One Day to the Brighton Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015 - Here's the Agenda!

It’s the night before the Brighton Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015, and some delegates are already here ready for the masterclass tomorrow. Everyone else will either be arriving later in the day for the drinks reception, Oracle Keynote and dinner, or getting here early Thursday morning ready for the event proper. Safe travels for everyone coming down to Brighton, the official Twitter hashtag for the event is #biforum2015, and in the meantime here’s the final agenda for this week’s event:

Rittman Mead BI Forum 2015
Hotel Seattle, Brighton, UK 

Wednesday 6th May 2015

• 10.00 - 10.00 Registration for Masterclass attendees
• 10.30 - 12.30 Masterclass Part 1
• 13.00 - 13.30 Lunch
• 13.30 - 16.30 Masterclass Part 2
• 18.00 - 19.00 Drinks Reception in Hotel Seattle Bar
• 19.00 - 20.00 Oracle Keynote - Nick Tuson & Philippe Lions
• 20.00 - 22.00 Dinner at Hotel Seattle

Thursday 7th May 2015

• 08.45 - 09.00 Welcome and Opening Comments
• 09.00 - 09.45 Steve Devine (Independent) - The Art and Science of Creating Effective Data Visualisations
• 09.45 - 10.30 Chris Royles (Oracle Corporation) - Big Data Discovery
• 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee
• 11.00 - 11.45 Christian Screen (Sierra-Cedar) - 10 Tenets for Making Your Oracle BI Applications Project Succeed Like a Boss
• 11.45 - 12.30 Philippe Lions and Nick Tuson (Oracle Corporation) Looking Ahead to Oracle BI 12c and Visual Analyzer
• 12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
• 13.30 - 14.30 Day 1 Debate - "Self-Service BI - The Answer to Users’ Prayers, or the Path to Madness?"
• 14.30 - 15.15 Emiel van Bockel (CB) Watch and see 12c on Exalytics
• 15.15 - 15.45 Coffee
• 15.45 - 16.30 Philippe Lions (Oracle Corporation) - Solid Standing for Analytics in the Cloud
• 16.30 - 17.15 Manuel Martin Marquez (C.E.R.N.) - Governed Information Discovery: Data-driven decisions for more efficient operations at CERN
• 18.00 - 18.45 Guest Speaker/Keynote - Reiner Zimmermann (Oracle Corporation) - Hadoop or not Hadoop …. this is the question
• 19.00 - 20.00 Depart for dinner at restaurant
• 20.00 - 22.00 Dinner at external venue

Friday 8th May 2015

• 09.00 - 09.45 Daniel Adams (Rittman Mead) User Experience First: Guided information and attractive dashboard design
• 09.45 - 10.30 André Lopes (Liberty Global) A Journey into Big Data and Analytics
• 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee 
• 11.00 - 11.45 Antony Heljula (Peak Indicators) - Predictive BI - Using the Past to Predict the Future
• 11.45 - 12.30 Robin Moffatt (Rittman Mead) Data Discovery and Systems Diagnostics with the ELK stack
• 12.30 - 13.00 Short Lunch
• 13.00 - 14.00 Data Visualization Bake-off
• 14.00 - 14.45 Gerd Aiglstorfer (G.A. itbs GmbH) Driving OBIEE Join Semantics on Multi Star Queries as User
• 14.45 - 15.00 Closing Remarks, and Best Speaker Award

See you all at the Hotel Seattle, Brighton, tomorrow!