SKIM/Sawtooth Software Conference and Training Event 2019

In collaboration with Sawtooth Software, we held SKIM/Sawtooth Software 2019 European Conference and Training Event in Paris, France. The European event consisted of four days of workshops, tutorials, and conference papers. It brought together market research practitioners and academics to learn about and discuss quantitative methods in marketing research.

Date and time: Tue-Fri, 9-12 April 2019 from 9.00 to 18.00
Venue: Paris La Defense Hotel, Paris – France

SKIM/Sawtooth Software Sessions 2019 at a glance

Simultaneous breakout sessions are planned from 9-11 April. All attendees will be together for the final conference session on the 12th of April 2019. See here for more detailed info

Tuesday, 9 April

• CBC Workshop
  Room 1: 9.00 – 18.00
• Market Simulator A-Z
  Room 2: 9.00 – 18.00
• Advanced Lighthouse Studio
  Room 3: 9.00 – 18.00

Wednesday, 10 April

• CBC Workshop
  Room 1: 9.00 – 18.00
• Menu Based Choice (MBC) Workshop
  Room 2: 9.00 – 18.00
• Experimental Conjoint Solutions
  Room 3: 9.00 – 13.00
• Drivers Analysis: Execution & Delivery
  Room 3: 14.00 – 18.00
• Segmentation Studies with Emphasis on Client Management
  Room 4: 9.00 – 10.55
  
• Strategies for Delivering Actionable Results – Conjoint Analysis & MaxDiff
  Room 4: 11.05 – 13.00
• Advanced MaxDiff Survey Programming Workshop
  Room 4: 14.00 – 18.00
  

Thursday, 11 April

• MaxDiff for Beginners: From Proposal to Reporting
  Room 1: 9:00 to 10:55
  
• Power Tools: MaxDiff Typing Tool, CBC/HB Model Explorer, Bandit MaxDiff
  Room 1: 11:05 to 13:00
• Market Simulator Essentials
  Room 1: 14:00 to 18:00
• Situational Choice Experiments
  Room 2: 9:00 to 10:55
• Bring Conjoint Analysis and MaxDiff to Your Work or University
  Room 2: 11:05 to 13:00
• Lighthouse Studio – Beyond the Basics
  Room 2: 14:00 to 18:00
• A Practitioner’s View
  Room 3: 9:00 to 18:00
• Adaptive Methods & Real-Time Feedback
  Room 4: 9:00 to 10:55
• Tree-Based Models for Beginners
  Room 4: 11:05 to 13:00
• Segmentation: Best Practices for Actionable Results
  Room 4: 14:00 to 18:00

Friday, 12 April

Some of the topics are

• Constructed, Augmented MaxDiff: A New Case and Threshold Augmentation
• Too Much Information?: The Curious Case of Augmented MaxDiff
• Extreme (300+) Concept Testing: Combining Bandit MaxDiff, CBC, and Qualitative Judgments
• Talk to Your Conjoint – Using a Chatbot in a Conjoint Interview
• Linking MaxDiff and CBC within a Hierarchical Choice Model
• What Is the Impact of Having Prohibitions in Choice-Based Conjoint Analysis?
• An Adaptation of RFC in 2-Attribute Exercises
• Revisiting Ensembles: A Straightforward Approach to Increase Model Accuracy?
• Applying Machine Learning to CBC Data
• Customer Classification into Clusters Using XGBoost