PAW NYC agenda highlights include:

Thomas Davenport Author,Competing on Analytics

Eric Siegel, Ph.D Program Chair, Predictive Analytics World

Usama Fayyad, Ph.D CEO, Open Insights

John F. Elder IV, Ph.D Chief Scientist, Elder Research

• Keynotes from Tom Davenport, President's Distinguished Professor, Babson College, Author, Competing on Analytics and Eric Siegel, Conference Program Chair, Predictive Analytics World
• Special plenary sessions from industry heavyweights, Usama Fayyad, Ph.D., CEO, Open Insights and John F. Elder, Ph. D., CEO and Founder, Elder Research
• Release of the 5th Annual Data Miner Survey conducted by Rexer Analytics
• Full day workshops that cover the topics of Intro to Predictive Analytics, Hands-On Business Analytics, User-Friendly Apps,Enterprise Decisioning, Core Methods, Hands-On Predictive,Analytics with SAS, R Bootcamp and R for Predictive Modeling
• Topics covering black box trading, churn modeling, crowdsourcing, demand forecasting, ensemble models, fraud detection, healthcare, insurance applications, law enforcement, litigation, market mix modeling, mobile analytics, online marketing, risk management, social data, supply chain management, targeting direct marketing, uplift modeling (net lift), and other innovative applications that benefit organizations in new and creative ways.

New Financial Services Track — You Asked and We Delivered 

October’s event will include a new conference track of sessions dedicated to the Financial Services industry. This track will feature something for users of all levels, whether you’re deploying your first initiative or learning new ways to position analytics within your organization. 

Text Analytics World, co-located with PAW NYC, complements PAW's agenda with reasonable cross-registration options. Text Analytics World covers the spectrum of text analytics business applications including voice-of-the-customer analytics, decision support, sentiment analysis, financial indicators from social media, application processing, knowledge extraction, semantic web, survey analysis, fraud detection, topic discovery, document filtering and document summarization.