Thu. November 20, 2008

TDWI World Conference Summer 2008

Conference-At-A-Glance

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

INSTRUCTORS OF THE INSTITUTE

INSTRUCTOR EVENT
Major John Buckovich
  KEYNOTE: Police and Predictions—Reducing Crime through Analytics
Tony Byrne
  State of the Art in Web Analytics
Charles A. C. Caldwell
  Finding Your Place: Mapping Analytic Techniques to Business Problems
Chris Chan
  Case Study: Distributed Business Intelligence at Intuit
Maureen Clarry
  Culture Shock: Is Your Organization Ready for Analytics?
  WORKSHOP #1: Spanning the Gulf—How StubHub Found Its BI Groove
Eric Colson
  PANEL: Tales from the Trenches—How to Succeed with Analytics
Howard Dresner
 Keynote: Information Democracy—Information Equality for All!
Wayne Eckerson
  Analytics: The Next Frontier
  Operational BI: Approaches and Issues
  WORKSHOP #2: Crossing the Chasm—How to Overhaul a BI Environment to Optimize Business Value
  Performance Analytics: Best Practices in Deploying Dashboards and Scorecards
Laura Edell-Gibbons
  Marrying Six Sigma and BI
Dan Evans
  Establishing a BI Competency Center
Stephen Few
  CASE STUDIES: Visualization in Practice
Jeff Gill
  PANEL: Performance Management in Practice—Making BI Pervasive through Dashboards
Seth Grimes
  CASE STUDY: Using Text Analytics to Deliver Actionable Information
Jim Hill
  Aligning with the Business: How to Apply Agile Development Techniques to BI
  PANEL: Three Perspectives on Operational BI
Stephen Hollifield
  KEYNOTE: Police and Predictions—Reducing Crime through Analytics
Chris Jones
  CASE STUDY: Using Text Analytics to Deliver Actionable Information
Matthew V. Laney
  PANEL: Three Perspectives on Operational BI
Robert Lux
  Using Data Governance to Support Business Strategy
Mark Madsen
  Outside In: The Next Generation of BI Innovations
Laura Madsen
  How To Create a BI Program
Matthew March
  WORKSHOP #2: Crossing the Chasm—How to Overhaul a BI Environment to Optimize Business Value
  How to Integrate Data Quality with MDM, EII, DW, or BI Solutions
  PANEL: Performance Management in Practice—Making BI Pervasive through Dashboards
Larry Mohr
  Where's the Beef? Optimizing the Supply Chain Using Data Warehousing and Analytics
John O’Brien, CBIP
  Next Generation OLAP: The Future of Dimensional Analysis
Don Patchell
  Where's the Beef? Optimizing the Supply Chain Using Data Warehousing and Analytics
Neil Raden
  Reinventing BI with Real-Time Analytics: Embedding Analytics into Business Processes
Oliver Ratzesberger
  SUMMIT KEYNOTE: Analytics at eBay
Matt Schwartz, CBIP,
  PANEL: Tales from the Trenches—How to Succeed with Analytics
Sridhar Srinivasan
  PANEL: Three Perspectives on Operational BI
Kurt Thearling
  Real-World Challenges to Driving Business Value with Predictive Analytics
  PANEL: Tales from the Trenches—How to Succeed with Analytics
Jerry Twietmeyer
  Case Study: Distributed Business Intelligence at Intuit
Ryan Uda
  PANEL: Performance Management in Practice—Making BI Pervasive through Dashboards
Wesley Yeo
  WORKSHOP #1: Spanning the Gulf—How StubHub Found Its BI Groove