Presenters
Joe Panettieri, Contributing Editor, InfoWorld
As a seasoned event host and award-winning journalist, Joe has moderated
more than 200 executive summits and conferences across North America and
Europe. He also blogs live from prominent conferences, and he has earned
exclusive interviews with Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Cisco CEO John
Chambers, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and other technology vanguards.
When not moderating events for InfoWorld, Joe oversees Web 2.0 content
initiatives for Nine Lives Media Inc., and has held a variety of top editorial posts in technology media companies.
Jeanne Harris, co-author of Competing on Analytics
Jeanne Harris is Executive Research Fellow and Director of Research at the Accenture Institute for High Performance Business where she leads research in the areas of information, technology and strategy.
She is the co-author of Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning (Harvard Business School Press, 2007), which explains how high-performance businesses are building competitive strategies around data-driven insights that are generating impressive business results.
During her thirty years at Accenture, Harris has consulted to a wide variety of organizations in many different industries worldwide. She has led Accenture’s business intelligence, analytics, performance management, knowledge management, and data warehousing consulting practices. She has worked extensively with clients seeking to improve their managerial information, decision-making, analytical and knowledge management capabilities.
Ms. Harris leads an ongoing major research study examining how enterprise systems enable analytical decision making, contribute to distinctive capabilities and drive high performance. Other recent research topics include talent management analytics, managing business processes analytically, predicting consumer preferences, the implications of alternative value models on corporate strategy, the link between IT and business value, automated decision-making, IT implications of managing intangible assets, information worker productivity, improving managerial performance, knowledge management, business intelligence, building analytic capabilities, customer relationship management, customer-centric strategies, mobile personalization and solutions. She speaks frequently on these topics to executive audiences.
Ms. Harris's work has been published in numerous business publications, including Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review. Her research has been quoted extensively by the international business press, including the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Forbes Magazine, CFO Magazine, CIO Magazine, Computerworld and Nihon Keizai Shimbun.
Dr. Calvin C. Johnson, Director of the Office of Research and Evaluation,
Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia (CSOSA)
Dr. Calvin Johnson is responsible for directing agencywide performance measurement and program evaluation activities and is the co-chair of the Research Review Committee – a joint CSOSA and Pretrial Services Agency research committee responsible for advising the agencies’ directors on the feasibility of proposed research (internal and external). Johnson is also a member of the intra-agency review board responsible for advising CSOSA’s director on information and technology solutions that affect case management systems, management information systems and business intelligence solutions.
Prior to joining CSOSA, Johnson was a Senior Research Administrator with the University of Pennsylvania’s Jerry Lee Center of Criminology, Director of Research in the Executive Office of the Mayor of the District of Columbia and a Research Associate with the Urban Institute.
He earned a PhD in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1997.
Mark Moorman, Technology Strategist, Office of the Chief Technology Officer, SAS
Mark Moorman is an expert on the data integration and data modeling issues that often burden IT executives. As Advisor to the Office of the CTO, which acts as a technical resource and advisor in peer-to-peer discussions with executives in IT organizations, Mark provides leadership and insight with regard to data and application integration at the enterprise level. In support of the company’s mission to provide integrated solutions for wide-ranging business applications on a single platform, SAS®9, Mark contributes thought leadership, industry expertise and best practices to inform customer implementations.
In his former role as Vice President of SAS’ Financial Services Practice, Mark Moorman led a team responsible for delivering software solutions that address the critical needs of banks (retail and commercial) and asset management firms (retail and institutional), as well as card services, wealth management and insurance companies. These needs range from combating fraud and money laundering to managing enterprise risk and improving marketing efforts.
Previously, Moorman was a software development manager of warehouse solutions, where he oversaw a team that developed extraction transformation and loading routines to build data warehouse solutions from packaged applications like SAP, Oracle Apps, Siebel and more. A key campaign of the team was designing an integrated architecture to help facilitate the ease of deployment and integration between solutions.
Moorman joined SAS in 1987 as management information services supervisor of operations. Prior to that, he worked in MIS at Durham Life Insurance.
Moorman holds a bachelor of the arts degree in English from Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.
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