Business Analytics Innovation

Gain Insight, Drive Business Planning

Running Concurrently with our Big Data Innovation Summit

January 22 & 23Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas

Confirmed Speakers

• VP, BI & Analytics, Target

• Director, Business Analytics & Information

Management, Boeing

• Data Scientist, Foursquare

• Director, Analytics EE & eSupport, EA

• Principal, Game Analytics, Activision

• Senior Director, Business Analytics, Zillow

• Data Scientist , Twitter

• Senior Director, Strategy, Slacker Radio

• Manager, Business Analytics, Google

• Global Leader, CRM & Loyalty, eBay

• Head of Data Science, Tapjoy

• Senior Vice President, Citi

• Data Scientist, Groupon

• Director, Analytics, Visa

• Chief Analytics Officer, Influence Health

• Senior Director, Advanced Analytics,

Legendary Entertainment

• Senior Manager, Analytics, Raley's

• Senior Manager, Analytics, Google

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& many more added every week...check back regularly for more industry leading speakers

Past Delegates include• Director, Analytics - Ask.com

• Director, Insight - Red Bull

• Vice President - Google

• Senior Director - Starbucks

• Director, Analytics - Coca-Cola

• Director, Insight - Electronic Arts

Who Will You Meet?There is no question that IE. provides the gold standard events in the industry and will connect you with decision makers within the analytics industry. You will be meeting senior level executives from major corporations and innovative small to medium size companies.

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The Business Analytics Summit brings together thought-leaders from the industry for an event acclaimed for its interactive sessions and high-level speakersAs organizations have developed the capacity to gain greater insight from data and statistics - and with the increase in the volume of data available - it is now essential to use innovative analytics practices to succeed.

Illustrated intermittently with case studies, interactive panel sessions and deep-dive discussions, this summit will focus on the solutions offered by advanced analytics practices.Topics the summit will cover include:

• Strategies to engage senior leadership around implementing advanced analytics processes.

• Insight into the use of predictive analytics as the vehicle to drive accountability of results.

• Drive business success through more accurate insight and use of data.

• Methods designed to deliver the most effective impact on your business through analysis of data.

The summit will run concurrently with the Big Data Innovation Summit, as there is great crossover between the Summits you may attend sessions at both Summits accessing all the speakers and topics that are relevant to your needs.

The summit will feature

• Presentations from thought leaders• Panel Discussions discussing key trends• Open Discussion - engaging out of session• Ample Networking Opportunities• Solution Providers Exhibition• Partnership Presentations• Opportunity to Meet the Speakers• & much more...

About The Summit #BAVegas

Tianhui Michael Li is data scientist at Foursquare where he is responsible for building o u t t h e a d a p t i v e m a c h i n e - l e a r n i n g i n f r a s t r u c t u r e t h a t p o w e r s v e n u e recommendations and ads.  Previously, he has worked at Andreessen Horowitz as a data scientist, Google as a software engineer, D.E. Shaw as a quant, and NASA as a nuclear physicist.   He studied mathematics in Cambridge as a Marshall Scholar and completed his PhD at Princeton with support from the National Science Foundation and Hertz Foundation Fellowships.  As a chronic but grateful recipient of scholarship funding, he is proud to serve on the board of New York Needs You, a non-profit that fights for social-economic mobility for low-income first-generation college students.

Building a Data-Driven Culture: The Foursquare Experience

Building a data-driven culture is one of the biggest challenges facing today’s companies.  I’ll talk about our experience at Foursquare from hiring the right people, selecting key enabling technologies, building up business processes, and common-challenges and pitfalls.   I’ll also talk about some of the most impactful ways in which we use data for our company and our product.

Michael LiData ScientistFoursquare

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Josh Hemann is a Principal Statistician in Activision’s Game Analytics Team, where he builds analytic services that support video game development studios. His industry experience in analytics spans diverse settings such as oil and gas exploration, aerospace, retail loyalty programs, recommendation systems for grocers, and massively multiplayer on-line games. Throughout these settings he has appreciated how much effective visual communication is critical for influencing decisions made by scientists and executives alike. Josh has an MS in Applied Mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder where he maintains involvement in air pollution research.

Turning Social Media into Instrumentation

C a l l o f D u t y ® i s o n e o f t h e b i g g e s t entertainment franchises of all time. Social media channels such as Reddit and Twitter are increasingly used by players to communicate with   each other as well as Activision and its studios. In this talk I’ll cover several vignettes showing how we try to turn these channels into data we can use to inform decisions affecting Call of Duty®. Along the way I’ll cover specific techniques and software libraries as well as challenges in making this a production service. 

Josh HemannPrincipal, Game AnalyticsActivision

Harish is a seasoned thought leader in B u s i n e s s a n a l y t i c s a n d I n f o r m a t i o n Management with over 19 years’ experience across Manufacturing, Retail and Finance industries. He has delivered stellar business results through the use of analytics and promoting insight driven culture. He is a regular presenter at industry conferences and currently works as Director for Analytics and Information Management at Boeing.

Insight-Driven Approach as a Competitive Advantage

Information management plays a significant role in promoting an insight-driven culture. Areas like data quality, metadata, data lineage and master data must be addressed to ensure successful and systematic decision-making across the enterprise. In this session, join Boeing's Harish Rao as he details why approaching this process as a discipline, as opposed to a project–based approach, can further organizational success. Rao expands upon analytics deployment to advance process improvement and cost containment, addressing how these concepts can best be applied to achieve real business results.

Harish RaoDirector, Business AnalyticsBoeing

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Sezin is been an advocate of using data for decision making. She has led many yield and inventory management initiatives such as dynamic pricing, upgrade policy, and walk-up pricing that have increased ticket sales revenue. Sezin has a BS in Economics with a minor in Mathematics and a BA in Italian Language and European Studies from Duke University, and is completing her MBA degree at Kellogg School of Management (degree to be received in December 2012).

Changing Hollywood Paradigms with Analytics

Legendary Entertainment, the company behind movies such as the Dark Knight trilogy, the Hangover series, Inception, both 300 movies, The Town, Man of Steel, and Godzilla, is at the forefront of apply ing analyt ics in the entertainment industry. Legendary uses analytics to put its content in the best position to succeed, whether evaluating ideas and concepts to produce or utilizing micro-targeting to identify, reach, and persuade the precise audience. Proprietary, commercial-grade software constantly analyzes unique, extensive data across people, social media, and content. 

Sezin AksoyDirector, Advanced AnalyticsLegendary Entertainment

Yohan works as a head of data science at Tapjoy, - focus on personalized   mobile advertising, audience targeting, in-app user LTV maximization. His   team works on data science modeling/data science back-end engineering/data   insight visualization. Prior to Tapjoy, he was a lead research scientist at  MySpace, where he led to build personalized music/video recommendation and   multiple other data science products with social networking data. He has   Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Texas Dallas, B.S. from Seoul  National University.

Innovate Mobile Advertising via Data Science As a Service

Traditional digital advertising is interruptive and it is one-directional   advertising, not both directional experience as user engage, So nature of   mobile - more personal/engagement/mobility took lots of attentions from   advertisers. Especially, huge user-demand from mobile game domain makes  mobile advertising economics, got grew a lot. At this presentation, with   billions of device scale, will show how data science can build a  personalized ad service and discover audience insight and put into   real-time decision making engine.

Yohan ChinHead of Data ScienceTapjoy

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Ali Vanderveld is an astrophysicist turned data scientist. After receiving her PhD from Cornell Un ivers i ty in 2007 she worked as a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and then as a research fellow at the University of Chicago. During this time she worked on several dark energy mission concepts, including the Euclid satellite which is due to launch in 2020. She has been a part of the Groupon Data Science Team since July 2013.

Predictive Analytics for Sales Force Optimization

At Groupon we have built tools to coordinate and optimize the efforts of our sales force, one of our most prec ious resources . Th is presentation will discuss the key ingredients that go into the analytics behind our sales force optimization, including merchant modeling and demand forecasting,

Ali VanderveldData ScientistGroupon

Saurin Pandya is currently Senior Director, Business Analytics at Zillow, previously he was Director, Analytics at Expedia, and lead a global team of business analysts. In his role, Saurin provides decision support to Zillow through analytics insight.

Saurin PandyaSnr. Director, Business AnalyticsZillow

Robert ho lds a Bache lor ’s degree in Mathematics and Physics from Harvard University and an MBA from the International University of Japan. With 20 years of experience in technology, Robert has worked in key finance and analytics roles at multiple startups and Fortune 500 firms.   Robert leads analytics, monetization strategy, and ad operations at Slacker Radio where he is a member of the executive team. 

Forming A Model Narrative

Decisions establishing the underlying structural framework within which a predictive model is constructed can have a greater impact than the remaining process of model building and optimizing. Yet that central component of creating a model foundation is often not given a focus in proportion to its significance.

Rovert WildeVP, Analytics & MonetizationSlacker Radio

The Information

Silver Pass

$1495Access to all sessions &

networking events7 days access to presentations from the

summit via ieOnDemand

$1295Early Bird Price(before Nov 21)

Diamond Pass

$1995Access to all sessions, networking

events, annual subscription to all content on the Big Data & Analytics channels via

ieOnDemand

$1795Early Bird Price(before Nov 21)

Gold Pass

$1795Access to all sessions, networking

events & unlimited access to presentations from the summit via

ieOnDemand

$1595Early Bird Price(before Nov 21)

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1 Day Pass

$795Full access to the sessions to your chosen day of the summit, 7 days

access to presentations from the summit via ieOnDemand

$695Early Bird Price(before Nov 21)

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$600Unlimited access to presentations from the summit via ieOnDemand,

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For larger groups or special requests contact Andrew by calling +1 415 315 9533 or email achristofi@theiegroup.com* Team discounts are applicable at the point of registration only.

Business Analytics Innovation SummitDate: January 22 & 23, 2015Location: Las VegasVenue Caesar’s Palace

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Pass Descriptions:Silver Pass: Access to all sessions & networking eventsGold Pass: Access to all sessions, networking events & unlimited access to the summit presentations via ieOnDemandDiamond Pass: Access to all sessions, networking events, annual subscription to all content on the Big Data & Analytics channels via ieOnDemand

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Schedule

Networking Drinks 17.00 - 19.00

Janaury 23

Session One 08.30 - 10.00

Coffee Break 10.00 - 10.30

Session Two 10.30 - 12.00

Lunch 12.00 - 13.30

Session Three 13.30 - 15.00

Coffee Break 15.00 - 15.30

Session Four 15.30 - 17.00

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Session Five 08.30 - 10.00

Coffee Break 10.00 - 10.30

Session Six 10.30 - 12.00

Lunch 12.00 - 13.30

Session Seven 13.30 - 15.00

Coffee Break 15.00 - 15.30

Session Eight 15.30 - 17.00

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