Seth Grimes founded Alta Plana Corporation in 1997 to deliver business analytics strategy consulting with a focus on advanced analytics (NLP, text analytics, sentiment analysis, BI, and data visualization) and product and market positioning to solution providers and user organizations. Alta Plana organizes the Sentiment Analysis Symposium (http://sentimentsymposium.com) and LT-Accelerate, a European conference covering business applications of language analysis technologies (http://lt-accelerate.com).