Webinar Series: "Hidden in Plain Sight: Uncover the business value of your unstructured content
Slips, Trips and Falls: Proactive care through predictive analytics
Wednesday June 26, 2013
9am PST | 12pm EST | 5pm GMT

Please join Smartlogic and Knowledgent for a three-part webinar series that will use case studies to show how businesses have found value in content. The series, titled "Hidden in Plain Sight: Uncover the business value of your unstructured content" will feature a roster of speakers who are well known in the semantic web industry.

Hear Richard Pinder, senior vice president of Smartlogic, Christine Connors, senior consultant of Knowledgent and Frank Norman, senior IT executive of Knowldegent speak in "Slips, Trips and Falls: Proactive care through predictive analytics." They will talk about a health insurer who discovered easily-realized savings in patient care after looking at caregivers' notes about patients' home environments. They combined information pulled from structured data -- such as medication type, age, and known health conditions -- with information pulled from unstructured data gathered through text analytics – such as loose carpets and the absence of handrails.

Through this process, they found such patterns as patients who were taking at least one drug known to increase the risk of falls, and whose house visit notes indicated environmental contributions to falls. From there, they were able to identify patients who could benefit from home repairs and improvements and increased social intervention to reduce the chance of falls and their associated costs.

Panel of Speakers:

Richard Pinder

Richard Pinder, SVP Smartlogic

Richard Pinder is co-Founder and SVP responsible for the EMEA region as well Strategic Alliances. Richard has over 20 years' experience in the knowledge and information management industry and has worked for a range of organizations, including Eastman Kodak, Microbank (now Sungard), and SilverStream Software (since bought by Novell). Richard has a deep knowledge of the technologies that surrounds Smartlogic's solution: Content Management Solutions, such as SharePoint and enterprise search engines such as Google, Marklogic and Apache SOLR. He also has experience in information and knowledge management consultancy, having run TFPL, a leading UK Information Management consultancy practice. 

Specializing on subjects such as findability, information governance and semantic technologies, Richard helps clients build business cases and strategic road-maps to sell the business value inside the organization. Richard is very well placed to help teams at the tipping point of business change.

Christine Connors

Christine Connors, Senior Consultant, Knowledgent

Ms. Connors has extensive experience in taxonomy, ontology and metadata design and development. Prior to forming TriviumRLG Ms. Connors was the global director, semantic technology solutions for Dow Jones, responsible for partnering with business champions across Dow Jones to improve digital asset management and delivery. In that position, she managed a worldwide team responsible for the development of taxonomies, ontologies and metadata that are used to add value to Dow Jones news and financial information products. Ms. Connors also served as business champion for the Synaptica® software application, including managing a US- based team of software developers, and supported Dow Jones consulting practices worldwide, which deliver end-to-end information access solutions based on taxonomies, metadata and semantic technologies. Prior to joining Dow Jones Ms. Connors was a knowledge architect at Intuit, where she was responsible for introducing semantic technologies to online content management and search. And before that, she was a Metadata Architect at Raytheon Company and Cybrarian at CEOExpress Company. At Raytheon Company she oversaw knowledge representation and enterprise search, delivering large-scale taxonomies, metadata schema and rules-based classification to improve retrieval of petabytes of internal information via a multi- vendor retrieval platform.

Ms. Connors is a certified Six Sigma Specialist, and is a member of both the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) and the Special Libraries Association. Christine is a board member of the Lotico Semantic Web Meetup. Ms. Connors holds a master of science degree in Library and Information Science from Simmons College, Boston, and a bachelor of science degree in Theatre Arts Management from Ithaca College, New York.


Frank Norman

Frank Norman Senior IT Executive, Knowledgent

Frank Norman is a Senior IT executive with extensive experience in both business and technology strategy.  He has a strong track record of over 25 years’ experience working with top management in health care, insurance, banking and consulting.  Currently, Frank co-leads Knowledgent’s healthcare practice, applying deep information management, advanced analytics and semantic capabilities to the business and care delivery needs in healthcare.
 
 

 

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