On the 15th of September, COMPFEST held a Business Intelligence seminar at Fasilkom UI’s new Auditorium. The place was packed with seminar-goers, but everything went on with an orderly fashion. The seminar-goers were mostly composed of college students from other universities and institutes, and UI students from other faculties. The seminar had 3 speakers. They were Mr. Abdul Karim from Lee Cooper Indonesia, Mr. Hanif Alkaff from futuready, and Mr. Zanipar Siadari from Epson Indonesia. The whole seminar was moderated by Mr. Aditya Zulfahm., who’s also an alumnus from Fasilkom UI. He made sure everything went along smoothly, made everybody comfortable and lax, and generally just made the whole thing better.
The three speakers had their own way, or “style”, of conveying their messages. For instance, Mr. Alkaff spoke entirely in English, as he feels more comfortable using it, Mr. Siadari went on a more interactive and “funny” route, while Mr. Karim was straight to the point and set an atmosphere, not unlike those found in actual college classes.
After everybody talked their piece and a Q&A section, the seminar was officially over. A representative then gave the moderator and our three speakers a fancy trophy of some sort as a token of our gratitude for coming to our event. And of course, we took pictures of it all.
We had the chance to interview Mr. Zanipar Siadari from Epson Indonesia. We talked about a lot of things, from his impressions of the COMPFEST seminar held that day, to how to hone one’s Business Intelligence skill. In his opinion, the COMPFEST seminar held that day was excellent, and he was glad to see his fellow speakers had diverse backgrounds so that the seminar-goers and himself could learn from new and different perspectives.
Mr. Zanipar encouraged people to look at and process raw data by themselves. This is due to the fact that most people, in general, prefer data that just tells them the “short answer”, or in other words, data that outright give them the conclusion without bothering with the details. Of course, data that summarizes so many factors into a few words or sentences wouldn’t be able to tell the full story, and sometimes the conclusions they present can be misleading. Mr. Zanipar also recommended the seminar-goers and other COMPFEST attendees to hone their Business Intelligence skills by thinking critically and, again, processing raw data by themselves and come up with their own conclusions.
And just like the “short answer” data we mentioned, this article won’t be able to tell you the full story of our interview with Mr.Zanipar. If you’re interested, check out the interview video!
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