--- title: 2014 Business Intelligence and Big Data Summit - Save the Date/Call For Speakers description: Save the date for the 2014 Great Lakes Business Intelligence and Big Data Summit in Detroit. 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We are currently accepting proposals for presentations. In its inaugural year, the Summit was attended by nearly 200 of the area's top business and technology leaders from companies of all sizes from all over Michigan and Ohio. The agenda for the event included business case studies, software vendor presentations, and included keynotes from industry leaders Wayne Eckerson and Donald Farmer. Eckerson, formerly of The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI) talked to audiences about “The Big Data Revolution." Farmer, formerly one of the BI thought leaders at Microsoft, and now the chief product advocate at QlikView, discussed the impact of “Agile BI” on business. For the 2014 event, the planning committee is evaluating presentations around any of these BI-related themes: - BI Case Studies/Success Stories - Agile BI - Big Data - BI in the Cloud - Data Governance - Data Visualization - Mobile BI - Other Innovations Speaker proposals will be accepted through **December 2, 2013**.  For information on the Great Lakes BI & Big Data Summit, please visit [www.GreatLakesSummit.com](https://www.witinc.com/great-lakes-data-analytics-summit) Tagged: [Big Data](https://blog.witinc.com/tag/big-data), [Business Analytics](https://blog.witinc.com/tag/business-analytics) - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) Newer Post [WIT to host the QlikView Michigan User Group, November 22 in Troy](https://blog.witinc.com/wit-to-host-the-qlikview-michigan-user-group-november-22-in-troy) ### Subscribe to our Blog ### WIT Solutions 900 Wilshire Drive, Ste 104 Troy, MI 48084 [(248) 641-5900](tel:(248)%20641-5900) [info@witinc.com](mailto:info@witinc.com) ### Services [Data Department in a Box](https://www.witinc.com/data-department) [Analytics Strategy](https://www.witinc.com/analytics-strategy) [Data Integration](https://www.witinc.com/data-integration)[Data to Dashboards](https://www.witinc.com/data-to-dashboards) [Analytics Process Automation](https://www.witinc.com/analytics-process-automation) [Predictive Analytics](https://www.witinc.com/predictive-analytics) ### Resources [Great Lakes Summit](https://www.witinc.com/great-lakes-data-analytics-summit) [Resource Library](https://www.witinc.com/resources) [Events](https://www.witinc.com/upcoming-events) [Analytics Self-Assessment](https://www.witinc.com/analytics-self-assessment) [Blog](https://blog.witinc.com/) ### About Us [Who We Are](https://www.witinc.com/about-us) [Our Experience](https://www.witinc.com/our-experience) [Our Partners](https://www.witinc.com/partners) [Careers](https://www.witinc.com/careers) ---   ### ACCELERATE YOUR ANALYTICS & AUTOMATION JOURNEY WIT is an analytics and automation consulting firm with over 25 years of experience. 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