2013 Agenda

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April 28, 2013 (Sunday)
7:00 am to 6:00 pm Ballroom Foyer Registration and Host Desk
7:30 am to 8:30 am Ballroom Foyer Continental Breakfast for Pre-Conference Training Participants
8:30 am to 12:00 pm Carrier Ballroom Training #1: Power, Politics, Partnership Workshop – Maureen Clarry
8:30 am to 12:00 pm Yale/Princeton Training #2: Agile Data Warehouse Design – Joe Caserta
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Taylor & Rowe Buffet Lunch for Pre-conference Training Participants
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm Carrier Ballroom Training #1: Power, Politics, Partnership Workshop – Maureen Clarry
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm Yale/Princeton Training #2: Agile Data Warehouse Design – Joe Caserta
6:30 pm to 9:00 pm Terrace Restaurant & Lounge Conference Reception
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Terrace Restaurant & Lounge Welcome Address

April 29, 2013 (Monday)
7:00 am to 6:00 pm Ballroom Foyer Registration and Host Desk
7:00 am to 9:00 am Carrier Ballroom Breakfast
8:00 am to 9:00 am Carrier Ballroom Keynote Address: Maureen Clarry
7:00 am to 5:00 pm Conference Foyer, hallway(outside Yale/Princeton), &  Pennsylvania room Exhibitors

Break-out sessions
Amphitheater Yale/Princeton Taylor A & B Rowe Room
9:15 am to 10:15 am Advanced Analytics @ UMUC
(Catalano, University of Maryland University College)		 Testing Data, Reports & Patience: How Princeton Got a Grip Testing an Ever-changing BI Environment
(Zodeiko, Princeton University)		 7 Step Framework for Starting (or Restarting) a BI Program
(Hill, University of Notre Dame)		 The Best Way to Build a Data Dictionary is to NOT Build a Data Dictionary(Flory, IData Inc)
10:15 am to 10:30 am

Morning Break @ Ballroom Foyer
10:30 am to 11:30 am Collaborative BI in a Distributed World
(Walz, University of Illinois)		 Business Glossaries – What’s available and how to evaluate it
(Reeb, University of Rochester)		 Academic Department Metrics in Nine Weeks: Lessons Learned
(Thomas, New York University)		 Tableau at Cornell: Agility at the Enterprise, (Sedlacek, Cornell University/Tableau)
11:30 am to 12:45 pm

Buffet Lunch @ Carrier Ballroom
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Forum Member Panel Discussion Leveraging Business Intelligence to Develop a University Key Indicators Dashboard
(Greene, Boston College)		 Course Evaluation: From Rag (paper) to Riches
(Stemmler, University of Pennsylvania)		 Jumpstarting Data Analytics at Syracuse University-Lessons from the First 90 Days(Anderson, Blackboard)
2:15 pm to 3:15 pm

It’s About Partnerships: How Evolving Partnerships Have Built a Warehouse
(Barlow, University of Houston)

 Tuition Revenue Model Integration for Academic Instruction, Enrollment and Teaching
(Berlin, Stony Brook University)		 If you’re not doing “In Memory” BI, you should be.
(Frederick, University of Notre Dame)		 Student Success and Retention: An Analytics & Reporting Case Study, (Derrick Reig, Oracle)
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 30, 2013 (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 @ Ballroom Foyer
10:30 am to 11:30 am Reviving Data Governance Within the University System of Georgia
(Cestaro, University System of Georgia)		 Using Semantic Wiki in HE Data Warehousing
(Schulze, University of Osnabrueck)		 The Institutional Research Office, a Catalyst for Change in Data Warehouse Design
(Elkins, University of Washington)		 BOF-Data Modeling
11:30 am to 12:45 pm

Buffet Lunch @ Carrier Ballroom`
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Cornell University Institutional Data Warehouse Technical Architecture and Process Overview
(Messie, Cornell University)		 Something new under the stars: data modeling for BI with agility
(Huckabay, Northwestern University)		 On the Road to Managed Metadata
(McQuillen, University of Washington)		 TBD
2:00 pm to 2:15 pm

Afternoon Break @ Conference Foyer
2:15 pm to 3:15 pm Bringing a Business Intelligence Delivery Strategy to Your Campus – the Culture Change from Project to Program
(Kadish, University at Albany)

Clash of the Titans – DW vs. MDM
(Tucker, Boston College)

 Dimensional Modeling: A Bottom-Up Approach
(Belcher, Cornell University)		 TBD