Secrets of Analytical Leaders: Insights from Information Insiders Featuring a key note presentation by Wayne Eckerson, Founder and Director of Research, BI Leadership Forum - and former Director of Education and Research at The Data Warehousing Insitute. Join us for an event we are co-hosting with The Data Warehousing Institute on how top BI and analytics leaders build, run, and grow successful Business Intelligence and Analytics programs. Speakers will include author and Business Intelligence leader Wayne Eckerson plus special guest David Zimmerman, a global leader for strategic reporting at Morgan Stanley.

Keynote Topic:

How do you bridge the worlds of business and technology at the enterprise level? How do you harness data for business gain in large corporations? How do you deliver value fast from BI and analytical initiatives? These were guiding questions in the latest book by Wayne Eckerson, Secrets of Analytical Leaders.

Wayne will share insights from his book about keys to success for BI and analytical leaders from companies such as Zynga, Netflix, US Xpress, Nokia, Capital One, and Kelley Blue Book, among others.

The session will address analytics and big data, and cover both the soft stuff of people, processes, and projects and the hard stuff of architecture, tools, and data required to create and sustain a successful BI and analytics program.

Key questions will include: What is an Analytical Leader? How Do You Gain Executive Support And Momentum For An Analytics Program? What Is An Analyst and Where Do You Find Them? How Do You Create and Deploy Analytical Models? How Do You Organize, Motivate and Manage Data Developers & Analysts for Optimal Performance?

KEYNOTE SPEAKER BIO Wayne Eckerson, Founder and Director of Research, BI Leadership Forum - and former Director of Education and Research at TDWI.

Wayne has been a thought leader in the business intelligence and analytics field since the early 1990s. He has conducted numerous research studies and is a noted speaker, blogger, and consultant.

He is the author of two widely read books "Performance Dashboards: Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Your Business" (2005, 2010) and "The Secrets of Analytical Leaders: Insights from Information Insiders" (2012). For many years, Wayne served as director of education and research at The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) where he oversaw the company's content and training programs and chaired its BI Executive Summit.

PRACTITIONER DISCUSSION David Zimmerman, Global Head, Finance Strategic Reporting Delivery (SRD) Program, Morgan Stanley, will share insights and cases studies from first-hand experience.

I look forward to seeing you there for an especially intriguing event!. Sincerely,

Jaime Fitzgerald