6th Annual Higher Education Data Warehousing Conference
Preliminary Agenda (Subject to Change)

Indiana Memorial Union, Indiana Univ., April 26-28, 2009 (Last updated 04/22/2009)

April 26, 2009 (Sunday)
7:00 am to 6:00 pm East Lounge Registration and Host Desk
7:30 am to 8:30 am Frangipani Breakfast for Pre-Conference Training Participants
8:30 am to 12:00 pm Frangipani Pre-Conference Training: Data Warehouse/BI Lifecycle Overview
Warren Thornthwaite
10:00 am to 9:00 pm Solarium Vendor Pavilion
noon to 1:00 pm Alumni Hall Lunch for Pre-Conference Training Participants
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm Frangipani Pre-Conference Training: Data Warehouse/BI Lifecycle Overview
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm Alumni Hall Registration and Host Desk
6:30 pm to 9:00 pm Alumni Hall and Solarium Reception and Vendor Pavilion
7:00 pm Alumni Hall Welcome Address

April 27 (Monday)
7:00 am to 6:00 pm Whittenberger Registration and Host Desk
7:00 am to 8:00 am Alumni Hall Continental Breakfast
8:00 am to 9:00 am Whittenberger HEDW Keynote Address - John Milam, HigherEd.org
Break-out Sessions Whittenberger Frangipani Georgian
9:15 am to 10:15 am Designing Dashboards to Die For, John Rome, Arizona State Univ. Using a Factless Fact and Bridge tables to model effective dated HR data, Sherri Woolard, Washington Univ. in St. Louis Keeping Up or Keeping Ahead, Michael Wonderlich, Univ. of Illinois
10:30 am to 11:30 am Implementing a Data Warehouse at Drexel University, Insiyah Jamal, Drexel Univ. Using a Data Warehouse to Audit a Transactional System, Michael Glasser, UMBC What I Get/Wish I Could Get from the Warehouse: The View from Institutional Research, Emily Thomas, Stony Brook Univ; Linda Lorenz, Univ of Minnesota Twin Cities; Ed Schaefer, DePaul Univ; Linda Sullivan, Univ of Central Florida; Daryl Wright, Northern Kentucky Univ
11:30 am to 12:45 pm Alumni Hall Lunch
Break-out Sessions Whittenberger Frangipani Georgian
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Creating and Maintaining Cross Functional Data Marts, Ted Bross, Princeton Univ.; (Panelists - TBA) Packaging data to ease operational pain: a case study for payroll reconciliation, Mark Pollard, Univ. of Illinois Challenges of an Expansive Business Intelligence Project, Helen Ernst, State University of New York; Dan Brint, SUNY ITEC
2:15 pm to 3:15 pm From Data Model to Loaded Tables: Approach and Learnings, Joseph Kerr, Univ. at Buffalo DAC! SMAT! GO! Or "A Solution to Implementing Data Security Standards", Anja Canfield-Budde, Univ. of Washington Connecting Data, Richard Howard & Linda Lorenz, Univ. of Minnesota; Gerald McLaughlin, Depaul Univ.
3:15 pm to 3:45 pm Afternoon Break (in Break-out Session rooms)
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm MDM, Metadata, and BI: What do we mean and how do they relate?, Tim Wilson, Univ. of Notre Dame Building for Analytics: Critical Success Factors, Joanne Wilhelm, Indiana Univ.; John Rome, Arizona State Univ.; Jim Singleton, Cornell Univ.; Jeff Stark, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Can a Wiki Be Used to Define Data in a Data Warehouse?, Daniel Riehs, Boston College
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm Whittenberger HEDW Business Meeting
6:00 pm to 10:00 pm Walking Wounded (Bird-of-a-Feather Dinners - Bloomington Restaurants)


April 28 (Tuesday)
7:00 am to 4:00 pm Whittenberger Registration and Host Desk
7:00 am to 8:00 am Alumni Hall Continental Breakfast
Break-out Sessions Whittenberger Frangipani Georgian
8:00 am to 9:00 am Three Elements for Successful Reporting at Virginia Tech, Alan Moeller, Virginia Tech Dimensional Modeling Workshop - Art or Science (Part 1), Ora Fish & Jeff Stark, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Reviewing a Successful Data Warehouse Change Management Program, Jennifer Selk & Michael Wonderlich, Univ. of Illinois
9:15 am to 10:15 am Building BI Blueprints with Visio, Push-Pins, and String, Aaron Walz & Beth Ladd, Univ. of Illinois Dimensional Modeling Workshop - Art or Science (Part 2), Ora Fish & Jeff Stark, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Data Warehousing and Changed Data Capture (CDC), Madan Dorairaj & Brian Long, Princeton Univ.
10:30 am to 11:30 am Getting It Right: Successfully Deploying an Enterprise Reporting Environment, Kathy Luker, Univ. of Wisconsin Dimensional Modeling Workshop - Art or Science (Part 3), Ora Fish & Jeff Stark, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Vendor Relations - Achieving the Win-Win, Scott Wiggans, Univ. of Denver
11:30 am to 12:45 pm Alumni Hall Lunch
Break-out Sessions Whittenberger Frangipani Georgian
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Technical "lightning talks", Mike Deutsch, McGill Univ.; Helen Ernst, State University of New York; Madan Dorairaj, Princeton Univ.; Ian Wall, Harvard Univ.; Vicky Shaffer, Virginia Tech Biting the Serpents Tail: How to Turn Assessment into Improvement, Frank McCluskey, Dave Becher, Melanie Winter, Liz Wallace, American Public University System A First Look at Data Warehousing Kuali Financial System Data, Dylan Cooper, Univ. of Arizona
2:15 pm to 3:15 pm Business Intelligence for $7 A Day, Doug Price, Miami Univ. End-to-End Business Intelligence Solution using Microsoft and IStrategy, Kim Berlin, Stony Brook Univ. A Data Warehouse Implementation Experience with OBIEE for Institutional Research, Banu Solak, Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst