RMOUG 2011 - BI & EPM Panel
This was my second year at RMOUG where I had two sessions, namely: 1) BI EPM Panel on March 16 and 2) A talk "Competing on Appliances" on Mar 17. While for a talk you have to write a white paper and submit your presentation deck, a Panel requires gathering a group of people with experience and eminence in the related space. For the BI (DW) and EPM Panel, I was able to get in touch with the below and get them excited about the event: Robyn Sands fro Cisco, Faun deHenry from FMT Systems, Stewart Bryson from Rittman Mead and Tim Gorman from Evergreen Database Tech While some of the Panelists knew each other, some were meeting for the first time. The biggest challenge is to make sure that we present a coherent story to the audience, specially if it is not a well-rehearsed session. Given, all the last minute conference related items (like travel for one!), it is rarely possible to be able to rehearse in advance. So this leads to a challenge to manage the Panel in real time an...