Learn how experts mine data by attending The Modeling Agency's vendor-neutral and application-oriented predictive analytics and data mining courses. Participants will learn about predictive modeling strategy, best practices, capabilities, limitations, risks, rewards, methods, tools, techniques, applications, practice, and how to get started. Courses may be attended independently, or as a series. Since The Modeling Agency is not a tools vendor,...

Below is an outline of Cloud Slam'12 Tracks and Topics. Next Generation Cloud Platform (The Road to PaaS) Last year we observed a growing number of cloud platforms popping up on a surface, while existing platforms are maturing and undergoing dramatic change in recent months, including a focus on multi-language support, multi-cloud deployment capabilities and common developer services. This track will examine the transformation of platform serv...

SANS is pleased to announce that we've partnered again with RSA® Conference for the Pre-Conference 2-Day Tutorial program. Top SANS instructors will be presenting hands-on, 2-day, skill-building training at RSA® Conference 2012 in San Francisco, California, February 26 - 27.Register for RSA® Conference 2012 by November 9, 2012 for the deepest discounts available. For even greater savings, combine the 2-Day Tutorials with the Full C...

SANS is bringing five of our most popular courses to SANS San Francisco 2011, November 14 - 19 along with a NEW audit course. Enhance your skills by taking advantage of SANS security training loaded with practical tools and cutting-edge information. Learn about security, incident handling, hacker techniques, the foundations of audit, computer forensics, and much more! Where else but Fisherman's Wharf can you enjoy some Ghirardelli chocolate an...

In today’s world, public safety officials are routinely confronted by the challenges of managing and sharing evidence in a world that runs on digital devices and where unrealistic public expectations are formed by television shows like “CSI” and “Criminal Minds.” How are you responding? At this event we will discuss how: Digital media and computers, laptops, flash drives, external storage devices, digital cameras...

Benefits Discover how to navigate the minefields of public contracting and procurement code with ease. Do you want to know how to minimize the looming pitfalls inherent in public contracting? Now you can - attend this seminar and enhance your knowledge of the complex and always changing system of laws and regulations involved in public contracting and procurement. You will find out not only how to effectively coordinate the public procurement...

The San Francisco Bay Area is a Tier 1 UASI region, heightening the need for collaboration and expanded response capabilities across endless crises, from almost daily seismic events to fires and critical infrastructure threats. Join peers across all areas of emergency preparedness and homeland security to share best practices, explore solutions and build contacts critical to the region's unique disaster preparedness and emergency management ch...

In information security, you’re trained to expect the unexpected. Changes occur in a nanosecond. As the information security field continues to grow in importance and influence in public and private industry, RSA® Conference plays an integral role in educating and connecting security professionals across the globe. Stay on top by staying one step ahead – attend RSA Conference! RSA Conference is the most comprehensive forum in i...

Digital disruption. Social media. Real-time collaboration. Data convergence. Virtual teams. Agile development. Mobile everything. Cloud computing. The way we work is fundamentally changing. Some companies will adapt and grow. Others will be left behind.

 Where do you go to understand the future? Learn from all-star customers? Master the cloud? For seven years, the most successful companies in the world have come to Dreamforce....

The face of emergency management today has never been more complex! The All-Hazards, All-Stakeholders Summit will address the natural and man-made hazards facing the San Francisco area — fires, floods, earthquakes, terror events — and address best practices in preparing for and mitigating these crises. Prepared organizations must not only plan internally, but must reach out to their “silos” to integrate planning with di...