1/6/2010 - Guest presenter for Trip Davis's Financing New Ventures class at the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia.

9/21/2009 - Guest presenter for two sections of Darden's Operations Strategy course.

9/1/2009 - Live case on Retail Relay for Darden's Marketing Intelligence class.  Relay is the focus of 12 Marketing Intelligence student projects this year.

3/24/2009 - Panelist for the 2009 Virginia Specialty Food Educational Conference at the Boar's Head in Charlottesville, VA. The Panel is called Innovative Marketing: Catering to "Buy Local" Consumers

11/13/2008 - Invited Keynote Presenter at SAS Forum MŽxico 2008 in Mexico City. Due to scheduling conflict, colleague Antonia de Medinaceli presented the Field Guide to Text Mining talk I developed for M2008. More information here

10/29/2008 - Presented Field Guide to Text Mining: An overview of the people, tools, and research frontiers that are unlocking the predictive power of text at SAS's M2008 conference in Las Vegas. More information about the talk is available here.

9/16/2008 - Presented a text mining tutorial, as part of Elder Research's Annual 2-Day course entitled Tools for Discovering Patterns in Data: A Survey of Modern Data Mining Algorithms. More information is available .