Agenda and Details for the Atlanta RM BI Forum 2013

Well, Brighton is now a wrap and we're all now over in Atlanta, getting ready for the second leg of the 2013 Rittman Mead BI Forum, running from this Wednesday, 15th May 2013 through to Friday, 17th May. Photos from the Brighton event are up on Flickr now, but for anyone who's coming down to the Georgia Tech Hotel & Conference Center for later this week, this posting contains the detailed agenda for the event, along with a preview of what's coming in terms of social events, guest speakers and the masterclass.

Wednesday starts with the optional one-day masterclass, this year on Oracle Data Integration and led by myself, Stewart Bryson and Michael Rainey. I previewed the data integration masterclass previously on the blog, and the planned timetable for the masterclass looks like this:

Day 1 : Optional Oracle Data Integration Masterclass, followed by Registration, Drinks and Keynote/Meal

10.00 – 11.00 : Welcome, and Introduction to Oracle Data Integrator 11g (Stewart Bryson)
11.00 – 11.15 : Morning Coffee
11.15 – 11.45 : ODI and the Oracle Reference Architecture for Information Management (Stewart Bryson)
11.45 – 12.45 : ODI and GoldenGate – A Perfect Match… (Michael Rainey)
12.45 – 13.30 : Lunch
13.30 – 14.30 : ODI and Hadoop, MapReduce and Big Data Sources (Mark Rittman)
14.30 – 15.30 : The Three R’s of ODI Fault Tolerance : Resuming, Restarting and Restoring (Stewart Bryson)
15.30 – 16.30 : Scripting and Automating ODI using Groovy and the ODI SDK (Michael Rainey)

The event itself officially opens at 4pm on Wednesday, May 15th 2013 with registration taking place then, and a drinks reception in the hotel bar from 5pm to 6pm. At 6pm we have the Oracle keynote led by Jack Berkowitz and Philippe Lions, and then an informal meal in the hotel restaurant from 7pm - 10pm.

The main conference then opens at 8am on the Thursday morning, with registration open from 8am - 8.45am, opening remarks from myself at 8.45am and the first session starting at 9am. Here's the timetable as planned for Thursday:

Day 2 : Main Conference Sessions, Guest Speaker and Gala Meal

8.45am – 9.00am : Opening Remarks Mark Rittman, Rittman Mead
9.00am - 10.am : Rene Kuipers, VX Company, "It's all in the genes - The power of Oracle Exadata and the Oracle Database"
10.00am - 10.30am : Morning coffee
10.30am - 11.30am : Jack Berkowitz, Oracle : "OBI Presentation, Interaction and Mobility"
11.30am - 12.30am : Venkatakrishnan J, Rittman Mead, "In Memory Analytics - Times Ten, Essbase 11.1.2.2 - Analysis - A Comparison"
12.30pm - 1.15pm : Lunch
1.15pm - 1.30pm : TED Session 1 : Kevin McGinley - "OBIEE and OEID: What if…?"
1.30pm - 1.45pm : TED Session 2 : Jon Mead, Rittman Mead, "Why I want to be working with Business Intelligence in 5 years time"
1.45pm - 2.00pm : TED Session 3 : Jeremy Harms - "A BI Publisher Beginner's MacGyver-Hack for Financial Reporting with OBIEE: A Quickie!"
2.15pm - 3.15pm : Alan Lee, Oracle, "Update on BI Metadata Architecture and Design Tool"
3.15pm - 3.45pm : Afternoon coffee and beers
3.45pm - 4.45pm : Jeff McQuigg, KPI Partners Inc, "Performance Tuning the BI Apps with a Performance Layer"

After the first day’s presentations we’ll take a short break, and then convene again back in the conference room at 5pm for our special guest speaker session, this year being provided by Method R's Cary Millsap, who many of you will know from his Optimizing Oracle Performance book and his "response time" approach to performance tuning. Just after Cary's session at around 6.30pm we'll then be taken by coach to "4th and Swift", the venue for the gala meal, where we'll be from around 7pm through to around 10pm.