CO N FERE N C E P R E V I E W S
From data-rich to
decision-smart
INFORMS conference to focus on the business of big data.
The conference will be
organized around several
tracks that focus on
business, with success
stories and les ons learned
s
on real implementation
of big data analytics.
Sessions on big data 101
will offer tutorials on how
to navi ate the big data
g
ecosystem, how to seect
l
and use the right
technologies, as well as
the challenges of building
data science teams.
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“Big data” is the latest business buzzword – but
what’s missing among the talk and the hype is how
a company gets from data discovery to real business value. The Institute for Operations Research
and Management Science (INFORMS), the leading
professional membership organization in the world
for advanced analytics and publishers of Analytics
magazine, is launching a new topical conference in
2014 that will put the focus squarely on the business of big data – how organizations can transition
from just data-rich to decision-smart. The meeting
will be held June 22-24 at the San Jose Convention
Center in San Jose, Calif.
The program is being designed by a committee
of practitioners in the data arena, chaired by
Margery Connor, CAP, senior operations researcher-Advanced Analytics at Chevron, and Diego
Klabjan, CAP, professor and director of the Master
of Science in Analytics Program at Northwestern
University. Other committee members are analysts
and managers at Dell, IBM, Booz Allen Hamilton,
SAIC, Intel, SAS, Alcatel-Lucent and UPS. The
committee will invite speakers to address defined
topics in an intensive program that is geared to the
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