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Konrad Feldman, CEO of Quantcast, to Discuss Quantification of Advertising at 16th International ACM Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference
Business Innovator and Analytics Expert Joins List of Prominent Keynote Speakers at Premier Data Mining Event
New York (PRWEB) June 17, 2010 -- The world's leading Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining conference (KDD), organized by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (ACM SIGKDD) announced today the addition of Konrad Feldman, co-founder and CEO of Quantcast, to its already impressive list of keynote speakers. Quantcast, which ranked third, after Facebook and Google, in Fast Company's list of the top ten most innovative Web companies, uses science and scalable computing to understand digital media audiences and deliver more effective online advertising and consumer relevance.
"What makes the KDD conference unique is our mission to attract the best and brightest data mining minds in the world," said Andrew Tomkins, KDD 2010 program co-chair. "The addition of Konrad Feldman as a keynote speaker adds another dimension to this year's event as he will share not only his perspective as a scientist but also serve as an example of how data mining and predictive science and technology can fuel a huge entrepreneurial success."
Sponsored by Microsoft, Yahoo, SAS and Google, KDD attracts hundreds of scientists, academics and data mining professionals. This year's conference will take place on July 25-28, 2010 in Washington D.C. The conference will feature tutorials, panel sessions and keynote presentations, as well as award this year's ACM SIGKDD Innovation and Service Awards and KDD Best Paper Awards.
The event is open to both ACM SIGKDD members as well as non-members. For additional registration information please visit
www.kdd.org/kdd2010/registration.shtml.
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