Featured White Papers

See Entire Library

Thu. August 28, 2008

Home > Education > Conferences

TDWI World Conference Summer 2008

TDWI Executive Summit

Summit Agenda

Guide to the course selections below by track:
 Track 1: Getting Started Track 2: Delivering Value
 Track 3: Next Generation Track 4: Analytics

Monday , August 18, 2008

Time Key: Full Day 9:00 AM-5:00 PMHalf Day A 9:00-12:00 AMHalf Day P 2:00-5:30 PM
TIMEEVENT
7:15-8:00 AM
 Breakfast
8:00-8:45 AM
 Keynote: Information Democracy—Information Equality for All!
Howard Dresner
9:00-9:15 AM
 Analytics: The Next Frontier
Wayne Eckerson
9:15-10:00 AM
 SUMMIT KEYNOTE: Analytics at eBay
Oliver Ratzesberger
10:00-10:20 AM
 Break
10:20-11:20 AM
 PANEL: Tales from the Trenches—How to Succeed with Analytics
Matt Schwartz, CBIP,  Eric Colson  Kurt Thearling
11:20 AM-12:00 PM
 ROUNDTABLE WORKSHOP: Role-Based Discussions—BI Projects, Challenges, and Solutions
12:00-2:00 PM
 Lunch
2:00-3:00 PM
 Case Study: Distributed Business Intelligence at Intuit
Chris Chan  Jerry Twietmeyer
2:00-3:00 PM
 Culture Shock: Is Your Organization Ready for Analytics?
Maureen Clarry
2:00-3:00 PM
 Finding Your Place: Mapping Analytic Techniques to Business Problems
Charles A. C. Caldwell
2:00-3:00 PM
 Where's the Beef? Optimizing the Supply Chain Using Data Warehousing and Analytics
Larry Mohr  Don Patchell
3:00-3:15 PM
 Break
3:15-4:15 PM
 Aligning with the Business: How to Apply Agile Development Techniques to BI
Jim Hill
3:15-4:15 PM
 Establishing a BI Competency Center
Dan Evans
3:15-4:15 PM
 Outside In: The Next Generation of BI Innovations
Mark Madsen
3:15-4:15 PM
 Real-World Challenges to Driving Business Value with Predictive Analytics
Kurt Thearling
4:15-4:30 PM
 Break
4:30-5:30 PM
 BREAKOUT C: Track-Specific Vendor Spotlights
Review and evaluate current BI market tools
5:30-7:00 PM
 Executive Summit Reception
  


Tuesday , August 19, 2008

Time Key: Full Day 8:00 AM-5:30 PMHalf Day A 8:00-11:15 AMHalf Day P 2:15-5:30 PM
TIMEEVENT
7:15-8:00 AM
 Breakfast
8:00-8:30 AM
 Operational BI: Approaches and Issues
Wayne Eckerson
8:30-9:00 AM
 Reinventing BI with Real-Time Analytics: Embedding Analytics into Business Processes
Neil Raden
9:00-10:00 AM
 PANEL: Three Perspectives on Operational BI
  Jim Hill  Matthew V. Laney  Sridhar  Srinivasan
10:00-10:30 AM
 Break
10:30 AM-12:00 PM
 WORKSHOP #1: Spanning the Gulf—How StubHub Found Its BI Groove
Maureen Clarry    Wesley Yeo
10:30 AM-12:00 PM
 WORKSHOP #2: Crossing the Chasm—How to Overhaul a BI Environment to Optimize Business Value
Wayne Eckerson  Matthew March
12:00-1:00 PM
 Peer Networking Lunch
1:00-2:00 PM
 1:1 Meetings
2:00-3:00 PM
 CASE STUDY: Using Text Analytics to Deliver Actionable Information
Seth Grimes  Chris Jones  
2:00-3:00 PM
 How To Create a BI Program
Laura Madsen
2:00-3:00 PM
 Next Generation OLAP: The Future of Dimensional Analysis
John O’Brien, CBIP
2:00-3:00 PM
 Using Data Governance to Support Business Strategy
Robert Lux
3:00-3:15 PM
 Break
3:15-4:15 PM
 CASE STUDIES: Visualization in Practice
  Stephen Few    
3:15-4:15 PM
 How to Integrate Data Quality with MDM, EII, DW, or BI Solutions
Matthew March
3:15-4:15 PM
 Marrying Six Sigma and BI
Laura Edell-Gibbons
3:15-4:15 PM
 State of the Art in Web Analytics
Tony Byrne
4:15-4:30 PM
 Break
4:30-5:30 PM
 BREAKOUT C: Track-Specific Vendor Spotlights
Review and evaluate current BI market tools


Wednesday , August 20, 2008

Time Key: Full Day 8:00 AM-5:30 PMHalf Day A 8:00-11:15 AMHalf Day P 2:15-5:30 PM
TIMEEVENT
7:15-8:00 AM
 Breakfast
8:00-8:15 AM
 Performance Analytics: Best Practices in Deploying Dashboards and Scorecards
Wayne Eckerson
8:15-9:30 AM
 PANEL: Performance Management in Practice—Making BI Pervasive through Dashboards
Matthew March  Ryan Uda  Jeff Gill
9:30-9:45 AM
 Break
9:45-10:30 AM
 KEYNOTE: Police and Predictions—Reducing Crime through Analytics
    Stephen Hollifield  Major John Buckovich
10:30-11:15 AM
 EXECUTIVE PANEL: The Future of BI Software
11:15 AM-2:15 PM
 Lunch in the Exhibit Hall
1:00-6:00 PM
 Recreation: TDWI BI Executive Summit Golf Outing