Phoenix, October 9, 2009 -- The pre-ICIS BI Congress welcomes academics who teach, research, or have an interest in the area of Business Intelligence and Decision Support. On December 15, practitioners and industry leaders will join us to explore the current state of Business Intelligence – and to determine future directions for both research and teaching. Details about the BI Congress, jointly sponsored by SIGDSS and the Teradata University Network, may be found at: http://wpcarey.asu.edu/BICongress/index.cfm

We are pleased to announce that Professors Tom Davenport and Hugh Watson will serve as keynote speakers for the BI Congress. Professor Davenport helped drive significant efforts and attention to the area of BI with his Harvard Business Review article “Competing on Analytics.” His latest book, Being Analytical: How Organizations Make Fact-Based Decisions, is due out later this year. Professor Watson’s research in executive information systems and data warehousing has set the stage for BI as we know it today. We are grateful for both of these academic leaders and their participation in the BI Congress program!

There also are many other exciting components of the Congress, including:

· Keynote address by Scott Gnau, VP Teradata Research and Development.

· Presentations on current BI degree programs and classes.

· Software demonstrations of free BI teaching software.

· BI research presentations.

· BI practitioner panels.

· Mixed panel to explore research and teaching of logical data models.

The BI Congress will kick-off with an evening social event on December 14 at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West desert masterpiece (http://www.franklloydwright.org/tours_night_lights.html).

Please contact any of the program committee members with questions:

Conference Co-Chairs

Uday Kulkarni
W.P. Carey School of Business
Arizona State University

Uday.Kulkarni@asu.edu

Michael Goul
W.P. Carey School of Business
Arizona State University

Michael.Goul@asu.com


Honorary Program Chairs

Hugh Watson, University of Georgia

Paul Gray, Claremont Graduate University


Program Committees
Education and Teaching:
Barbara Wixom, University of Virginia
Jeff Hoffer, University of Dayton
Thilini Ariyachandra, Xavier University

Research:
Lakshmi Iyer, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Robert Winter, St. Gallen University
Babita Gupta, California State University at Monterey Bay

Local Arrangements:
Haluk Demirkan, Arizona State University
Susan Baxley, Teradata

BI Congress Advisory Board
Frada Burstein, Monash University
Jim Courtney, Louisiana Tech University
Dursun Delen, Oklahoma State University
Clyde Holsapple, University of Kentucky
David Paradice, Florida State University
Dan Powers, University of Northern Iowa
David Schuff, Temple University
Ramesh Sharda, Oklahoma State University
Ozgur Turetken, Ryerson University
Robert St. Louis, Arizona State University