InterSystems DEVCON2009

Keynotes and Guest Speakers

Opening Sessions

Presentations by InterSystems senior executives will address our strategic direction and product plans. There will also be preview demonstrations of some exciting features planned for future releases.

The InterSystems Innovator Awards Presentation

The InterSystems Innovator Awards honor developers who use our technology in new ways to create unique applications and integrated solutions for their markets. The winning development teams get cash awards and have their innovative solutions profiled in a white paper to be printed in Computerworld magazine.

Bill Laberis, a vice president at Computerworld, will head the panel of industry analysts who will pick the winning solutions. He will present the InterSystems Innovator Awards and the Student Caché Innovator Award in a general session on Monday, March 23, 2009. 
The deadline for submissions is Monday, March 2, 2009.

The Future of Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management
Speaker: Howard Dresner, President and Founder, Dresner Advisory Services

Advances in business intelligence technology -- making BI more accessible and more immediate -- are driving enterprises to evolve new business models. One such model is "information democracy", in which actionable insight is delivered to the right users, in the right context, at the right time. In this presentation, Howard Dresner of Dresner Advisory Services will talk about the benefits of information democracy, how enterprises can achieve it, and the BI and EPM technologies that enable it.

Howard Dresner has been in the software industry since 1981 as a vendor, a user, an IT professional, and an industry analyst. His background includes 13 years as the lead analyst for Business Intelligence at Gartner Inc., and he was Chief Strategy Officer at Hyperion Solutions. Mr. Dresner founded Dresner Advisory Services in 2007.

eQuality Solutions for Patients and Clinicians
Speaker: Peter L. Elkin, M.D., Professor, Vice-Chairman of Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

They may use different words, but virtually every healthcare provider on the planet shares a common vision -- to provide the best possible care at the lowest possible cost. Frequently, automated electronic quality monitoring (eQuality) systems are seen as a cost-effective way to provide clinicians with a searchable knowledge base and advising them in real time of accepted best practices.

In this presentation, Dr. Peter L. Elkin of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine discusses how InterSystems' technologies can be used in conjunction with standard healthcare "vocabularies" and information exchange protocols to create and implement eQuality monitoring systems.

Peter L. Elkin, M.D., is a Professor, and Vice-Chairman of Internal Medicine, at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where he also serves as the Director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics. A recognized expert in biomedical informatics, Dr. Elkin has published numerous articles about the need for, and effectiveness of, various vocabularies and standards for exchanging healthcare information.