12th Annual
Higher Education Data Warehousing Conference
Marriott Bloomington-Normal Hotel & Conference Center, Normal, Illinois
April 19-22, 2015
Conference at a Glance
| Sunday, April 19, 2015 | |||||
| 7:00 am to 6:00 pm | Registration area R | Registration and Host Desk | |||
| 7:30 am to 8:30 am | Redbird D |
Continental Breakfast for Pre-Conference Training Participants | |||
| 8:30 am to 12:00 pm | Redbird B |
Training #1: Intermediate / Advanced Data Modeling – Steve Hoberman | |||
| 8:30 am to 12:00 pm | Redbird F |
Training #2: How to Create and Maintain a Healthy Organization – Rick Van Arnam | |||
| 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm | Redbird D | Buffet Lunch for Pre-conference Training Participants | |||
| 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Redbird B |
Training #1: Intermediate / Advanced Data Modeling – Steve Hoberman | |||
| 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Redbird F |
Training #2: How to Create and Maintain a Healthy Organization – Rick Van Arnam | |||
| 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm | North Executive Board Room (near the registration desk) | HEDW Board meeting | |||
| 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm | Redbird D | Conference Reception | |||
| 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Redbird D | Welcome Address – Dr. Janet Krejci, Provost, Illinois State University | |||
| Monday, April 20, 2015 | |||||
| 7:00 am to 6:00 pm | Registration area | Registration and Host Desk | |||
| 7:00 am to 9:00 am | Redbird C and D | Breakfast | |||
| 8:00 am to 9:00 am | Redbird C and D | Keynote Address – Art Petty – Building Personal and Team High Performance One Encounter at a Time | |||
| 7:00 am to 5:00 pm | Beaufort Meeting Room | Exhibitors | |||
| Redbird A | Redbird B | Redbird E |
Redbird F | ||
| 9:15 am to 10:15 am | If You Build It, They Will Come – Creating Web Sites Your Users Will Love Pieter Visser, University of Washington | Tableau for the Enterprise: Making the Right Design Decisions Devdutta Bhosale and Jack Neill, University of Maryland (UMUC) | Building a Second Generation BI Community at Purdue Aaron Walz and Brent Drake, Purdue University | Weber State Uses Automation and Agility to Enable Fast Data Warehouse Development Lucas Jones, Database Admin, Weber State and Michael Tantrum, Director, WhereScape | |
| 10:15 am to 10:30 am | Morning Break @ Beaufort Sponsor Showcase Room and adjacent hallways outside this room. | ||||
| 10:30 am to 11:30 am | Project Portfolio Management and Team Capacity Troy Hogan, University of Washington | Making Dashboards with Static Data: Designing UC Berkeley’s Suite of Curriculum Dashboards Jenna Allen, University of California, Berkeley | Member Program Showcase I — HEDW Members Describe Their Operations and Services Todd Hill, University of Notre Dame; Greg Hamilton, University of California, Berkeley; Michael Hansen, Oregon State University; Tom Chervenak, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities | Increase User Adoption: Consolidated Data Marts and Watson Promise Ashley Silverburg, Phytorion | |
| 11:30 am to 12:45 pm | Sponsor Hosted Lunch @ Redbird C and D | ||||
| 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Secrets Behind Building a World Class Higher-Ed Business Intelligence (Business Insight) Program Rainbow Di Benedetto, University of Texas at Austin | Actionable Intelligence: Big Data for Student Success Barrie Fitzgerald, Valdosta State University | How to Build a Data Warehouse Lucas Jones, Weber State University | The Benefits & Challenges of Cloud-Based Analytics for Higher Education Ron Cruz, KPI Partners | |
| 2:00 pm to 2:45 pm | Networking Break @ Beaufort Sponsor Showcase Room and adjacent hallways outside this room. | ||||
| 2:45 pm to 3:45 pm | Miami University 6 year Retrospective: What We Wish We Had Known at the Beginning Mary Brooks, Denise Krallman, Phyllis Wykoff, Miami University | Cognos Reports without Cognos Connection: A Pain-free Experience for Data Consumers Eric Blazek, University of Oklahoma | Starting a Business Intelligence Initiative on a Budget Using Microsoft Miriam Clark, Kansas State University | Feeding Scholarship Repositories in Quasi-Real Time, Mike Rohlinger, CIO and Matt Moericke, CTO, Academic Analytics | |
| 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm | ASU Analytics SharePoint UI Customization Venkatesh Mandalapa, Arizona State University | Using the Data Warehouse to Power IR’s University Factbook Insiyah Jamal, Drexel University | Creating a BI Program at a Public University and Sharing the Intellectual Property with Another University in our State System Jeffrey Montgomery, Indiana University of Pennsylvania | Moving Beyond Business Intelligence: Using Blackboard Analytics’ Student Management Suite as the Foundation for Machine Learning Models to Understand and Predict Student Retention Sara Collins, Business Intelligence Analyst at Illinois Central College | |
| 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm | BI Networking Dinners – sign up for local restaurants in Registration area by 12pm | ||||
| Tuesday, April 21, 2015 | |||||
| 7:00 am to 6:00 pm | Registration area | Registration and Host Desk | |||
| 7:00 am to 8:00 am | Redbird C and D | Breakfast | |||
| 7:00 am to 5:00 pm | Beaufort Meeting Room | Exhibitors | |||
| Redbird A | Redbird B | Redbird E | Redbird F | ||
| 8:00 am to 9:00 am | Member Program Showcase II– HEDW Members Describe Their Operations and Services Forrest Swope, University of Virginia; Christina Drum, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Martha Taimuty, The New School; Greg Siino, California State University, Sacramento | Cost of Academic Programs Jahnavi Jilledumudi and Bruce Szelest, SUNY Albany | Supporting User-defined Custom Hierarchies in Central Datamarts Neil Belcher and Rayna King, Cornell University | A New Business Analytics Definition: Performance Architects Clarifies BI & Data Discovery, Storage, and Integration Confusion Kirby Lunger and John McGale, Performance Architects | |
| 9:15 am to 10:15 am | Introducing Visualization to a Static Reporting Culture Jeffrey Meteyer, University of Rochester | Data Governance Excellence: Ensuring Standard Definitions and Sustained Data Quality – Part 1 Kevin Danchisko and Laura Whitaker, Education Advisory Board (EAB) | Visualizing the data warehouse: Metrics and dashboards for the University of Missouri System Enterprise Data Warehouse and Reporting Team Adam Morris, University of Missouri | A Better Data Culture: How to Have a Clear Path From Question to Answer Scott Flory, IData | |
| 10:15 am to 10:30 am | Morning Break @Beaufort Sponsor Showcase Room and adjacent hallways outside this room. | ||||
| 10:30 am to 11:30 am | Making Governance Work: Lessons Learned at UC Berkeley Max Michel, University of California, Berkeley. | Data Governance Excellence: Ensuring Standard Definitions and Sustained Data Quality – Part 2 Kevin Danchisko and Laura Whitaker, Education Advisory Board (EAB) | The Right Brain University Administrator – Financial Analytics for Insight and Action in Higher Education RK Paleru, George Washington University | Self-service Dashboards for the Business User Community Jon Salmon, iDashboards | |
| 11:30 am to 1:30 pm | Lunch and Business Meeting @ Redbird C and D | ||||
| 1:45 pm to 2:45 pm | Developing Data Definitions that ADVANCE Effectiveness Stacey Randall and Henry Hinkle, Waubonsee Community College | Signs of a Successful Business Intelligence (Tableau) Deployment Darin Mattke and William DeMoville, University of Texas, Austin | Implementation of a Position-based Data Access Security Model at OSU Michael Hansen and Jeff Merth, Oregon State University | The Holy Trinity of Higher Education: Point-In-Time, Price Versus Press on Graduation Rates and Seat Melt! Christina Rouse, Incisive Analytics | |
| 2:45 pm to 3:30 pm | Networking Break @ Beaufort Sponsor Showcase Room and adjacent hallways outside this room. | ||||
| 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm | The University of Washington’s Strategic Plan for Enterprise Data & Analytics: A Year in the Making Rob McDade, University of Washington | Business Intelligence As a Catalyst for Cultural Change Dale Amburgey and Lynn Cox, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University | Moving UMUC Data Warehouse to the Cloud: A Case Study Murthy Ravikanti and Bahram Meyssami, University of Maryland (UMUC) | Birds of a Feather | |
| 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm | K1 Breakout session | K2 Breakout Session | K3 Breakout Session | K4 Breakout Session | |
| Wednesday, April 22, 2015 | |||||
| 7:00 am to 4:00 pm | Registration area | Registration and Host Desk | |||
| 7:00 am to 9:00 am | Redbird C and D | Continental Breakfast | |||
| 8:00 am to 9:00 am | Redbird C and D | General Session – BI Maturity — What’s the Story? Hank Childers, University of Arizona and Aaron Walz, Purdue University | |||
| 9:00 am to 4:00 pm | Beaufort Meeting Room | Exhibitors | |||
| 6:00 am to 5:00 pm | Redbird G | Luggage Storage | |||
| Redbird A | Redbird B | Redbird E | Redbird F | ||
| 9:15 am to 10:15 am | Data Governance – Lessons Learned During Deployment Augie Freda, University of Notre Dame | Building a Tableau Training Program Deenie Esquibel, University of Washington | Herding Effective-Dated Cats: Challenges for a Student-term Data Model in a Decentralized Business Environment Jonathan Havey, SUNY Buffalo | 6 Things to Consider When Building an Institutional Data Warehouse Foundation Todd Nash, Principal and Jerry Edwards, Senior Manager, CBIG Consulting | |
| 10:15 am to 10:30 am | Morning Break @ Beaufort Sponsor Showcase Room and adjacent hallways outside this room. | ||||
| 10:30 am to 11:30 am | Connecting Silos: How HR Analytics Helps Win Business and Remove Barriers in Local Research Administration Joe Frank, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis | Intentional Retention Analytics Martha Taimuty and Paula Maas, The New School | Cornell’s Journey To the Cloud Jeff Christen, Cornell University | Automating Data Governance and Stewardship in Autonomous and Decentralized University Environments Dr. Pieter De Leenheer – Cofounder and VP Innovation, Collibra | |
| 11:30 am to 12:45 pm | Lunch – Member recognition and 2016 and 2017 Conference announcements@ Redbird C and D | ||||
| 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Ask a Guru – ask a panel of experienced HEDW members for advice, insight and BI/DW predictions. Michael Glasser, Ted Bross, Anja Canfield-Budde, Hank Childers, Beth Ladd, Aaron Walz, Phyllis Wykoff. | Your Data In Motion: Turning Data Into Information Matthew Pickus, University of Michigan | What? Our Delivered Warehouse Product Isn’t Perfect! Sharon Price, University of Colorado | Automated Business Intelligence Reports Migration OBIEE Tim Flood, Dynasoft Synergy | |
| 2:15 pm to 3:15 pm | BI+IR: Shotgun Wedding, or Marriage Made in Heaven? Hank Childers, University of Arizona | Designing a Federated Business Intelligence Development Strategy Michael Wonderlich, University of Illinois | One Ring to Rule Them All – Managing Security in a Complex Business Intelligence Realm William DeMoville and Darin Mattke, University of Texas at Austin | Big Ways Universities Can Leverage Microsoft Analytics to Gain Insights Patrick LeBlanc and Jason Morales, Microsoft | |
| 3:15 pm to 3:45 pm | Afternoon Break @Beaufort Sponsor Showcase Room and adjacent hallways outside this room. Get snacks for the road and enjoy a last chance to network. | ||||