Dashboarding for Peak
University Performance

Date

26 to 27 February 2013

Time

9am to 5.30pm

Location

East Midlands Conference Centre
University Park
Nottingham NG7 2RJ

Cost

Free

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Is this for you?

The conference should provide a great experience for delegates whose role relates to monitoring and reporting on University performance.

Those with responsibility for driving and assessing strategy delivery – Registrars, CFOs, CIOs and Directors of Strategy and Planning
Anyone with responsibility for performance reporting in key functions: Research, finance, recruitment, student experience, planning, or overall Business Intelligence (BI) systems
BI and Management Information Report Authors
Data Warehousing Specialists

Highlights

Dashboards for Peak Performance

Case studies of innovative, high-impact University performance dashboards, high-power student forecasting, and roundtables on key metrics and financial sustainability.

IBM Cognos Statement of Direction

An insightful view into the IBM Cognos vision and direction, investment areas, concepts of things 'in the labs', as well as market shifts and moves that will have impacts on product direction.

Visualising Data Workshop

Stay over for a half-day workshop on compact and contemporary data visualisation design with Andy Kirk, a leading data visualisation architect.

Simpson Associates

Conference essentials

Programme

Optional workshop

Andy Kirk will be running a Data Visualisation workshop on Wednesday 27 February.

This optional half-day 2nd workshop is £150.

The workshop is limited to 25 people, so register now to avoid disappointment.

Workshop details

Keynote speakers

John Simpson

Founding Director
Simpson Associates

Simpson Associates is one of the longest established Information Management specialists in the UK and have supported a number of UK universities in developing data warehousing and performance dashboards, including Cambridge, Derby, Exeter, Glamorgan, the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent, Reading, Sheffield Hallam and Warwick.

David Stephenson

Technical Manager
IBM UK

David will provide an insightful view into the IBM Cognos vision and direction, investment areas, concepts of things 'in the labs', as well as market shifts and moves that will have impacts on product direction.

John Rome

Deputy Chief Information Officer and Business Intelligence Strategist
Arizona State University

John is a pioneer of Data Warehousing in Higher Education, building ASU's 1st data warehouse around 1995. He has coached Higher Ed institutions and industry on how to build data warehouses, best practices and the strategic importance of BI. For the last 5 years he has focused on dashboard design and academic analytics.

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Andy Kirk

Director
Visualising Data Ltd

Andy Kirk is a UK-based freelance data visualisation architect, consultant, training provider, author and editor of the website visualisingdata.com. He provides insights into the contemporary techniques, resources, applications and best practices in data visualisation to the hundreds of specialists who attend his trainings and seminars. Some of his most recent clients include Microsoft, Disney, Intel and McKinsey.