Hi Members — Our next meeting is Thursday, Feb 17! The sponsor of our next virtual User Group Meeting is Lodestar Solutions, Business Analytics Consultants that are experts in IBM Cognos and Agile Scrum delivering faster analytics!

In this quarter’s agenda, Lodestar will be discussing analytics topics through the lens of the “Great Resignation” in an effort to help prepare and/or address resource and talent constraints.

For this user group we are trying something a little different. To Register you will go to Lodestar’s Training Portal. Don’t worry, it’s free. You will have to create a username and password. By doing so you will be granted access to the recordings of the user group after the event. Lodestar Solutions, will also periodically post updated videos and information to this training environment. So, if something major happens you will get notified.

This does not mean you should skip the meeting because you don’t want to create an account! You want to attend because we are also having virtual networking where we put you in breakout rooms to meet your peers and discuss various topics of interest.

If you have any questions or issues with registering, please email Heather Cole at hcole@lodestarsolutions.com

Agenda for User Group Meeting (subject to change):
9:00 – 9:15am: Introductions
9:15 – 10:00am: The Great Resignation: Analytics Professionals are on the move and how you can respond, by Lodestar
10:00 – 10:30am: Virtual Networking – small group discussion
10:30 – 11:00am: Cognos Analytics on Cloud, by IBM
11:00 – 11:10am: Break
11:10 – 11:30am: Vulnerability with Log4, by Lodestar
11:30 – 12:00pm: Python Integration with Cognos/Planning Analytics, by Lodestar

Maureen Kinard
Director, Client Technical Leaders – Financial Services Market – West
IBM Technology