Gartner, Inc. : Media Alert: Gartner Announces Business Intelligence & Analytics Summit 2013

Gartner, Inc.:

When:				March 18-20, 2013
Where:				Gaylord Texan Hotel & Convention Center, Grapevine, Texas
Details:				Today's businesses must find effective and efficient ways to manage the new volume and complexity of information available while deploying leading-edge analytics to produce the new intelligence and insight necessary for the business to succeed in an increasingly competitive environment.
				The Gartner Business Intelligence & Analytics Summit provides in-depth coverage of analytics, BI platforms, and performance management topics, as well as tools and insights designed to help IT and business leaders align with business goals.
				This year's summit features 90 sessions within four major focus areas that cover hot topics in BI platforms, analytics, visualization, social media, cloud, big data, data integration and quality and data warehousing.
Keynotes:			?	Guest Keynote: Nate Silver, Statistician, Founder of The New York Times political blog FiveThirtyEight.com, and Author of The Signal and The Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail - But Some Don't.
				Nate Silver has become today's leading statistician through his innovative analyses of political polling. He first gained national attention during the 2008 presidential election, when he correctly predicted the results of the primaries and the presidential winner in 49 states. Now published in the New York Times, Nate runs the award-winning political website FiveThirtyEight.com, which has made Nate the public face of statistical analysis and political forecasting.
			?	Guest Keynote: Jeff Gibson, Vice President of Consulting, The Table Group
				Jeff Gibson brings over 15 years of consulting experience to The Table Group where he manages their global consulting organization, as well as new business development and all aspects of client service.
			?	Opening Keynote: Fast Forward: New Information. New Challenges. New Solutions: Gartner analysts Ian Bertram, Ted Friedman & Bill Hostmann
			?	The Gartner Magic Quadrant Power Session: Gartner Analysts
			?	2013 BI & Analytics Excellence Awards - Finalist Presentations

The Gartner BI Summit is co-located with the Gartner Master Data Management Summit. Register for both summits and save! Go to www.gartner.com/us/bimdm for more details.

The latest BI tools will be demonstrated by more than 50 companies exhibiting at the conference. A listing of current exhibitors is available on the Exhibitor Directory at: http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/na/business-intelligence/exhibitor-directory.jsp.

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For complete event details, please visit the Gartner Business Intelligence & Analytics Summit web site at www.gartner.com/us/bi.

Members of the media can register for the event by contacting Christy Pettey at [e-mail].

About Gartner

Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the world's leading information technology research and advisory company. Gartner delivers the technology-related insight necessary for its clients to make the right decisions, every day. From CIOs and senior IT leaders in corporations and government agencies, to business leaders in high-tech and telecom enterprises and professional services firms, to technology investors, Gartner is a valuable partner in 12,400 distinct organizations. Through the resources of Gartner Research, Gartner Executive Programs, Gartner Consulting and Gartner Events, Gartner works with every client to research, analyze and interpret the business of IT within the context of their individual role. Founded in 1979, Gartner is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, USA, and has 5,300 associates, including 1,390 research analysts and consultants, and clients in 85 countries. For more information, visit www.gartner.com.

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