On Monday, October 17, the ASUG BI + Analytics conference begins in New Orleans.  Looking back, the call for speakers started about 5 months ago:

Source: ASUG

This year the ASUG Volunteer program committee worked hard to ensure great content, customer stories, and hands-on sessions (which are nearly sold out).

On Monday, there are 3 pre-conference sessions, featuring luminary Wayne Eckerson.  SAP Mentor Ingo Hilgefort has a pre-conference hands-on session on Design Studio:

As of a few days ago, only a few spots are left for this hands-on session.  If you arrive in New Orleans early, I encourage you to consider registering for one of the pre-conference sessions.

Now on for more SAP Mentor sessions:

Derek Loranca is one of the presenters for ASUG BI Platform Influence Council:

This influence council is one of the most active ASUG Influence councils, with one of the participants stating “I really feel like I influence SAP”.

So what is ASUG Influence?  ASUG recently released this video to explain:

Derek also has a session on the newly-reformed ASUG Web Intelligence Influence Council:
Ingo Hilgefort has some hands-on sessions (all sold out as of now):