Tracks > Business Intelligence and Analytics

Monday, 3/30/2015
Morning Tutorials 08:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Title	Speakers	Audience
AM6: Architecting for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing - Integrating the Structured and Unstructured Worlds	William H. Inmon, Forest Rim Technology.	Intermediate
AM10: Building An Enterprise Data Reservoir and Data Refinery	Mike Ferguson, Intelligent Business Strategies Ltd.	Advanced
Afternoon Tutorials 01:30 PM - 04:45 PM
Title	Speakers	Audience
PM6: Designing & Implementing an Analytical Data Architecture	Richard Sherman, Athena IT Solutions	Intermediate

Tuesday, 3/31/2015
Special Interest Groups 07:30 AM - 08:15 AM
Title	Speakers	Audience
Fifteen Minutes Might Save Us $15,000.00	Mark Paetz, Raytheon Missile Systems, Information Technology Homa Atabakhsh, Raytheon Missile Systems	Intermediate
Conference Sessions 01:15 PM - 02:00 PM
Title	Speakers	Audience
WestJet's Model Driven BI	Thomas Clark, Independent Consultant	Intermediate
Using a Decision-Making Model to Improve Decision Quality	David Loshin, Knowledge Integrity	Introductory
In Perspectives 02:15 PM - 02:45 PM
Title	Speakers	Audience
Why Doing the Data Dirty Work is Key to Predictive Analytics Success	Lisa C Dodson, SAS	Introductory
In Perspectives 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Title	Speakers	Audience
The State of Data Today, Driving the Data Technology of Tomorrow	John Park, IBM	Intermediate
Conference Sessions 03:45 PM - 04:30 PM
Title	Speakers	Audience
Business Answers and Insight Systems: An Open Source Perspective	Dan Andreescu, Wikimedia Foundation Dorin Andreescu, GPMSS	Advanced

Wednesday, 4/1/2015
Conference Sessions 10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
Title	Speakers	Audience
Visualize This: The Art of Data Storytelling	Kimberly Nevala, SAS Best Practices Bree Baich, SAS	Business/Strategic
Conference Sessions 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Title	Speakers	Audience
Near-Real-Time Analytics and Big Data	Mark Uksusman, eBay, Inc	Intermediate

Thursday, 4/2/2015
Conference Sessions 08:30 AM - 09:15 AM
Title	Speakers	Audience
The Practicalities of Building and Implementing an EDW in Data Vault	Gabrielle Harrison, RMIT University	Intermediate
Conference Sessions 09:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Title	Speakers	Audience
Out of the Stoned Ages - Using Analytics for Cannabis	Rob Rusher, On3 Software	Business/Strategic