Thomas Davenport President's Distinguished Professor, Babson College Author, Competing on Analytics The New Quantitative Era

Sugato Basu Senior Research Scientist Google Lessons Learned in Predictive Modeling for Ad Targeting

Eric Siegel Conference Program Chair Predictive Analytics World Five Ways Predictive Analytics Cuts Enterprise Risk

Andreas S. Weigend weigend.com Former Chief Scientist, Amazon.com The State of the Social Data Revolution

John F. Elder CEO and Founder Elder Research Data Mining Lessons Learned

More Workshops: Decisioning, Methods, Net Lift, Hands-On Intro, Hands-On R, amounting to seven consecutive days of content.

Predictive Analytics World focuses on concrete examples of deployed predictive analytics. Hear from the horse's mouth precisely how Fortune 500 analytics competitors and other top practitioners deploy predictive modeling, and what kind of business impact it delivers. Click here to view the agenda at-a-glance.

PAW SF 2011 will feature over 40 sessions with case studies from leading enterprises such as:

• Bank of America
• Bank of the West
• CA State Automobile Association
• Cerebellum Capital
• Chessmetrics
• Eventbrite
• Fidelity
• Fiserv
• Google
• Heritage Provider Network
• Hewlett-Packard
• Orbitz
• PayPal / eBay - e-Commerce and Thought Leadership
• PayPal / eBay - Ensembles and Fraud Detection
• Sirius XM Radio
• Sovereign Bank
• TXU Energy
• U. of Melbourne
• USPS Office of Inspector General
• Varolii
• YMCA
• A major N. American telecom
• Plus insights from projects for Anheuser-Busch, SSA, Netflix

PAW's March agenda covers hot topics and advanced methods such as uplift (net lift) modeling, ensemble models, social data (6 sessions), search marketing, crowdsourcing, blackbox trading, fraud detection, risk management, survey analysis and other innovative applications that benefit organizations in new and creative ways.

Free user group meetings at PAW, Monday March 14, 7:30pm-10:00pm: useR Group Meeting and Bay Area SAS Users Group Meeting. Admission to these meetings, as well as the PAW reception just beforehand at 6:10pm, is open to the public.

Join PAW and access the best keynotes, sessions, workshops, exposition, expert panel, live demos, networking coffee breaks, reception, birds-of-a-feather lunches, brand-name enterprise leaders, and industry heavyweights in the business.