Educational Opportunities
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We want you to leave the Extend 2010 conference with a working knowledge of the suite of geographic business technology tools. By providing you with a variety of educational opportunities at the conference, you will return to your organization with a new understanding of how to solve your unique business problems.
Below is a highlight of the educational opportunities and working sessions available to all conference attendees.
Developer Summit
This summit will be held in The Solutions Center and will be hosted by SRC's technology experts, including SRC's Chief Technology Officer, Chief Web Services Architect, Software and Product Developers, Product Managers, ETL Engineers and Business Solutions Experts from the SRC Customer Advantage Group.
This summit is designed to bring Alteryx developers and users together for in-depth discussions about building, deploying and automating best practices with geographic business intelligence technology. This summit will provide informal Q&A sessions throughout the event. For extended learning and support, all attendees can schedule one-on-one appointments with any of the SRC technology experts in The Solutions Center throughout the conference.
Solutions Center
The Solutions Center is for all conference attendees who have technical questions pertaining to their vertical industry, company, or business problems. Experts will be on hand from the beginning to the close of the conference, to teach you how geographic business intelligence can make you a technology champion in your organization.
Product Training
This comprehensive 8-hour training will be presented by the technical and business solutions experts from the SRC Customer Advantage Group. The Customer Advantage Group will instruct all levels of power users and business analysts on the full suite of SRC Geographic Business Intelligence technology offerings. Attendees will gain a new understanding of the business and data problems that can be solved with Alteryx® and SRC's other offerings.
Alteryx Grand Prix
This is an exciting "racing" event for novice and seasoned users of geographic business intelligence technology tools. An exhilarating racing atmosphere awaits both competitors and spectators! Competitors race against each other within a virtual technology race track to develop record-breaking solutions with Alteryx. Bleachers and large video display screens provide spectators with views into all of the racing action!
During the Alteryx Grand Prix, a variety of business cases will be demonstrated against the clock to show how Alteryx-driven solutions can meet real-world deadlines. Competitors are asked to employ a variety of technology capabilities to reach their conclusion within a pre-determined amount of time. After each exercise, a review of the solution is provided by commentators and audience questions are welcome. As a competitor or spectator, this event provides all attendees with extensive learning opportunities for understanding how to streamline business processes and drive revenue using the power of geographic business intelligence solutions.
Alteryx User Group
New to Extend 2010, the Alteryx User Group will bring together the community of geographic business intelligence users to demonstrate their most impressive best practices. These demonstrations will be presented by several of the nation's industry leaders who are streamlining and automating their business processes every day to rapidly disseminate actionable insight across their organizations. Any level of user will benefit from this forum by seeing how geographic business intelligence from SRC is the enabling platform for connecting the flow of analytics, ideas and best practices within any organization.
Alteryx Product Training
The Extend 2010 conference kicks off with a Product Training session, to prepare attendees for impactful presentations throughout the conference that will change the way you approach critical business problems.
SRC's technology experts will cover the suite of geographic business intelligence® technology tools and demonstrate how these tools are used to solve critical data accessibility problems. A new understanding of what is possible with business intelligence will be gained.
This event will also introduce you to the Solutions Center that is open and available to all conference attendees who have questions pertaining to their unique industry, company or business problem throughout the event. From the beginning to the close of the Extend conference, you will have technology experts on hand to assist your learning process and understanding of how geographic business intelligence® can make you a technology champion within your organization.
Following the Product Training is an exciting opportunity to see geographic business intelligence® technology solutions in action! Don't miss the User Group Forum, click here to read more!
Alteryx User Group
New to Extend 2010, the Alteryx User Group will bring together the community of geographic business intelligence® users to observe several technology demonstrations showcasing a variety of geographic business intelligence® technology products and solutions within real-world scenarios. These demonstrations will be presented by several of the nation's industry leading technologists who are streamlining and automating their best practices for the rapid dissemination of actionable insight across their organizations. Any level of user will benefit from this forum by seeing in action how geographic business intelligence® technology is the enabling platform for connecting the flow of people, ideas and best practices.
The User Group Forum is a great way to kickoff your learning opportunities at the conference by meeting and networking with the technologists that are driving winning business strategies within their organizations.
DemographicsNow User Group
New to Extend 2010, the DemographicsNow User Group will bring together the community of users who subscribe to one of the many online services of geographic business intelligence®. This user group meeting and product training session will be presented by SRC technology and business solutions experts along with some of the nation's industry leading technologists. Users will benefit by learning and networking from the experts on how to streamline their demographic analysis and reporting for the rapid dissemination of actionable insight across their organizations. The future of DemographicsNow and the 2010 enhancements to the enabling platform which powers this online service will also be demonstrated.
Any level of user will benefit from this forum by seeing in action how geographic business intelligence technology is the enabling platform for connecting the flow of information, analysis and best practices. This event is followed up by sessions throughout the conference will teach you how to expand and customize your use of geographic business intelligence to develop winning business strategies.
Developer Summit
This summit will be held in the Solutions Center and hosted by SRC's geographic business intelligence® technology experts, such as our Chief Technology Officer, Chief Web Developer, Software and Product Developers, Product Managers, ETL Engineers and Business Solutions Experts from the Customer Advantage Group.
This summit is designed to bring the developer community together for in-depth discussions about building, deploying and automating best practices with geographic business intelligence® technology. This summit will provide informal Q&A sessions throughout the event. Beyond this summit, all of the technology experts are available for one-one sessions in the Solutions Center throughout the conference to extend your learning opportunities and customized support.
Developers will return to their organizations after the conference with new and specialized ways to solve their unique business problems that will have an impact on their organization.
Alteryx Grand Prix
This event is guaranteed to excite novice and seasoned veterans of geographic business intelligence® technology tools! The Alteryx Grand Prix event is an exciting and interactive racing environment for pre-qualified racers who have demonstrated their expert knowledge of solving complex business problems through the development and execution of Alteryx modules. The right Alteryx module can deliver fast answers in today's ever changing and demanding marketplace for decision makers who are in a race against the competition.
Whether you are a participant in the Grand Prix or an observer, you will be amazed by how fast Alteryx can enable staggering records of disparate data to answer simple and complex business questions!
Solutions Center
Solving Strategic to Tactical Business Problems at the SRC Solutions Center
The SRC Solutions Center at Extend 2010 promises to be an informative and productive forum designed to bring you hands-on access to geographic business intelligence® solutions through one-on-one time with our CTO, Product Managers, Product Developers, Database Engineers, and Client Services Personnel. In this forum you can learn how to:
- Create, customize and deploy Alteryx wizards in order to solve common business questions in a simplistic user interface.
- See the latest advancements we've made to our existing Products and understand how they can help you achieve optimization in your existing processes.
- Witness how the Calgary engine can drastically expedite your data retrieval and list count processes when working with large scale proprietary databases.
- See how Guzzler has been optimized to leverage your hardware investments through Multi-Threading implementation.
- Witness firsthand how vertical industries are using Portfolio Web to gain the real-time market and consumer insight required to capitalize on business opportunities before their competition.
- Ask questions of your fellow industry leaders and watch them demonstrate solutions implemented within their organizations.
This forum will also provide informal Q&A sessions, where you can openly ask questions and suggest product enhancements to a panel of SRC product experts.
Keynote Speaker
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General Sessions
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Speakers
At Extend conferences, executives have presented from the following industry leading corporations such as: Jones Lang LaSalle; Buxton; Arrow Electronics, Environics Analytics; Sprint; Ford Motor Company, Quiznos, and NSA Media and many more. During these presentations, the nation's leading organizations will share with you how to create winning business strategies through fact-based decision making. Outside of the presentations the Extend conference offers a variety of learning sessions and the opportunity to network with many of the nation's leading industries, such as: Wal*Mart, Dun and Bradstreet, Synergos, Comcast Spotlight, Yum Brands, Accudata and many more.
Following the Extend 2010 conference, you will return to your organization with new ideas for outperforming the competition by enabling and integrating data from any source through one technology platform. If you have been faced with an urgent problem, but the information and analysis you need can't be produced for hours, days, weeks or longer, the Extend 2010 conference will help you enable your data and glean the insight you need to solve your most critical business problems. Within our complex economic environment, you cannot afford to miss out on learning how to drive revenue and position your organization for success in the inevitable economic upturn.
Awards Dinner
Every year at the Extend conference, the founders of SRC host an evening of celebration to appreciate the success that its clients, partners and employees have achieved. SRC prides itself on creating a community of technology users that are driving change within their organizations. This dinner is a great way to meet and network with conference attendees and speakers who are the achieving results with winning strategies.
Following the cocktail reception and dinner, SRC's founders will recognize and present awards to those who drive results within their organizations through geographic business intelligence® solutions.
