The final agenda-at-a-glance for the Gartner BI Summit...you can also find it online at gartner.com/us/bi along with many other tools to help you plan for your event (agenda builder, session descriptions, ROI justification, etc...)

1. Overcoming the BIg Discrepancy: How BI Can Do Better (with less)
SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 2009
Pre-Registration
2:30pm 2:30pm–4:30pm
W1. Workshop: How to Build a Cost
T1. Tutorial: Future Scenarios for the T2. Tutorial: The Fundamentals of T3. Tutorial: Data Warehousing T4. Tutorial: The Basics of Business
5:00pm Effective BI and PM Strategy
Five Key Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management Fundamentals Intelligence
W2. Workshop: How to Define
Information Management Initiatives
and Deploy an Enterprise Metrics
(BIIM)
Framework
MONDAY, MARCH 9, 2009
Registration
7:00am
Attendee Breakfast
7:15am
Welcome Address – Conference Chairs
8:15am
K1. Gartner Keynote: Overcoming the BIg Discrepancy: How We Can Do Better With BI – Kurt Schlegel and John Van Decker
8:30am
TRACK A: TRACK B: TRACK C: TRACK D:
STRATEGY & LEADERSHIP PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY & ARCHITECTURE MARKETS & MAVERICKS
A1. Does BI = Better Decision B1. Using Corporate Performance C1. Data Integration Architecture & D1. BI Market Trends: Understanding
9:45am 9:45am–11:45am
W3. Workshop: How to Become an
Making? Management to Understand the Technology: Optimizing Data Access, Trends, Players and Challenges
Drivers of Profitability and Deliver Alignment and Delivery Effective DW Modeler
on Strategy
A2. The CIO’s View of Business B2. CPM Scenario C2. Achieving Real-Time Awareness D2. Creating a Successful
11:00am
Intelligence With Business Activity Monitoring Partnership With Your BI Systems
Integrator
Attendee Lunch and Solution Showcase Dessert Reception
12:00pm
A3. Defining an Enterprise Metrics B3. Customer Segmentation: The C3. Enterprise Information D3. Business Intelligence, Business
2:00pm 2:00pm–4:00pm
W4. Workshop: How to Make
Framework Roles of BI Architecture and the Role Played by Applications and Business Process
Smarter Decisions With Better
Master Data Management Management: An Increased Focus
Information in Law Enforcement,
on Process
Homeland Security and
Public Safety
Solution Provider Sessions & Case Studies
3:15pm
K2. Keynote Session: Comparing the Mega-Vendors: How Do IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP Stack Up?
4:45pm
Solution Showcase Reception
5:45pm
TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 2009
Registration
7:00am
Birds of a Feather Networking Breakfast (by Industry)
7:15am
K3. Keynote Session: Achieving the Execution Premium: Linking Strategy and Operations – Robert Kaplan, Professor Harvard Business School, Co-Author, Balanced Scorecard
8:15am
Solution Provider Sessions & Case Studies
9:45am 9:45am–11:45am
W5. Workshop: How to Make
A4. Defining a BI Competency Center B4. Cost Cutting Requires CPM C4. The Right Information to the D4. Power Panel: BI in Today’s
11:00am Smarter Decisions With Better
to Fit Your Organization Right Decision Makers – Metadata Economy – Getting the Right Value at Information in the Public Sector
Does It the Right Cost (Federal)
Attendee Lunch and Solution Showcase Dessert Reception
12:00pm
K4. Keynote Session – BI Excellence Award Finalist Presentations
2:00pm
Solution Provider Sessions & Case Studies
3:30pm
A5. Case Study: Lessons Learned B5. Leveraging BI and PM in the Public C5. Case Study: The Evolution of BI D5. BI, Financial Governance and the New World of Transparency
4:45pm
in Building an Effective BICC and Sector: Post Transition (Bush to Obama) at the US Postal Service
Information Management Function focus on Performance Management
5:45pm Hospitality Suites
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 2009
Registration
7:00am
Breakfast With the Analysts
7:15am
K5. Keynote Session: Geek Logic: Easier Living Through Mathematics – Garth Sundem, Author, Geek Logik
8:15am
Solution Provider Sessions & Case Studies
9:45am 9:45am–11:45am
W7. Workshop: How to Apply Web
A6. Building the Business Case for B6. The Performance Management C6. Emerging Technologies and BI: D6. The Impact of Open Source in BI,
10:30am Site Analytics to Optimize Online
BI & PM Debate – Is PM “Nirvana” Achievable? Impact and Adoption for Powerful DW and DI Channel Marketing
Applications
Solution Provider Sessions & Case Studies
11:45am
Attendee Luncheon
12:15pm
A7. Data Quality: Your Decision B7. Case Study Panel: C7. The Seven Building Blocks of D7. Case Study: Blending Data and Expertise at Cisco – How Analytics Can
1:30pm
Insurance Performance Management Master Data Management (MDM) Boost Forecast Accuracy
in the Public Sector
A8. Applying the Gartner BI & PM B8. Implementing Analytic C8. DBMS Infrastructure for Data D8. Negotiating With BI Vendors
2:45pm
Framework and Avoiding the Fatal Applications to Support Warehousing
Flaws of BI Performance Management
K6. Market Players: Magic Quadrant Power Session
4:00pm
Conference Adjourns
5:00pm Virtual Track KEY:
Virtual Track KEY: = Cutting Costs with BI and Performance Management
= Cutting Costs with BI and Performance Management = Public Sector
= Public Sector
*As of February 26, 2009
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