2012 Agenda

April 15, 2012 (Sunday)
7:00 am to 6:00 pm Conference Center Lobby Registration and Host Desk
7:30 am to 8:30 am Tejas Conference Dining, M2 Continental Breakfast for Pre-Conference Training Participants
8:30 am to 12:00 pm Room 105, M1 Pre-Conference Training I: Visual Data Analysis, Stephen Few
8:30 am to 12:00 pm Room 106, M1 Pre-Conference Training II: Agile Data Warehouse and BI Workshop , Ken Collier
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Tejas Conference Dining, M2 Buffet Lunch for Pre-Conference Training Participants
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm Room 105, M1 Pre-Conference Training I: Visual Data Analysis, Stephen Few
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm Room 106, M1 Pre-Conference Training II: Agile Data Warehouse and BI Workshop , Ken Collier
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm Salon C, M3 Conference Reception
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Salon C, M3 Welcome and Keynote Address Part I
April 16, 2012 (Monday)
7:00 am to 6:00 pm Conference Center Lobby Registration and Host Desk
7:00 am to 9:00 am Salon C, M3 Breakfast
8:00 am to 9:00 am Salon C, M3 Keynote Address part 2
7:00 am to 5:00 pm Conference Center, M1 Exhibitors
Break-out sessions
Room 106, M1 Room 105, M1 Room 104, M1 Room 103, M1
9:15 am to 10:15 am What If We Could Use Siri for Business Intelligence? John Rome, Arizone State University Users May Not Know Much About BI, But They Know What They Like Aaron Walz, Beth Ladd, University of Illinois Bringing Order to Chaos in Data Warehousing Jeff Christen Cornell University The Best Way to Build a Data Dictionary is not Build a Data Dictionary! Scott Flory, Brian Parish, iData Inc
10:15 am to 10:30 am Morning Break @ Salon C, M3
10:30 am to 11:30 am Developing a Blended IR-IT Data Warehouse Management Model, Ravindrar Harve, Boston College BI Training and Communication Strategies (Panel) Ann Wunderlin, University of Washington, Rachel Kemelman, New York University Needs Analysis: Business Process vs. Business Intelligence Peter Weinstein, Prasad Sunkara, Illinois State University Campus Solutions, HCM, Finance and K-12 Data Warehouses-Agile Development Yiorgos Marathias, Robert Silcher Phytorion
11:30 am to 12:45 pm Buffet Lunch @ Salon C, M3
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm BI on the Go Jeffrey Glatstein, University of Massachusetts Should You Blame the Data Warehouse? Suzanne Coletti, Ted Bross, Princeton University Of Forests and Trees: Institutional Data Definitions and Decision Support Christina Drum, University of Nevada Best Practices in 10 Minutes Christina Rouse, Incisive Analytics
2:15 pm to 3:15 pm Predictive Analytics for Student Counselling and Academic Capacity Planning: A Case-based Decision Support System Daniel Poeppelmann, Bodo Rieger, Sonja Schulze, University of Osnabrück University of Houston) Implementing DW/BI in Higher Ed-Marketing versus Planning versus Just Doing It! Suneetha Vaitheswaran, University of Chicago Data Integration as a Service or How to make your ETL tool investment payoff and add value across Campus Shelly Turner, Carrie Shumaker, University of Michigan Liberati, a Platform for Academic Performance Management and Integrated Reporting for Senior Administration Rumy Sen, Tarun Sen, Entigence Corporation
3:15 pm to 3:45 pm Afternoon Break @ Conference Foyer
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm Exploring Social Media Data for the Decision-Making Purpose (Mulugetta, Ithaca College) Life after graduation:  Triangulating disparate data sources to describe students’ employment and graduate school outcomes (Drucker, University of California) Business Intelligence at the University of Arizona – a Case Study (Childers, University of Arizona) Common Sense Tops for Effective Adoption of BI Analytics, (Rouse, Incisive Analytics)
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm HEDW Business Meeting @ Amphitheater
6:00 pm to 10:00 pm Local Restaurants BI Networking Dinners – sign up in Ballroom Foyer by 12 pm
April 17, 2012 (Tuesday)
7:00 am to 4:00 pm Ballroom Foyer Registration and Host Desk
7:00 am to 9:00 am Carrier Ballroom Continental Breakfast
9:00 am to 4:00 pm Conference Foyer, hallway(outside Yale/Princeton), &  Pennsylvania room Exhibitors
Break-out sessions
Amphitheater Yale/Princeton Taylor A & B Rowe Room
8:00 am to 9:00 am Growing Our Own: An Agile Approach to Metadata (Drum, University of Nevada) Implementing Business Intelligence using Microsoft Tools (Wilhelm, Indiana University) Graduate Tracking System-The Greatest Data Transformation Ever (Solak, University of Massachusetts) F5 Networks use WhereScape to Deliver a Multi-Terabyte data warehouse using an Agile Project, (WhereScape)
9:15 am to 10:15 am iRetention: How Arizona State University made a retention dashboard work for everyone (Kennedy, Arizona State University) An Agile Business Intelligence Manifesto for Higher Education (Cardoso, ISCTE- University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal) The Scoop on Hadoop: Making Sense of “Big Data” (Rome, Arizona State University) TBD
10:15 am to 10:30 am Morning Break @ Salon C, M3
10:30 am to 11:30 am MyRA (My Research Administration): One Stop Dashboard Christine Ray, Indiana University Metadata Management: Making Sense of It All (Panel) Rainbow Di Benedetto, University of Texas at Austin Using a Data Warehouse for NCATE Tracking and Reporting Matthew McAuliffe, Salem State University Analyzing College and Career Readiness with a Fully Integrated PK-20 Data Warehouse Shawn Bay, eScholar
11:30 am to 12:45 pm Buffet Lunch @ Tejas Conference Dining, M2`
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm BI Strategy –we know what needs to be done, so where is the problem? Ora Fish, New York University Can Do Kanban: Integrating the DSS Team and the EDW Mary Syre, Nancy Lashbrook, University of Washington Implementing The Common Education Data Standards John Blegen, State Higher Education Executive Officers The New Era in Oracle Data Warehousing Beth Rogers, Oracle
2:00 pm to 2:15 pm Afternoon Break @ Salon C, M3
2:15 pm to 3:15 pm Managing the BI User Experience Denice Inciong, Tasha Trankiem, Gene Tjoa, South Orange County Community College District Higher Education Data Mining Natalie Kellner, New Mexico State University Creating The Ultimate Masterpiece? Building a Master Data Repository to Inform Strategic Decision-Making Karen Weisbrodt, Thea Lyssy, University of Texas at Austin SAP HANA for Higher Education David Ditzel, SAP