Predictive Analytics World
Chicago 2017 Sponsors

Gold Sponsor

Teradata helps companies get more value from data than any other company. Our big data analytic solutions and team of experts can help your company gain a sustainable competitive advantage with data. Teradata helps organizations leverage all of their data so they can know more about their customers and business and do more of what’s really important. With approximately 10,000 professionals in 43 countries, Teradata serves top companies across consumer goods, financial services, healthcare, automotive, communications, travel, hospitality, and more. A future-focused company, Teradata is recognized by media and industry analysts for technological excellence, sustainability, ethics, and business value. Visit teradata.com.

Silver Sponsors

APQC helps organizations work smarter, faster, and with greater confidence. It is the world's foremost authority in benchmarking, best practices, process and performance improvement, and knowledge management. APQC's unique structure as a member-based nonprofit makes it a differentiator in the marketplace. APQC partners with more than 500 member organizations worldwide in all industries. With more than 40 years of experience, APQC remains the world's leader in transforming organizations.

Our data and analytics research will arm you with the tools, techniques, and strategies to help you understand and benefit from this rapidly-growing business movement. Use our best practice research to assist you in establishing analytics capabilities, outlining the value proposition for analytics, addressing the change management issues associated with establishing analytics in your organization, and more. Learn more at www.apqc.org/analytics.

Clockwork Solutions helps enterprises that depend on capital intensive strategic assets manage the real-world challenges of assuring asset availability while controlling the costs associated with maintenance. We have over 30 years of experience providing high-fidelity and actionable predictive analytics solutions for Condition Based Maintenance, Predictive Health Maintenance, Lifecycle Management, Performance Based Logistics, along with Data Management & Quality.

Unlike generic Business Intelligence or Analytics tools, Clockwork's Advanced Analytics Platform is architected specifically to address the unique challenges surrounding complex physical assets. We leverage historical usage and maintenance data along with real-time sensor data (IoT) to develop a digital twin of your asset. We can then apply a rich set of predictive analytic tools such as Machine Learning, Discrete Event Simulation and Neural Networking to determine optimal outcomes. This includes flexible What-if scenario editors to test hypotheses and visualization tools.

Clockwork delivers a unique blend of industry experience combined with a purpose-built predictive analytics platform.

DataRobot offers a machine learning platform for data scientists of all skill levels to build and deploy accurate predictive models in a fraction of the time it used to take. The technology addresses the critical shortage of data scientists by changing the speed and economics of predictive analytics.

The DataRobot platform uses massively parallel processing to train and evaluate 1000's of models in R, Python, Spark MLlib, H2O and other open source libraries. It searches through millions of possible combinations of algorithms, pre-processing steps, features, transformations and tuning parameters to deliver the best models for your dataset and prediction target.

Havi is a global, privately owned company focused on innovating, optimizing and managing the supply chains of leading brands. Offering services in marketing analytics, supply chain management, packaging, logistics and recycling and waste, HAVI partners with companies to address challenges big and small across the supply chain, from commodity to customer. Founded in 1974, HAVI employs more than 10,000 people and serves customers in more than 100 countries. HAVI’s supply chain services are complemented by the customer engagement services offered by affiliated company The Marketing Store. For more information, please visit HAVI.com.

UCI Division of Continuing Education offers online certificate programs and courses in Predictive Analytics, Data Science, Big Data and Python. Our programs were developed in partnership with Predictive Analytics World and are taught by industry professionals. The Predictive Analytics curriculum focuses on developing a comprehensive understanding of the creation and utilization of models by defining business goals, preparing data, developing and verifying a model, then deploying and refining it. The Data Science program includes skills development in data design, management and manipulation with a focus on large SQL and NoSQL databases. For more information, please visit ce.uci.edu.

Bronze Sponsor

Northwestern's online MS in Predictive Analytics is one of the first graduate programs dedicated to training in data science. Taught by industry leaders, the program offers a wide range of electives, including sports analytics, marketing analytics, and risk analytics that enable students to customize the curriculum to meet their professional goals. Find out more.

Media Partners

Data Science Central (DSC) is the online resource for Big Data Practitioners / Data Scientists. Featuring news, commentary, and social networking, DSC covers analytics, visualization, integration, BI, tools and trends, and also provides an outlet for career opportunities including talent sourcing. For general questions/comments and advertising/sponsorship opportunities please email: .

KDnuggets, a leading site for Analytics, Big Data, Data Science, and Data Mining.

The Predictive Analytics Times has become the destination for the constantly evolving Predictive Analytics community.

This site is the predictive analytics professionals' premier resource, delivering timely, relevant industry-leading content: articles, videos, events, white papers, and community. The only full-scale content portal devoted exclusively to predictive analytics and its commercial deployment, the Predictive Analytics Times has become a standard must-read.

Statistics.com is the leading provider of online education in statistics, analytics, data mining, text mining, forecasting, analytics programming in R, Python and Hadoop, biostatistics, spatial analytics, operations research and more. 100 courses, fully online, each consisting of 4 weekly lessons. No need to be online at specific times. Led by leading experts and authorities. Practical exercises with rapid feedback. Data science courses and introductory statistics carry the American Council on Education (ACE CREDIT) approval for academic credit recommendation, and INFORMS recognition. Certificate programs plus bachelors degree. Where practicing and aspiring analytics professionals turn to learn what they need to know.

Association Partner

The DAA is a not-for-profit, volunteer-powered association that helps members like Adobe, Expedia SAS and Yahoo! become more valuable through education, community, research and advocacy. The DAA was founded as the Web Analytics Association in 2004. The organization has more than 2000 members worldwide, representing forty countries and a broad spectrum of expertise. For more information about the DAA, or to become a member, visit the DAA website at: www.digitalanalyticsassociation.org.