The 2009 SCIP Annual International Conference & Exhibition features five full tracks of programming, a world-renowned keynote speaker Michael Treacy, excellent networking opportunities and quality workshops.

Connect with your competitive intelligence peers at SCIP09, an experience, that promises to enthrall and inform through over 60 exciting sessions tailored to the CI professionals.

Attendees will hear distinguished keynote speaker Michael Treacy. He is the best-selling author of The Discipline of Market Leaders, and has spent much of his distinguished career transforming major corporations worldwide. Treacy has been a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and an advisor to the National Board of the United Way of America. Hear him discuss his new formula of business management, called Value Disciplines, at SCIP09.

Meet with CI Vendors in the exhibit hall and enjoy several networking opportunities sure to expand your contact list.

Five tracks including CI Offense/Defense, Professional Effectiveness, Critical Skills, Innovation in CI and Active Dialog.

Workshops feature hot topics including:

• Using Competitive Intelligence to Predict Your Competitors’ Pricing Actions

• Effective and Efficient Human Intelligence Collection (With a Clear Conscience)

• Implementing a Counter-Intelligence Program: Playing Zone Defense

• Positioning Competitive Intelligence to Executives

• From Implication to Implementation: Executing Strategic Intelligence Insights

• How to Set Up a World-Class CI Function

• CI 101®

• Introduction to Psycho-Metric Research Intelligence and Visual Data Intelligence (PRI101, VDI101)

• The Path to the Executive Suite—the Eight P’s to Power

• The KIT User-Needs Identification Process: Understanding and Using It!

• CI In China

• The Holy Grail: A True Framework for Measures of Effectiveness (MOE) and ROI

$100-off SCIP Stimulus Promotion - scip.org for direct registration and details

The SCIP Stimulus registration rates are $1,315 for members, $1,610 for new-members and for non-members $1,750. Regular Registration Rates are $1415 for members, $1710 for non-members and $1850 for non-members.

Registration Deadline
The $100 SCIP Stimulus promotion ends March 31, 2009. Regular registration ends April 12, 2009.