Andreas S. Weigend, Ph.D. speaks with David Riemer (ex-Vice President of Marketing at YAHOO!) currently an executive in residence at the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley.
Andreas Weigend is a former Chief Scientist at Amazon.com and the author of over 100 scientific papers on the application of machine learning techniques to finance and business problems.
David Riemer is one of the leading marketers in the Internet industry. He spent the last decade developing and bringing great products to web users worldwide. Following his career as an ad agency President, David brought his strategic and marketing leadership to two start-ups and an internet titan, Yahoo!. In various roles over six years at Yahoo!, David led the marketing teams on both the BtoB and Consumer sides of the business where he managed marketing for virtually all of Yahoo!’s products across their customer base of 500M users.
David is now advising emerging Internet and consumer technology companies. He specializes in helping businesses clarify their product strategy, go-to-market approach and business model. David also serves as Executive-in-Residence at Haas Business School (Berkeley). David earned his undergraduate degree from Brown University, and an MBA from Columbia University. He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife and two (very web savvy) teenage children who help keep him honest.
Ted Shelton is currently CEO of The Conversation Group. Ted has spent the past 20 years working in the high tech industry, as a software developer and executive in both public and privately held companies. Prior roles include Chief Strategy Officer of Borland Software and Senior VP of Sales and Marketing for WhoWhere.
Nobody likes being interrupted by irrelevant marketing messages. In this 7-minute conversation after class at Haas, Ted Shelton and Andreas Weigend discuss how sharing data leads to higher expectations towards relevance and serendipity.
Andreas S. Weigend is an expert in data mining and e-business. As the Chief Scientist of Amazon.com, he became known for innovations in measuring, modeling and predicting customer behavior and for the successful application of these ideas to marketing. Andreas received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in physics in 1991, and was a researcher at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) and at the Santa Fe Institute.
This TechAffair.com exclusive gives a glimpse into the first class of the new course "Marketing 2.x" at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.
Date: March 19th, 2009, Class 1
Course title: Marketing 2.x: The Social Data Revolution
Course number & semester: MBA 267, Spring 2009-B
Location: Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
Presentation by Andreas Weigend (Andreas S. Weigend, Ph.D.). Mankind is transformed by the data created by individuals. Information overload has become more serious than ever. Social discovery is the new search. What applications can we build to create relevant meaning in our lives?
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