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• Overview
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Keynote Presenters

Thomas H. Davenport
Thomas H. Davenport is the President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College and co-directs research for the Business Analytics research program at nGenera (formerly BSG Concours). He is the former director of research centers at Accenture, Ernst & Young, and McKinsey, and has taught at Harvard Business School, Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, and the University of Texas at Austin.

Davenport is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and other leading journals. His article, "Competing on Analytics," was Harvard Business Review’s most requested article reprint of 2006. Davenport is the author or co-author of 12 books, including the best-sellers Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know and Process Innovation: Reengineering Work Through Information Technology. Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning has become a best-seller and has been translated into 10 languages. His latest book, Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results, is due out later this year.

 

Thornton May
Thornton May is Futurist, Executive Director and Dean of the IT Leadership Academy. His extensive experience researching and consulting on the role and behaviors of Boards of Directors and C-level executives in creating value with information technology has won him an unquestioned place on the short list of serious thinkers on this topic. Thornton combines a scholar's patience for empirical research, a stand-up comic's capacity for pattern recognition and a second-to-none gift for storytelling to the information technology management problems facing executives.

May has also served as Futurist and Researcher at Center for Advancing Business Through Information Technology at the W.P. Carey School of Business (Arizona State University); Faculty and Executive Director of the CIO Institute at the Haas School of Business (UC-Berkeley); Executive Moderator at the Center for Corporate Citizenship – Carroll School of Management (Boston College); Executive Education Faculty Member at the Anderson School (UCLA); and was co-founder of the CIO Solutions Gallery at Fisher College of Business (The Ohio State University).

His insights have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, MIT Sloan Management Review, American Demographics, USA Today, BusinessWeek and on National Public Radio. May is a columnist at Computerworld and CIO Decisions and has served as an advisor to the founding editors of Fast Company magazine. His latest book, The New Know: Innovation Powered by Analytics, is due out later this year.

May has appeared before Congress serving as an expert witness on large technology implementations and was responsible for ghostwriting portions of the technology track for the 1998 Davos Conference.