Mark your calendars for Predictive Analytics World, March 4-10, 2012
San Francisco.  More info below.  Happy holidays.

Predictive Analytics World, March 4-10, 2012 in San Francisco
(www.pawcon.com/sanfrancisco) is the business event for predictive
analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners,
covering today's commercial deployment of predictive analytics, across
industries and across software vendors.  The conference delivers case
studies, expertise and resources to achieve two objectives:

Bigger wins: Strengthen the business impact delivered by predictive
analytics
Broader capabilities: Establish new opportunities with predictive
analytics

PAW SF promises to once again break records as the biggest cross-
vendor predictive analytics event ever.  PAW's program is packed with
the top predictive analytics experts, practitioners, authors and
business thought leaders, including keynote addresses from Piyanka
Jain, CEO, Aryng.com, former PayPal Business Analytics Head, and PAW
Program Chair Eric Siegel, plus special sessions from industry heavy-
weights Andreas Weigend and John Elder.

Case Studies: How the Leading Enterprises Do It

Predictive Analytics World focuses on concrete examples of deployed
predictive analytics. You can 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.

PAW's SF 2012 program is the richest and most diverse yet, featuring
over 40 sessions across 2 tracks:  1) "All Audiences" and 2) "Expert/
Practitioner " -- so you can witness how predictive analytics is
applied by AARP, Alberta Motor Association, Altos Research,
Broadspire, CA General Underwriters, CompassLabs, HP, Interclick,
Kelley Blue Book, LinkedIn, Major League Baseball, NFL, MLB, and the
NBA, Pfizer, Sisters of Mercy Health Systems, Social Media Research
Foundation, University of Phoenix, Volunteers of America, Wells Fargo,
Yahoo!, YMCA, ZZAlpha, an IT support firm, a sales workforce, real-
world examples in financial services emergency response, and true-to-
life anecdotes based on miscellaneous enterprise successes, plus
insights from projects for Anheuser-Busch, Dept. Homeland Security,
and US Postal Service Office of Inspector General.

HOT TOPICS AND ADVANCED METHODS: PAW SF's agenda covers agile
analytics, behavior-based advertising, black box trading, branch
location assessment, churn modeling, clinical healthcare,
crowdsourcing predictive analytics, cloud analytics, econometric
indicators, education, enterprise-wide analytics, forecasting, HR
analytics, insurance, list sourcing, non-profits, online marketing,
real estate market scoring, risk management, social data, sports
analytics, targeting direct marketing, uplift modeling and other
innovative applications that benefit organizations in new and creative
ways.

TEXT ANALYTICS: Text Analytics World (www.tawcon.com), co-located with
PAW San Francisco the day immediately thereafter, provides reasonable
cross-registration options so your breadth of session topics expands
to include this rapidly growing field.

WORKSHOPS: PAW also features several full-day pre- and post-conference
workshops that complement the core conference program.

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

Cross-Industry Applications:

Predictive Analytics World is the only conference of its kind,
delivering vendor-neutral sessions across verticals such as banking,
financial services, e-commerce, education, government, healthcare,
high technology, insurance, non-profits, publishing, social gaming,
retail and telecommunications

And PAW covers the gamut of commercial applications of predictive
analytics, including response modeling, customer retention with churn
modeling, product recommendations, fraud detection, online marketing
optimization, human resource decision-making, law enforcement, sales
forecasting, and credit scoring.

Why bring together such a wide range of endeavors?  No matter how you
use predictive analytics, the story is the same: Predicatively scoring
customers optimizes business performance. Predictive analytics
initiatives across industries leverage the same core predictive
modeling technology, share similar project overhead and data
requirements, and face common process challenges and analytical
hurdles.

Rave Reviews:

"I came to PAW because it provides case studies relevant to my
industry. It has lived up to the expectation and I think it's the best
analytics conference I've ever attended!"

    Shaohua Zhang, Senior Data Mining Analyst
    Rogers Telecommunications

"Hands down, best applied analytics conference I have ever attended.
Great exposure to cutting-edge predictive techniques and I was able to
turn around and apply some of those learnings to my work immediately.
I've never been able to say that after any conference I've attended
before!"

    Jon Francis, Senior Statistician
    T-Mobile

Read more: Articles and blog entries about PAW can be found at
pawcon.com/pressroom.php

VENDORS. Meet the vendors and learn about their solutions, software
and service. Discover the best predictive analytics vendors available
to serve your needs - learn what they do and see how they compare

COLLEAGUES. Mingle, network and hang out with your best and brightest
colleagues. Exchange experiences over lunch, coffee breaks and the
conference reception connecting with those professionals who face the
same challenges as you.

GET STARTED. If you're new to predictive analytics, kicking off a new
initiative, or exploring new ways to position it at your organization,
there's no better place to get your bearings than Predictive Analytics
World. See what other companies are doing, witness vendor demos,
participate in discussions with the experts, network with your
colleagues and weigh your options!

View agenda overview:  www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/sanfrancisco/2012/agenda_overview.php

For more information: predictiveanalyticsworld.com/sanfrancisco/2012

Registration:  http://www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/sanfrancisco/register.php
-- THREE WAYS TO SAVE:

1.  Super Early Bird Registration by December 16th   - Save up to
$400.

2.  Take $150 off the Early Bird or the Advance Two Day Pass
registration fee with this posting's promotional discount code:
GOO150.

3.  Save an additional $200 for each additional attendee from the same
company registered at the same time.

View the PAW overview video:
www.pawcon.com/newyork/2011/video_about_predictive_analytics_world.php

What is predictive analytics? See the Predictive Analytics Guide:
www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/guide

If you'd like our informative event updates, sign up at:
www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/signup-us.php

To sign up for the PAW group on LinkedIn, see:
www.linkedin.com/e/gis/1005097

Follow PAW on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/pawcon/

For inquiries e-mail regsupp...@risingmedia.com or call (717)
798-3495.

ALL ANALYTICS EVENTS:
PAW San Francisco:  March 4-10, 2012 - www.pawcon.com/sanfrancisco
Text Analytics World SF:  March 7, 2012 - www.tawcon.com
PAW Toronto:  April 25-26, 2012 - www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com
PAW Chicago:  June 25-26, 2012 - www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com
PAW Videos:  Available on-demand - www.pawcon.com/video

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