Conference Components

Inspire 2013

Conference Components

Solutions Center

Visit the Inspire 2013 Solutions Center - the place where you can find answers to all your Alteryx questions. The Solutions Center will feature numerous workstations designed for deep-dives to solve specific issues. Bring your analytic applications and modules, your "how-to" questions, and most of all your ideas and a technical Alteryx associate will be happy to work with you. You'll have an opportunity to network and collaborate directly with the Alteryx Developers who have designed and developed our products, as well as with our Product Managers, Sales Engineers, Professional Services consultants, and Client Services associates, who address customer issues every day.


Sponsor and Networking Lounge

Join our amazing partner community in the Sponsor and Networking Lounge. Open during networking events, the lounge offers a lively atmosphere to collaborate with partners and discover a variety of complementary Alteryx products, solutions, and services. Sponsorship opportunities posting soon.


Business Leadership track

The Business Leadership track will explore the effects that Big Data will have on all aspects of your operations - from how you will find and acquire your next customer, to how you will optimize your location, network, and inventory strategies. Networking opportunities with your executive peers will help you grapple with how to best capitalize on strategic analytics, the considerations of sharing analytic applications in the cloud, when and how to use predictive analytics, and ways to empower your business analysts and data artisans to analyze all relevant data in driving decisions - and do so faster than your competition. Over the course of two days, analysts and business leaders from Fortune 500 and other prominent companies will examine business challenges and trends, provide advice, share best practices and outline proven real-world strategies that you can implement when you get back to your office. Plus, you'll hear firsthand how Alteryx is being used to gain and maintain a competitive advantage across a wide variety of industries.

  • Cutting Through The Hype: What You Really Need to Know about Big Data by Bill Franks, Chief Analytics Officer, Teradata Wednesday, 6 March - 10:15 am - 11:00 am

    Based on content from Franks’ popular book, Taming The Big Data Tidal Wave, this presentation will cut through all the hype around Big Data and help you better understand how you can leverage its power to help you succeed within your organization. Included in the discussion will be examples of Big Data and the value it can drive, specific factors that make Big Data both different and yet more of the same, staffing considerations, tips on getting started, and perspectives on the future of Big Data. As an introduction to the potential of Big Data and Analytics, this presentation will be both educational and thought provoking, and a perfect way to kick off the Business Leadership track.

  • Optimizing Retail Inventory using Predictive Analytics by Fred Jezouit, Vice President of Finance & Treasurer, Southern States Cooperative Thursday, 7 March - 11:15 am - 12:00 am

    One of our nation's largest farmer cooperatives, Southern States Cooperative, needed a way to ensure that their farmers and retail stores receive the right products as buying preferences change with the seasons. This session will describe how they use the predictive capabilities of Alteryx to identify the individual SKUs and product groups that have strong seasonal buying patterns, set start/stop stocking dates at the wholesale and retail level, and determine the optimal inventory levels at each store. In addition, you will learn how Southern States Cooperative was able to reduce inventory carrying costs through the proactive identification of Slow Moving Inventory (SMI), and use this insight to modify processes and business rules to minimize SMI volume.


Alteryx Product Training

Enrich your Alteryx skill set with our product training sessions. Whether you're new to Alteryx or an experienced user, you can increase your Strategic Analytics IQ by taking advantage of these free classes. Multiple sessions addressing beginner, intermediate and advanced levels are offered, allowing Alteryx technology experts to cover a variety of functionalities and processes


Technology track

Join expert Alteryx associates, customers and partners as they share how to put the POWER of the Alteryx platform to work for your business. Numerous concurrent sessions - including the Tips & Tricks and Product Roadmap - will be offered in this technology-focused track. Other sessions will address a variety of topics including technical methodologies, using Big Data, best practices for designing and securely publishing new applications, the Alteryx API, and getting started with Predictive Analytics. Customers and partners will share how they improved business outcomes across industries such as Retail, Restaurants, Telecommunications, Real Estate and Financial Services. These real world use-cases will range from marketing optimization and identifying new market opportunities to improving operational efficiencies and gaining customer intelligence - enabled by the unique capabilities of the Alteryx platform and technology.

  • Developer Spotlight: Extend the Power of Alteryx Wednesday, 6 March - 10:15 am - 11:00 am

    Do more with Alteryx through the Alteryx Advanced Programming Interface (API) and Software Development Kit (SDK). Hear from Alteryx field and engineering experts on how you can integrate Alteryx with other parts of your analytic infrastructure to go beyond what you ever thought possible.

  • Customer Analytics in Defiance of Disaster Wednesday, 6 March - 10:15 am - 11:00 am

    Ever wonder how one of the world's largest retailers is nimble enough to stay ahead of shoppers when it comes to natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy? Hear how they use Alteryx to power through the right set of insights and actions, tailored to the circumstances of each unique event.

  • Connecting the Dots: Big Data + Spatial Analytics Wednesday, 6 March - 11:15 am - 12:00 pm

    Do you think spatial analytics is only about site selection? Prepare to be surprised. See how spatial analytics is increasingly relevant across a wide variety of industries and use cases with the rise of Big Data. Alteryx gurus will share best practices on how to combine spatial data and analytics in the core platform, with social and sensor data from the web as well as Hadoop.

  • Fast Food, Faster Analytics Wednesday, 6 March - 11:15 am - 12:00 pm

    Attend this session to learn how one Data Artisan takes advantage of Alteryx to save time and sanity, while enabling the business to grow faster. Showcasing the end-to-end capabilities of the Alteryx platform, he’ll provide a glimpse into how his world has changed, how he uses Alteryx today, and where he’s headed in 2013 with the power of Alteryx.

  • Alteryx Tips & Tricks for Success Wednesday, 6 March - 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm

    Learn about the most popular Alteryx power-user tips, and hear from Alteryx gurus as they share their latest discoveries. This session will cover a wide variety of topics, including data input/output, new tools, faster processing tips, and best practices guidelines that will expand your use of Alteryx in new and unexpected ways.

  • Developer Spotlight: Extend the Power of Alteryx Wednesday, 6 March -1:30 am - 2:15 pm

    Do more with Alteryx through the Alteryx Advanced Programming Interface (API) and Software Development Kit (SDK). Hear from Alteryx field and engineering experts on how you can integrate Alteryx with other parts of your analytic infrastructure to go beyond what you ever thought possible.

  • Practical Predictive Analytics: The Stepping Stones to Success Wednesday, 6 March - 2:30 pm - 3:15 pm

    Join Dr. Dan Putler in this informative and practical guide to predictive analytics, using the built-in modular functionality in Alteryx. It's time to leap into the future guided by a proven set of best practices that will help you illuminate what's going to happen, and know what to do now.

  • Data Do's & Don'ts: Get More Out of Market & Demographic Data Wednesday, 6 March - 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm

    Get more out of the market data packaged with Alteryx, including demographic, firmographic, spatial household, and segmentation data. Learn about best (and worst) practices when combining internal data with 3rd-party data from leading providers such as the US Census Bureau, Experian, TomTom, and Dun & Bradstreet into your analytics.

  • What's New in Alteryx Strategic Analytics Thursday, 7 March - 10:15 am - 11:00 am

    In this NDA (Non-Disclosoure Agreement)-required session, be among the first to hear from Alteryx Product Management on what's in store for the next release of Alteryx Strategic Analytic. This informative session will jumpstart your efforts to get even more value from Alteryx without complicated coding or "data scientist" expertise.

  • Advanced App Building: The Shortcut to Strategic Analytics Thursday, 7 March - 11:15 am - 12:00 pm

    Think you know everything there is to know about Alteryx? This advanced session will highlight tools and techniques geared towards the advanced data artisan. Learn how to embed common Excel, MapInfo and ESRI functions within Alteryx, incorporate data sources like Teradata and Big Data from Hadoop, as well as new tools for creating more compelling analytics and visualizations.

  • Kaiser & Alteryx: Data Blending - Big Data & Beyond Thursday, 7 March - 11:15 am - 12:00 pm

    The ability to blend all relevant data is a key aspect of why Kaiser Permanente chose Alteryx to do strategic analytics. Hear Greg Hall, Service Optimization Leader at Kaiser Permanente, share how he uses Alteryx to implement new projects more quickly and efficiently. Alteryx gurus will also share how you can expand your use of data blending to include Hadoop-based data to uncover value hidden away in social media and other unstructured data sources.

  • Alteryx Strategic Analytics: Product Roadmap Thursday, 7 March - 1:15 pm - 2:00 pm

    In this NDA (Non-Disclosoure Agreement)-required session, hear from Alteryx Product Management on where Alteryx Strategic Analytics is headed in 2013 and beyond. This session will cover planned enhancements to both the Alteryx Designer Desktop as well as the Alteryx Analytics Gallery.

  • Big Data Analytics in the Cloud: Alteryx Analytics Gallery Thursday, 7 March - 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm

    The convergence of Big Data, Analytics and the Cloud is here, today. See how to get started with cloud-based Big Data Analytics applications in the Alteryx Analytics Gallery. In this session we will highlight the most innovative applications, best practices for using cloud-based data, and how you can jumpstart your own efforts without having to re-invent the wheel.