Seth Grimes is the leading industry analyst covering natural language processing (NLP), text analytics, and sentiment analysis technologies and their business applications. He founded Washington, DC-based Alta Plana Corporation, an information technology strategy consultancy, in 1997. He created and organizes the Sentiment Analysis Symposium and was founding chair of the Text Analytics Summit (2005-13). Grimes consults, writes and speaks on business intelligence, data management and analysis systems, text mining, data visualization and related topics. Follow him on Twitter at @SethGrimes.