Tomorrow (In about 12 hours) the HTIA conference will officially launch, with a full day of presentations by companies, VCs, and presenters from all over the world. There is an exciting agenda (Check here). I am personally looking forward to hearing Haim Shani (Ministry of Finance), Chen Dongzheng (Chairman of the Shenzen Stock Exchange), and Pat Gelsinger (EMC).
But there is much beyond these plenary session. I will be moderating a very exciting session with Microsoft’s Xuedong Huang, or XD in Short. XD has been with Microsoft since 1993 (That’s more than 17 years…) and has seen some of the more interesting developments at Microsoft through the years. He will provide a great perspective on Bing (and the competition with Google), Mobile Search, and innovative speech technologies.
In this session, XD will give a 30 minute presentation, followed by a short interview. In this interview, we will cover many topics including online search, the Microsoft – Yahoo history (and future), the impact of iPad on the market, and many others.
After this interview, 2 exciting companies will present, EPOS and Outbrain (Gemini portfolio company).
Hope to see you all tomorrow at 1PM.
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