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The BIWA Summit speaker line-up has been announced. Check here for the complete list . Here is the list of the four solid keynote speakers: Balaji Yelamnchili Tom Kyte Vaishnavi Sashikanth and Ari Kaplan (a noted Sports Analyst of Major League Baseball fame) The sessions are divided in the following Tracks: BI  (OBIEE, Visualization, Mobile BI, BIP etc.) DW (Data Warehousing, Data Integration and Spatial Intelligence Big Data with Analytics (Concepts of Hadoop, Oracle Big Data Appliance) Advanced Analytics (Oracle Data Mining, Oracle R Enterprise, Spend Classification etc.) and Enterprise Performance Management (Essbase, Hyperion Planning/HFM Infrastructure etc.)  Hands-on Labs on topics like OBIEE, Exalytics, BIP, OLAP, ODM, ORE, Essbase etc. See the detailed list of sessions here  http://www.biwasummit.com/schedule/sessions These sessions will be over two days on Jan 9-10. If you have not registered yet, click here to confirm your seat today.

This post will give you a sneak peak in to the content that you should expect at BIWA Summit Jan 9-10, 2013 at Hotel Sofitel, Redwood City, CA. This place is within walking distance from Oracle Head Quarters and the cylinder (DB) shaped buildings. The BIWA Summit kicks off with the Welcome reception on Tue night at Hotel Sofitel. Next morning, Tom Kyte will kick-off the event with his keynote. Expect a total of 4 BI and related Keynotes, about 8 Hands-on Labs and several sessions spanning tracks like BI, DW, Big Data, Advanced Analytics and EPM. There is also a sub-track on Spatial Analytics. Here are the keynotes: Day 1 Tom Kyte - What's new from Oracle in BI and Data Warehousing           Balaji Yelamanchili - Fast and Furious : A Sneak Peak into the Future of Oracle BI Day 2 Vaishnavi Sashikanth - Making Big Data Analytics Accessible            Ari Kaplan - Sports Analytics in Action The featured talks include: Mark Rittman, Rittman Mead - Big Data at the Speed of

The BIWA Summit Jan 9-10, 2013 registration opened last week. Take a look at the BIWA Summit website here . Registration starts at $299 for IOUG members ($349 for non-members). To make the most of the event, plan to stay at Hotel Sofitel where the event will take place. This will allow you to take full advantage of the off-hour events and networking with Professionals from North America and other countries like UK, Belgium and so on... Here I would like to quote a few pointers from Tom Singer's article recently published in a magazine. Tom is a "Network Catalyst" who I met in a CIO event a few years ago... His 10 Tips to maximize the Conference-Networking experience go as follows: 1) Create a Plan - Have a game-plan ahead of time about what kind of people you want to meet and get to know. If for e.g. I am working on an OLAP project, I would perhaps like to meet experts like Dan Vlamis, who is one of the top experts. I may look for some customers who recently implemen