Unlocking the Value of Business Intelligence:
Keys to Maximizing Business Performance

May 10, 2006
Metropolitan Club, Sears Tower, Chicago, IL

Keith V. Collins, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, SAS

Keith Collins, senior vice president and chief technology officer at SAS, promotes corporate technology strategy and supports the efforts of the nearly 1,800-person global research and development, customer support and corporate information systems divisions to achieve that vision. With a primary focus on customer- and partner-facing activities, Collins fosters close working relationships with marketing and other customer-facing divisions to ensure that SAS technologies are aligned with customer needs and market demand.

Collins fosters an innovation-driven R&D culture, harvesting ideas from unexpected sources. He encourages development teams to build lasting relationships with customers that not only solve the customers' problems but also create new marketplace solutions.

A graduate of North Carolina State University with a bachelor's degree in computer science, Collins is a devoted supporter of the university. He helped establish the university’s Center for Knowledge Discovery, coordinated the funding of the SAS Distinguished Professor of Computer Science chair, and recruited a top faculty member from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to fill the position. He is also the chair and founding member of the strategic advisory board of the department of computer science. In 2003 the university named him a Distinguished Engineering Alumnus.

Thomas Davenport, President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management, Babson College

Thomas Davenport is the President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, the Director of Research for the School of Executive Education, and the Academic Director of Babson research centers dealing with knowledge and learning, process management, and innovation. He is the former Director and current Fellow of Accenture's Institute for High Performance Business. He is the author or co-author of eleven books, including his latest book, Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performance and Results from Knowledge Workers. Davenport is also a frequent contributor to leading business journals. His most recent article, "Competing on Analytics," appeared in the January 2006 issue of Harvard Business Review. In January of 2007, Harvard Business School Press will publish Davenport's newest book on this same topic.

Bill Hostmann, featured Research Vice President, Gartner

Bill Hostmann is a research vice-president in Gartner Research, where he focuses on business intelligence. Mr. Hostmann has worked for more than 15 years in the enterprise software market. He has held the position of Product Line General Manager for Informix Database and Internet Server product lines and, most recently, he was at Informatica Corporation. Mr. Hostmann holds a B.S., highest honors, in Electrical Engineering from the University of Portland, M.S., in Computer Science and Engineering from Oregon Graduate Institute and an M.B.A. from the University of Oregon.

Gregory McMillan, Senior Manager, IT Systems, Ford Motor Company

Greg McMillan is a Senior IT Manager for Ford Motor Company, and founder of their center-of-excellence in Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. Greg has over 25 years of application development experience in five companies, and has lead development of numerous enterprise business intelligence and e-business applications for Ford. Greg developed and executed the Ford Global Enterprise Strategy for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, including Technology Architecture, Data Architecture, Process Architecture and Community Architecture. Greg has published several articles for DMReview, has presented eBusiness topics at the Oracle International Users Conference, and business intelligence/data warehousing topics for The Data Warehouse Institute, ComputerWorld, DCI Seminars, Brainstorms Business Integration Series of Seminars, the Institute for International Research in Spain, and has lectured at numerous major vendor gatherings.

Ron Milton, Executive Vice President, Computerworld

Ron manages the events business and strategic business programs for IT executive titles in storage networking, mobile and wireless, data center and business intelligence market sectors. Milton leads the team responsible for creating content, sponsor sales, operations, marketing and audience development for all of Computerworld's events, such as brands like Premier 100 IT Leaders, Storage Networking World, Mobile & Wireless World, Business Intelligence Perspectives and IT Executive Summit Series. He has 20+ years of experience in information technology, serving in both vendor and information services management positions. Before his current role at IDG, Ron was Senior Vice President of CXO Media and General Manager of CIO Magazine's Executive Program Divisions.

Prior to joining Computerworld in 1999, he was President and CEO of IDG's Internet Commerce (ICE) business unit, which he founded in 1996 as a start-up business, and was a pioneer in using e-commerce systems and web marketing. He was a 1996 recipient of the coveted IDG Chairman's Award for the most successful start-up business globally. Before joining IDG, Milton spent five years as Vice President/Partner of GLA computer Systems, a software developer and channel integrator with market share leadership in wholesale travel solutions. Prior to GLA, he also held a variety of management positions in channel management, field sales and marketing at Honeywell Information Systems and Bull HN. He holds degrees from Concordia University and Sir George Williams University.

Danny Siegel, Director, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence, Pfizer Human Health Information Technology

Mr. Siegel has been leading and managing enterprise scale projects in both transactional and decision support systems for more than 14 years. His experience in Data Warehousing, Data Integration, and Business Intelligence spans a number of leadership roles at such firms as PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Gateway, Inc., Science Applications International Corporation, and The Insight Group, Inc. Currently, Mr. Siegel is in a technology leadership role with the worlds leading pharmaceutical firm Pfizer, Inc., where he is responsible for leading and delivering data integration and business intelligence programs globally. To date, his innovative contributions to the financial management function have transformed the way Pfizer collects, organizes, and reports financial information both internally and externally.