Program Schedule:

July 3, 2017

9:00 Reception

9:20 Opening remarks: Prof. Yitzhak Samuel, Dean, Management, The University of Haifa

9:30 Amir Goldberg, Management, Stanford, USA

Language, networks and cultural fit in organizations

10:00 Ilaria Torre, Computer Science, Genoa University, Italy

Identification and information leakage on the Web

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Ron Bekkerman, Department of Information and Knowledge Management, University of Haifa, Israel

Mining the Twitter Graph for Communities and Locations

11:30 Noam Koenigstein, Microsoft Research, Israel

Groove radio: a bayesian hierarchical model for personalized playlist generation

12:00 Lunch Break

13:30 PANELISTS: Baat Enosh, Strategy & Innovation, Intuit; Rony Ohayon, CTO, LiveU;

Mor Naaman, Information Science, Cornell; Shuli Shwartz, Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute Incubator

Moderator: Yuval Shavitt, E.E. Tel Aviv University & CTO, BGProtect

Panel: The future of Internet entrepreneur at the age of the global Internet companies

14:00 Ido Guy, eBay Research, Israel

Extracting and Ranking Travel Tips from User Reviews

14:30 Osnat Mokryn, Department of Information and Knowledge Management, University of Haifa, Israel

What can be learned from emotions in online movie reviews

15:00 Coffee Break

15:30 Mor Naaman, Information Science, Cornell, USA

On Measuring Trustworthiness in the Peer Economy

16:00 Sheizaf Rafaeli, Department of Information and Knowledge Management, University of Haifa, Israel

Surviving and thriving on online collaborative, Q&A sites: Studying badges and feedback effects on Stack Overflow

July 4, 2017

9:00 Reception and opening remarks

9:15 Ilaria Torre, Computer Science, Genoa University, Italy

Semantic web tutorial

10:30 Coffee Break

10:45 Ilaria Torre, Computer Science, Genoa University, Italy

Semantic web tutorial (continue)

12:00 End of day

Opening remarks: Prof. Yitzhak Samuel, Dean, Management, The University of Haifa