Our 2003-2004 Programme

Wednesday, September 17 - Season Opener

Jan Mrazek, ETL: The Best Kept Secret in DW
Gary Saarenvirta, Case Study: Data Mining for the Sears Catalog Business

Tuesday, September 30 - BI/DW SIG Evening Meeting

Bob Fabian, Agile: Discipline through Social Design

Wednesday, October 15

John Bruder, Aligned IT Architectures and IT Automation Designs

Tuesday, October 28 - BI/DW SIG Evening Meeting

Tim Daciuk, "An Introduction to Text Mining"

Wednesday, November 19

Efrem Habteselassie, Search Engine Technology for Unstructured Data Indexing and Classification

Tuesday, November 25 - BI/DW SIG Evening Meeting

Saed Sayad, "Data Mining in Credit Scoring"

Wednesday, December 10 - Meta Data SIG Late afternoon meeting

Harry Fletcher, ROI For Metadata: A Round-table discussion about how to justify Meta Data Management in Your Organization

Wednesday, December 17

Jim Purdy, "What is Structured Content?"

Wednesday, January 21

Chris Koressis, Canadian Privacy Law

Wednesday February 18

Michael Burns, How to select a Business Intelligence system

Tuesday, February 24 - BI/DW SIG Evening Meeting

Dipendra Malhotra, Turning Data into Information with Real-time Business Intelligence

Wednesday, March 17

Doug Harrison and Alex Resnick, The Value of Reporting Services

Wednesday, April 21

Anita Mueller, Data Quality is Key Element to IBC's Accurate Information Products

Tuesday, April 27 - BI/DW SIG Evening Meeting

Cal Rosen, Rescuing Failing Data Warehouses: A Case Study and Discussion of Lessons Learned

Wednesday, May 19

Ingrid Bredin and, Wayne Harrison, Implementing Business Driven Information Management Practices: From Policy to Metadata

Thursday, May 27 - BI/DW SIG Evening Meeting

Jeff Mehlenbacher and Dan Bulsara, Customer Data Management in Practice

Wednesday, June 16 Annual Lunch

Clare Begthol, Principles and Practices of Grouping Information

In putting together the programme we are heavily indebted to association members who put forward ideas or who offer themselves or others as speakers. If you have suggestions for forthcoming presentations, please contact our .