To submit an abstract, please complete and submit this form by March 31, 2008.
You will be notified by May 14, 2008 whether your presentation has been accepted.
Focus of the Forum Conferences:
The Forum Conferences focus on user experience with actual application of business rules, enterprise decision
management (EDM), and/or related technologies. Talk proposals should generally be consistent with that focus,
and/or any new methodology, techniques or tools used to support such initiatives.
Please refer to the Call for Presentations to improve the chances of your talk being accepted. Abstracts will not be selected if they appear to directly promote any products or services, or are of a
commercial nature.
Step 2. Tell Us About Your Proposed Presentation
1. Title:*
As you would like it to appear in the brochure. (Maximum 15 words)
2. Abstract:*
Executive Summary of your presentation, plus 3-5 bullet points describing what an attendee
will learn from your presentation. This abstract will appear on the Conference website and in
the Conference proceedings. (Maximum 100 words)
3. Is this a Case Study? If so,
Provide the name of the Company/Organization that the case study is about:
Are you an employee of that company?
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Do you have permission to identify this Company/Organization in your presentation?
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Please carefully assess your proposed presentation when answering the following questions.
This information will be used by the attendees in deciding which sessions they will attend.
4. Audience familiarity with subject area required:*
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Expert
5. Main focus of presentation*
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Business
Technology
Both
6. What area does your proposed presentation address?
Check all the appropriate areas
REAL-LIFE CASE STUDY: Presented by the actual people who undertook them to solve a business or application problem.
KEY TOPICS: Areas of central, continuing interest for business rules
Business Rule Techniques and Methodology
Business Rule Management Systems and Engines
Data Mining and Predictive Analytics Technology
Data Mining and Predictive Analytics Techniques and Methodology
Decision Services, Business Rules and SOA
Adaptive Control and Optimization
NEW TRENDS: The convergence of rules and ...
Managing Decisions in BPM and SOA
Moving to BI 2.0 / Operational BI
Event-based decision management
Compliance and Risk Management
Organizational Change
Other ... Tell us about it: (Maximum 100 words)
REAL-LIFE CASE STUDY Industry challenges-architectural solutions and best practices that your product supports
MEET THE CHIEF ARCHITECT Industry challenges—architectural solutions and best practices that your product supports
7. Tell us more about what your presentation covers.
Check all the appropriate areas—significant coverage only
BEST PRACTICES :
What Worked, Lessons Learned
Organizational Change
Building the Business Case for Decision Management
Measuring the ROI of Decisioning
Getting Started
Selecting Quick-Win and Highest-Potential Decisions
Decision Stewardship and Governance
Establishing a Center of Excellence
Best Practices for Developing Agile Applications
Incorporating Rules and Analytics into the Development Life Cycle
TECHNICAL TOPICS :
Building a Business User Decision Management Environment
Incorporating Decisioning into the Application Architecture
Leveraging Existing Legacy Systems Using Decision Management
Emerging Business Rule and Analytic Industry Standards
Integrating business rules and optimization
Integrating business rules, data mining and predictive analytics
Implementing Adaptive Control and Champion/Challenger testing
High Performance Decision Automation
8. Additional focus or positioning of content:List keywords that best position your presentation (up to 10).
(Maximum 10 words)
9. Give us any additional explanation not already covered.
(Maximum 100 words)
About the speaker(s)
1. Contact information for Speaker 1:
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Speaker bio:*
Include a write-up of approximately 100 words about your experience with business rules, optimization, predictive
analytics, data mining or enterprise decision management (EDM), including the number of years you've been involved,
the types of projects you've been involved in, your primary role in these projects, etc. This bio will appear on the
Forum Conference websites and proceedings.
(Maximum 100 words)
2. Contact information for Speaker 2:
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Last Name:
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Industry:
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Mailing Address:
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Speaker bio:*
Include a write-up of approximately 100 words about your experience with business rules, optimization, predictive
analytics, data mining or enterprise decision management (EDM), including the number of years you've been involved,
the types of projects you've been involved in, your primary role in these projects, etc. This bio will appear on the
Forum Conference websites and proceedings.
(Maximum 100 words)
3. Primary contact for this abstract:
Speaker 1
Speaker 2
Multiple speakers: If you are presenting jointly, one speaker must be designated as the
primary person to contact if the selection committee has any clarifying questions about the
presentation.
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