TDWI Orlando 2015

Foundations, Trends, and Futures in Business Intelligence and Analytics -- Successful and sustainable business intelligence and analytics programs are built on a solid foundation, responsive to trends in the industry, and aware of emerging and future technologies and practices. Join us in Orlando for comprehensive training on the skills that are essential to business intelligence and analytics success—today and tomorrow.

Learn How to Lead in the Age of Advanced Analytics and Big Data -- Gain "must-have" knowledge on strategies, people, culture, and capabilities for successful leadership in a data-driven organization. A 5-course series, in TDWI Orlando's BI & Analytics Leadership track, focuses on what it takes to bring business and IT together.

Who Should Attend

Business and IT leaders working to build a data-driven organization
Business and data analysts who turn data into knowledge and insight
Everyone who is interested in big data, from those seeking business opportunities to those faced with the technical challenges
BI, data warehousing, and analytics architects, designers, and developers
Data architects, modelers, designers, and developers working across the data continuum from structured data to non-traditional data sources
Data stewards, custodians, and stakeholders who are challenged by the expanding scope of data and the growing complexity of regulations governing data privacy, security, and use
Anyone who wants to get hands-on with state-of-the-art technologies for data mining, big data, and data visualization

What You Will Learn -- Over six days, explore functional applications of analytics across the enterprise (sales, marketing, financial, and so on), and drill down into advanced analytics practices such as prescriptive analytics, visualization, simulation, and much more.

How to embrace big data, advanced analytics, self-service, and other trends without disrupting your existing BI and analytics architecture.
How to shape your BI and analytics organization for a future of blurred or nonexistent lines between business and IT, and between data and information.
What are the hottest trends in BI and analytics today and how will they affect your BI program?
What does advanced analytics really mean? Who needs it, and what does it take to succeed?
What are data scientists and why do you need them?
What are the opportunities, challenges, and realities of big data implementations?
When, how, and why should your BI and analytics roadmap address cognitive computing, complex event processing, and mobile BI?
What are the implications for governance, privacy, security, and ethics in the new world of big data and advanced analytics?
What are the emerging technologies that advance the practices of big data analytics?

Speaker and Presenter Information

Keynotes

Claudia Imhoff, Ph.D.
President and Founder,
Intelligent Solutions, Inc.

Extending Your Data Warehouse Environment: How New Technologies Enhance (Not Replace) Existing Analytical Environments

Data, data everywhere…. Today’s BI implementation experts face potentially disruptive technology decisions as they strive to support their business users’ BI needs. Increasing volumes and sources of data (on premises and off), innovative technologies, more complex data integration and quality issues, lower data latencies, and difficulties in maintaining and enhancing diverse BI needs are just a few of these. While they do shake up the status quo, they do not mean traditional data warehouse and BI components are no longer needed.

Dr. Imhoff has spent her career creating and implementing data warehouse architectures. In this keynote, she will present her latest one—a modern approach that embraces the new with the old: the Extended Data Warehouse Architecture. She will discuss how to bridge these two capabilities into a world-class analytical environment.

John Santaferraro
Chief Marketing Officer,
Organomics

Supercharge Analytics with Innovation and Design Thinking

Imagine analytics taking flight to reveal correlations and predictions that you didn’t even know existed. Consider what it would be like to discover new insight regarding questions you didn’t even know you should ask. Ultimately, think about what it would mean to your business and your career to continually increase the accuracy of your predictions or to fine tune your learning algorithms to boost profits. It’s not just all about the data. It starts with creative innovation and design thinking.

The biggest mistake you can make with your analytics program is to treat it like business intelligence. It is a different animal. It requires thinking outside the box. Recognizing the 10 faces of innovation will unlock all of the potential of prediction to move your organization beyond ordinary data-driven decision making. Design thinking will free you from the constraints of old agile and waterfall methodologies and guide you toward breakthrough. Together, these two revolutionary concepts give your analytics program the right context and the right approach to ensure success.

Relevant Government Agencies

Air Force, Army, Navy & Marine Corps, Intelligence Agencies, DOD & Military, Office of the President (includes OMB), Dept of Agriculture, Dept of Commerce, Dept of Education, Dept of Energy, Dept of Health & Human Services, Dept of Homeland Security, Dept of Housing & Urban Development, Dept of the Interior, Dept of Justice, Dept of Labor, Dept of State, Dept of Transportation, Dept of Treasury, Dept of Veterans Affairs, EPA, GSA, USPS, SSA, NASA, Other Federal Agencies, Legislative Agencies (GAO, GPO, LOC, etc.), State Government, County Government, City Government, Municipal Government, CIA, FEMA, Office of Personnel Management, Coast Guard, National Institutes of Health, FAA, Census Bureau, USAID, National Guard Association, EEOC