D S * CONFERENCES & SEMINARS 12.08.98
Dec 7-8
MANAGING DATA WAREHOUSE PROJECTS: THE KEY ISSUES
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Contact: http://www.dci.com
Dec 7-9
THE EMERGING TECHNOLOGY SCENE: GIGA'S SHOWCASE FOR IT INNOVATION
Location: La Quinta, California
Contact: http://www.gigaweb.com/events
781-792-2669
Description: Some of the world's leading CIOs will provide live, unstaged evaluations of the latest technology products at "The Emerging Technology Scene: Giga's Showcase for IT Innovation," Dec. 7, 8 and 9, 1998 at the La Quinta Resort & Club, La Quinta, CA. "The Scene will not only provide the earliest look yet at emerging first quarter products in five different technology areas, it will do so in an interactive format in which attendees can evaluate and rate the new products," said Marlene Nusbaum, vice president, conference development.
"This dynamic new format ensures an honest assessment of the latest products by providing a live, without-a-net evaluation by senior-level users and by the audience itself," Nusbaum said. "In addition, our selection process ensures that we are showcasing the most cutting edge products available. All products are being blindly and competitively chosen by some of the most respected analysts in the industry based on extremely selective criteria."
Senior-level IT leaders who will evaluate the products include: J. Scott Dinsdale, Senior Vice President and CIO, BMG Entertainment; Jim Griffin, CEO, OneHouse, former CIO, Geffen Records; Chris Jurasek, Manager, Application Development, Solo Cup Co.; K. Angela Kapp, Vice President of Special Markets and New Media, Estee Lauder Companies, Inc.; Sukan Makmuri, Vice President, Information Technology, Bank of America, and Josef Mandelbaum, VP of Electronic Marketing, American Greetings Corp.
Each of the five technology segments, or TechnoVistas, being featured will be introduced by a Giga Information Group analyst, who will present a technology perspective and a business framework, pose questions, make predictions and set the context for vendor product demonstrations. After the demonstrations, the senior-level IT end users will provide feedback on the new products in a "User's Views and Reviews" session. Each session will be moderated by a Giga analyst and will include audience feedback via electronic polling.
The Scene is structured around five TechnoVistas:
The Amazing Future of the Desktop. Explores what new functionality will
be offered and what the next generation desktop will look like.
Behind the Scenes at the Website. Identifies a host of hot, new software
tools, which make creative web development possible.
Serving up Servers. Displays new, powerful technologies designed to meet
the challenges of a burgeoning Internet-enabled population of corporate
users.
The Network of the Well-Connected Enterprise. Examines the network as a
vitally important strategic asset and puts products to the test in a set of
real-life scenarios, developed by Giga Information Group analysts, which
solution suppliers must address.
The Boomer's Kids-What's Coming Next? Looks at the immediate future and
presents research technologies and products available in the coming year
that will serve both business and personal needs.
Technology Futurist Saffo To Speak
Paul Saffo, Director, The Institute for the Future (IFTF) will be the opening keynote speaker for The Scene. Saffo is a technology forecaster studying long-term information technology trends and their impact on business, society and culture. His essays have appeared in The Harvard Business Review, Wired, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and Fortune. He is the author of Dreams in Silicon Valley, a book of his essays.
Executive Exchanges and Investor Insights
In addition, Executive Exchanges and Investor Insight sessions will run concurrently throughout the show. The Executive Exchanges provide an opportunity for peer-to peer idea sharing and small group interaction with Giga analysts.
The Investor Insight sessions, which are open to the press, will consist of sector review sessions conducted by Giga senior analysts, and will cover market trends and vendor positioning. Vendor executive breakout sessions will be held with senior managers from presenting vendors, providing an opportunity for interactive discussions in a small, informal setting.
Giga Information Group (NASDAQ:GIGX), headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., sells knowledge which supports enterprise decision making in the field of Information Technology ("IT") with a focus on computing, telecommunications and related industries. Giga began providing its services in April 1996, and today, its global client base exceeds 860 organizations, comprising over 11,000 individual users, including IT vendors, IT users and institutional investors.
In the USA, Giga is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has offices in Norwell, MA, Santa Clara, CA, Norwalk, CT, New York, NY, and Chicago, IL. In Europe, Giga's offices cover Scandinavia, UK, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and Italy. Giga is also represented in Israel, and its services are distributed in Spain and Portugal by Informatica El Corte Ingles.
Dec 8
THE 24 WAYS TO IMPACT YOUR BOTTOM LINE THROUGH BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
Location: Malvern, PA
Contact: http://www.walklett.com
Description: According to Walklett Group's President, Thomas J. Walklett, Jr., "GartnerGroup research indicates that organizations that do not provide for end-user data access and user self-sufficiency through Business Intelligence tools -- among which Data Warehousing is a key component -- risk their competitive position within three years. Research further indicates that the ROI on Data Warehouses/Data Marts averages 400 percent. And, building a Data Warehouse can help you bring more competitive and profitable decisions to the forefront of your business."
To make the most effective decisions on how to move organizations ahead of the competition and gain business profit, organizations need: to access company information quickly; to query the data for multiple forms of analysis; to be confident that the data has the utmost integrity; and to use the data for making strategic decisions. These are among the key end results of Data Warehousing that will be addressed at Walklett Group's Data Warehousing seminar.
At the seminar, Walklett Group's Data Warehouse Practice Manager, Lucy Feit, will explain how organizations can quickly impact their bottom line through Business Intelligence. "The reason for building a Data Warehouse is to bring more competitive and profitable decisions to the forefront of your business. With Microsoft's and Cognos' award-winning business intelligence family of products and Walklett Group's Data Warehouse implementation expertise, you can extract the real value from your data warehouse and get fast results. This will help you radically alter your competitive position, drive out costs, and increase your productivity.
The seminar will feature Cognos' Partner Development Manager, Strategic Alliances, Chris Godin, who will address "The 24 Ways to Impact Your Bottom Line in 90 Days." His presentation will detail how to drive better business decisions across the enterprise through Business Intelligence. One of Microsoft's Technical Evangelists, Rojer Dougherty, will present " Microsoft's Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Strategy with SQL Server 7.0". Feit will provide an overview of Walklett Group's Data Warehousing services, as well as the company's Data Warehouse methodology. She will also reference various Walklett Group Data Warehousing case studies, chief among which is the company's Data Warehousing project with PJM Interconnection (the largest electrical control area in North America and the fourth largest in the world, providing electricity to nearly 23 million people in all or parts of five states and the District of Columbia).
Dec 8-10
DCI'S DATA WAREHOUSE SUMMIT
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Contact: http://www.dci.com/datawhse
Dec 8-10
DCI'S KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Contact: http://www.dci.com/kmc
Dec 8,9,10,16
MICROSTRATEGY & CONCEPT INFO SYSTEMS SEMINARS ON MANUFACTURING ERP & BI
Location: Boston, MA
Philadelphia, PA
Pittsburgh, PA
Vienna, VA
Contact: http://www.strategy.com/seminar
Dec 9-11
DATA ANALYSIS & MODELING FOR THE DATA WAREHOUSE
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Contact: http://www.dci.com
Jan 20-22
STRATEGIES & TOOLS FOR SUCCESSFUL DATA WAREHOUSES
Location: San Diego, CA
Contact: http://www.dci.com
Jan 27-29, 1999
DATA MINING: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE
Location: Orlando, Florida
Contact: http://www.gordianknot.com
800-405-2114
agent@gordianknot.com
A broad-brushed, intensive introduction of methods, applications, tools and techniques
WHAT MAKES THIS COURSE UNIQUE?
This course focuses on actual use and implementation of data mining methods. The instructor will also show how to evaluate various data mining products. Exercises will reveal impressive results from the same tool that may have failed in other categories. The workshops will save immeasurable time and effort in assessing and selecting which suite of tools and techniques will perform best for your application.
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March 9-10, 1999
FEDERAL DATA MINING SYMPOSIUM & EXPOSITION '99
Location: McLean, VA
Contact: carbone@mitre.org
Description: Data users, analysts, administrators, managers, developers, researchers, theoreticians, and vendors are cordially invited to attend and submit papers for presentation at Federal Data Mining '99. The 1st Federal Data Mining Symposium included numerous vendors and all types of researchers and users of data mining tools and techniques to create a unique opportunity to discuss data mining in the domain of the government. There is no element of the Federal Government, nor information technology corporation that does not have a critical interest in "mining the golden nugget" from the vast repositories of information available to them.
Apr 19-21
STRATEGIES AND TOOLS FOR SUCCESSFUL DATA WAREHOUSES
Location: Dallas, TX
Contact: http://www.dci.com
Apr 21-23 1999
THIRD INTL CONFERENCE & EXPO ON THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF
KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING
Location: London, United Kingdom
Contact: http://www.demon.co.uk/ar/PADD99/
Apr 26-28
THIRD PACIFIC-ASIA CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND
DATA MINING
Location: Beijing, China
Contact: http://ain2.ai.csse.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp/pakdd99/
Aug 31 - Sep 3, 1999
EURO-PAR'99: HIGH-PERFORMANCE DM AND KDD
Location: Toulouse, France
Contact: http://www.enseeiht.fr/europar99/
Description: Euro-Par is the premier European conference on parallel computing and normally attracts about 300 participants. It is an annual international conference, dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel computing. The objective of Euro-Par is to provide a forum to promote the development of parallel computing both as an industrial tool and as an academic discipline, extending the frontiers of the state of practice as well as the state of the art. Euro-Par'99 features 23 topics. Each topic (formerly called workshop) is arranged by a small committee, consisting of a global chair, a local chair, and usually two, sometimes more vice-chairs. One main topic of Euro-Par'99 is Parallel Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.
Dec 15-17, 1999
IAT'99: 1ST ASIA-PACIFIC CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT AGENT TECHNOLOGY
Location: Hong Kong
Contact: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT99
Description: The Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT) is a high-quality, high-impact biannual agent conference series. As the first meeting in this new series, IAT'99 will primarily focus on (i) the state-of-the-art in the development of intelligent agents and (ii) the theoretical and computational foundations of intelligent agent technology. The aim of IAT'99 is to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer science, information technology, business, education, human factors, systems engineering, and robotics to (i) examine the design principles and performance characteristics of various approaches in intelligent agent technology, and (ii) increase the cross-fertilization of ideas on the development of autonomous agents and multiagent systems among different domains. By encouraging idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying logical, cognitive, physical, and biological foundations as well as the enabling technologies of intelligent agents, IAT'99 is expected to stimulate the future development of new models, new methodologies, and new tools for building a variety of embodiments of agent-based systems.
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