Twin Cities Area SAS Users Group

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Conference on the application of analytics to retail industry challenges

• Bring together Target TMs, SAS experts and members of the local retail community to share problem solving approaches & methodologies
• Broaden knowledge of analytics in retail environment
• Strengthen analytic community connections.

Host: Target Corporation - Downtown Minneapolis

• Introduction "Why Analytics are so Important" - Jane Windmeier, SVP, Target Corporation
• Size/Pack Optimization - Dr. Anthony Volpe  - SAS Institute
• Game Theory Application and Leveraging Customer Data/Traditional Analytics Techniques on Cloud Computing - Tom Lemke Chief Customer Officer Ergenomics.com
• Challenges of Incremental Sales Modeling in Direct Marketing - Andrew Pole - Target
• The Importance of Customer Segmentation - Russ Wibben - Sr. Director, EDW Business Analytics, SUPERVALU Information Technology
• Incremental Response Modeling for Retailers  - Doug Freud, Technical Director, KXEN and Rob Cooley, Ph.D., CTO, Optimine Inc., former VP of Technical Operations, KXEN Inc.
• Data Mining in the Real World: Some Lessons learned in the Pit - Richard D. De Veaux - Professor - Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Williams College in Williamstown, MA
• The Evolution of Advanced Analytics - David Hastings, Teradata, Advanced Business Analytics
• Parallel Process Querying on Multisource Retail Data  - David Malerich - Best Buy
• Store Segmentation - Anindo Chakraborty - Target
• Closing remarks - Rob Barnhart - VP of Risk for Target Financial Services - Target Corporation
  

This event is Free.

Lunch provided courtesy of our Sponsor KXEN Inc.  Snacks & Beverages provided by sponsor JMP

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