Essential Strategies, Inc. is a frequent participant in various conferences and shows that take place over a year. Among the shows currently of interest to Essential Strategies clients:

Northeastern Regional DAMA Road Show
During the second week of March, 2012, David Hay will be presenting "Yes You Can Create an Architectural Data Model" to local DAMA chapters in Boston, Hartford, New Jersey, and New York City. Based on his book, UML and Data Modelng: A Reconciliation, this addresses the fundamental philosophic difference between the object-oriented design community and the business data modeling community. The vehicle for this is his tinkering with the UML Class Model notation to make it viable as a notation for what he calls "architectural" (more commonly called "conceptual" or "logical") entity/relationship modeling.
(Among other things, he will deal with the issue of naming different types of models, as well as best practices for "good" business-oriented models.)

  • DAMA New England - Boston, March 12, 2012
  • DAMA New England - Hartford, March 13, 2012
  • DAMA New Jersey - Warren, New Jersey, March 14, 2012
  • DAMA New York - New York City, March 15, 2012
(Links to chapter web sites will be added here as they become available.)
David will be offering copies of his latest books for sale at a 20% discount. These are Enterprise Model Patterns: Describing the World and UML and Data Modeling: A Reconciliation.

Enterprise Data World
Atlanta, Georgia
April 29-May 3, 2012

Enterprise Data World, formerly the DAMA International Symposium & Wilshire Meta-Data Conference, is the business world’s most comprehensive vendor-neutral educational event about data and information management. This year’s program will be bigger than ever before, with more sessions, more case studies, and more can’t-miss content.
David Hay will participate in a "Power Panel" to discuss Contemporary Issues in Modeling.

2011 Semantic Technology Conference
San Francisco, California
June 3-7, 2012

The Semantic Tech & Business Conference is five days of presentations, panels, tutorials, announcements, new company/product launches, and conversations. It's a place for new learning, professional networking and business development.
SemTechBiz is the world's largest educational conference series for the community of executives, technologists, researchers, investors and customers involved with semantic technologies.