
Butler BI Symposium
October 7 - 8, 2009 London, UK
Butler Group’s 2009 Business Intelligence Symposium will provide the latest thinking on BI, identify important market and technology trends, and in doing so create the opportunity to relate these issues to the requirements of your own organisation.
This conference and exhibition focuses on BI foundations for decision-making excellence and Risk Management and will cover the following areas:
- Aligning business outcomes with strategic objectives.
- Real-time and operational BI.
- BI for the mid-market.
- Enterprise Risk Management.
- Deriving value from analytics.
- BI and new trends in Information Management.
- Gaining business value from text mining.
- Developing flexible data quality strategies.
- The role of search and collaboration functionality in BI.
- The convergence of structured and unstructured data and the knock on effect on BI and other technologies.

Executive Leadership Conference 2009
October 25-27, 2009 Colonial Williamsburg, VA
As the new Administration seeks to enhance collaboration, transparency and accountability, government and industry are enthusiastically embracing innovative technologies and business practices. From creative uses of Web 2.0 and social networking tools to cloud computing, the new emphasis on IT offers opportunities for profound improvements in Collaboration, Health IT, Infrastructure, Acquisition, Education, Energy and Security. Government and industry will explore the role IT can play to ensure that this new era of innovation can be adopted across government to deliver meaningful results, and better serve and engage all citizens.

DCGS 2009
October 26 - 29, 2009 Virginia Beach, VA
The 3rd Annual Distributed Common Ground/Surface System (DCGS) Worldwide Conference & Exposition
The theme of this year’s DCGS is: “Leader Centric–Decision Focused”. The mission of the conference is bringing together program offices, developers, and users to focus on establishing a fully integrated and seamless Enterprise in support of the warfighter. The conference objectives are:
- Improved knowledge of DCGS and JIOC capabilities for security, engagement and relief and reconstruction activities
- Increase the utility and value DCGS provides to Irregular Warfare and General Purpose Forces operating independently, and through increasingly lower echelons
- Markedly improve the ability to integrate with U.S. agencies, coalition forces, and other partners across the ISR enterprise
- Inspire new thinking in areas of acquisition of ISR services, DCGS capability metrics, and the rapid delivery of intelligence solutions to the warfighter
Past 2009 Events

January 13 - 16, 2009 Las Vegas, NV
Join us for MicroStrategy World 2009, our 12th annual user conference, for an exciting and informative week of education tracks and best practices presentations. MicroStrategy World 2009 returns to Wynn Las Vegas January 13-16, 2009, bringing together the best in business intelligence for one can't-miss week of education and networking in Las Vegas.
At MicroStrategy World 2009, tracks include:
- Reporting, Analysis and Monitoring
- Dashboarding, Reporting, and Advanced Visualizations
- Advanced Development I & II
- Customizing the User Experience
- Integrating MicroStrategy with Enterprise Applications
- Delivery, Administration, and Performance Tuning
- Advanced and Predictive Analytics

Forrester's Enterprise Architecture Forum
February 10 - 11, 2009 Miami, FL
Forrester's Enterprise Architecture Forum 2009 will examine the challenges facing your role and present pragmatic insights and strategies based on data-driven research, surveys, and vendor evaluations featured in Forrester Wave™ reports.
- Learn how business architecture can evolve your EA program.
- Examine how an enterprise integration strategy can lower your costs.
- Hear about Web architecture for blazing fast Web site performance.
- See how next-generation information architecture will include SOA and semantic technology.
- Evaluate your strategy for OSGi app servers and lightweight or "lean" containers.
- Learn why and how to build interoperability and federation into your SOA platform strategy.
- Hear effective practices for global enterprise architecture.
- Discuss whether open source software can really save your enterprise money.
- Determine SharePoint's role in your future — is it a problem or an opportunity?
- Understand how to integrate SOA policy into your SOA strategy.

WEST 2009
February 11 - 13, 2009 San Diego, CA
“Defense: Reset - Redesign - or Reinvent?”
Co-sponsored by AFCEA International and the U.S. Naval Institute, West 2009 is the largest event on the West Coast for communications, electronics, intelligence, information systems, imaging, military weapon systems, aviation, shipbuilding, and more. Don't miss this exclusive opportunity to engage the military and industry leaders who are designating warfighting strategies and operational platforms.