CO N FERE N C E P R E V I E W S
Davenport to headline
INFORMS Analytics Conference
Set for March 30-April 1, 2014, in Boston, event will feature “the best
analytics work being done today.”
“Our goal is to bring
together the best analytics
work being done today
that helps organizations
make smarter, fact-based
business decisions. The
conference emphasis will
be on real-world analytics
across industries and
applications, along with
skill-building tutorials,
software training, and
exceptional networking.”
– Freeman Marvin, CAP,
conference chair
Thomas Davenport, analytics pioneer and thoughtleader, will headline the 2014 INFORMS Conference
on Business Analytics and O.R. with a keynote address on “Analytics 3.0: Where Big Data and Traditional Analytics Meet.” The meeting, scheduled for
March 30-April 1, is expected to draw more than 900
analytics professionals to Boston for three days of intensive engagement and real-world learning on the
science and art of analytics and operations research.
Davenport’s 2006 Harvard Business Review article and best-selling book, “Competing on Analytics,”
launched the revolution that has made analytics the
hottest business trend and “data scientist” the sexiest job title in business today. His most recent book,
“Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics,” has been called “the
quantitative literacy guide” for managers. Davenport
is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology & Management at Babson College,
Fellow of the MIT Center for Digital Business, cofounder of the International Institute for Analytics and
senior advisor to Deloitte Analytics.
SHOWCASE OF AWARD-WINNING ANALYTICS
In addition to Davenport’s keynote, attendees will
see presentations from the “best of the best” in applied
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