Today, we are very proud to announce that Meltwater was chosen as a finalist for the 2016 Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Awards in the category for Best Content Analytics Solution!

The CODiE Awards are the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program. To get to the finals, we had to demo our product to two independent software and business technology executives with serious industry knowledge and expertise. Winners will be announced during a virtual award ceremony on May 18, and we are down to one of four finalists out of 50 entrants.

On 22nd of March, Meltwater’s Stockholm NLP Meetup hosted a session about the technological development in a startup company called Kickborn. In this meetup Harinder Bedi, the founder of Kickborn, described a cognitive information retrieval system that understands the intent of questions and provides answers to them.

On 3rd of March, Meltwater hosted a session of our Continous Delivery Meetup, with the fitting topic Continuously Everything. We hosted these sessions at our beautiful office at Kungsportsavenyen in the middle of Gothenburg.

On 17th of February, Meltwater’s Stockholm NLP Meetup hosted a session about clinical text retrieval, presented by Professor Hercules Dalianis from Stockholm University.

On October 15th we proudly hosted SF-Text at our Meltwater HQ in San Francisco. SF-Text is a popular NLP themed meetup in the Bay Area. The event was well-attended (+70 people) with plenty of NLP professionals and experts in the audience.

Our very own Babak Rasolzadeh (Director of Engineering, Data Science, Meltwater) gave a talk about NLP and Data Science at Meltwater with the title “The Importance of Entities”.