Information Management Sponsored Events
Gartner Business Intelligence Summit
Location: Los Angeles
Date: April 2, 2012 - April 4, 2012
The Gartner Business Intelligence Summit is the premier business analytics event that provides the must-have insights, frameworks and best practices for maximizing the business impact of information management and business analytics initiatives. The summit delivers insight on the latest hot topics, such as effective BI strategy, cloud and SaaS options for analytics, big data, predictive and prescriptive analytics, dashboard design, and more. Information Management members can save $300 off the standard registration rate using priority code: GARTINFO
Gartner PPM & IT Governance Summit
Location: National Harbor, Maryland
Date: May 21, 2012 - May 23, 2012
The Gartner PPM & IT Governance Summit 2012 is the premier gathering of program and portfolio management executives focused on improving how organizations select, implement and manage IT initiatives and services. This year’s summit delivers insight on the latest hot topics, such as IT program and portfolio governance, enterprise PPM issues beyond IT, organizational change management, agile project leadership, and PPM software and solutions. Information Management members can save $300 off the standard registration rate with priority code: GARTINFO
7th Annual MDM & Data Governance Summit: San Francisco 2012
Location: San Francisco
Date: June 19, 2012 - June 20, 2012
Information Management’s 7th annual MDM & Data Governance Summit San Francisco conference’s powerful approach will help attendees put all the pieces together when it comes to MDM and data governance. More than twenty case studies, panel sessions, and keynotes will provide critical insights to help you plan, implement and govern a business-driven MDM program for the competitive advantage you will need in the months and years ahead. Why is 2012 a pivotal year? In 2011, the market demanded increased focus on multi-domain support, reference data management, and integrated data governance. Our prescient 2012 agenda will look ahead to the use of social data, cloud-enablement and integration and big data for analytics.
7th Annual MDM & Data Governance Summit: New York 2012
Location: New York City
Date: October 14, 2012 - October 16, 2012
MDM & Data Governance Summit New York 2012 is a must-attend conference for all experience levels. The conference focuses on the questions that keep IT executives awake at night: * What is driving business interest in MDM and data governance solutions? * What are the better architectures and vendors? How do these solutions differ from data warehouse and customer relationship management initiatives? * How will the market and technologies evolve? What will be the impact of big data, cloud-enablement, social network data, BPM, etc.? Who will the leading vendors be? * What are the most successful best practices for creating a single customer/supplier/product view?
Industry Events
TDWI: A Data Strategy for the Enterprise
Location: Las Vegas
Date: February 12, 2012 - February 17, 2012
At the TDWI World Conference in Las Vegas, the focus is on developing a true enterprise strategy for one of your organization’s most valuable assets: its data. And it’s not just IT’s responsibility. If you hope to transform your data into information and knowledge that will produce measurable improvements in business performance, a true strategy is essential, and it depends on a partnership across departments.
Cloud/Gov: Plan, Implement, Succeed
Location: Washington, D.C.
Date: February 16, 2012 - February 16, 2012
This 6th annual conference is the software industry’s leading event to bring together ISVs with government IT purchasers to address the enormous impact Cloud Computing has on how the government examines, sources, procures, and deploys enterprise software. Co-produced by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the nation’s leading authority on Cloud Computing, and Deltek, the authority on government business.
Gartner BI and Information Management Summit
Location: Sydney
Date: February 21, 2012 - February 22, 2012
With the combined strength of Gartner and experiences of business intelligence, information management and performance management practitioners – this summit provides BI professionals and IT executives with world class research, advice and direction to help them drive excellence in their business intelligence and performance management strategies.
Intervista Institute Business Architecture
Location: Toronto
Date: February 27, 2012 - February 29, 2012
Training and lectures on business architecture strategy and innovation.
Mobile World Congress 2012
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Date: February 27, 2012 - March 1, 2012
Our industry is redefining “mobile”. No longer limited only to communications, mobile is now a force transforming our world in an unprecedented way. Mobile connects, entertains, informs and inspires us, ultimately changing how we live and who we are. Mobile World Congress is the global epicenter of this redefinition as our participants enable, lead and accelerate it.
MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
Location: Boston
Date: March 2, 2012 - March 3, 2012
The conference goal is to provide a forum for industry professionals (executives and leading researchers) and students to discuss the increasing role of analytics in the sports industry. MIT Sloan is dedicated to fostering growth in this arena, and the conference enriches opportunities for learning about the sports business world. The conference is open to anyone interested in sports.
Gartner CIO Leadership Forum
Location: London
Date: March 5, 2012 - March 7, 2012
Gartner CIO Leadership Forum offers an interactive, workshop-centric experience to exchange ideas and receive actionable guidance from prominent CIOs, Gartner experts and senior executives from leading technology providers. This executive-only program focuses on helping to turn your insights into actionable results.
IDC Directions 2012: San Jose
Location: San Jose, Calif.
Date: March 7, 2012 - March 7, 2012
IDC's annual Directions conference is recognized as the industry's premier event that delivers an informative and actionable overview of the issues shaping the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets. Directions features forecasts, insights, and usable guidance from IDC and IDC Insights analysts, as well as numerous opportunities to connect directly with our analysts for face-to-face discussions on your most pressing issues.
Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit 2012
Location: Orlando, Fla.
Date: March 12, 2012 - March 14, 2012
Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit delivers the tools and insights needed to tap into unprecedented PCC opportunities. Guest keynote speakers include: Seth Godin, best-selling author and entrepreneur, as well as Jane McGonigal, author and gamification expert. Disruptive trends such as mobile, social and context, are yielding an array of business-critical imperatives: Deliver secure access across a widening range of devices. Mine and leverage nontraditional content. Use social software to drive efficiency and innovation. Exploit context-aware computing. Twenty-four Gartner analysts will provide the insights and recommendations you need for 2012 and beyond. Visit gartner.com/us/pcc to register with priority code GARTINFO and receive a special $300 discount.
SANS Mobile Device Security Summit
Location: Nashville, Tenn.
Date: March 12, 2012 - March 15, 2012
Mobile Devices continue to evolve, and with each development they are become more efficient tools that employees increasingly rely on to conduct both their corporate and personal business. Portable applications that allow the user to access sensitive corporate data are prime targets for hackers and provide them a wide range of access port to data. Controlling security breaches of mobile devices is complex due to the varying software and device types. Additionally, many organizations have no restrictions on use of personal devices. Mobile device security experts and practitioners will discuss the best approaches to this new and evolving challenge. Organizations who have developed successful mobile device security programs will share how they developed and gained management support for their plans.
IDC Directions 2012: Boston
Location: Boston
Date: March 13, 2012 - March 13, 2012
IDC's annual Directions conference is recognized as the industry's premier event that delivers an informative and actionable overview of the issues shaping the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets. Directions features forecasts, insights, and usable guidance from IDC and IDC Insights analysts, as well as numerous opportunities to connect directly with our analysts for face-to-face discussions on your most pressing issues.
Intervista Institute Business Architecture
Location: Ottawa
Date: March 13, 2012 - March 15, 2012
Training and lectures on business architecture strategy and innovation.
Aberdeen Human Capital Management Summit
Location: Boston
Date: March 14, 2012 - March 15, 2012
Aberdeen’s Human Capital Management Summit – Data-Driven Talent Decisions is designed to arm participants with the tools, strategies and insights required to run HR like a business, with the data and information to make smart choices. Senior leaders need, now more than ever, an HR organization that can provide sound guidance, hard facts, and focused leadership to take the company where it needs to go. And HR and talent professionals must combine personal leadership, powerful tools, and forward-looking strategies to get them there.
Gartner BPM Summit 2012
Location: London
Date: March 14, 2012 - March 15, 2012
Gartner Business Process Management Summit 2012 is the premier meeting place for IT and business executives and professionals who are responsible for implementing, managing or maintaining Business Process Management. Learn more about technologies that enable business agility. Gather best practices on the art of process control. Become more efficient, consistent and competitive.
Gartner Customer 360 Summit 2012
Location: Orlando, Fla.
Date: March 14, 2012 - March 16, 2012
Gartner Customer 360 Summit delivers complete coverage of the new strategies and technologies that are enabling organizations to better understand and engage their customers, build loyalty and grow the business. This must-attend CRM event brings together senior business, marketing and IT leaders to focus on creating a strategic, unifying vision for customer engagement and experience management.
The CIO Summit
Location: Miami
Date: March 18, 2012 - March 20, 2012
We're in a historic transition--one that is filled with opportunity, challenge and hope. Preparing for the upturn and making the right decisions in times of change can better position your enterprise to succeed in the upcoming years. Based on this, the theme of this year's summit is CIOs in Transition - The Shift From Cost Saver To Value Provider. The CIO Summit, our flagship event, is an opportunity to engage IT's greatest thinkers in hard-hitting dialogue, discussion, and debate. This is a unique opportunity to take part in C-suite peer-on-peer networking at a pivotal point in your career.
Microsoft Dynamics Convergence 2012
Location: Houston
Date: March 18, 2012 - March 21, 2012
Our theme for Convergence 2012 is all about the expanse of possibilities each attendee has in the networking and learning interactions available at this conference. Throughout our four days together, you’ll find a wide variety of presentations and discussions, in both short and long form, that span the breadth of the Microsoft Dynamics family of products – and then some! Our tenured technology professionals are working hard to deliver sessions that help you develop the business skills, knowledge and connections that will make for an event experience rich with business value.
AIIM Conference 2012
Location: San Francisco
Date: March 20, 2012 - March 22, 2012
Focused on "Managing Information in a Social, Local, and Mobile Era," the new AIIM Conference will feature fast-paced and inspiring keynote speakers, unparalleled networking and interactivity delivered through tracks on: engaging customers and employees in new ways, transforming processes through mobile technologies, and maintaining control in the cloud.
Enterprise Architecture Course
Location: Ottawa
Date: March 27, 2012 - March 28, 2012
A two-day course led by thought leader John Zachman.
451 Group's Hosting & Cloud Transformation Summit Europe 2012
Location: London
Date: April 2, 2012 - April 3, 2012
The Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit Europe (HCTS EU) is the premier forum for executives in the hosting, cloud computing, datacenter and Internet infrastructure sectors. Corporate leaders, industry visionaries, practitioners, financial professionals and end users come together to learn, network and map out strategies for today's rapidly changing marketplace. The program at the Summit provides a complete overview of the opportunities and challenges facing the hosting and cloud industries in a power-packed two-day format.
Aberdeen Supply Chain Management Summit
Location: Boston
Date: April 4, 2012 - April 5, 2012
The Aberdeen Supply Chain Management Summit, now is in its sixth year, has emerged as the leading forum for top supply chain executives to share best practices, strategic processes, and business improvements and explore the most innovative products and services on the market. The Summit features a unique combination of sessions that dive-deep into the supply chain strategies being deployed at best-in-class enterprises, coupled with sessions to translate these initiatives into executable tactics.
Enterprise Architecture Course
Location: Toronto
Date: April 17, 2012 - April 18, 2012
A two-day course led by thought leader John Zachman.
Predictive Analytics & Data Mining: Model Development / Strategic Implementation
Location: Las Vegas
Date: April 23, 2012 - April 27, 2012
Learn how experts mine data by attending The Modeling Agency's vendor-neutral and application-oriented data mining courses. Participants will learn about predictive modeling strategy, best practices, capabilities, limitations, risks, rewards, methods, tools, techniques, applications, practice, and how to get started.
TDWI: Validating your BI/DW Direction
Location: Chicago
Date: May 6, 2012 - May 11, 2012
Profitable business decisions tend to be driven with good data from you BI/DW environment. The current business environment is placing an even brighter spotlight on our ability to effectively analyze our business. Simply understanding "where we have been" is no longer good enough. We need to figure out "where we need to go."
All About the Cloud
Location: San Francisco
Date: May 8, 2012 - May 10, 2012
OpSource and the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) proudly bring you the world's largest ISV Cloud Computing conference, All About the Cloud. Marking its 7th year, All About the Cloud represents the world's largest forum for the advancement of the as-a-service industry. Join 500+ executives from ISVs, resellers, platform and infrastructure providers, along with industry leading analysts, venture capitalists and media – gathering to explore, debate and discuss all aspects of Cloud Computing.
Predictive Analytics & Data Mining: Model Development / Strategic Implementation
Location: Washington. D.C.
Date: May 14, 2012 - May 18, 2012
Learn how experts mine data by attending The Modeling Agency's vendor-neutral and application-oriented data mining courses. Participants will learn about predictive modeling strategy, best practices, capabilities, limitations, risks, rewards, methods, tools, techniques, applications, practice, and how to get started.
Uptime Institute Symposium 2012
Location: Santa Clara, Calif.
Date: May 14, 2012 - May 17, 2012
This year’s Symposium will have three tracks: 1) Data Center Facilities Design and Operation - This track focuses on helping organizations wring every last drop of performance out of their data center infrastructure while minimizing the power, carbon and water used to support the IT load. 2) Enterprise IT Architecture, Operations and Optimization - This track will focus on the server, storage and network systems management challenges facing today's IT organizations, as well as the organizational challenges facing many IT departments as boundaries between IT and MEP infrastructure roles begin to blur. 3) Cloud Computing, Third-Party Colocation and Hosting Management - This track will focus on the practical aspects of cloud implementation: governance, cost, security, and "lessons-learned-so-far" case studies. We will also look at best practices for managing collocation and managed-service provider relationships as well as service-level agreements in this hybrid world.
LegalTech West Coast 2012
Location: Los Angeles
Date: May 22, 2012 - May 23, 2012
LegalTech provides an in-depth look at what the technological world has in store for you and your practice AND offers an expansive exhibit floor with the most extensive gathering of innovative products designed to meet your current and future technology needs. The legal marketplace has tremendous buying power that resists dips in our ever-changing business economy. For this reason, competition in the legal industry is fierce and making face-to-face connections is often the difference between your company closing a sale and losing that sale to your competitor.
Cloud Expo 2012
Location: New York City
Date: June 11, 2012 - June 14, 2012
The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world's leading Cloud-focused event and is held three times a year, in New York, Silicon Valley and in Europe. Over 400 corporate sponsors and 20,000 industry professionals have participated in Cloud Expo since its inception, more than all other Cloud-related events put together.
World Innovation Forum 2012
Location: New York City
Date: June 20, 2012 - June 21, 2012
In 2012 the most successful organizations will be the ones who know where to discover the potential of, and lead innovation ... and it only takes one spark. The World Innovation Forum returns to New York City to bring together a whole new group of experts and practitioners who are shaping the way we do business.
Predictive Analytics & Data Mining: Model Development / Strategic Implementation
Location: New York City
Date: July 9, 2012 - July 13, 2012
Learn how experts mine data by attending The Modeling Agency's vendor-neutral and application-oriented data mining courses. Participants will learn about predictive modeling strategy, best practices, capabilities, limitations, risks, rewards, methods, tools, techniques, applications, practice, and how to get started.
TDWI: Big Data Tipping Point
Location: San Diego
Date: July 29, 2012 - August 3, 2012
How the Internet, Social Media and Streaming data are fundamentally changing DW/BI as we know it. The race is on to create the next competitive advantage. Businesses today need to look beyond the status quo in BI and data analysis to discover fresh insights into how they can make smarter decisions, profit from customer intelligence, and optimize productivity. The answers are in big data.
TDWI: Agile
Location: Boston
Date: September 16, 2012 - September 21, 2012
The ability to be adaptable and agile as you grow your data warehouse and business intelligence environments are keys to success and profitability as you move forward. In fact, the agile concept applies to many facets of your BI/DW environment, from team structure, project management, system design, development, as well as analytics. Agile is beginning to take center stage in data warehousing and business intelligence. It is evolving and maturing to encompass the enterprise as well as data modeling and analytics. We will continue building the agile education track as we expand to the enterprise.
451 Group's Hosting & Cloud Transformation Summit North America 2012
Location: Las Vegas
Date: September 17, 2012 - September 19, 2012
The Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit North America (HCTS NA) is the premier forum for executives in the hosting, cloud computing, datacenter and Internet infrastructure sectors. Corporate leaders, industry visionaries, practitioners, financial professionals and end users come together to learn, network and map out strategies for today's rapidly changing marketplace. The program at the Summit provides a complete overview of the opportunities and challenges facing the hosting and cloud industries in a power-packed three-day format.
TDWI: Emerging Technologies 2013
Location: Orlando, Fla.
Date: November 11, 2012 - November 16, 2012
What is next - agile, cloud computing, text analytics, virtualization, open source, cool BI, Web 2.0, social media, mobile BI have been evolving in business intelligence. Now the quest for insight can go beyond limited summaries and aggregations and tap all data sources, both structured and unstructured. New methods of working with big data, such as Hadoop and MapReduce, offer alternatives to traditional data warehousing - if you know how and when to use them. But how do these technologies fit with/work with our more traditional business intelligence and data warehousing enviornments? It's been difficult enough to implement effective and valuable BI/DW solutions with existing technologies. Will these emerging technologies make your job easier or harder? TDWI is offering six days of in-depth education from industry thought leaders on how these technologies work, how you can deploy them, and the benefits they can bring to your organization.
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