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Track Key :
 BI Essentials Business Analytics
 CBIP Big Data Tipping Point
 Data Analysis and Design Data Asset Management
 Keynote Leadership and Management
Sunday, May 05, 2013
TIME EVENT
Sunday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
  
S1  TDWI Business Intelligence Principles and Practices: Charting the Course to BI Success

Mark Peco, CBIP

Aaron Fuller, CBIP
Sunday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
  
S2  Dimensional Modeling from a Business Perspective: A Model the Business Can Understand

Laura L. Reeves
Sunday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
  
S3  TDWI Performance Management: Measurement, Metrics, and Monitoring

Chris Adamson, CBIP
Sunday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
  
S4  The Art of Estimating Data Warehousing Projects

Ralph Hughes

Jim Gallo
Sunday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
  
S5  Designing a Data Warehouse for High Performance

Stephen Brobst
Sunday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
  
S6  Gathering Analytics Requirements to Optimize Business Performance

Mike Lampa
Monday, May 06, 2013
TIME EVENT
Monday
8:00 am - 8:45 am
  
KEYNOTE: Big Data, Bigger Impact

Ken Rudin
Monday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
  
M1  TDWI Business Intelligence Architecture: Principles of BI Design

Dave Wells, CBIP
Monday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
  
M2  TDWI Dimensional Data Modeling Primer: From Requirements to Business Analysis

Aaron Fuller, CBIP
Monday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
  
M3  TDWI Design Techniques for Dashboards and Scorecards

Chris Adamson, CBIP
Monday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
  
M4  Big Data: What's All the Hadoop?UPDATED!

Paul Flach
Monday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
  
M5  The Future of Data Warehousing

Stephen Brobst
Monday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
  
M6  TDWI Data Integration Principles and Practices: Creating Information Unity from Data Disparity

Mark Peco, CBIP
Monday
9:00 am - 12:15 pm
  
M7A  CBIP Preparation for the Information Systems Core Exam

Deanne Larson, DM, CBIP
Monday
1:45 pm - 5:00 pm
  
M7P  CBIP Preparation for the Data Warehousing Exam

Deanne Larson, DM, CBIP
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
TIME EVENT
Tuesday
8:00 am - 5:30 pm
  
T1  TDWI Requirements Gathering: Getting Correct and Complete Requirements for BI Systems

Tony Lopykinski
Tuesday
8:00 am - 5:30 pm
  
T2  Dimensional Modeling Beyond the Basics: Intermediate and Advanced Techniques

Laura L. Reeves
Tuesday
8:00 am - 5:30 pm
  
T3  TDWI Business Analytics: Exploration, Experimentation, and Discovery

Dave Wells, CBIP
Tuesday
8:00 am - 5:30 pm
  
T4  Big Data: Beyond the Hadoop-laUPDATED!

Paul Flach
Tuesday
8:00 am - 5:30 pm
  
T5  TDWI Data Governance Fundamentals

Deanne Larson, DM, CBIP
Tuesday
8:00 am - 5:30 pm
  
T6  Agile Data Warehousing 101: An Introduction to Accelerated BI/DW Development

Ralph Hughes
Tuesday
8:00 am - 11:15 am
  
T7A  Managing and Evaluating Your BI Tool Portfolio

Cindi Howson
Tuesday
2:15 pm - 5:30 pm
  
T7P  Best Practices for Bigger BI Impact

Cindi Howson
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
TIME EVENT
Wednesday
8:00 am - 5:30 pm
  
W1  TDWI BI Program Management: A Competency Center Approach to BI Excellence

Tony Lopykinski
Wednesday
8:00 am - 5:30 pm
  
W2  TDWI Data Modeling: Data Analysis and Design for BI and Data Warehousing Systems

Jonathan G. Geiger, CBIP
Wednesday
8:00 am - 5:30 pm
  
W3  Data Virtualization: Solving Complex Data Integration Challenges

John Myers
Wednesday
8:00 am - 5:30 pm
  
W4  Mastering BI with Best-Practice Architectures and Data Models: From Hub and Spoke to Agile Development

Claudia Imhoff, Ph.D.

Len Silverston
Wednesday
8:00 am - 11:15 am
  
W5A  Building the Business Case for Big Data in Your Data WarehouseNEW!

Krish Krishnan
Wednesday
8:00 am - 11:15 am
  
W6A  Evaluating New Database Technologies for Data Warehousing and Analytics

Mark Madsen
Wednesday
8:00 am - 11:15 am
  
W7A  Big Data: The Tipping Point

Shawn Rogers
Wednesday
2:15 pm - 5:30 pm
  
W5P  Building the "Big Data" WarehouseNEW!

Krish Krishnan
Wednesday
2:15 pm - 5:30 pm
  
W6P  New Methods for Dealing with Complex Data

Mark Madsen
Wednesday
2:15 pm - 5:30 pm
  
W7P  Social Analytics in the Enterprise

Shawn Rogers
Thursday, May 09, 2013
TIME EVENT
Thursday
8:00 am - 8:45 am
  
KEYNOTE: Cutting through the Hype: What You Really Need to Know about Big Data

Bill Franks
Thursday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
  
TH1  TDWI Project Management for Business Intelligence

Mark Peco, CBIP
Thursday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
  
TH2  TDWI Advanced Data Modeling Techniques

Jonathan G. Geiger, CBIP
Thursday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
  
TH3  Data Mining Methods and Techniques: Data Preparation, Model Building, and Evaluation

Tony Rathburn
Thursday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
  
TH4  The Human Side of Big DataNEW!

Krish Krishnan

Len Silverston
Thursday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
  
TH5  TDWI Data Quality Management: Techniques for Data Profiling, Assessment, and Improvement

Dave Wells, CBIP
Thursday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
  
TH6  Beyond Reports, OLAP, and Dashboards: Emerging Practices, Analytics, and Technologies to Meet Today’s Requirements

Steve Dine

Mark Madsen
Thursday
9:00 am - 12:15 pm
  
TH7A  Designing Your Data Governance Program

Jill Dyché, CBIP
Thursday
1:45 pm - 5:00 pm
  
TH7P  Considerations for Big Data Governance

Jill Dyché, CBIP

Tamara Dull
Friday, May 10, 2013
TIME EVENT
Friday
8:00 am - 3:30 pm
  
F1  TDWI Master Data Management Fundamentals

Jonathan G. Geiger, CBIP
Friday
8:00 am - 3:30 pm
  
F2  Big Data, the Big Bang, and Information Quality

Gian Di Loreto, Ph.D.
Friday
8:00 am - 3:30 pm
  
F3  Predictive Analytics: Low-Risk Strategies for High-Impact Projects

Tony Rathburn
Friday
8:00 am - 3:30 pm
  
F4  BI Adoption: Change the Way You Think about BIUPDATED!

Tony Lopykinski
Friday
8:00 am - 11:15 am
  
F5A  Big Data Maturity: Measuring Your JourneyNEW!

Krish Krishnan
Friday
8:00 am - 11:15 am
  
F6A  Return on Investment for Information ProjectsNEW!

William McKnight
Friday
12:15 pm - 3:30 pm
  
F5P  Big Data Analytics: Process to Data-Driven TransformationsNEW!

Krish Krishnan
Friday
12:15 pm - 3:30 pm
  
F6P  Organizational Change Management: Solving the Hard Soft IssuesNEW!

William McKnight