Spreadsheet Analytics Workshop

Turkish American Business Connection (TABC) is a 501-c(6) non-profit organization in Silicon Valley. TABC advances the interests of businessmen and businesswomen, entrepreneurs and professionals from all industries through personal networking and professionally organized informative events. Join TABC to support your local community. TABC is proud to sponsor the professional development workshop hosted by Starters Lab.  Starters Lab announces its first workshop designed for professionals – Spreadsheet Analytics Using Microsoft Excel. http://www.starterslab.com/excel-workshop/REGISTER NOWThis workshop will help your business to make more effective decisions much more efficiently through MS Excel best practices. It contains three modules spread over a period of a day and a half. Sessions are held on Friday, May 2nd from 8 AM to 5 PM and Saturday, May 3rd from 9 AM to 1 PM. Single or group participants can attend sessions. Capacity for the workshop is 25 participants: sessions are intimate and the third module will be customized based on the group’s interest. Participants are required to bring a laptop with Microsoft Excel installed for this workshop. Who Should Attend? As a MS Excel user, you may be aware of its capabilities to make your day-to-day workload easier; however, it may be tough to learn more about the many features available to you. At the conclusion of this workshop, you will have a working knowledge of more advanced features and functions Excel offers.

• The workshop is comprised of three modules that are 4-hour sessions each, Module 3 being optional.
• The sessions will include one-on-one interaction opportunities, realistic data sets, and short case studies.
• Each participant will receive a binder with descriptions, illustrations, fill-in-the-blank assignments.

Expected Outcomes Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Create readable and informative charts
• Use conditional formatting
• Record macros for handling complicated tasks
• Create advanced cell formulas and functions
• Design and work with multiple workbooks
• Audit worksheets
• Analyze data
• Analyze scenarios
• Day 2 – Learn about analytic tools – based on participants’ learning interest

Instructor – Professor Özgür Özlük

Professor Özgür Özlük is an associate professor in the Department of Decision Sciences at San Francisco State University, College of Business since Fall 2003, teaching operations management related courses. He obtained his Ph.D. in Operations Research from UNC Chapel Hill in 1999. After that, he spent three years working for Airline Scheduling company (Caleb Tech, Texas) and at the Revenue Management division of Manugistics, Inc. Professor Özlük is currently involved in the following research areas: 1) spreadsheet engineering 2) practices of revenue management 3) business applications of mathematical programming. He has also taught several executive MBA courses and given workshops/seminars in companies such as Old Navy and Banana Republic. Currently, he is providing consulting services on Supply Chain Management for various manufacturing companies. Attendance Options

• Module 1, 2 & 3: $695, Friday, May 2nd and Saturday, May 3rd, 2014
• Module 1 & 2 only: $495, Friday, May 2nd, 2014

REGISTER NOWMultiple Attendees There is a 10% discount for multiple attendee registration. Contact Tolgay Karabulut, Program Director at (650) 389-7385 or tolgay@starterslab.com for more information on how to register multiple attendees. Cancellation Policy Full refunds will be provided for cancellations made by April 18th, 2014, two weeks prior to the workshop. For more information about this program or additional offerings, please contact us.