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Monday, Apr 20, 2015 Pre-Conference Schedule

07:30 AM - 05:00 PM	Registration
07:30 AM - 05:00 PM	Information Desk
Room	Great America K/X	Great America J	M1	M2
08:30 AM - 10:15 AM	3 Tools an Hour - 24 FREE Tools every business analyst needs Lynn Langit Level: 100	Join the Power BI & Excel Revolution Rob Collie, Avi Singh Level: 200	An Overview of Predictive Analytics for Practitioners Dean Abbott Level: 100	Building Awesome, Interactive & Advanced Charts with Excel Chandoo (Purna Duggirala) Level: 200
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM	Refreshment Break, Pre-function Area
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM	3 Tools an Hour - 24 FREE Tools every business analyst needs Lynn Langit Level: 100	Join the Power BI & Excel Revolution Rob Collie, Avi Singh Level: 200	An Overview of Predictive Analytics for Practitioners Dean Abbott Level: 100	Building Awesome, Interactive & Advanced Charts with Excel Chandoo (Purna Duggirala) Level: 200
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM	Pre-Conference Lunch, Mission City Prefunction
01:00 PM - 02:45 PM	3 Tools an Hour - 24 FREE Tools every business analyst needs Lynn Langit Level: 100	Join the Power BI & Excel Revolution Rob Collie, Avi Singh Level: 200	An Overview of Predictive Analytics for Practitioners Dean Abbott Level: 100	Building Awesome, Interactive & Advanced Charts with Excel Chandoo (Purna Duggirala) Level: 200
02:45 PM - 03:00 PM	Refreshment Break, Pre-function Area
03:00 PM - 04:30 PM	3 Tools an Hour - 24 FREE Tools every business analyst needs Lynn Langit Level: 100	Join the Power BI & Excel Revolution Rob Collie, Avi Singh Level: 200	An Overview of Predictive Analytics for Practitioners Dean Abbott Level: 100	Building Awesome, Interactive & Advanced Charts with Excel Chandoo (Purna Duggirala) Level: 200

Tuesday, Apr 21, 2015 Conference Schedule

07:00 AM - 06:30 PM	Registration
07:00 AM - 06:30 PM	Information Desk
08:00 AM - 09:15 AM	Keynote Speaker: Carlo Ratti, Microsoft Mission City Ballroom
09:00 AM - 03:00 PM	Exhibit Hall A-2
09:15 AM - 09:45 AM	Refreshment Break, Exhibit Hall A-2
Room	Great America K/X	Grand Ballroom H	M1	M2	M3	Grand Ballroom G
09:45 AM - 10:45 AM	Big Data and the Data Lake from the Analyst Perspective Scott Shaw Level: 200 Part 1 of 2	Increased Margins, Period: Modern Excel and the Bottom Line Rob Collie Level: 200	Best Practice Mobile Dashboard Design Jen Underwood Level: 200	The Art of Power BI Visualization: Create Reports That Help You Run Your Business Avi Singh Level: 100	To be Announced	The Pain and Glory of Data Preparation Oz du Soleil Level: 200
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Big Data and the Data Lake from the Analyst Perspective Scott Shaw Level: 200 Part 2 of 2	Increased Margins, Period: Modern Excel and the Bottom Line Rob Collie Level: 200	What Skills Do Predictive Modelers Need? Dean Abbott Level: 100	The ROI of Business Analytics: Calculating Financial Return Othniel Denis Level: 200	The Data Supply Chain: Maximizing Value Throughout the Cycle Hyoun Park Level: 200	Making Informed Decisions: Guidelines for Creating an Effective Dashboard Rick Grantham Level: 200
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM	Lunch, Exhibit Hall A-2
01:00 PM - 02:00 PM	Creating Awesome Charts in Excel: Process and Examples Chandoo (Purna Duggirala) Level: 200 Part 1 of 2	Embracing The Data Leadership Nexus to Achieve Strategic Success Richard Lee Level: 300	Creating Outstanding Spreadsheet Models Jordan Goldmeier Level: 200	Open for Business: Leveraging Open Data to Gain Advantage on the Competition Brandon Purcell Level: 200	Unlocking Big Data: The Power of Cognitive Computing James Kobielus Level: 300	Self Service Business Intelligence: Helping Businesses Help Themselves Dipak Bhudia, Minnie Park Level: 100
02:00 PM - 02:30 PM	Refreshment Break, Exhibit Hall A-2
02:30 PM - 03:30 PM	Creating Awesome Charts in Excel: Process and Examples Chandoo (Purna Duggirala) Level: 200 Part 2 of 2	Resistance is Futile: What You Need to Know about Big Data Michelle Ufford Level: 100	Social Listening, Data Extraction & Discovery Paco Gonzalez Level: 300	Open for Business: Leveraging Open Data to Gain Advantage on the Competition Brandon Purcell Level: 200	Budgeting with Power Pivot Marco Russo Level: 300	60 Reporting Tips in 60 Minutes Ike Ellis Level: 200
03:45 PM - 04:45 PM	Beyond What-If: How to Build Analytic and Decision Models in Spreadsheets Daniel Fylstra Level: 200 Part 1 of 2	MrExcel's Most Productive Analysis Techniques Bill Jelen Level: 200	Pour Some Data on Me: Discover, Manage, Analyze, and Visualize Your Data with Power BI Miguel Martinez, Sanjay Soni Level: 100	Predictive Analytics in Social Media and Online Display Advertising Mahesh Kumar, Santhosh Krishnan Level: 200	Real-Time Big Data Analytics with R David Smith Level: 200	Is There Really Such a Thing as Turnkey Data Analytics Solution? Satheesh Iyer Level: 100
05:00 PM - 06:00 PM	Beyond What-If: How to Build Analytic and Decision Models in Spreadsheets Daniel Fylstra Level: 200 Part 2 of 2	MrExcel's Most Productive Analysis Techniques Bill Jelen Level: 200	The Valued Analyst: From Data to Insight in 60 Minutes Marc Reguera, Jeff Lumpkin Level: 200	Enabling Customer-Driven Insight: How Intel is Delivering Self-Service BI David Schaefer, Gregorio Martinez Level: 200	Data Hunters & Gatherers: Discover, Acquire, and Transform Your Data with Power Query Miguel Llopis Level: 200	To be Announced
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM	Welcome Reception, Exhibit Hall A-2

Wednesday, Apr 22, 2015 Conference Schedule

07:00 AM - 04:00 PM	Registration
07:00 AM - 04:00 PM	Information Desk
08:00 AM - 09:15 AM	Keynote Speaker: Miko Yuk, Microsoft Mission City Ballroom
09:00 AM - 02:30 PM	Exhibit Hall, Exhibit Hall A-2
09:15 AM - 09:45 AM	Refreshment Break, Exhibit Hall A-2
Room	Great America K/X	Grand Ballroom H	M1	M2	M3	Grand Ballroom G
09:45 AM - 10:45 AM	Starting Your First Predictive Analytics Project Dean Abbott Level: 200 Part 1 of 2	Best Practices for Collecting and Analyzing Data with Power Query and Excel Chris Webb Level: 200	The Art of Prototyping Analytics Ken Raetz Level: 200	A New Approach to Defining BI Requirements James Taylor Level: 100	Internet of Things Farm: Introducing Kids to Data Science Jessica Ellis Level: 200	Visualizing and Analyzing Data in 3D Igor Peev Level: 200
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Starting Your First Predictive Analytics Project Dean Abbott Level: 200 Part 2 of 2	Top 10 Excel Formulas for Analysts Chandoo (Purna Duggirala) Level: 200	Instant Dashboards for Your Critical Business Applications: Dynamics, Salesforce, Marketo and more! Theresa Palmer-Boroski Level: 200	Data Visualization, Storytelling, and the Brain James Haight Level: 100	Using Premium Data for Analysts Lynn Langit Level: 100	Advanced Modelling and Calculation Using the Power BI Designer Kasper de Jonge Level: 300
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM	Lunch, Exhibit Hall A-2
01:00 PM - 02:00 PM	Optimizing your Power Pivot models using Power Query (and other performance tips) Ken Puls Level: 300 Part 1 of 2	Becoming Team Awesome: How to Create Value and Present Data to Business Executives in SharePoint Matt Allington Level: 200	Using Hadoop with Excel and Power BI, Plus Data Discovery 101 Andrew J. Brust Level: 100	Dynamic Presentation Using Excel CUBE Formulas Bob Phillips Level: 200	Inventory Valuation Techniques with DAX and Tabular Models Marco Russo Level: 300	The Analytics of Growth Hacking Jack Mardack Level: 100
02:00 PM - 02:30 PM	Refreshment Break, Exhibit Hall A-2
02:30 PM - 03:30 PM	Optimizing your Power Pivot models using Power Query (and other performance tips) Ken Puls Level: 300 Part 2 of 2	Making Better Decisions with Data Jordan Goldmeier Level: 200	Using Hadoop with Excel and Power BI, Plus Data Discovery 101 Andrew J. Brust Level: 100	Advanced Excel Add-Ins Zack Barresse Level: 300	Big Ways Small Businesses are Leveraging Analytics to Gain Insights Sandy Rivas Level: 100	'What If’ Scenarios for Uncertainty in Business – Analytics as Your Crystal Ball Mark Wilcock Level: 200
03:45 PM - 04:45 PM	To be Announced	Creating an Effective Reporting Strategy: Tools, Metrics, Analytics Rick Grantham Level: 100	Pulling Back the Green Curtain: Data Forensics, Power BI, and Dataviz Jen Stirrup Level: 300	Social Listening for Richer Data, Unstructured Analytics Paco Gonzalez Level: 300	To be Announced	To be Announced

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