TDWI BI Executive Summit

Manchester Grand Hyatt
San Diego CA,
United States

TDWI’s Business Intelligence Executive Summit brings together BI directors and BI sponsors from various industries for two days of dialogue and interactive learning focused on analytics, business intelligence, performance management, and data warehousing. The BI Summit enables BI executives to create a strong network of peers, validate their understanding of best practices, and stay on top of the latest research, trends, and technologies in the industry.

Why Is This Summit Different?

The TDWI BI Executive Summit is not just another conference. It is an opportunity to participate, interact with peers, and stay on the cutting edge of business intelligence.

Developed for busy BI executives like you, the Summit brings executives, thought leaders, and solutions sponsors together all in one place to maximize your time out of the office.

• Learn how to supercharge your BI solution
• Find out how leading companies like eBay, NetFlix, and Capital One became BI Heroes
• Conquer the current economy with Enterprise Analytics

Event Agenda

Tuesday , August 19, 2008

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

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