GAINING INSIGHTS FROM AN OPEN SOURCE KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY PLATFORM

Agenda

6pm - 6:45pm: Networking

6:45 - 7pm: Meetup Introduction

7pm - 8pm: Presentations

8pm - 9pm: Networking

Presenters

Abby Fichtner | Executive Director | Hack/Reduce (http://hackreduce.org)

Brief introduction about Hack/Reduce.

Andrew Strite | Solutions Architect | IKANOW (http://www.ikanow.com)

Learn how with IKANOW's open source platform, Infinit.e, your organization can gain valuable intelligence by fusing social media data with traditional enterprise data.

Joe Gaska | Managing Partner | Ionia Corporation (http://www.ioniasolutions.com/)

Learn how how an open source platform was used to develop a SalesForce application and see a demo of the application.

Location:
The Microsoft New England Research & Development Center (NERD) is a research and software innovation campus located in the heart of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The NERD vertical campus spans two buildings with its primary presence and conference center located at One Memorial Drive and a recently renovated and expanded space located at One Cambridge Center. NERD is home to some of Microsoft’s most strategic teams including Microsoft Research New England, Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V), SharePoint Workspace, Microsoft Technical Computing, Microsoft Advertising, Microsoft Lync, Microsoft Office 365 and more. NERD has become a hub of activity for the local tech community and has hosted more than 500 events and welcomed more than 40,000 visitors during the past two years.

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