Attendee FAQ
What is TDWI Solution Summit?
Who produces the event?
Is this event different from other MDM or BI events?
What are the main benefits of attending?
Who should attend?
What will take place during the event?
Which vendors will participate?
Will I have the opportunity to schedule one-on-one meetings with vendors and analysts?
How much does it cost to attend?
I’m interested in attending—how do I qualify for my invitation?
What is a TDWI Solution Summit?
Each TDWI Solution Summit focuses on one or more data-driven best practices or technologies. For example, the 2010 TDWI Solution Summit focuses on master data, quality, and governance. A TDWI Solution Summit accelerates users’ evaluation and decision processes, so they can achieve their organizations’ needs by choosing and implementing a solution as quickly as possible. The summit achieves this end by bringing together a fully hosted audience of IT executives with best-of-breed technology providers and industry thought leaders. The summit will address the full lifecycle of the technical solution it focuses on, from selling and justifying a solution that meets bonafide business needs to architecting and implementing a system that delivers real value.
Who produces the event?
TDWI Solution Summit is presented by TDWI, a respected provider of in-depth, high-quality education, training, and research in the business intelligence, data warehousing, and information management community.
Why is this event different from other MDM events?
A TDWI Solution Summit is an invitation-only summit. It provides an intimate, upscale environment where senior business and technology executives can learn all they need to know about MDM, network with peers from organizations that are actively planning to implement MDM, and meet senior officials of key solution providers—all while spending just two days out of the office. Other differentiators include:
- All attendees must qualify to attend
- Full travel participation package, including airfare, hotel expenses, and registration fees for qualified attendees
- Real-world stories of companies that have implemented relevant solutions
- Practitioners who can explain how to succeed with an implementation
- In-depth TDWI research that explains market trends and issues
- A unique online scheduling system that enables attendees to build their own schedule of one-on-one meetings with vendors and analysts
What are the main benefits of attending?
- Learn best practices and pitfalls of implementing MDM, DQ, or DG from practitioners and industry experts, from those who have already done it
- Accelerate six months of solution research into two days
- Meet all the major software vendors and consultants and learn their differentiators
- Network with peers who are also embarking on MDM, DQ, and DG projects
- Make contacts with industry experts who have methodologies for implementing MDM, DQ, and DG
- Gain comfort and reduce risk when making a significant investment in MDM, DQ, or DG
Who should attend?
- CIOs charged with justifying and acquiring a technology for MDM, DQ, or DG
- Business executives who need to educate their IT counterparts on the business benefits of consolidated master data
- Directors of IT who need to implement an MDM, DQ, or DG solution soon
- Senior architects who need to architect a solution soon
- Business IT managers who have been charged with standardizing customer and other reference data across multiple enterprise applications
- IT managers expected to deploy the optimal MDM or DQ solution
- Senior architects responsible for incorporating MDM or DQ into a new service-orientation framework
- Managers who own relationships with third-party data providers and who need to solve the data standardization and enrichment challenges
What will take place during the event?
The agenda is centered around rich content presentations from practitioners and scheduled meetings between attending business and technical executives and vendors, including sponsor workshops and one-on-one meetings for follow-up product and partnership discussions. Panel discussions and daily networking activities are also featured.
Which vendors will participate?
Participating vendors will be the world’s premier product vendors and service providers of MDM, DQ, and DG solutions.
Will I have the opportunity to schedule one-on-one meetings with vendors and analysts?
Yes, you will have access to a unique online tool that enables you to pre-schedule one-on-one meetings with the vendors and analysts of your choice. You may also schedule these meetings onsite during the event.
How much does it cost to attend?
There is no charge for qualified IT and business executives to participate in a TDWI Solution Summit. If you qualify to attend, you will receive complimentary event registration, airfare (up to $400), hotel accommodations for two nights, meals, and social events. The event will be limited to a select number of attendees. You are encouraged to secure your place as soon as possible.
I’m interested in attending—how do I qualify for my invitation?
Click here to qualify for your event invitation.