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Closing Keynote: Second City Communications: What An Intelligent Idea!

Wednesday, 4 May 2011
04:00 PM – 05:00 PM

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Speaker: Second City Comedy Troupe
Location: Los Angeles Room
Session Type: Keynote Session

We are going to have some fun exploring the comic side of the oxymoron “business intelligence,” the debate over whether we master data or it masters us, absurd (yet painfully real and expensive) examples of real project failures, flaws and gaffs, and more. We’ve asked the historic Second City improvisational troupe to join us for a fun, interactive and unconventional yet memorable keynote to give us some laughs to take home. Second City has been performing sketch comedy in front of audiences for over 50 years, making it the standard by which comedy and improv in America is judged. Some of their most well-known alumni are Mike Myers, Chris Farley, Tina Fey, Steve Carrell and Stephen Colbert to name a few.