Thu. November 20, 2008

TDWI World Conference Summer 2008

Tracks

Guide to the course selections below by track:
 Track 1: Getting Started Track 2: Delivering Value
 Track 3: Next Generation Track 4: Analytics
TRACK 1: GETTING STARTED
WHENSESSION
Monday
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Culture Shock: Is Your Organization Ready for Analytics?
Maureen Clarry  
Monday
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Establishing a BI Competency Center
Dan Evans  
Tuesday
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
How To Create a BI Program
Laura Madsen  
Tuesday
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
How to Integrate Data Quality with MDM, EII, DW, or BI Solutions
Matthew March  
TRACK 2: DELIVERING VALUE
WHENSESSION
Monday
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Case Study: Distributed Business Intelligence at Intuit
Jerry Twietmeyer  Chris Chan  
Monday
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Aligning with the Business: How to Apply Agile Development Techniques to BI
Jim Hill  
Tuesday
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Using Data Governance to Support Business Strategy
Robert Lux  
Tuesday
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Marrying Six Sigma and BI
Laura Edell-Gibbons  
TRACK 3: NEXT GENERATION
WHENSESSION
Monday
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Where's the Beef? Optimizing the Supply Chain Using Data Warehousing and Analytics
Larry Mohr  Don Patchell  
Monday
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Outside In: The Next Generation of BI Innovations
Mark Madsen  
Tuesday
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Next Generation OLAP: The Future of Dimensional Analysis
John O’Brien, CBIP  
Tuesday
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
CASE STUDIES: Visualization in Practice
Stephen Few  
TRACK 4: ANALYTICS
WHENSESSION
Monday
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Finding Your Place: Mapping Analytic Techniques to Business Problems
Charles A. C. Caldwell  
Monday
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Real-World Challenges to Driving Business Value with Predictive Analytics
Kurt Thearling  
Tuesday
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
CASE STUDY: Using Text Analytics to Deliver Actionable Information
Seth Grimes  Chris Jones  
Tuesday
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
State of the Art in Web Analytics
Tony Byrne