Presenting at Vancouver TechFest on Nov 21

I suppose I can't get enough of this stuff - but this presentation is a bigger step up from those I've done previously.  (Or so I'm leading myself to believe.)  On November 21st, the third annual Techfest will be held in Vancouver - at the BCIT campus in Burnaby, to be precise.  I'll be on stage at 2:30pm, and my topic is...
Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Primer
You can see the site for the full abstract.  The short version is that I intend to talk to non-BI people about what BI and DW is, and how it's different from normal database work.  If you're a business professional, developer, or DBA who knows very little or nothing about this "new thing" called BI, you should definitely consider coming.
Why should BI be on your radar if you're one of those people?  All of the "analyst" groups (Gartner, Forrester, ...) have identified BI in the top three areas that businesses and/or CIOs are interested in for the last decade almost every time they do a survey.  Sure - sometimes virtualization or SaaS beats it, but it's consistently top of mind for business and tech leaders. 
In just over an hour, I'll let you know what you need to know.  I'll lead off with describing what BI is and what value it's supposed to provide.  Hopefully with metaphors that resonate with the audience.
If you're a Dev or DBA, the next part of the session will talk more directly to you about how you need to unlearn some database "rules" that have been (correctly) pounded into you over years and years of working with OLTP systems - you need to know this stuff so you don't kneecap your BI efforts with poor design.
To wrap up, I'll tell you what a BI project needs to succeed - something everybody there needs to know, regardless what specific group they belong to.
A Bigger Step
I bit off a big chunk when I requested a spot for this topic.  I'm a developer at heart, so it's relatively easy for me to talk about the technical stuff.  Trying to describe a topic that should also speak strongly to business people who are curious about tech, as well as geeks who need to know what their business counterparts are talking about is quite a deviation from that.  On top of that, Rich Baumet let me know last week that there are about 700 people registered for the event... and there's only four tracks.  That could mean (naively) that I could be talking to 175 people - quite a step up from a 50 person user group presentation.  The third thing I'm working towards making this a success is that I'm using all those people as a testing ground for a possible repeat of the presentation - to my own execs.  Sure, it will need some tweaking for the different audience - but I'm really hoping that the pressure for this will reduce the pressure for the second go-around.  And I'm really hoping for some feedback from the audience on what worked and what didn't!
As usual, I'll be posting my slides and a recap of the session after the event - hope to see you there!