Call for Speakers: PAW Industry 4.0 Las Vegas 2020

Speaking proposals are now being accepted for:

PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS WORLD FOR INDUSTRY 4.0

May 31-June 4, 2020 (Speaking days June 2-3)

Venue: Caesars Palace, Las Vegas
Speaker proposal deadline: January 10, 2020
Speakers will be notified by: February 6, 2020

Present Your Case Studies

PAW Industry 4.0 provides speakers the opportunity to present predictive analytics case studies, deployment successes and lessons learned. At this event, potential consumers of predictive analytics witness proof demonstrating it’s more than just a bunch of great ideas – predictive analytics is actively applied to optimize many business functions across industry verticals. And predictive analytics practitioners have the opportunity to gain from the lessons you’ve learned, whether by serendipity, or – more likely – the hard way.

Evaluation – how well did it work? Case study proposals will be given highest consideration if specific measurements of deployment performance are included, especially when measured in comparison to a control group.

Present Your Lessons Learned

Your case study presentation tells a story – be sure to include the story’s moral. Every predictive analytics initiative provides at least two or three lessons learned. Seek out the strongest and most concise way to state these lessons. Where possibly, make them generally-applicable in that they apply across industries. What turned out to be the greatest challenges regarding the project’s management processes, analytical processes, technical integration and model deployment? What turned out to be the most effective solutions to meet these challenges?

Present Your Analytics Methodology

An alternative to presenting a case study is to illustrate the advantages of a particular analytics methodology. Such presentations must demonstrate the deployed value of the approach, ideally across one or more case studies. The methodology described must be proven as commercially applicable today, as distinct from R&D efforts that show promise or potential for the longer-term.

Tell a Good Story – Attract an Audience

Submit a topic that is clear, focused and appealing – your session title and description is the content that will attract an audience to attend your session.

Restriction for Software Vendors

As a vendor-neutral event, PAW Industry 4.0’s core program is booked exclusively with enterprise practitioners, thought leaders and adopters, with no predictive analytics software vendors speaking or co-presenting. If you represent an analytics software vendor, or a vendor of a software solution designed to support the development or deployment of analytics, regardless of whether the solution itself generates the analytical model or analytical component to be deployed, you are not eligible to submit the speaker proposal form below. As an alternative, you are encouraged to consider PAW sponsor presentations and other sponsorship opportunities, PAW sponsor presentations and other sponsorship opportunities, and to suggest your clients submit a proposal to speak (point them to this web page).

Speaker Responsibilities

Given the speaker benefits above, speaking at PAW Industry 4.0 is considered a valuable opportunity, for which there is great competition. This opportunity entails the significant speaker obligations listed below.

By submitting the speaker proposal form you agree to the following speaker requirements and restrictions:

• Vendor-neutral content.
  Your presentation may contain no “sales pitches” or sales-oriented material. Although positive exposure is generally a natural side-effect of presenting at PAW Industry 4.0, your session must focus entirely (with the exception of a brief, “non-salesy” mention of the software solution employed, if relevant) on substantive content that the audience can implement and benefit from without necessarily buying any particular product or professional service.
• Completed work.
  The work about which you are proposing to speak must be completed, and any pertinent results attained, prior to submitting the speaker submission form.
• Named case study.
  If your submission indicates you have authority to share the name of the organization or department that benefited from the deployment of predictive analytics, you must attain, prior to submitting the speaker submission form, such authorization, both for it to be named within your presentation materials, as well as within PAW Industry 4.0’s event publicity materials and listings. If for any reason the organization subsequently revokes authorization to be named (i.e., “changes its mind”), the session will be cancelled from the PAW program.
• Travel expenses.
  PAW Industry 4.0 does not have a budget to cover speaker travel expenses. Speakers are responsible for their own travel expenses. You certify that you have secured funds (or secured authorization for such funds, where applicable) to fully cover your travel expenses as needed in order to attend the event at which you are proposing to speak.
• Speaker cancellation.
  You certify that you have the means and opportunity to attend and present at the PAW Industry 4.0 event at which you are proposing to speak, and that you have attained any pertinent authorization, such as that of your employer, prior to submitting the speaker submission form. If your submission to speak at PAW Industry 4.0’s is accepted, cancellation subsequent to PAW speaker registration for any non-medical reason is against PAW Industry 4.0’s’s policy and is considered an infraction against meeting your professional obligations. If your submission is accepted, PAW Industry 4.0 will rely on your participation and will turn away qualified speakers in favor of including your session. PAW Industry 4.0 begins publicizing your session immediately upon confirmation in order to attract attendees to the event. If medical conditions preclude your attendance at PAW Industry 4.0, you agree to make best efforts to notify PAW Industry 4.0 as early as possible; in such a case, while assistance finding a replacement speaker is requested and appreciated, PAW Industry 4.0 must screen any prospective replacement speaker, and retains the right to find a replacement speaker on its own.
• Agents and PR staff.
  If the person completing the speaker submission form is not the speaker (e.g., an agent, assistant, or PR staff), you must enter both your email address as well as the speaker’s, as indicated on the submission form. You certify that you are authorized as an agent to submit the speaker proposal form on her or his behalf, and that the speaker has been consulted regarding, and is willing to agree to, the provisions listed here; upon acceptance, the speaker her- or himself will be required to explicitly agree to these provisions via the PAW Industry 4.0 Speaker Agreement.
• Co-presenters.
  If you are an analytics services vendor or consultant co-presenting with a client, per PAW Industry 4.0 policy, the cancellation of your co-presenter will result in the cancellation of your overall session.
• Client co-presenters.
  If you are an analytics services vendor or consultant co-presenting with a client, per PAW policy, the cancellation of your co-presenter will result in the cancellation of your overall session.
• Session length.
  You agree to participate in a speaking slot ranging from 20 to 45 minutes, at the discretion of PAW Industry 4.0, as determined by its conference program constraints and requirements.

Speaker Proposal Form

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