Davenport’s 2006 Harvard Business
Review article and best-selling 2007 book,
“Competing on Analytics” (co-authored
with Jeanne Harris), launched the revolution that has made analytics the hottest
business trend and “data scientist” the
sexiest job profile. His most recent book,
“Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide
to Understanding and Using Analytics,”
with Jinho Kim, has been called “the
quantitative literacy guide” for managers.
He has written or edited 16 other books
and more than 100 articles for Harvard
Business Review, Sloan Management
Review, the Financial Times and many
other publications.
Kilmer, director of sales planning and
analytics at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, oversees the teams responsible for
providing analytical and technology integration support across the sales teams
and contact centers. Prior to her current
role, she was director of industrial engineering at Disney, overseeing more than
120 industrial engineers who serve as
internal business consultants. She is on
Purdue University’s Engineering Advisory board and INFORMS Analytics Certification Board, and she has been featured
on the “Today in America” show.
Kilmer is a recipient of IIE’s Fellows
Award, Purdue University’s Outstanding IE Alumni Award and Distinguished
Engineering Alumni Award, and is in
A NA L Y T I C S
Purdue University’s Engineering Cooperative Education Hall of Fame.
HAND-PICKED TOPICS AND SPEAKERS
The key to the conference’s ongoing success is its program committee,
chaired this year by Freeman Marvin,
CAP, vice president and executive principal analyst at Innovative Decisions, Inc.
“Attendees will have the opportunity
to experience firsthand how the application of analytics is changing the way
business is conducted across many industries and transforming everyday life
for billions of people around the world,”
Marvin says.
The 36 members of the committee
include analysts and managers from
companies such as Google, Target, IBM,
Chevron, Amtrak, SAS, Intel and UPS,
as well as leading universities and government agencies. The committee develops the topic tracks, selects speakers
and organizes the presentations that
comprise the heart of the conference.
This year the speakers will present
talks that are organized into the following
focused tracks: The Analytics Revolution,
Healthcare Applications, Big Data, Marketing Analytics, Decision Analysis, Soft Skills
and Supply Chain Management. New this
year is a track organized by the INFORMS
Roundtable that will feature world-class
O.R. projects in established and mature
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