Inaugural Predictive Analytics World in San Francisco Exceeds Expectations; Save the Date for Next Event in Boston in

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Mar 24 (MARKET WIRE) --
The first ever Predictive Analytics World, the business-focused event for
predictive analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners
held in San Francisco February 18-19, 2009, exceeded expectations with
over 200 attendees from over 13 countries. Building on the successes of
the inaugural event, Eric Siegel, Ph.D., the conference chair, has begun
planning the next Predictive Analytics World in Boston for September
2009. "Predictive analytics has truly come of age in many verticals and
is coming of age across the rest. Nothing makes that more clear than the
line-up of concrete case studies and best practice workshops we have the
privilege of including at Predictive Analytics World," said Dr. Siegel.

The inaugural Predictive Analytics World provided analytics professionals
a forum to share ideas and lessons learned, offering insight as to how to
improve efficiency and optimize across more than ten business applications
of predictive analytics. Attendees came from companies including Apple,
Booking.com, Business Objects, Capital One, Charles Schwab, Digi-Key,
e-Dialog, eBay, efficient frontier, Ernst & Young, Expedia,
Hewlett-Packard, HSBC, Intuit, LexisNexis, Mars, Merkle, MetLife Auto &
Home, MindTree, NEC Laboratories America, Orange Labs, Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory, PayPal, Premera Blue Cross, PricewaterhouseCoopers,
Razorfish, Stamps.com, Sun Microsystems, TaxBrain, Thermo Fisher
Scientific, and West.

The conference provided a diverse line-up of speakers, including
executives from Abbott Analytics, Acxiom, Charles Schwab & Co., Click
Forensics, Decision Management Solutions, e-Dialog.com, Google, Ingenuity
Systems, Kosmix, Open Insights, SAS, Sun Microsystems, Valen Technologies,
ValueClick and Wells Fargo, as well as case studies from companies such as
Anheuser-Busch, Disney, Hewlett-Packard, HSBC, IRS, Pfizer, Social
Security Administration and WestWind Foundation.

Following the success of the first Predictive Analytics World, former
participants and newcomers alike can anticipate another conference in
September 2009 in Boston, MA. Save the date, and visit
www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com to learn more.

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