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Save $200 on M2006, SAS' 9th annual data mining conference,

if you register and pay by Sept. 15. M2006 will be held at the Rio All-Suite Hotel in Las Vegas, Oct. 23-24.

With six keynote addresses, more than 35 session talks, six in-depth training opportunities and an expected attendance of more than 700, SAS' annual data mining conference has become the largest data mining conference in the world. Given its appealing location ( M2006 will be held again at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas) - and the fact that the conference gives attendees access to some of data mining's best and brightest minds - it's easy to see why the conference is so hard for practitioners and business decision-makers alike to resist.

Keynote addresses will be delivered by: * Usama Fayyad, Yahoo!'s chief data officer and senior vice president of the Strategic Data Solutions group. Fayyad is responsible for Yahoo!'s overall data strategy, architecting Yahoo!'s data policies and systems, prioritizing data investments, and managing the company's data processing infrastructure and analysis.

* William B. Smith, executive director of the American Statistical Association and Professor Emeritus of Statistics at Texas A&M University, where he was also chairman of the Department for a period of nine years. Prior to coming to the ASA, Smith was a program director in statistics at the National Science Foundation. He has co-authored two books and over fifty articles in statistics.

* Will Potts, Vice President of Statistical Analysis at Capital One. Potts has more than 15 years experience as a statistical consultant in science and industry. In addition to authoring numerous technical papers, Potts has developed several popular training courses on predictive modeling.

* Randy Collica, Senior Business Analyst at Hewlett-Packard. Collica has 16 years experience in the semiconductor manufacturing industry working on yield and product and quality engineering. He has authored and co-authored 11 articles and is currently writing a book on CRM Segmentation and Clustering for business applications.

Session topics include: * business applications * perspectives from the financial services industry * fraud detection * perspectives from the healthcare industry * new and emerging technologies * perspectives from the retail industry * data mining for marketing.

Make sure you are in attendance for the world's premier event for data mining professionals. M2006 will be held at the in Las Vegas Oct. 23-24.

All attendees who register before September 15 will receive $200 off the cost of the conference.