The other TDWI Boston chapter officers and I hope you will be able to carve out some time and attend one or more of our chapter meetings. To help you with your planning we have been able to lock in dates for all four of our upcoming chapter meetings as well as recruit top-level keynote-quality presenters for our meetings.

We are therefore happy to present to you our upcoming schedule for the TDWI Boston chapter (networking/lunch at 12noon, as usual). I'll post reminders and registration links before each event, or visit the Boston chapter page to sign up.

Thursday, March 12, 1pm – 5pm:

Boris Evelson, Forrester Research
Boris is VP & Principal Analyst leading Forrester’s research in business intelligence. He is a sought-after keynote speaker and will provide his insight into the future of BI.

Richard Sherman, Athena IT Solutions
“BI & Analytic Trends of 2015 – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”
Rick has 25+ years of business intelligence, analytics, data integration and data warehousing experience. Rick is a consultant, instructor, adjunct professor & author of “Business Intelligence Guidebook – From Data Integration to Analytics.”

Thursday, June 18, 1pm – 5pm:

Donald Farmer, QlikView
Donald is one of the premier BI visionaries/evangelists in the US. He was the face of Microsoft BI for ten years and is now a BI visionary for QlikView and beyond. If you’re into BI then get inspired by Donald Farmer’s take on BI

Michele Goetz, Forrester Research
Michele is an expert on data management and artificial intelligence. Hear her reflect on data management and taxonomy

Panel or Customer Success Story

Tuesday, September 15, 1pm – 5pm:

Mark Madsen, Third Nature
Mark is a consultant for analytics systems and emerging technologies. He regularly speaks at TDWI and other BI conferences. His talks always manage to combine the informative and whimsical in such a way that even the most expert BI practitioner learns something new and unexpected

TBD Presentation

Panel or Customer Success Story

Thursday, December 3, 1pm – 5pm:

Gartner Research, VP & Distinguished Analyst, TBD
Focused on enterprise information management, governance, implications of the Internet of Things, data integration & data quality

Barbara Wixom, MIT (Tentative)
Barbara is Principal Research Scientist for MIT Sloan’s Center for Information Systems Research (CISR).

Panel or Customer Success Story