2020 Conference Agenda

17th Annual HEDW Forum Conference Agenda
April 26 – 29, 2020
Hosted by Weber State University
Ogden Eccles Conference Center

Ogden, Utah

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

Sunday, April 26, 2020 – Ogden Eccles Conference Center
Time	Room	Event
7:00 am to 5:00 pm	Main Entry	HEDW Registration and Host Desk
7:30 am to 8:30 am	Ballroom II	Buffet Breakfast for Sunday Training Participants
8:30 am to 12:00 pm	Ballroom III	Dimensional Modeling: Kimball Fundamentals – Margy Ross
8:30 am to 12:00 pm	Ballroom I	Building World-class Business Dashboards – Steve Wexler
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm	Ballroom II	Buffet Lunch for Sunday Training Participants
1:00 pm to 4:30 pm	Ballroom III	Dimensional Modeling: Kimball Fundamentals – Margy Ross
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm	Ballroom I	Building World-class Business Dashboards – Steve Wexler
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm	Board Room	HEDW Board meeting
5:00 pm to 6:30 pm	Grand Ballroom Corridor	Sponsor Setup
5:45 pm to 10:00 pm	Main Entry	Buses to Reception and back to Hampton Inn (looping)
6:00 pm to 10:00 pm	Ogden Ice Sheet	HEDW Conference Reception – Food and drink available 6 – 9:30 pm
6:00 pm to 10:00 pm	Ogden Ice Sheet	Ice Skating and Curling – PLEASE NOTE: those who want to participate in Curling should wear soft pants and athletics shoes
7:00 pm to 7:20 pm	Ogden Ice Sheet	Welcome Address – Dr. Brad Mortensen, President, Weber State University
7:30 pm to 7:45 pm	On Ice Group Photo	Represent your school by wearing spirit wear for the group photo

Monday, April 27, 2020 – Ogden Eccles Conference Center
Time	Room	Event
7:00 am to 5:00 pm	Main Entry	Registration and Host Desk
7:00 am to 5:00 pm	Grand Ballroom Corridor	Conference Sponsors
7:00 am to 8:15 am	Grand Ballrom	Breakfast
8:15 am to 9:15 am	Grand Ballroom	Keynote Address
Time	Business Intelligence	Data Governance	Technology	Other	Vendor
9:30 am to 10:30 am	When it comes to BI Tools, Is More Better?  A panel discussion on the pros and cons of using multiple BI tools within an institution. Presenter:  Dave Pecora	To know is to learn what you have Presenter:  Lance Tucker	Using Data Virtualization to break down data silos and solve other data problems   Presenter:  Richard Hanks Co-Presenter:  Roger Tervort	From Statistical Significance to Practical Application: Communicating Predictive Results between Analysts and Stakeholders   Presenter:  Heather Chapman
10:30 am to 11:00 am	Morning Networking Break – Lounge/Lobby
11:00 am to 12:00 pm	Show me the data! (…that all this was worth it)   Presenter:  Steve Sporinsky	The Dream House that Data Governance Built   Presenter:  Barry Goldstein	Accelerating Analytics Across the Enterprise Presenter:  Pramod Kunju	Building a SAS Admissions data model including dashboards, reports and data dictionary   Presenter:  Nadia Mankins
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm	Lunch – Grand Ballroom
1:15 pm to 2:15 pm	Let’s talk data! Voice-based Apps and Augmented Analytics. Presenter:  Amber MacKenzie	Helping Departments Begin Using a Data Dictionary: Make it useful and the process automated Presenter:  Susan Schaefer Co-presenter:  Joseph S. Hutchins	Diving Into the Deep End: How We Built a Digital Education Dashboard Using Cloud Technologies and Agile Methodology Presenter:  Roland Hall Co-Presenter:  Katerina Stepanova	Interactive Dashboards and Reports Presenter:  Jason Jensen
2:15 pm to 2:45 pm	Afternoon Networking Break – Lounge/Lobby
2:45 pm to 3:45 pm	Let’s explore IR’s function as “sensemakers” in the era of machine learning! Presenter:  Andrew Siefert	UAIR as a Service Presenter:  Javi Escobar Co-Presenter:  Darcy Van Patten	Integrating Python into Analytics Presenter:  Ryan Fellers Co-Presenter:  Ashtin Preston	Doing Regression When Your Dependent Variables Aren’t Well Behaved Presenter:  Abby Kaplan
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm	A Faculty/Staff Data Model for IR Presenter:  Becca Baggett Co-Presenter:  Liz Conder	Continuing the Journey: Building out Yale’s Common Reporting Platform for Data-driven Decision-making Presenter:  Kathleen Broderick Co-Presenter:  Ryan Schlagheck	ETL for Power Users?  Yes, and we will show you how Presenter:  Kristin Kennedy	LIGHTNING TALKS We Don’t Have Suites:  tackling master data in an institution of competing business priorities Presenter:  Cynthia Carlton Data Cleansing using the Google Places API Presenter:  Charles Rosenberg, PhD Automating dashboard updates via Google BigQuery Presenter:  Matt Baxter Co-presenter:  Rochelle Smits-Seeman
6:00 pm to 10:00 pm	Networking Dinners At Local Restaurants Downtown Ogden (25th Street) Off-Site Hotels to Downtown Ogden Shuttle (looping)

Tuesday, April 28, 2020 – Ogden Eccles Conference Center
Time	Room	Event
7:00 am to 5:00 pm	Main Entry	Registration and Host Desk
7:00 am to 5:00 pm	Grand Ballroom Corridor	Conference Sponsors
7:00 am to 8:30 am	Grand Ballroom	Breakfast
Time	Business Intelligence	Data Governance	Technology	Other	Vendor
8:30 am to 9:30 am	Three Pillars of Data Wisdom: Davidson’s Approach to Building Self-Service BI Presenter:  Pete Benbow	Rethinking Data Governance: A Journey of Nudging towards Data Governance in Higher Ed Presenter:  Maya Collum Co-presenter:  Kelly Raposo, Christine Beckerman	What do you mean by that? Presenter:  Cynthia Carlton	Ask-A-Guru Presenter:  TBA
9:45 am to 10:45 am	“Data-Driven” Student Success for BI Teams Big and Small Presenter:  Nate Rochester	The Report Prioritization Group: The Key to a Successful BI Team Presenter:  Matt Portwood Co-Presenter:  Alexis Wall	API Directory adoption at University of Michigan Presenter:  Kranthi Bandaru	What Gets Measured Gets Managed: How Good Data Practices Support Diversity Goals Presenter:  Meghan Hall
10:45 am to 11:15 am	Morning Networking Break – Lounge/Lobby
11:15 am to 12:15 pm	From Big Data to Free Computer Rentals: Transforming Data to Enable Student Success Presenter:  Corinne Briggs Co-Presenter:  Russell Youngberg	What a long strange trip it’s been: Tales of a First Chief Data Officer Presenter:  San Cannon	Python for Data Science: How to leverage your EDW Presenter: Ken Nagle Co-presenter:  Shelin Mathews	Advanced SQL for Warehousing and Analytics Presenter:  Rochelle Smits-Seemann
12:15 pm to 1:00 pm	Lunch – Grand Ballrom
12:45 pm to 1:30 pm	HEDW Member Meeting – Grand Ballroom
1:45 pm to 2:45 pm	How do we maintain applicability in a new analytics environment and capitalize on citizen data scientists across the university to meet advanced analytics needs? Presenter:  Ashley Hallock Co-presenter:  Dimuthu Tilakaratne	Dirty Data is costing your organization time, money and incorrect results!! Presenter:  Madhuban Chaudhary Co-Presenter:  Sridhar Ravikanti	Upgrade or Trade-in: Navigating your data warehouse through a major change Presenter:  Ravindra Harve	Modularizing Data with dbt Presenter:  Jacob Mastel
2:45 pm to 3:15 pm	Afternoon Networking Break – Lounge/Lobby
3:15 pm to 4:15 pm	And that’s a RAP……How the University of Washington is transforming a 1,000+ Workday report inventory in short order! Presenter:  Karen Matheson	Practical Steps in Building a Data Culture – One Conversation at a Time Presenter:  Karen Menard Co-Presenter:  Ann Cesar, Rob Heenan	Creating Better User Groups with ACM and Grouper Presenter:  Julie Parmenter	LIGHTNING TALKS Admission Application Weekly and Daily Snapshots Presenter:  Hairong Liu Where’s your Dev at? Presenter:  Matthew Fields Data Warehouses and Bitmap indexing Presenter:  Joseph Hutchins
5:00 pm	Dinner on your own
5:15pm to 7:30pm	FUN RUN/walk 5:15pm Meet at Eccles Conference Center to board buses 5:30pm Depart Eccles Conference Center 7:00pm Board buses and start back to Eccles Conference Center 7:30pm Arrive at the Eccles Conference Center

Wednesday, April 29, 2020 – Ogden Eccles Conference Center
Time	Room	Event
7:00 am to 3:00 pm	Main Entry	Registration and Host Desk
7:00 am to 12:00 pm	Grand Ballroom Corridor	Conference Sponsors
7:00 am to 8:30 am	Grand Ballroom	Breakfast
8:00 am to 9:15 am	Grand Ballroom	HEDW General Session – Top 10 Survey results – Member Recognition & Conference Announcements
Time	Business Intelligence	Data Governance	Technlogy	Other	Vendor
9:30 am to 10:30 am	Usage Tracking, or, I Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching Me Presenter:  Greg Brown Co-Presenter:  Theresa Sherwood	Growing analytics capabilities at a small liberal arts college for a data informed future Presenter:  Dobby Spencer Co-Presenter:  Meghal Parikh, Bay Rodriquez	EDW Operational Excellence Presenter:  Gregory Locke	BI Strategy: The Business of Intelligence at New York University Presenter:  Addis Crooks-Jones Co-Presenter:  Andrew Maliszewski
10:45 am to 11:45 am	A Student Touch-Point Universe Revisited Presenter:  Mick Haney	Counting Faculty – How One College Made It Easy Presenter:  Margaret Allen Co-Presenter:  Steve Papaccio	Analyzing the Costs of Your Programs: It’s All About the Model Presenter:  Adam Raab	Building a Data Warehouse for Workday Student Presenter:  Mike Salisbury
11:45 am to 12:45 pm	Lunch / Grand Ballroom
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
2:30 pm to 3:30 pm	User Groups	User Groups	User Groups	User Groups	User Groups

Last Updated on 2/2/18 by Shelly Turner