratives (articles, summaries, headlines), visualizations (charts, tables, graphs) and interactive applications (mobile and Twitter/Facebook based social applications). We help companies in a variety of markets (such as finance, real estate and sports) realize the full monetization potential of their data assets. In essence, we use technology to humanize big data, and automate knowledge and insight at scale. Our work with Yahoo! Fantasy Football represents the largest and most complex automated content initiative to-date. Over the course of this football season we will produce over 50 million fully personalized fantasy football recaps. And in addition to our work with outside clients, we also own and operate the StatSheet Sports Network (www.statsheet.com). As such, we now own and operate 417 fully automated web sites, 500 + Android, iPad and iPhone mobile apps, 2000+ Twitter accounts and 400 Facebook pages covering every team in the NFL, MLB, NBA and NCAA Division I College Basketball and Football. The StatSheet Sports Network is comprised of more than 1.5 million pages of high-quality content all of which is written by our software and powered by a proprietary database of over 3.5 billion sports statistics.

Presenter:

Scott Frederick, Chief Operating Officer, Automated Insights

Buzzient, Inc.

Buzzient provides Software as a Service (SaaS) that enables F5000 companies to leverage social media (Twitter, YouTube, Facebook) for improved customer service. The problem Buzzient addresses is that with the rapid growth of social media, consumers now go first to the social channel for registering complaints. F5000 companies are unable to support their customers on this channel unless they can integrate social with their existing customer service, marketing, sales and supply chain applications. The Company's flagship application, Buzzient Enterprise, is a SaaS application that enables a F5000 company to (1) directly support customers on social media channels, or (2) integrate social data with existing customer service applications from Oracle, Salesforce.com, NetSuite, and others. The market for Enterprise Social Software exceeds $1.1B in 2012, and will exceed $4.5B in 2016(IDC). The TAM is the ~80% of the market in North America, of which over 90% use a CRM solution supported by Buzzient (Forrester). The TAM for Buzzient is therefore $792M in 2012, growing to $3.2B by 2016. The vertical markets where Buzzient applies include High Tech, Retail, Consumer Financials, Travel/Leisure, and Telecom.

Presenter:

Timothy Jones, CEO, Buzzient

PublishThis

PublishThis is a cloud-based content marketing platform that enables brands, retailers, media companies and trade associations to more easily publish fresh, compelling content across all of their marketing channels at scale. Powerful search and curation solutions help businesses better engage their customers, build thought leadership, improve competitive intelligence, increase lead conversion, and reduce digital publishing costs. WHAT SETS PUBLISHTHIS APART PublishThis has developed a unique content discovery engine that marries next-generation semantic search technology, social monitoring and human curation tools to deliver brands and business a faster, more efficient, technology driven solution to scale their content marketing and publishing efforts. Content feeds can be curated in minutes, mixing a company's own library of content with the real-time web for any topic, and easily published to websites, microsites, newsletters, tablets and social pages with little or no IT support.

Presenter:

Matt Kumin, CEO & Founder, PublishThis

Visual Revenue

Visual Revenue is the leading provider of real-time, content placement recommendations for online publishers. We help editors and producers across the globe by providing them with up to the second suggestions on the optimal layout for their content throughout their online publication based on audience interest, publisher objectives and editorial tone. We report on the real-time performance of the Homepage, Section Front Pages and Article pages, identify exactly how each piece of content is performing right now and model how that content will perform about 30 min into the future. We then provide a very specific set of recommendations on what item of content will perform best in which position. The Visual Revenue platform also provides editorial teams the ability to instantly A/B test story headlines as well as manage their social media strategy; from real-time reporting to recommendations on which content to tweet/post and at what time. Our platform results in an average 30% increase in engagement, enables editors to act faster and with more confidence and helps publishers work towards their given objective e.g. increase time spent, App downloads or paywall subscriptions.

Presenter:

Dennis Mortensen, CEO, Visual Revenue Inc.

Networking Break

Enjoy the coffee, the food and get business started. There are plenty of tables and areas for formal and informal business meetings.

One-to-One Business Connection Meetings

This program arranges meetings that connect buyers and sellers, potential partners, companies seeking and providing financing, or seeking distribution and providing it. Basically, these one-to-one meetings are between any company seeking to connect and do business with another company. These are pre-arranged meetings, scheduled in advance of IIS to assure maximum interest and utility for all participants.

Breakthrough Talk: How to Stay in the Forefront by Reinventing and Repurposing Your Business

The Christian Science Monitor, a 104 global year-old news organization, has long been recognized for its innovation and speed to adopt new technology, formats and business models. Learn about the choices and challenges the Christian Science Monitor had to make as they traveled to become not only the world’s first digital first news organization, but the first news organization to leverage their editorial assets to develop  “after market” content for business-to-business. 

Presenters:

Donal Toole, Finance & Strategy Director, The Christian Science Monitor

John Yemma, Editor, The Christian Science Monitor

A View from the Equity/Capital Market

The world of Information, media, and publishing is in rapid transition. Private equity has made a mark on traditional publishers, deriving value from undervalued or underused assets; while venture capital continues to fuel innovative startups. What are success stories? Failures? How are capital providers dealing with the changes to come and what does that mean to you?

Moderator:

Kevin Worth, President & CEO, The Deal LLC

Panelists:

Peter Appert, Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst, Piper Jaffray & Co.

Wayne Cooper, Managing Director, Greenhaven Partners

Tolman Geffs, Co-President, The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc.

Jim Robinson IV, Co-founder, RRE Ventures

Networking Lunch

Working Group and Committee Meet Up

You have been working with other SIIA Members all year, now is your opportunity to meet them in person! All groups will have tables set aside during Lunch on January 30 to set each committee's programming agenda for the year, and to connect face to face. If you are not currently involved in a members only working group and would like to be, reach out to Jenny Hansen.

Keynote: Universal Access to All Knowledge

Thomas Jefferson’s statement that "All that is necessary for a student is access to a library" may be an exaggeration, but access to information is a key ingredient to education and an open society.

Advances in computing and communications mean that we can cost-effectively store every book, sound recording, movie, software package, and public web page ever created, and provide access to these collections via the Internet to students and adults all over the world. By mostly using existing institutions and funding sources, we can build this as well as compensate authors within the current worldwide library budget. Technological advances, for the first time since the loss of the Library of Alexandria, may allow us to collect all published knowledge in a similar way. But now we can take the original goal another step further to make all the published works of humankind accessible to everyone, no matter where they are in the world.

Will we allow ourselves to re-invent our concept of libraries to expand and to use the new technologies?

Keynote:

Brewster Kahle, Director & Co-Founder, Internet Archive

Presentation of Peter Jackson Award

The Peter Jackson Award recognizes individuals who, like Peter, have been innovators in the information industry and who are generous and inspirational to the people and community around them.

Information Industry Crossfire

The information industry has been in rapid transition for several years. The rate of disruption is unprecedented and information executives must adeptly navigate forward. Businesses are being impacted by game-changing technologies, changes in customer expectations and behavior, industry consolidation, and an uncertain economic environment. Identifying the crucial issues for your organization is the first step to winning in this market.

Is there a technology or a competitor that could up-end your business? Are there hidden competitors in your market? What actions must be taken to ensure survival--if not growth?

This session brings together thought leaders with different perspectives to gauge how the industry must prepare for the coming disruptions.

Moderator:

Chrystia Freeland, Editor, Thomson Reuters Digital

Panelists:

John Hartig, CEO, Sports Information Group / Daily Racing Form LLC

Jim Lewis, Senior Vice President, Innodata

Dan McCarthy, Partner, DeSilva+Phillips

Andy Prozes, Senior Advisor, Warburg Pincus

Denzil Rankine, Executive Chairman, AMR International

Breakthrough Talk: Incubating Innovation

Get an insider's view of how new ventures are selected, nurtured and are given the resources to develop. Hear from one of the true incubators in NYC about the culture, shared services, creativity and communication they foster. Learn why incubators are becoming synonymous with startups for fostering innovation and helping to launch new businesses in the digital age. The subtle differences between an incubator, co-working space and accelerator can make a difference in how entrepreneurs survive and their businesses thrive. The Incubator Initiatives at NYU-Poly is currently home to about 40 companies and over the last 3 years 26 companies have 'graduated' while successfully raising over $50mm in venture funding including 4 exits, the most recent for $28mm.

Presenter:

Steven Kuyan, Executive Director, NYU Poly Incubator Initiatives

Previews Showcase

5 minute presentations from the winners of our annual PREVIEWS Competition. These companies are the most innovative young companies currently transforming the information industry who have no more than a Series A round of financing, generate less than $10 million in sales and have actual customers. 

Host:

Larry Schwartz, President, Newstex, LLC

Consensus Point

Consensus Point is a social analytics software company revolutionizing market research with Huunu, our new prediction market research platform. By bringing the thrill of gaming techniques, crowdsourcing and our prediction market algorithm to research, Huunu creates more value from communities and new revenue to market research companies. With traditional research methods, 20% of research respondents are undesirable because they are rewarded only for participation. Huunu rewards accuracy and participation to engage the community. Benchmarks have proven Huunu accurately predicts future outcomes, such as concept testing and product sales forecasts, and is more efficient and valuable than conventional market research methods, such as surveys, polls, or focus groups. Competitive Advantage: Consensus Point provides our cloud-based software as a service platform, Huunu, exclusively to our partners to maximize the value of their established communities for their clients. Using our unique partner administrator, market research and expert network firms provide both qualitative and quantitative results within their solution portfolios. Huunu brings gamificiation and social techniques, along with the proven science of our prediction market algorithm, to market research and market intelligence. Target Market: Market research was a $31.2 billion industry last year, which was a 5.2 percent increase over the previous year, according to the latest Global Market Research report from ESOMAR. Consensus Point goes to market through partnerships with market research firms with strong customer relationships to enhance their revenue through our new Huunu market research platform.

Presenter:

Linda Rebrovick, CEO, Consensus Point

Datamyne

Datamyne is a top-ranked provider of international trade intelligence, designed for companies that conduct business on a global basis. Our data - sourced from manifests, bills of lading and other official government documents - covers the import and export transactions of some 50 countries across 5 continents, including the US, and key markets in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the European Union. Our database is updated each day with the latest available data. Our online search and analysis tools make it easy to capture multiple perspectives on trade, from the details of individual shipments, to the size and direction of trade flows, to multi-faceted profiles of buyers and sellers. Our clients use this data to identify and gauge market opportunities, locate and qualify sources of supply, benchmark supply chain performance, and outmaneuver their competitors. Access to Datamyne is by subscription. Access to the most recent three months of data is available at our website via pay-as-you-go (by credit card) On Demand. Soon-to-be released Datamyne for Mobile can be used to find product markets and connect with qualified traders. Datamyne Profiles (summaries of companies trading activities over the past year) is available for integration via an API. What sets us apart from other trade data providers? Size, speed, simplicity, service and market savvy. We build and maintain the world's largest searchable database of import-export trade. Our US import data is first to the marketplace, delivered within 24 hours of receipt from US Customs and Border Protection. Our easy-to-use interface makes it simple to do complex market and sourcing research. Each customer gets one-on-one, personalized support from one of our team of experts. The people who work with our customers, our trade data specialists, combine on-the-ground knowledge of markets here and abroad with professional experience in key industry verticals. To learn more, visit us at www.datamyne.com

Presenter:

Brendan McCahill, CEO, Datamyne, Inc.

Gust

Gust is the global, secure, infrastructure platform for the early stage entrepreneurial finance ecosystem. It provides investors, entrepreneurs and all the organizations that support them, with everything needed to connect and collaborate on funding decisions and investor relations from pitch to exit. Investors on Gust find new investment opportunities, connect with entrepreneurs, and manage their deal flow. Entrepreneurs use Gust to find the right investors and manage all their investor and mentor relationships. Accelerators, incubators, business plan competitions, universities and governments use Gust for applications, Demo Days, collaboration and regional portals. With over 160,000 early stage companies and 40,000 accredited early stage investors actively engaged, Gust is the official platform of over 1,000 angel groups and venture funds worldwide, and is the official national entrepreneurial finance platform of 15 countries.

Presenter:

David S. Rose, Founder & CEO, Gust

Networking Break

Enjoy the coffee, the food and get business started. There are plenty of tables and areas for formal and informal business meetings.

One-to-One Business Connection Meetings

This program arranges meetings that connect buyers and sellers, potential partners, companies seeking and providing financing, or seeking distribution and providing it. Basically, these one-to-one meetings are between any company seeking to connect and do business with another company. These are pre-arranged meetings, scheduled in advance of IIS to assure maximum interest and utility for all participants.

Keynote: Fostering Disruptive Drivers of Innovation

Get re-energized about how you can accelerate innovation in your business – through you, your teams and your organization.

Experience first-hand what it’s like to be in an Innovative Space all the time. Get engaged in a thinking process around the key factors driving innovation and creativity. This is about YOUR PEOPLE and how YOU can open up the pathways so they can contribute all their innovative capacities to your company’s goals for breakthrough products and performance.

Keynote:

Gifford Booth, Co-founder and Partner, The TAI Group

Breakthrough Talk: Navigating Transformation

Experienced CTO’s and CIO’s of Global Information companies face unique challenges as they move their companies from traditional technology infrastructure to modern technology platforms and cloud-based environments. Hear from senior technology executives as they discuss what it takes to successfully transform technology in a traditional information services company in order to deliver differentiated innovative data and content solutions for their customers.

Moderator:

Marc Strohlein, Principal, Agile Business Logic

Presenters:

Richard Belanger, Chief Information Officer, ProQuest

Peter Marney, Senior Vice President, Thomson Reuters

Industry Outlook: Titans of the New Information Order

Jim Kollegger’s always anticipated “Industry Outlook” will examine the titans of the New Information Order.

The collision of Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft, built by the most innovative entrepreneurs in history, continues: Google’s Android devices vs. Apple’s iPhones and iPads; Google+ vs. Facebook; Amazon Kindle vs. iTunes and mini iPads; Amazon cloud vs. Google cloud; and Microsoft pivots radically, to also become a hardware company.

The result is the most dramatic reshaping of the industry since the PC, as mobile becomes the driving dynamic of the future--disrupting business models everywhere.

Who are the winners and losers in this game of thrones? And what does it mean to the content industry? A panel of keen observers tackles the shape of things to come.

Moderator:

James Kollegger, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Genesys Partners, Inc.

Panelists:

Kurt Eichenwald , Contributing Editor with Vanity Fair and a New York Times bestselling author, Vanity Fair

Thomas Glocer, Former CEO, Thomson Reuters

David Kirkpatrick, Senior Technology & Internet Editor, Fortune

Michael Perlis, President & CEO, Forbes Media LLC

CODiEs & Previews Showcase, & Networking Reception

Enjoy the New York Skyline, fellow attendees, CODIE Finalists and the Previews Showcase presenting companies during our CODiEs & Previews Showcase Networking Reception.

Leadership Dinner

Join us for an exclusive invitation-only dinner for our first annual Leadership Dinner at an exclusive New York locale.   

Nicholas Thompson of the New Yorker, will provide the keynote for the evening.

What is the future of communication? Is the way we interact with each other going to keep getting broken into smaller and smaller chunks, and will the way that the media produces information continue to head in that same direction? Or, in contrast, is there an increasing role for long stories, big ideas, and complicated ways for people to communicate? Who shall win: the micro-tweet or the narrative? As a CEO of an information business, you need to understand how to answer these questions as you strive to engage with your customers. Join Nicholas Thompson, editor of newyorker.com and co-founder of The Atavist as he explores how the human mind will adopt to the ever-evolving information landscape.

Keynote:

Nicholas Thompson, Editor, The New Yorker

Members Only Policy Briefing

Registration and Networking Breakfast

The doors open up at 8AM. Come on in, enjoy the coffee, the breakfast and get business started. There are plenty of tables and areas for formal and informal business meetings.

Keynote: Expanding Opportunity

Terry McGraw will talk to the challenges and capturing the opportunities in the market to expand McGraw Hill's businesses.  

Keynote:

Harold (Terry) McGraw, III, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, The McGraw-Hill Companies

Viewpoints from the 4th Estate

Distinguished members of the press review the top stories affecting the information industry. What are the key trends? Which are the top companies to watch? Who are the disrupters poised to challenge established information businesses?

Moderator:

Gordon Crovitz, Co-founder, Journalism Online

Panelists:

Barbara Brynko, Editor-in-Chief, Information Today, Inc.

Stephen Engelberg , Managing Editor, ProPublica

Bob Felsenthal, Vice President & Publisher, BtoB Magazine, Media Business, BtoBOnline.com

Laura Hazard Owen, Staff Writer, GigaOM

Steve Lohr, Deputy Editor, The New York Times

Previews Showcase

Host:

Larry Schwartz, President, Newstex, LLC

Enlyton

Enlyton is the first cloud-based enterprise search and content discovery company. Organizations that need to manage diverse digital assets rely on Enlyton to inventory, organize, connect and present creative search-based applications. Unlike legacy and open-source solutions, Enlyton allows you to keep content where it is and make it searchable in days, not months. Enlyton's mathematical semantic technology enables discovery of both internal AND third-party content, regardless of structure or location. With no burden on storage or processing infrastructure, enterprises get a flexible, lower cost solution, and digital asset managers get a simple interface to organize and create search-based applications for their audiences.

Presenter:

Chris McKinzie, CEO, Enlyton

MovableMedia

MovableMedia is focused on "opening the author channel" for brands and publishers. Our insight is that authors recruited for custom content can be a major source of distribution and audience, when their contributions are measured and compensated properly. MovableMedia has developed a unique technology solution (the "Author Tag") to help authors move their audiences. We work with a number of major brands such as General Mills, P&G, and Williams Sonoma.

Presenter:

Andrew Boer, President, MovableMedia

Networking Break

Enjoy the coffee, the food and get business started. There are plenty of tables and areas for formal and informal business meetings.

One-to-One Business Connection Meetings

This program arranges meetings that connect buyers and sellers, potential partners, companies seeking and providing financing, or seeking distribution and providing it. Basically, these one-to-one meetings are between any company seeking to connect and do business with another company. These are pre-arranged meetings, scheduled in advance of IIS to assure maximum interest and utility for all participants.

Breakthrough Talk: Monetizing Big Data

Business success requires identifying market opportunities and capitalizing on them before your competition. It also requires the ability to think differently about the market, customer needs, technology implementation, product design, content and data assets, pricing and go-to-market strategies. Understand what the CEOs of two new and innovative companies are doing to successfully monetize Big Data through pioneering business models and modern technology.

Moderator:

Russell Perkins, Founder & Managing Director, InfoCommerce Group Inc.

Panelists:

Gil Elbaz, Founder & CEO, Factual

Jim Swift, President & CEO, Cortera

CEOs: Catalysts or Inhibitors of Innovation?

How do you drive innovation and change at your company when the economics, products, and talent required to drive a successful business are in constant flux? Experts cite leadership breakdowns at Kodak and Blackberry with 20/20 hindsight, but what it is important to check the mirror: what is our own ,level of clarity on the external innovations our businesses requires?

For a leader to truly excel and drive breakthrough performance, he or she must effectively address all aspects of the business: strategic, operational, cultural and personal. Yet innovation falls into a gray zone. Many times even leaders who recognize innovation's importance may respond negatively when new ideas threaten the status quo. Join in the discussion and gain firsthand insights and perspective on how to navigate change and rev-up your company's innovation engine while leading from the C-suite.

Moderator:

David Reimer, CEO, Merryck & Co.

Panelists:

Bruce Gordon, xSVP Disney Interactive, President, WTVD (ABC)

Gabe Leung, Exec Vice Chairman, Novocure; Director, AMCI; , xPresident, OSI Pharma, Group VP Pharmacia

2013 Content CODiE Awards Celebration Lunch

Don’t miss the 28th annual Content CODiE Awards! You’ll find out which companies were selected as having the year’s best products/services in more than 25 categories during this CODiE Awards celebration lunch. Attendance (along with an amazing lunch) is included in your conference registration fee.