Wayne EckersonWayne Eckerson has been a thought leader in the business intelligence and analytics field since the early 1990s. He is a noted keynote speaker and blogger, and he consults and conducts workshops on many topics. Wayne is the founder of BI Leadership orum (www.bileadership.com), a network of business intelligence (BI) directors who meet regularly to exchange ideas about best practices in BI and educate the larger BI community. Wayne is also director of research at TechTarget where he writes a popular weekly blog called Wayne's World of BI that focuses on industry trends and examines best practices in the application of business intelligence. For many years, Wayne served as director of education and research at The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) where he oversaw the company's content and training programs and chaired its BI Executive Summit. Read More Read Less