Invited Speaker

When: Thursday, May 20th, 9AM

Title: Customer-centric innovations for search and e-commerce

Speaker: Udi Manber, CEO, A9.com

Bio: Udi Manber was a professor of Computer Science at the University of Arizona where he co-developed several search packages, including Agrep, Glimpse, and Harvest. He left academia to join Yahoo as Chief Scientist in 1998. In 2002 he moved to Amazon.com with the unusual title of Chief Algorithms Officer, and in 2003 he became the CEO of A9.com, a separately branded and operated subsidiary of Amazon.com developing innovative technologies for e-commerce search.