Predictive Analytics World, coming October 20-21 to Washington DC, has a great line-up of keynote speakers: Stephen Baker, author of The Numerati and senior writer at BusinessWeek, where he's been since 1987. Steve's book has received a tremendous amount of attention this year. It is a revealing and insightful exploration of the opportunities and pitfalls of applied analytics, and consumer perception thereof. Usama Fayyad, Ph.D. — CEO, Open Insights and formerly Yahoo!'s Chief Data Officer and Executive Vice President of Research & Strategic Data Solutions. Dr. Fayyad will return as an acclaimed keynote speaker. His keynote at February's PAW (San Francisco) received extremely strong ratings from conference attendees. Finally, this blogger, Eric Siegel, Ph.D., will be kicking off PAW with a reprise of my keynote, "Five Ways to Lower Costs with Predictive Analytics."