Gartner Business Intelligence & Analytics Summit 2015

March 30 April 1 | Las Vegas, NV | gartner.com/us/bi

MARCH 29

Sunday

Agenda at a Glance

Agenda as of February 23, 2015, and subject to change

12:00 p.m. Registration

1:00 p.m. BI Bake Off Cindi Howson, Rita L. Sallam, Kurt Schlegel
3:00 p.m. T1. How Does Data Science Really Work? Alexander Linden

T2. The Fundamentals of a BI and Analytics Program Josh Parenteau

4:15 p.m. T3. Event Stream Processing and Complex-Event Processing: Like BI but Not W. Roy Schulte

T4. Location: The Next Champion in Analytics Thomas W. Oestreich

W1. Workshop: Determining the Business Value and Costs of BI and Analytic Platform Investments
Bill Hostmann
W2. Workshop: How Information Management Professionals Can Leverage Enterprise Information
Architecture Mike J. Walker

MARCH 30

Monday

5:30 p.m. Healthcare Industry Networking Reception Laura Craft, Jeff Cribbs

7:00 a.m.
7:00 a.m.
8:15 a.m.
9:00 a.m.

TRACKS

General Breakfast
INB1. Healthcare Networking Breakfast: The State of the Analytics in Healthcare
Registration
K1a. Gartner Opening Keynote Crossing the Analytical Divide: New Technologies, New Skills Frank Buytendijk, Lisa Kart, Kurt Schlegel
K1b. Welcome Address Kurt Schlegel

A. Jump-Start the Journey

9:45 a.m. A1. Data Quality Assurance for the Age of Big Data
Ted Friedman

MARCH 31

Tuesday

10:45 a.m. Solution Provider Sessions

11:30 a.m. Attendee Lunch and Solution Showcase Dessert Reception
2:00 p.m. A2. Using Enterprise Info Architecture to Deliver Highly
Impactful BI Initiatives Mike J. Walker

C1. Measuring the Business Value of Analytics

Neil Chandler

Lunch Session: Women in IT Moderators: Cindi Howson, Debra Logan

B2. Chief Data Officers: Who They Are and Why This Role C2. Making More Meaningful Metrics Michael Smith
Will Keep Growing Debra Logan

D. Modernize the Core

F1. Case Study

D2. Do We Still Need a Data Warehouse?

Donald Feinberg

E2. Key Trends in Advanced Analytics Merv Adrian

F2. Case Study: Driving the Logical Data

Warehouse at GM Brett Vermette, Director, EDW
Solution Delivery and Platform Engineering, GM

Registration
General Breakfast
INB3. Insurance Networking Breakfast
INB4. Healthcare Networking Breakfast: Population Health Analytics
K3. Gartner Keynote We Analyze Too Much and Synthesize Too Little Frank Buytendijk
A3. Interactive Visualization: Insights for Everyone
B3. The BICC Needs to Change With the Times
C3. Innovating With Analytics: 40 Real-World Examples
D3. Big Data Discovery: The Next Generation of BI
Rita L. Sallam
Alan D. Duncan
in 40 Minutes Douglas Laney
Self-Service Dan Sommer
W4. Constructing the Logical Data Model for Healthcare Providers Laura Craft
Solution Provider Sessions
Attendee Lunch and Solution Showcase Dessert Reception
A4. Technical Insights: Serving Up Self-Service Carlie J. Idoine B4. Establish an Analytic Governance Framework
C4. Information Innovation in Insurance: Using Analytics and
D4. The DBMS Dilemma: Choosing the Right DBMS for
Thomas W. Oestreich
Big Data for Competitive Advantage Kimberly Harris-Ferrante the Digital Business Donald Feinberg
W5. Workshop: Foundational Skills of a BI and Analytics Change Agent and Leader Debra Logan
A5. To the Point: Whos Who Self-Service Data
B5. Delivering Business Value With BI and Analytics in
C5. To the Point: The Six Styles of Customer Analytics
D5. To the Point: How New Technology Will Deliver Real-Time
Preparation Ted Friedman
the Midsize Enterprise Josh Parenteau
Gareth Herschel
Context to Digital Business Decisions Yefim V. Natis
Solution Provider Sessions
K4. Guest Keynote Panel Building a Data-Driven Culture Bryan Brandow, Data Engineering Manager, Facebook; Jill Myers, Program Manager, Enterprise Intelligence Group (EIG), McKenneys;
Debashis Saha, Vice President, Global Data Infrastructure, eBay, Inc.; Gwyn Thorn, Analytics and Visualization Team Lead, Shell. Moderator: Kurt Schlegel

7:00 a.m. Registration

7:00 a.m. General Breakfast
INB5. Enterprise Architect Breakfast Mike J. Walker
8:00 a.m. A6. Technical Insights: Sentiment Analysis Move Past
B6. Worst Practices in Big Data and Digital Ethics and
Polarity, Turn Insight Into Action Jamie Popkin
How to Avoid Them Frank Buytendijk
8:00 a.m. W6. Workshop: Building a Culture for Information Innovation in Insurance Kimberly Harris-Ferrante
9:00 a.m. Solution Provider Sessions
9:45 a.m. Solution Provider Sessions
10:45 a.m. K5. Guest Keynote Francis Ford Coppola, Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker and Founder of American Zoetrope
11:45 a.m. Attendee Lunch and Solution Showcase Dessert Reception
1:15 p.m. W7. Workshop: Embedding Analytics and Operational Intelligence in Business Processes W. Roy Schulte
1:15 p.m. A7. Every Data Set Tells a Story Neil Chandler
B7. Seven Reasons for Big Data Analytics Failures
Svetlana Sicular
2:15 p.m. A8. To the Point: Why Cloud Business Analytics Makes
B8. To the Point: Benchmark the Maturity of Your
Sense and How to Go About It Joao Tapadinhas
BI Initiative Bill Hostmann
3:00 p.m. A9. To the Point: Mobile BI In Digital Business, Its Time to B9. To the Point: The First 100 Days of the Analytic
Innovate and Improve Business Processes Joao Tapadinhas
Leader Building a Bimodal Strategy Kurt Schlegel
3:45 p.m. K6. The Role of Information in the Digital Business Chris Howard

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F. Share Best Practices

E1. Applying the Big Data Ecosystem Nick Heudecker

7:00 a.m.
7:00 a.m.
8:15 a.m.
9:45 a.m.

3:45 p.m.
5:00 p.m.

E. Evangelize the New

D1. Business Analytics 2020 Market Trends

Dan Sommer

W3. Aligning Analytics to Your Digital Banking Strategy Mary Knox

Solutions Provider Sessions
K2. A Wolf in CIOs Clothing Tina Nunno
Solution Showcase and Networking Reception

9:45 a.m.
10:45 a.m.
11:30 a.m.
2:00 p.m.

APRIL 1

B1. Technical Insights: Building a Successful Analytics

Strategy Carlie J. Idoine

C. Communicate the Value

2:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
4:15 p.m.
5:30 p.m.

2:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m.

Wednesday

B. Lead the Initiative

INB2. Banking Networking Breakfast

TBA

PB1. The Dark Side of Leadership: An Audience With Tina Nunno

E3. Smart Machine Disruption Will Dominate
This Decade Tom Austin

F3. Case Study

TBA

E4. Will Hadoop Jump the Spark?

F4. Case Study

TBA

Merv Adrian

E5. To the Point: How to Take a First Step to

Advanced Analytics Lisa Kart

F5. To the Point: Smart Machines on Your Team

Tom Austin

F6. Case Study

C6. Digital Banking and the Analytics Imperative

Mary Knox

PB3. Power Breakfast: BI Boot Camp

D6. The New Application Architecture: In-Memory
Computing Plus Embedded Analytics Neil Chandler

E6. Using Real-Time Analytics to Transform

Business Operations Todd Berkowitz

C7. The Analytics of Consumer Engagement in Healthcare

Jeff Cribbs
C8. To the Point: How to Monetize Your Information
Assets Douglas Laney
C9. To the Point: How to Apply Advanced Analytics to
Real Business Case Gareth Herschel

D7. Cloud Services Impact on Business Analytics

Strategy Bill Hostmann
D8. To the Point: Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence
and Analytic Platforms Gareth Herschel
D9. To the Point: Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics
and Data Science Gareth Herschel

E7. Using Predictive Analytics to Identify Propensity to

Buy for B2B W. Roy Schulte
E8. To the Point: Navigating the Data Lake
Nick Heudecker
E9. To the Point: Data Scientists Who? Where? How?
Alexander Linden

TBA