2018 HEDW Conference Agenda

15th Annual HEDW Forum Conference Agenda
April 8 – 11, 2018
Hosted by Oregon State University
CH2M Hill Alumni Center & The LaSells Stewart Center
Corvallis, Oregon

Conference at a Glance

Presentation Descriptions and Presenter Bios are available on separate web pages. Links are in the menu to the right.

Sunday, April 8, 2018 – CH2M Hill Alumni Center
Time Room Event
7:00 am to
5:30 pm		 Lobby HEDW Registration and Host Desk
7:30 am to
8:30 am		 Ballroom C
 Buffet Breakfast for Sunday Training Participants
8:30 am to
12:00 pm		 Ballroom A&B
 Information Dashboard Design, Nick Desbartas, Practical Reporting, Inc
8:30 am to
12:00 pm		 Willamette Rooms A&B
 The Modern Data Ecosystem, Joe Caserta, Founding President, Caserta
10:00 am to
10:15 am		 Lobby Break
12:00 pm to
1:00 pm		 Ballroom C
 Buffet Lunch for Sunday Training Participants
1:00 pm to
4:30 pm		 Ballroom A&B
 Information Dashboard Design, Nick Desbartas, Practical Reporting, Inc
1:00 pm to
5:00 pm		 Willamette Rooms A&B
 The Modern Data Ecosystem, Joe Caserta, Founding President, Caserta
2:00 pm to
2:15 pm		 Lobby Break
4:30 pm to
5:50 pm		 Walking tour Optional Tour of  the LINC (Learning Innovation Center)
4:30 pm to
5:30 pm		 Board Room
 HEDW Board meeting
6:00 pm to
8:30 pm		 Reser Stadium, Club Level  HEDW Conference Reception
7:00 pm to
7:20 pm		 Reser Stadium, Club Level  Welcome Address – Lois Brooks, Vice Provost for Information & Technology/CIO
Monday, April 9, 2018 – CH2M Hill Alumni Center & The LaSells Stewart Center
Time Room Event
7:00 am to
5:00 pm		 Alumni Center
S. Concourse
 Registration and Host Desk
6:30 am to
5:00 pm		 LaSells Stewart Center
Guistina Gallery		 Conference Sponsors
7:00 am to
8:30 am		 Alumni Center Ballroom Breakfast
8:15 am to
9:15 am		 LaSells Stewart Center – Austin Auditorium Keynote Address – Data is Not the Solution, Stephen Few, Founder and Principal, Perceptual Edge
Alumni Center LaSells Stewart Center
Time Willamette Room Ag Leaders Room Ag Production Room Construction & Engineering Hall Ag Science Room
(Sponsors)
9:30 am to
10:30 am		 Data Warehouse of Dreams: If we build it, will they come?; Theresa Sherwood, Bowling Green State University Exploring Text Classification to Automate Document Categorization; Dimuthu Tilakaratne and Archana Mandala, University of Illinois
 Partnerships in technology, predictive indexes, and process to influence student success and retention:  A Data Science perspective Uche Nwocke, Brenda Ulin and Grant Brown, University of Iowa
 Introduction to Graph Analytics; Pieter Visser, University of Washington
 Redefining Data Warehouse and Analytics Operations in a New Era – Panel Discussion
Jack Neill, HelioCampus (Moderator), Dr. Yuko Mulugetta, Ithaca College, Dr. Craig Rudick, University of Kentucky & Kevin Joseph, UMBC
10:30 am to
11:00 am		 Morning Networking Break / LaSells Stewart Center Guistina Gallery
11:00 am to
12:00 pm
 Campus Mapping Challenges Solved! Andrew Cluff, Brigham Young University An Agile BI Triptych:  How Agile works for three Universities  (Presentation and panel discussion)
Joanne Wilhelm, Indiana University,Robert McDade, University of Washington and Kristin Kennedy, Arizona State University		 Scanning Success – How Student Affairs and IT grew a Participation Tracking System; Ken Schreihofer and Kevin Joseph, University of Maryland Baltimore County Securing Business Intelligence with the Easy Button Julie Parmenter, Indiana University Modeling NSF Higher Ed Research Data (HERD) for Analytic Dashboards
Jason Morales, Microsoft, Ian Czarnezki & Miriam Clark, Kansas State University
12:00 pm to
1:00 pm		 Lunch / Alumni Center Ballroom
1:15 pm to
2:15 pm		 Partnerships in technology, predictive indexes, and process to influence student success and retention:  A Process, Data Architecture and BI perspective Brenda Ulin and Danielle Martinez, University of Iowa It Takes a Village – Ideas on Building a BI Community on your campus – Panel Discussion
Michael Hansen, Oregon State, Mike Sheppard, Univ. of Michigan, Nick Barbulesco, UC Davis, Susan Schaefer, University of Utah, Nick Chaviano, Georgia Institute of Technology
 From Rags to Riches in 5 years
Eady Broscheit, Regis University		 Getting Workday Financial data into the Data Warehouse      Jeffrey Meteyer, University of Rochester Closing the Gap between Resourcing and Project Delivery with Data Warehouse Automation
Kristen Handley, Whitman College for WhereScape
2:15 pm to
2:45 pm		 Afternoon Networking Break / LaSells Stewart Center Guistina Gallery
2:45 pm to
3:45 pm		 The Flying V Strategy: Finding the Right Formula for BI Success Nick Chaviano and Rodney Pacis, Georgia Institute of Technology Where Should All this Business Logic Go? – A Panel Debate
Daniel Riehs, Boston College, Ravindra Harve, Boston College, Lauren Himml, Boston University, Kyle Quass, Indiana University and David Ricker, Dartmouth College		 MacGyver ETL, implementing an open source ETL while the clock’s ticking
Nick Kimmel and Steve Letzring, Bowling Green State University		 Unraveling and Defining Student Success: Analytics guided by the student experience Daniel Newhart, Oregon State University How One Report Can Deliver A Thousand
Robert Silcher and Yiorgos Marathias, Phytorion
4:00 pm to
5:00 pm		 Data Modeling and Decision Support for a more Diverse Faculty
Heidi Hiemstra, Ph.D., University of Kentucky		 “Workday in the Warehouse” Panel participation Steve Fischer, The Ohio State University, Ryan Schlagheck, Yale University, and Jeff Meteyer, University of Rochester ** Cancelled **

Integrated solutions to student success:  Linking analytics, business intelligence, and academic nudges to improve performance in foundational math courses


Building the Yellow Brick Road: How the University of Michigan is Planning for an Information Architecture in the Cloud Michael Sheppard and Amber Madden, University of Michigan
PASSHE and Performance Architects Case Study: Student Enrollment Analytics Modernization Across 14 Institutions in the PA State System of Higher Education
John McGale, Performance Architects and Jeff Montgomery, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP)
6:00 pm to
10:00 pm		 Networking Dinners at Local Restaurants
Tuesday, April 10, 2018 – CH2M Hill Alumni Center & The LaSells Stewart Center
Time Room Event
7:00 am to
5:00 pm		 Alumni Center
S. Concourse
 Registration and Host Desk
7:00 am to
5:00 pm		 LaSells Stewart Center, Guistina Gallery
 Conference Sponsors
7:00 am to
8:30 am		 Alumni Center Ballroom Breakfast
Alumni Center LaSells Stewart Center
Time Willamette Room Ag Leaders Room Ag Production Room Construction & Engineering Hall Ag Science Room
(Sponsors)
8:30 am to
9:30 am		 Data Governance – The Saga Continues Augie Freda, University of Notre Dame Lessons Learned in a 15 Year Journey: Panel
Ted Bross, Princeton University, Amy Miller, University of Pennsylvania, Suneetha

Vaitheswaran, University of Chicago, Aaron Walz, Purdue University
 Self-service Overhaul: Three lessons learned at Prince George’s Community College
James Dick, Prince George’s Community College		 Alexa goes to College: Arizona’s Innovative Use of Voice Technology
John Rome, Arizona State University		 Cognitive Course Scheduling with Minerva CS
David Pacific
and Itzik Maoz, Lighthouse Computer Services
9:45 am to
10:45 am		 The Data is Flat: Enabling Learning Analytics Research using Institutional Student Data
Steven Lonn and Glenn Auerbach, University of Michigan		 Getting BI Development projects over the Finish Line: A panel discussion on Release Management for BI Development Teams
Dawn Hemminger, University of Washington, Nick Roberts, Davidson College, Brian Lawton, University of Washington St. Louis, Shelly Turner, University of Michigan		 Predicting Student Success: Insights and Lessons Learned Heather Chapman, Weber State University Effective Partnerships between IR & BI for Improving the Institution’s Data-Informed Decision Making Capabilities
Yuko Mulugetta and Vanessa Brown, Ithaca College		 Oregon SLDS Project: The Devil is in the Data
Rebecca Ator, Informatica, Michael Rebar, Ph.D., CEdO of Oregon, Mark Richards & Elizabeth Snow-Trenkle, EKS&H
10:45 am to
11:15 am		 Morning Networking Break / LaSells Stewart Center Guistina Gallery
11:15 am to
12:15 pm		 When Data Custodians Go Rogue Keith Van Eaton, University of Washington Quality Data In, Quality Analysis Out Kimberly Griffin and Sanish John, Northwestern University Human Resources: How the Right BI Architecture & Visualizations Create Strategic Insight
Dawn Moore and Brenda Ulin, University of Iowa		 The Promise and The Pitfalls of Predictive Analytics
Craig Rudick, University of Kentucky		 Finding Data Governance in Your Data Warehouse
Scott Flory, ASR Analytics
12:15 pm to
1:00 pm		 Lunch / Alumni Center Ballroom
12:45 pm to
1:30 pm		 HEDW Business Meeting / Alumni Center Ballroom
1:45 pm to
2:45 pm		 Advancing Data Governance at Purdue by Partnering with Academic Resources Sarah Bauer and Kendal Kosta-Mikel; Purdue University Using SQL to Write SQL – What is in Your SQL Toolbox?
Neil Belcher, Cornell University		 Building an Enterprise Data Environment in the Cloud
Steve Fischer and Nate Polek, The Ohio State University		 How Notre Dame made its data warehouse accessible and understandable to users across campus – without IT becoming the Bottleneck
Steve Sporinsky, University of Notre Dame		 Govern your Reporting Environment: create a clear path from question to answer
Brenda Reeb, IData Inc
2:45 pm to
3:15 pm		 Afternoon Networking Break / LaSells Stewart Center Guistina Gallery
3:15 pm to
4:15 pm		 One Bird at a Time: Tackling Monumental Tasks at Your Institution; Melissa Hartz, Colby College Panel Discussion:  Path to Next Generation BI
Greg Siino, UC-Davis, Thomas Campbell, UC-Davis, August Freda, University of Notre Dame, Bartosz Pietrzak, University of Washington, Kyle Quass, Indiana University
 The Art of Analysis: Using Dashboards that Tell the Right Story Kimberly Ford, Walden University Empowering Agile BI with DW Testing Automation
Adithya Buddhavara and Narendar Yalamanchilli, Datagaps
5:00 pm Dinner on your own
5:15 pm TUESDAY FUN RUN – Meet outside the Alumni Center to board buses to Bald Hill
5:30 pm Depart for Bald Hill
7:00 pm Return to board buses back to Alumni Center/Hotel
7:30 pm Arrive at the Alumni Center/Hotel
Wednesday, April 11, 2018 – CH2M Hill Alumni Center & The LaSells Stewart Center
Time Room Event
7:00 am to
3:00 pm		 Alumni Center
S. Concourse
 Registration and Host Desk
7:00 am to
12:00 pm		 LaSells Stewart Center
Guistina Gallery
 Conference Sponsors
7:00 am to
8:30 am		 Alumni Center Ballroom Breakfast
8:00 am to
9:15 am		 Alumni Center Ballroom HEDW General Session – HEDW Research Findings 2018 – Member Recognition & Conference Announcements
Alumni Center LaSells Stewart Center
Time Willamette Room Ag Leaders Room Ag Production Room Construction & Engineering Hall Ag Science Room
9:30 am to
10:30 am		 Visualizing the Cost and Benefits of Student Incentives. Is it sustainable? Susan Schaefer, University of Utah What Good is Data if Leadership Doesn’t See it When it Counts?
Jason Simon and Dan Hubbard, University of North Texas		 Cloudy with a Chance of Success: Arizona State University’s Journey to the Public Cloud Kristin Kennedy and Jason Green, Arizona State University
10:45 am to
11:45 am		 What we know about the Impact of Student Engagement Heather Chapman and Jessica Olyer, Weber State University Business Intelligence and DevOps or The Road to Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions Kyle Quass, Indiana University –

 

 Ask A Guru; TBD HEDW Board Members
11:45 am to
12:45 pm		 Lunch / Alumni Center Ballroom
  *User Groups signup will be available on Monday and Tuesday of the conference. Suggested group sessions include: Workday, Student Success, Visualizations, Data Governance, and ‘To the Cloud’.
1:00 pm to
2:00 pm		 User Groups * User Groups *  User Groups *
2:15 pm to
3:15 pm		 User Groups * User Groups *  User Groups *

 

 

Last Updated on 2/2/18 by Shelly Turner