Howard Dresner is the President and Founder of Dresner Advisory Services, LLC, an independent advisory firm and a well known authority in the areas of Business Intelligence and Performance Management.

Prior to his latest venture, he spent 13 years at Gartner, where he was a Research Fellow and Lead Analyst for Business Intelligence and served as Chief Strategy Officer at Hyperion until the Oracle acquisition in 2007.

Howard is a frequent speaker at events around the world and is often quoted by the global press. His new book, published in November of 2007, is entitled The Performance Management Revolution: Business Results Through Insight and Action (John Wiley & Sons).

Peter Lund Madsen is a medical doctor from the University of Copenhagen. He obtained his scientific education at the National University Hospital in Copenhagen, and at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, USA. His scientific work has primarily focused on issues relating to brain activity during various conscious states. During the recent years he has also worked at the Danish national television and through various public appearances, informing about the brain and the way it works

Mike Ferguson is Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies Limited. As an independent analyst and consultant he has over 27 years experience in the industry specialising in business intelligence, enterprise business integration and data management. He is also an expert on the Business Intelligence Network.

Formerly he was a principal and co-founder of Codd and Date Europe Limited – the inventors of the Relational Model, a Chief Architect at Teradata on the Teradata DBMS and European Managing Director of Database Associates.

He teaches popular Enterprise 2.0 master classes in Operational BI and Performance Management, Master Data Management, Meta Data Management and Enterprise Portals.

Michael is the founder and CEO of Platon - the largest, independent Information Management consulting company in the Nordic region. Michael has almost 20 years of experience in Information Management ranging from solution development to strategy formulation. He was involved in developing his first Data Warehouse in 1989 and since 1993 he has worked as a consultant for more than 50 companies in most industries.

He is recognized as an expert on Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Performance Management, analytical CRM and Data Quality Management. Michael holds a Masters in Business Administration and Computer Science from Copenhagen Business School. He has been chairman and speaker at a large number of conferences.