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Reasons to Attend

TDWI is excited to bring you the newest edition of its BI Executive Summit, which is geared to senior business intelligence executives. We enhanced the peer networking opportunities, expanded our track sessions, and selected "optimizing performance and insights" as our special theme.

Designed with Executives in Mind

The Summit's unique three-day format allows for maximum flexibility and customization. Participants will enjoy keynote speakers, panels, breakout sessions, networking, and recreational events suited to their situation. Built-in breaks and long lunches allow you to network with peers, check out solution providers, and still have time to respond to urgent e-mail and phone calls from the office.

Networking Opportunities

The Executive Summit provides an unparalleled opportunity to meet and network with your peers. Specific networking opportunities include:

  • Daily peer networking lunches
  • One-on-one meetings—send private meeting requests to your peers
  • Welcome reception and evening networking reception

Letter From Our Summit Chairperson

Dear BI Executive,

Your Challenge
As one of the top BI professionals in your organization, you are a “go to” person when it comes to business intelligence and data warehousing.

BI Sponsors – As a BI sponsor, you have been given responsibility for numerous information management initiatives ranging from extending the BI portfolio and complying with regulations to consolidating BI silos, delivering corporate scorecards and dashboards, and providing advanced analytics. There is so much to do, yet little time to learn the best practices and pitfalls that will make the BI program a success.

BI Directors – As a BI director, you work closely with BI sponsors and users, oversee a growing team of BI professionals, and own or shape the BI/DW strategy, architecture, and budget. You spend as much time dealing with business and organizational issues as you do managing architectural strategies and development tasks. You are busier now than ever and face growing pressure to justify the company’s BI/DW investments.

So, where do you go to find out how to survive the gauntlet of being a BI Executive in the 21st century? Where can you learn how to translate BI technology into bottom line returns? How do you blend business, technical, and interpersonal skills to become a successful BI leader? Where can you learn all this without spending too much time out of the office?

TDWI’s BI Executive Summit
TDWI is excited to bring you the newest edition of its BI Executive Summit, which is geared to senior business intelligence executives. We enhanced the peer networking opportunities, expanded our track sessions, and selected “agility and alignment” as our special theme.

Learn from Others. The TDWI Executive Summit brings together a select group of BI sponsors and BI directors from various industries for two days of interactive learning and discussion. The program puts you in contact with your peers and thought leaders in the BI industry who can address your most challenging questions and issues. The TDWI Executive Summit helps you:

  • Create a strong network of peers to whom you can turn for advice and guidance
  • Validate your understanding of best practices and pitfalls in various BI/DW disciplines
  • Stay abreast of the latest research, trends, and technologies in the industry

Summit Theme: Optimizing Performance and Insights. Optimizing your business performance and staying ahead is essential. At TDWI's BI Executive Summit, where you will learn:

  • How to design an enterprise BI and dashboard framework that supports cross-departmental analyses
  • How to estimate the cost of BI projects
  • How to migrate from spreadmarts to a global data warehousing environment
  • How to deliver a single version of truth while maintaining regional views of data
  • When it makes sense to implement BI on the cloud
  • What the future of BI portends
  • How to bring about organizational change when implementing BI
  • About the current state of data governance
  • Practical steps to get the business to proactively manage its data assets

Interactive Agenda
The TDWI Executive Summit is geared for interactivity and dialogue. We create an intimate atmosphere that fosters dialogue and discussion among speakers, panelists, and attendees. Contextual presentations highlight the latest research from TDWI and elsewhere and provide a framework for discussion. During our Case Study Workshops, attendees sit at roundtables to analyze and discuss a real-life BI scenario.

Peer Networking. TDWI believes that BI professionals learn best by talking directly with each other. We’ve set aside peer networking tables during Monday and Tuesday luncheons to foster discussion and there is plenty of time to socialize and discuss issues at our Monday evening reception. We are confident that you will come away from the event with at least five new professional contacts among your peers at other organizations.

Qualified Attendance
To ensure the quality of discussion, we restrict attendance in the TDWI Executive Summit to:

  • BI directors who either own, shape, or directly influence the BI/DW strategy, architecture, and budget at their organizations and have at least five years of BI/DW experience
  • BI sponsors who oversee the BI/DW function and have some previous BI/DW experience

In other words, Summit attendees need to be at or near the top of the BI pyramid in their organizations. You will be asked several qualifying questions in order to register.

Bring Your Team to TDWI
You can bring your entire BI team with you, because the TDWI Executive Summit is co-located with the highly respected TDWI World Conference. While you strengthen connections with your peers at other companies, your team members can attend several of our 50+ training courses that run the entire week. Then you and your team can catch up in the evening to compare notes and share in some fun by attending the TDWI Exhibit Hall and hospitality suites. Geographically distributed teams often use the TDWI Executive Summit and Conference as an excuse to get together, plan, and build team spirit. (Some also use TDWI Research staff or faculty members during this time to deliver presentations to their team or facilitate group discussions. Contact Wayne Eckerson at weckerson@tdwi.org for more details.)

Don’t Miss This Opportunity!
TDWI has a 14-year track record of delivering in-depth, high-quality education, training, and research to the BI community. We’ve built our reputation on delivering objective, vendor-neutral advice to business and IT professionals who need to deliver positive results quickly. Our TDWI Executive Summit continues this tradition by providing superb content delivered in an interactive setting with a qualified executive audience, all of which is designed to maximize your time out of the office. So why wait? Register now!

Sincerely,
Wayne Eckerson
Director, TDWI Research
Author of Performance Dashboards: Measuring, Monitoring and Managing Your Business (John Wiley & Sons, 2005)