Conference Overview

Location
Caesars Palace
Las Vegas, NV

Conference: October 26-27
Pre-conference workshops: October 25
Post-conference training: October 28-30

The M2009 Data Mining Conference is an international educational conference and exhibition for data mining practitioners including analysts, statisticians, programmers, consultants and anyone involved with data management within their organization, Hosted by SAS, M2009 is now in its 12th year and has become the world's largest data mining conference, attracting over 700 people from various industries including Financial Services, Retail, Insurance, Technology, Education, Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, Government and more.

This conference is the top-choice for serious education and career networking. Conference highlights include

• 6 keynotes
• over 30 sessions
• 6 session tracks
• exhibit hall
• poster session
• SAS software training
• educational workshops
• special events
• networking opportunities
• predictive modeling certification testing event.

M2009 Session Topics

• Business applications
• Perspectives from the financial services industry
• Fraud detection
• Perspectives from the healthcare industry
• New and emerging technologies
• Perspectives from the retail industry
• Data mining in marketing
• Text mining
• And more! (View session abstracts.)

See M2008 attendee profile.

Registration Options

Conference plus 3 days of training
Attend all conference sessions, exhibit hall admission, meals, networking events, plus 3 days of SAS training classes on October 28-30.*

Conference plus 2 days of training
Attend all conference sessions, exhibit hall admission, meals, networking events, plus 2 days of SAS training classes offered October 28-30.*

Confernece plus 1 day of training
Attend all conference sessions, exhibit hall admission, meals, networking events, plus 1 day of SAS training classes offered October 28-30.*

Conference Only
Attend all conference sessions, exhibit hall admission, meals and networking events.

* See schedule of SAS training offerings. When registering, you will be prompted to choose your training classes.

Conference only	Standard price (Sep 19 - Oct 26)
	Price	ETPO units
	$1,499	3.8
Conference plus 1 day training	$1,949	4.9
Conference plus 2 days training	$2,399	6.0
Conference plus 3 days training	$2,849	7.1

The pre-conference workshops, Introduction to Data Mining and SAS Enterprise Miner and Expert-to-Expert Data and Text Mining Workshops, are an additional $150 or .4 EPTO units. The pre-conference workshop, Expert Panel Workshop – Up/Cross-Sell Modeling and Methodologies in Banking is an additional $100 or .3 EPTO units. (These workshops are not included in the conference training packages).

Predictive Modeling with SAS Enterprise Miner 5 certification exam is an additional $250.

Additional Discounts

• Group discount – Receive $200 off the standard conference price if 2 or more attendees from the same company register and pay together (no expiration date).
• Academic discount – Students, professors, teachers, and other faculty members from accredited universities receive 50% off the standard conference price (proof required).
• Enterprise Professional Training Offer (EPTO) – Save up to 31% on SAS training when you pre-purchase blocks of EPTO training units. If your organization already participates in the EPTO program, you can use your EPTO units to pay for M2009. EPTO unit pricing has been listed for each conference option.
  
  *Only one discount can be applied.

If you have questions about any of these discounts, please call a Customer Service Representative for more information and to register at 800-333-7660.