Business Analysis Conference Europe 2012 - 24-26 September 2012, London, UK, London, UK

Europe's Leading Independent Conference
Business Analysis Conference Europe 2012

IIBA® UK Chapter Developing the
Business Analysis Profession

The Call for Speakers is open with a deadline for submitting of 2 March 2012: click here to view the call for papers. The conference programme will be published in April 2012 - please click here for a copy of the programme when it is published.

2012 Tracks will Include:

• BA Fundamentals

• BA and Beyond

• BA in Projects

• The Consultant BA

2012 Keynotes Include:

Tony Buzan ThinkBuzan.com	Ben Goldacre Bad Science	JP Rangaswami Chief Scientist, salesforce.com	David Clarke Chief Executive BCS	Christine H. Ashton CIO AMEA/ECA BG Group plc

Tony Buzan is the inventor of the now world-renowned Mind Map, and is well-known as an educational consultant, speaker and prolific author. His invention of Mind Mapping in the late 1960s was born out of frustration with traditional note taking revision techniques. He has since developed the Mind Map technique through books, TV appearances and his work as a highly-regarded speaker.	Ben Goldacre is an award-winning writer, broadcaster, and medical doctor who specialises in unpicking scientific claims made by scaremongering journalists, government reports, pharmaceutical corporations, PR companies and quacks. He has written the weekly Bad Science column in the Guardian since 2003.	As Chief Scientist at salesforce.com, JP Rangaswami focuses on helping salesforce.com’s European customers think about innovative ways to use the real-time, mobile and social capabilities provided by Salesforce apps and the Force.com platform. He is tasked with the responsibility of contributing to salesforce.com’s product strategy and ensuring that the benefits of cloud computing are being promoted globally.	David Clarke became Chief Executive of the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, in May 2002 and is widely acknowledged as having transformed BCS into the customer-service oriented professional body for the IT and Communications profession it is today.	Christine Ashton is responsible for the global delivery of information services and the development of strategies and solutions that continuously improve the group’s ways of working.

In 2011 Business Analysis is now the growth area of the change life cycle. Organisations are increasingly recognising the importance of analysis techniques in achieving successful change and many are investing heavily in developing this capability. Much of this recognition and investment is being driven from the technology change arena but the skills and techniques are invaluable in shaping and forming the overall business change. With the backdrop of a global economy recovering from a deep recession, organisations are in a constant state of fast moving change responding to financial challenges, risk management and maximising their opportunities. The Business Analysis capability is key to developing and implementing solutions that meet business needs. The Business Analysis Conference Europe 2011 provided an unparalleled networking opportunity for Business Analysts from across Europe and beyond. Over 24 Countries were represented at this year’s event. The conference provided an interactive forum where Business Analysts could meet, discuss and debate the competencies needed to rise to the challenges faced by their organisations today and in the future. It also provided a platform for promoting the Business Analysis profession and opportunities for Business Analysts personal development. The focus for the 2011 conference was on how the Business Analysis skills set can be applied across the whole of the business change life cycle with particular emphasis on supporting strategic change. It also explored the more creative and innovative techniques that the role can bring to the change arena. The key themes for 2011 were: The role of the Business Analyst in Business Change Innovation and Creativity Business Analysis Tools and Techniques Business Analysis in Practice		2011 Keynotes Included:
		Ivar Jacobson Founder & Chairman Ivar Jacobson International Hear how user stories and aspect-orientation have inspired us to make use-cases even better while maintaining their core values. Ivar Jacobson is a father of components and component architecture, use cases, the Unified Modeling Language and the Rational Unified Process.

		Emma Langman Change Magician Progression Partnership Why now is the time that organisations must become learning organisations to survive and rebuild after the economic downturn - and what this can do to the bottom line. Emma goes under the title of “Change Magician” as a result of the miraculous outputs that transpire through employing the discipline of Systems Thinking with her clients.

		Euan Semple euansemple.com One of the few people in the world who can turn the complex world of social networking into something we can all understand. Drawing on work with the BBC, Nokia, the World Bank and NATO Euan is a master story-teller who offers a host of practical tales about how this new world can work for real people in the real world.

2011 Conference Chair:

Alex Papworth
bamentor.com
President, IIBA® UK Chapter
and Financial Services Authority

2011 Plenary Session:

Andy Wilkins
CASS Business School
and Perspectiv
Thinking about your creativity and problem solving preferences and the implications for BAs – what is your VIEW?

Please view our photos from the 2011 Conference on Flickr.

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Dates/Venue
24-26 September 2012
Radisson Blu Portman Hotel
London, UK

The prestigious Business Analyst of the Year 2012 Award will be presented at the Conference.


2011 Contributors Included:
		The Royal Bank of Scotland
		BBC Worldwide Technology
		UK Oracle User Group
		Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
		UK Government
		Skandia
		Capgemini
		Waitrose
		Totaljobs Group
		Barclays Bank
		The National Assembly for Wales
		NATS
		Intel Corporation
		MedImmune
		Financial Services Authority
		Prudential
		RWE npower
		Cass Business School
		Virgin Media

For Practitioners, By Practitioners

2011 Industry Experts and Authors Included:
		James Archer
		Frank Buytendijk
		Lambert David
		Nick de Voil
		Melanie Gladwin
		Bianca Hollis
		Andrew Kendall
		Neil Maiden
		Penny Pullan
		Vanessa Randle
		Raffaella Recupero
		James Robertson
		Suzanne Robertson
		Alec Sharp
		Corrine Thomas
		Paul Turner

IIBA DISCOUNTS:
•	15% discount to all IIBA UK Chapter members
•	10% discount to all other IIBA members

GROUP BOOKING DISCOUNTS:
	2-3 Delegates 10% 4-5 Delegates 20% 6+ Delegates 25%