Jaspersoft Announces Exceptional Lineup of Speakers, Sessions and Contributors for JasperWorld 2012

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Jaspersoft, provider of the world's most widely used business intelligence software, today announced the full speaking panel for JasperWorld 2012, Jaspersoft's annual Business Intelligence (BI) conference. The speaking panel is headlined by keynotes from Jaspersoft CEO Brian Gentile and leading BI analyst Claudia Imhoff, Ph.D.  In addition, Jaspersoft technical co-founders, experts, partners and customers will present a variety of BI-themed topics in over 45 sessions. The event will take place at the Parc55 Hotel Union Square from September 24 – 26 in downtown San Francisco.

Featured BI, Big Data and Cloud thought leaders participating include:

• Matt Asay, Senior Vice President, Nodeable
• John Kreisa, Vice President Marketing, HortonWorks
• Max Schireson, President, 10gen
• Roger Stipple, CEO, Connection Cloud by Elastic Intelligence
• Rupert Steffner, Former Head of BI, Groupon International
• Bruce Weed, Program Director, Big Data Development, IBM

Jaspersoft is excited to welcome Edd Dumbill, founding program chair of the O'Reilly Strata conference, chair of the O'Reilly Open Source Convention and Principal Analyst at O'Reilly Radar as the moderator of the Cloud Panel titled: "Building BI in the Cloud".

JasperWorld will also feature a Big Data panel titled: "Big Data – Enough Talk Already", moderated by Claudia Imhoff, Ph.D., a thought leader, visionary and practitioner in the rapidly growing fields of business intelligence and customer focused-strategy.  Claudia will be hosting a Twitter Chat during JasperWorld with a focus on Self-Service BI.  For details on the Twitter chat and the full list of panel discussions, go to https://jasperworld.jaspersoft.com/sessions.

An invitation only summit for OEM customers and partners has been added to JasperWorld 2012. The Jaspersoft OEM Summit will provide an opportunity to learn from, and share with other software industry leaders who are helping create a competitive advantage by integrating Jaspersoft Business Intelligence.    

JasperWorld is put on by Jaspersoft, which produces the world's most widely deployed BI suite. The conference is expected to attract over 250 attendees this year and will offer a number of opportunities to participate in one-on-ones with Jaspersoft's product, executive and industry experts and have BI's most challenging questions answered at the Expert Bar.

Register for JasperWorld 2012 today!

Interested individuals can register for JasperWorld 2012 at bit.ly/NZAoNb. Follow @Jaspersoft and #JW12 on Twitter for more updates on the conference.

Jaspersoft will also be co-hosting a live Twitter chat with Claudia Imhoff during the show. Follow the #JW12chat hashtag starting at 10:00 AM PT on Wednesday, September 26 for a chance to interact with BI colleagues and thought leaders.

About Jaspersoft

Jaspersoft provides the most flexible, cost effective and widely deployed Business Intelligence (BI) suite in the world, enabling better decision-making through highly interactive reports, dashboards and analytics. By leading in support for cloud, big data and mobile deployments, Jaspersoft helps its customers deliver on the promise of self-service BI at scale. Leveraging a commercial open source business model and a Community of more than 275,000 registered members, Jaspersoft's open source BI software has been downloaded more than 16 million times. Jaspersoft production deployments, in excess of 175,000, power 130,000 data-driven applications spanning 15,000 commercial customers. Jaspersoft is privately held and has locations around the world. For more information, visit http://www.jaspersoft.com and http://www.jasperforge.org.

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