As Actuate planned its worldwide series of Data Driven Summits, we promoted the hashtag #DataDrivenSummit. We’ve enjoyed following that hashtag around the globe as social media users attended the event and experienced Actuate’s embedded analytics platform. So far we’ve traveled from the west coast of the U.S. to Asia, then to Europe. After a brief hiatus, we head back to the U.S. next month for one last show. There’s still time to sign up for the New York City Data Driven Summit on December 3 – click here.
Here are some of our favorite tweets from the hashtag’s journey:
Santa Clara
Three days before our first summit in Santa Clara, California on November 6, the buzz started building.
.@Actuate $BIRT to Address the Future of Embedded #Analytics at #DataDrivenSummit 2014 | Business Wire http://t.co/X9uJN8NgNE
— Kendra Lee (@itsmekendralee) November 3, 2014
Once the Santa Clara summit began, attendees were busy using the hashtag to share summit insights. International communications guru Christophe Goudy tweeted actively, and was particularly taken with this comment by BI expert Shaku Atre, who appeared in our panel on “Becoming More Data Driven.” Atre will also speak at the Data Driven Summit in New York City on December 3, 2014.
@Actuate #DataDrivenSummmit @shakyAtre “you have to equip your customers to help them to buy you more stuff” LOVE IT pic.twitter.com/wdbjPGaCAw — Christophe Goudy (@BigAusieTaz) November 6, 2014
Twitterers in Santa Clara also snapped and shared pictures. Erica Messick of Jobvite snagged a screenshot from a presentation by Allen Bonde, Actuate’s Vice President of Product Marketing and Innovation.
We must address the needs of ALL types of users- be clever, be novel be simple #datadrivensummit pic.twitter.com/fL2GVIHHpv — Erica Messick (@Erica_Messick) November 6, 2014
Esteban Kolsky of ThinkJar, one of our panelists, tweeted throughout Data Driven Summit. He shared this remark made by Bonde while Pierre Tessier and Mark Gamble of Actuate demonstrated the BIRT iHub Platform’s role in embedded analytics:
#DataDrivenSummit “white label is very Important when talking about embedded” ~@abonde yep #EmbeddedBI agree. — Esteban Kolsky (@ekolsky) November 6, 2014
At the end of the day, yours truly grabbed a picture of the two happy attendees who won prizes in our raffle.
Prize-winners at the #datadrivensummit – thanks to all attendees! Sign up for future summits: http://t.co/qybTsvZgHp pic.twitter.com/zBAoPoRK87 — Actuate (BIRT) (@Actuate) November 7, 2014
Singapore
The Santa Clara event wrapped up and the Data Driven Summit team headed across the Pacific. When Bonde arrived in Singapore, he was smitten with The Lion City’s charming mix of ancient and modern architecture:
Singapore – old and new #datadrivensummit #travel pic.twitter.com/XKrC75Aj9S
— Allen Bonde (@abonde) November 10, 2014
Tokyo
The Data Driven Summit traveled next to Tokyo. Bonde tweeted this photo before the event began.
Getting ready for #datadrivensummit Tokyo pic.twitter.com/WqnojcLvng — Allen Bonde (@abonde) November 13, 2014
Paris
When the Data Driven Summit landed in Paris, Actuate customer Centreon proudly tweeted about the Excellence Award it received.
#Centreon and @moujimouja get an Excellence reward at @Actuate Data Driven Summit for their work with #iHub and #BIRT pic.twitter.com/zJTLqMyChj
— Centreon (@Centreon) November 18, 2014
Raynald Garnier of GeoConcept shared a pearl of wisdom given by Actuate CEO Pete Cittadini in his keynote talk.
“Information in context is Intelligence” Pete Cittadini CEO @Actuate au #datadriven14 #BIRT Embedded BI Technology — Raynald GARNIER (@raynald_garnier) November 18, 2014
London
As the summit prepared to hop to London, buzz built when software developer “Basil4Business” shared this:
Data Driven Summit tomorrow 8.30am to 4:30pm, Mayfair London http://t.co/BQpzsUZWzq via @actuate
— Basil (@Basil4Business) November 18, 2014
When Bonde spoke at the London Data Driven Summit, attendee Elliot Zissman of Pythian shared an insight he liked.
McKinsey: Companies that put data at the centre of their marketing and sales decisions improve marketing ROI by 15-20%. #datadrivensummit — Elliot Zissman (@elliotz) November 19, 2014
Several Actuate customers were recognized at the London summit for their work with BIRT. Samantha Singh, Actuate’s Director of Corporate Communications, noted Excellence Award winners who spoke with Nobby Akiha, Actuate’s Senior Vice President of Marketing:
#Actuate excellence awards to NHS England & Diginius for BIRT and embedded analytics deployment #datadrivensummit pic.twitter.com/8sDE0dMrlq — samanthasingh (@samanthasingh) November 19, 2014
Just as important as the things Actuate shared with summit-goers were the things the attendees shared with us and with their peers. Analyst Helena Schwenk of MWD Advisors noted both the quality of the conversations and of the summit’s venue.
I’ve had some v interesting conversations at @actuate customer day. Great location too #datadrivensummit — Helena Schwenk (@hmschwenk) November 19, 2014
And Finally, New York
The conversation continues as we move toward our final summits in Frankfurt today (November 20) and in New York on December 3. Check out all the #DataDrivenSummit tweets here: #DataDrivenSummit Tweets