John Elder
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John Elder leads Elder Research (www.datamininglab.com), America’s largest and most experienced data mining consultancy. Founded in 1995, and with offices in Charlottesville, VA and Washington, D.C., Elder Research has solved projects in a huge variety of areas of mining data, text, and links. John has co-authored three books on practical data mining, ensembles, and text mining; two won PROSE awards for top book in mathematics or computer science. In addition to being the author of data mining tools, a discoverer of ensemble methods, the chair of international conferences, and a popular keynote speaker, John is best known for explaining complex analytic
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Greta Roberts
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Greta Roberts’ early career was spent selling software for world-class innovators like Lotus, Netscape, Webline, and Cisco Systems. In this role, it was easy to measure who performed well and who struggled, and clear that some sales reps “just did better” than others - naturally. It seemed it could be incredibly useful to businesses to measure the “it factor,” making certain roles easy for some vs. others. In researching available solutions, there seemed to be consumer tools measuring “personality”, and business solutions tracking hire date, pay scale, etc., “but no business solution measuring people traits in a way that could be useful and, predictive of business performance.” This led Gret
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Eric Siegel, Ph.D.
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Eric Siegel, Ph.D., founder of Predictive Analytics World and Text Analytics World, and Executive Editor of the Predictive Analytics Times, makes the how and why of predictive analytics understandable and captivating. In addition to being the author of Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die, Eric is a former Columbia University professor who sang to his students, and a renowned speaker, educator, and leader in the field. He has appeared on Bloomberg TV and Radio, Fox News, BNN (Canada), Israel National Radio, Radio National (Australia), The Street, Newsmax TV, and NPR affiliates. Eric and his book have been featured in Businessweek, CBS MoneyWatch, The Fi
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Henner Schliebs
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Henner Schliebs is a Director for Solution Marketing at SAP. With over 10 years of analytics experience, he is responsible for driving the adoption of Analytics Solutions from SAP portfolio across all departments (outside of IT), tearing down silos. His credo for 2013: "Everybody should be an analyst – and everybody should have the chance to make better decisions through Analytics." Henner has held various roles in the analytics area with several software vendors, including consulting and presales across all industries as well as roles in management consulting.
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