Advanced Analytics and Insights

Big Data Innovations and Integration

Data Analytics and Visualization

Information Delivery and Collaboration

Strategy and Architecture

*Schedule is subject to change.

Wednesday, Apr 10, 2013 Pre-Conference Schedule

07:00 AM - 08:00 PM	Registration, Level 4
07:00 AM - 07:00 PM	PASS Booth & Community Zone
07:00 AM - 08:00 AM	Breakfast - Pre-conference attendees only
Room	Sheraton 2	Chicago 8	Sheraton 1	Chicago 9	Sheraton 3
NOTE: Rooms are subject to change closer to the date of the event.
08:00 AM - 09:30 AM	Architecting the Next Generation Information Analytics Platform Robert Skoglund, Brian Mitchell SA-198-P	Big Data and NoSQL for Database and BI Pros Andrew J. Brust BDII-299-P	Power to the Business Analyst: Self-Service Microsoft BI Peter Myers DAV-299-P	A Best Practices Cookbook for Data Mining Mark Tabladillo, Artus Krohn-Grimberghe AAI-299-P	Collecting and Defining Users' Analytical Requirements Mark Whitehorn SA-199-P
09:30 AM - 09:45 AM	Refreshment Break, Level 4
09:45 AM - 11:30 AM	Architecting the Next Generation Information Analytics Platform Robert Skoglund, Brian Mitchell SA-198-P	Big Data and NoSQL for Database and BI Pros Andrew J. Brust BDII-299-P	Power to the Business Analyst: Self-Service Microsoft BI Peter Myers DAV-299-P	A Best Practices Cookbook for Data Mining Mark Tabladillo, Artus Krohn-Grimberghe AAI-299-P	Collecting and Defining Users' Analytical Requirements Mark Whitehorn SA-199-P
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM	Pre-Conference Lunch, River Exhibit Hall
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM	Architecting the Next Generation Information Analytics Platform Robert Skoglund, Brian Mitchell SA-198-P	Big Data and NoSQL for Database and BI Pros Andrew J. Brust BDII-299-P	Power to the Business Analyst: Self-Service Microsoft BI Peter Myers DAV-299-P	A Best Practices Cookbook for Data Mining Mark Tabladillo, Artus Krohn-Grimberghe AAI-299-P	Collecting and Defining Users' Analytical Requirements Mark Whitehorn SA-199-P
02:00 PM - 02:15 PM	Refreshment Break, Level 4
02:15 PM - 04:00 PM	Architecting the Next Generation Information Analytics Platform Robert Skoglund, Brian Mitchell SA-198-P	Big Data and NoSQL for Database and BI Pros Andrew J. Brust BDII-299-P	Power to the Business Analyst: Self-Service Microsoft BI Peter Myers DAV-299-P	A Best Practices Cookbook for Data Mining Mark Tabladillo, Artus Krohn-Grimberghe AAI-299-P	Collecting and Defining Users' Analytical Requirements Mark Whitehorn SA-199-P
04:00 PM - 07:00 PM	Big Data Camp, Level 4
07:00 PM - 09:00 PM	Evening Event - Welcome Reception/Exhibitor Reception, Exhibit Hall

Thursday, Apr 11, 2013 Conference Schedule

07:00 AM - 05:00 PM	Registration
07:00 AM - 08:00 AM	Breakfast
08:00 AM - 09:15 AM	Keynote: Kamal Hathi and Amir Netz, Microsoft, Ballroom, Level 4
09:00 AM - 04:00 PM	Expo Hall, River Exhibit Hall, Level 1
09:15 AM - 10:00 AM	Refreshment Break / Expo Hall
Room	Chicago 8	Chicago 9	Sheraton 1	Chicago 10	Sheraton 2	Sheraton 3
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM	From Data to Insights with Microsoft’s Big Data Eron Kelly BDII-100-M	Deep Dive into PowerPivot in Office and SharePoint Diego Oppenheimer, Kay Unkroth DAV-300-M	Self-Service Business Analytics in 2013 Rod Colledge IDC-204	What Is Data Science? Mark Whitehorn AAI-103	Sports Analytics: Big Data in the Big Time Wayne Winston DAV-108	Inside Atento: Strategies for a Corporate Data Warehouse Javier Torrenteras, Enrique Moreno SA-302
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM	From Data to Insight – Views from Microsoft Finance Marc Reguera DAV-202-M	Yahoo!, Big Data, and Microsoft BI: Bigger and Better Together Denny Lee, Dianne Eckloff BDII-302-M	Data Analysis with R and Julia Mark Tabladillo AAI-200	Hailing Frequencies: Analysis Services Terms and Concepts Mark Vaillancourt, Doug Lane IDC-101	Creating an End-to-End Power View Reporting Solution Devin Knight DAV-102	Extending PowerPivot into a Scalable Component for Enterprise BI Avi Perez IDC-206
12:15 PM - 01:30 PM	Lunch / Expo Hall
01:30 PM - 02:30 PM	Present and Futures: Roadmap and Strategy Kamal Hathi, Ashvini Sharma SA-102-M	Advanced Dashboards Using Excel, Excel Services, and PerformancePoint Leif Brenne DAV-301-M	Mobile Business Intelligence, Apprentice Style! Jen Stirrup IDC-203	Modern Data Warehousing Strategy Marco Russo SA-201	Relational and Non-relational Data Living in Peace and Harmony Artin Avanes BDII-300-M	Visualization Choices: What, When, and How? Paul Turley DAV-204
02:30 PM - 02:45 PM	Refreshment Break
02:45 PM - 03:45 PM	Office as Your BI Platform Ashvini Sharma, Seayoung Rhee IDC-200-M	Ensuring Compliance of Patient Data with Big Data and BI Denny Lee, Ayad Shammout BDII-301-M	NoSQL: An Analysis Andrew J. Brust BDII-200	Crossing the Last Mile with Predictable Hospital Readmissions Drew Minkin AAI-102	Big Data Analytics with Excel 2013 Peter Myers BDII-202	Power to the Pivot - Practical Intro to PowerPivot 2012 Hope Foley DAV-103
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM	Advanced Data Visualization with SQL Server Reporting Services Oliver Engels, Tillmann Eitelberg DAV-302	Make Cloud BI Work for You Chuck Heinzelman, Gilad Elyashar, David Magar SA-301-M	Analytics for Business Strategy Cristian Vava AAI-101	Taking BI to the Next Level: Collaboration Stacia Misner IDC-205	Why BI Projects Fail (And What You Can Do About It) Craig Utley SA-100	Advancing Analytics at Microsoft Advertising Naga Krothapalli DAV-203-M
05:15 PM - 06:15 PM	Mastering Time-Based Analysis in DAX Dan Clark DAV-201	Measuring the Subscription Economy Angel Abundez DAV-200	Overview of Microsoft Appliances James Serra BDII-105	The Future of Apache Hive and Hadoop 2.0: Bigger, Faster, Stronger Carter Shanklin AAI-100	Building the Business Case for Big Data Hyoun Park BDII-101	Enabling Collaborative Analysis while Maintaining Governance John Whittaker, Ben Boise IDC-102
07:00 PM - 10:00 PM	Community Appreciation Party - Lucky Strike, 322 E. Illinois St.

Friday, Apr 12, 2013 Conference Schedule

07:00 AM - 05:00 PM	Registration
07:00 AM - 08:00 AM	Breakfast
08:00 AM - 09:15 AM	Keynote: Steven Levitt, Ballroom, Level 4
09:15 AM - 10:00 AM	Refreshment Break / Expo Hall
Room	Chicago 8	Chicago 9	Sheraton 1	Chicago 10	Sheraton 2	Sheraton 3
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM	Drab to Dynamite! Managed Self-Service BI Using Real-World Data Sandy Rivas, Riccardo Muti DAV-206-M	Mastering the CUBE Functions in Excel 2013 Peter Myers DAV-205	60-Minute Demo: Microsoft BI Tools on SAP Data Michael Raheem IDC-301	Data Visualization with Power View and the Tabular Model Jen Stirrup AAI-301	Big Data: Threat or Opportunity? Shaun Connolly BDII-103	PDW Architecture Gets Real: Customer Implementations Brian Walker, Murshed Zaman SA-300-M
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM	Drive Smarter Decisions with Microsoft HDInsight Tim Mallalieu BDII-104-M	Feed Your Data! OData Data Feeds for PowerPivot Users Chris Webb DAV-100	My Brain Hurts: Presenting Data with Microsoft Tools Craig Utley IDC-100	Excel Charting Tips Wayne Winston DAV-109	Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture James Serra SA-101	Data Analytics: Realizing the Full Potential Mike Stringer DAV-110
12:15 PM - 01:30 PM	Lunch / Expo Hall
01:30 PM - 02:30 PM	The Essential 8: Narrative Reporting Techniques Josh Fennessy, Julie Koesmarno DAV-105	Self-Service Data Modeling Marco Russo DAV-107	GeoSpatial Analytics Using Microsoft BI Jason Thomas DAV-104	How Intel Integrates Self-Service BI with IT for Better Business Results Cindy Gross, Eduardo Gamez DAV-208-M	MDS and DQS - Beyond the TLAs to Data Quality Neil Hambly SA-202	Parallelizing Large Excel-Based Calculations on HPC Server & Azure Antonio Zurlo AAI-304-M
02:30 PM - 02:45 PM	Refreshment Break
02:45 PM - 03:45 PM	Dark Matter: Domain Experts & Nextgen Spreadsheets Are Our Future Rob Collie SA-303	Business Intelligence on Mobile Devices Leif Brenne, Ari Schorr IDC-201-M	Charting Collections of Social Media Connections with NodeXL Marc Smith DAV-106	Social Text, Sentiment, and Tone Analysis Ruben Pertusa Lopez, Paco Gonzalez AAI-201	Delivering Agile BI Solutions Dave DuVarney SA-200	Online Advertising: Hybrid Approach to Large-Scale Data Analysis Dmitri Tchikatilov, Anna Skobodzinski, Trevor Attridge, Christian Bonilla DAV-303-M
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM	Using Power View and Hadoop to Unlock Hidden Markets Stacia Misner, Joseph D'Antoni DAV-207	The ABCs of Scoring: Why, How, and Getting a Good Grade Dan Bulos DAV-101	Microsoft Data Explorer for Excel: Data Discovery & Transformation Faisal Mohamood IDC-202-M	Recommender Systems – A Walkthrough Artus Krohn-Grimberghe AAI-300	SQL Server Predictive Analytics: Customer Stories Raman Iyer AAI-302-M	Big Data - Top Ingredient to Improve Healthcare Paul Bradley BDII-102