November 22nd 2011
PAW San Francisco – Agenda Launched – 1 Month for Super Early Bird Price
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Archive for November, 2011
November 22nd 2011
London Show Starts Next Week
Last Opportunity to register for
Predictive Analytics World London
Predictive Analytics World London (30th November – 1st December, Business Design Centre) begins next Wednesday. Now is the final opportunity to make savings of £100 with pre-event prices, learn from industry experts and network with up to 2,000 key decision makers.
Final Opportunity to Attend Sessions Such As:
Multiple Case Studies: U.S. DoD, U.S. DHS, SSA.
Text Mining: Lessons Learned
John Elder,
Elder Research Inc
Text Mining is the "Wild West" of data mining and predictive analytics – the potential for gain is huge, the capability claims are often tall tales, and the "land rush" for leadership is very much a race. Discover from industry expert Dr John Elder the lessons learned from real life case studies at US Government departments.
See also Dr Elder's full day workshop
Case Study: The Royal Bank of Scotland
Value From The Long Tail
Gaurav Gaur,
Royal Bank
of Scotland
Arguing that extracting income from a large volume portfolio has become even more difficult in the past few years, Gaurav will show how predictive analytics has become key to identifying value in a banking portfolio. Use real examples from the Royal Bank of Scotland, he will demonstrate the growing importance of analytics in financial services.
Case Study: GlaxoSmithKline
Predictive Analytic Patient Recruitment and Drug Supply Modelling in Clinical Trials
Vladimir Anisimov, GlaxoSmithKline
Patient recruitment and drug supply stage is a well-recognised bottleneck for the design and monitoring of clinical trials. Vladimir Anisimov of GlaxoSmithKline introduces software developed for risk based drug supply modelling, which have resulted in significant cost savings and benefits in R&D.
Case Study: BBC
Data Mining for Social Moderation
Mark Tabladillo, SolidQ
Mark Tabladillo and Fransisco Gonzalez of SolidQ demonstrate the challenges the BBC faced in providing social moderation of millions of posts and comments made on their public website. The session covers integration within a leading database platform, final model results evaluation and cost efficiencies and will demonstrate why more organisations will need to use enterprise solutions to handle high-volume social networking.
Network with 2000 decision makers
Running for the first time in the UK as part of Data Driven Business Week, Predictive Analytics World London will be one of three conferences (Predictive Analytics World, eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit and Conversion Conference) all designed to empower business to strategise and optimise using data analytics. The event is also being co-located with ECMOD, Europe’s largest and most influential forum for catalogue, home shopping and multi-channel businesses, now running in its 21st year. Based on past attendances the total audience for DDBW and ECMOD will be over 2000 providing excellent networking opportunities for all attendees.
See the full Predictive Analytics World online agenda at a glance here
November 7th 2011
Five Reasons not to miss PAW London
Predictive Analytics World London (30 November to 1 December, Business Design Centre) starts in only three weeks. Register now and make savings of up to £100 over onsite registration.
Here are five reasons you don’t want to miss it:
1 – See case studies and presentations from large organisations and Fortune 100 companies currently deploying predictive analytics such as the BBC, dunnhumby, the Economist, ENERGEX, GlaxoSmithKline, Hewlett Packard, HM Revenue & Customs, ING Belgium, Just Giving, Lloyds TSB, OTTO group, Paychex, the Royal Bank of Scotland, United Group Holdings and US Bank.
2 – Be inspired by keynotes and special feature sessions from industry experts such as John Elder, Elder Research Inc., Geert Verstraeten, Python Predictions, Nicholas Radcliffe, Stochastic Solutions and Eric Siegel, Conference Programme Chair of Predictive Analytics World.
3 – Become a source of knowledge for your organisation by learning more about churn modelling, demand forecasting, operational analytics, risk management, social data, text analytics, uplift modelling and the deployment of predictive analytics in areas such as financial services, human resource retention, non-profit fundraising and supply chain management.
4 – Expand your network and share ideas with industry experts during networking breaks, lunches and the evening reception; as part of Data Driven Business Week, you’ll have access to an even larger group of business analytics experts. Companies already registered to attend the event include Accenture, American Express, Autonomy, the British Council, British Gas, BSkyB, Cathay Pacific Airways, Chelsea Football Club, Dell, Deloitte, Domino’s Pizza, E.ON, Financial Times, Irish Life, Oxfam, Paddy Power, PayPal, Thomas Cook, Totaljobs and TUI
5 – Learn from the best at an intensive one day workshop, “The Best and the Worst of Predictive Analytics”, given by industry expert Dr John Elder. Hurry though as tickets to this optional one day workshop on Friday, 2nd December are running out fast.
