Analytics drives better
decisions. Analytics delivers better customer experience.
The San
Diego Software Industry Council (SDSIC) “forum on ANALYTICS” slated for November
12, 2008 will demonstrate San Diego’s
leadership in the field of analytics.
In the last year, the importance of analytics in information technology
has grown dramatically. This year’s theme “Analytics in the Age of the Customer” will focus on maximizing
customer choice, protecting customer privacy and increasing business
performance.
Learn from
the leaders….network with peers… look into the future…discover analytics will
impact your business… attend our afternoon in-depth technical
presentations…UCSD Graduate Student Poster Exhibits.
Keynote Speakers –
Thought leaders applying science to business.
Daniel Yankelovich, has been referred to as the
founding father of public opinion research. Named by PR Week as one of the ten
most influential people of the past century in the arena of public affairs,
communications, and public relations, Dan Yankelovich
has spent more than forty years monitoring social change and public opinion in America. He will speak on “After the Election:
Analyzing the Disconnects.”
He is a leading interpreter of trends shaping
American society and the global economy, is:
- Director or director emeritus of CBS, Loral Space and
Communications, the Meredith Corporation, and US West; and
trustee or trustee emeritus of Brown University, the Concord
Coalition, the Educational Testing Service (ETS), the Fund for the City
of New York, and the Kettering Foundation
- Author of ten books, including Coming to Public Judgment, New Rules, and The Magic of Dialogue: Transforming
Conflict into Cooperation. In 1999, The Magic of Dialogue won the Common
Ground Book Award for Achievement in Conflict Resolution.
- Founder and chairman of three companies: Viewpoint
Learning, Inc. (a new firm helping organizations communicate
more effectively through dialogue); Public Agenda (a
public education NGO co-founded with Cyrus Vance in
1975); and DYG, Inc. (a research firm that tracks social
trends).
- Currently affiliated with the University
of California at San Diego
(UCSD), and formerly research professor of psychology at NYU and the
graduate faculty of the New
School.
Robert Hecht-Nielsen is a leading authority in the field of analytics. He is co-founder of HNC Software (acquired by
Fair-Isaac). He recently founded
Hecht-Nielsen Confabulation.
·
He
is Director of the Confabulation Neuroscience Laboratory of the California
Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CalIT2)
·
Member
of the UCSD Institute for Neural Computation; and an Adjunct Professor in the
UCSD Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
·
Serves
on the Board of Governors of the International Neural Network Society
(2007-2009).
·
An
IEEE Fellow, Hecht-Nielsen has been awarded the IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer
Medal and the UCSD ECE Department’s Graduate Teaching Award.
·
Recently
published Confabulation Theory: The
Mechanism of Thought (Springer-Verlag
2007) details confabulation theory,
describes its scientific origins, illustrates
the promise of confabulation technology
Hamid Ahmadi is
Corporate Vice President, Senior Fellow and Chief Architect of Motorola technology
Organization. Hamid has over 25
years of research, development and management experience in the area of
telecommunication, IP networking, wireless communications and network security.
·
Named as Motorola’s First Chief
Architect in January 2006.
·
Served as Vice President of
Technology and CTO in the Global Communications Sector at IBM Corporation.
·
He served on the Board of Directors
of Packeteer®, Inc. (NASDAQ: PKTR) a leading provider of application
performance infrastructure systems for 4 years.
·
He also served on the advisory
board of Airespace, a wireless switched based company which was recently
acquired by Cisco Networks.
- He is an IEEE Fellow. Hamid received
his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Columbia University, NY, in 1976, 1978, and 1983,
respectively.
Panel Discussions –
·
Marketing Analytics and Consumer
Choice
·
Mobile Analytics
·
Healthcare Analytics
Breakout Sessions -
·
Scientific/Technical Breakout
Sessions
·
Business Breakout Sessions
This event is produced in
association with
UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering
Lead Sponsors
Ernst & Young
DLA Piper
Teradata
id Analytics
Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C.
ProQuo
Business Wire
San Diego Economic Development Corporation
Contributing Sponsor
Certona
Clearpoint Agency
Ehrman Marketing Group
Associate Sponsors
Covario
Silicon Valley Bank
Mitchell
Presenting Companies Include
Teradata
id Analytics
Motorola
Experian
Oracle
Qualcomm
Draper Fisher Jurveston
ProQuo
R4Mobile
Turn, Inc.
Agenda
7:00 am – 8:00 am – Registration/Breakfast/Networking
8:00 am –
Noon - Morning Keynote and Business Panel Presentations
12:00 – 1:00 pm – Networking Lunch (included)
1:00 pm - 3:15 pm - Afternoon Keynote and
Break out Sessions
3:15 pm – 4:00 -
Afternoon Reception and Networking
