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PublicationsDate: 14 Nov 2005 Subject: SAS M2005 Conference Report
SAS' M2005 Conference Sets the Industry Standard for Data Mining
By Mary Crissey, SAS SAS recently hosted its 8th annual data mining technology conference, M2005. Nearly 700 attendees from 43 states and a whopping 18 countries came to Las Vegas from 300 business, academic and government organizations for the chance to hear from 50 noteworthy speakers. M2005 is the largest data mining conference of its type, and has become known for gathering data mining visionaries, practitioners and curiosity seekers from around the world for an exchange of the most up-to-date information, newest concepts and best practices in the industry. Don Henderson, principal of Henderson Consulting, was attending his second data mining conference. "I'm always interested to see how folks are using data mining," he said. "And it's interesting to note that data mining has become more mainstream over the years. This has been an eye-opening and educational event." M2005 featured four keynote addresses, two special afternoon keynote presentations and more than 30 session talks across industries and business functions. This year's keynote speakers featured four highly regarded data mining visionaries:
Many attendees at the conference were eager to hear from Dave Duling, software manager at SAS. Duling presented a "Data Mining Update," which highlighted features of SAS Enterprise Miner(tm) 5.2 and SAS Text Miner(tm) 2.3, which just began shipping to SAS customers this month. M2005 was co-chaired by Michael Berry, Founder and Principal Consultant of Data Miners, and Jerry Oglesby, director of SAS' Higher Education Consulting group. Training and Networking Time This year's conference included a new Poster Session that showcased submissions from attendees. Additional training courses were offered during workshops both before and after the conference. Among the titles: Extending SAS Enterprise Miner 5, Predicting Customer Value Using Hazard and Intensity Models, Data Mining Techniques, Decision Tree Modeling, and others. M2006 again scheduled for Las Vegas SAS has already begun planning next year's conference, M2006, to be held once again in Las Vegas at the Rio All-Suite Hotel. Scheduled for Oct. 23-24, 2006, M2006 will build on the foundations of M2005 and will offer a similar lineup of world-renowned industry experts discussing the latest data mining techniques and best practices. Next year's conference co-chairs were announced during M2005: SAS' Jerry Oglesby, and Tom Bohannon, assistant vice president of Institutional Research and Testing at Baylor University. Mary Crissey is Technology Marketing Manager at SAS Institute, and a council officer for the Institute of Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). Mary can be reached at mary.crissey@sas.com.
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