Business intelligence conferences bring together industry leaders and executives to learn about new trends and technologies in BI. They typically include speakers, presentations, breakout sessions, workshops, and product exhibits. Attendees can focus on different paths of learning opportunities, such as introducing BI into their business or advancing business intelligence. Conferences are held several times a year around the world and often include socializing and networking opportunities.
“Business intelligence,” or BI, is broadly defined as the intersection of business tasks and technology. It includes everything from using computers in scheduling and managing employees to new ways radio frequency tags can be used to track inventory or ways smartphones can be used for data storage. New technologies emerge almost constantly. These technologies are often introduced to businesses at business intelligence conferences. A business intelligence conference is a meeting, usually held over several days, where BI industry leaders and executives can interact and learn about new trends and technologies.
Most often, large technology companies or business intelligence software developers hold BI conferences as a way to reach the BI community. When done correctly, a business intelligence conference brings together some of the most innovative business leaders with some of the most advanced business trend analysis. Conferences are often touted as a way for companies to learn, grow and catch up.
A typical business intelligence conference starts with speakers and presentations. The conference organizer will usually contact potential speakers several months in advance. A potential speaker could be a business intelligence consultant, business intelligence analyst, or company president who can talk about the difference BI has made in their company. Presentations are usually about new trends, new techniques or case studies of how certain technologies worked in specific business sectors.
Breakout sessions and small group workshops are another common business intelligence conference feature. At large conferences, participants often have a choice of several paths, or trails, of learning opportunities. Attendees can focus their conference experience on introducing BI into their business, for example, or managing, certifying or advancing business intelligence. They might focus on BI privacy, BI for inventory, or BI for employee management, to name a few.
Some conferences offer attendees the chance to meet specific educational requirements, particularly around BI consulting jobs and technology certification programs. To act as a business intelligence analyst or consultant for a company, it is usually necessary to have tangible experience in implementing BI practices in a corporate environment. Often, you also need to be certified as a business intelligence specialist. Depending on the conference, experience modules, certification classes, and exam opportunities may be offered.
A hallmark of nearly every business intelligence conference is a new product exhibit. Vendors of business intelligence software and business intelligence management products often sponsor booths at a BI conference expo. Vendors provide information, and often demonstrations of product capabilities, in an effort to get samples – and ultimately sales contracts – into the hands of the business leader’s stakeholders.
Business intelligence conferences are held several times a year around the world. Organizers often select conference venues that will appeal to attendees and often try to conduct conferences over long weekends so as not to disrupt the normal flow of business. There’s usually plenty of time for socializing and networking, and many BI conferences are covered as much about meeting business leaders and professional networking in a relaxed atmosphere as they are about learning new material.
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