Cade Massey, Practice Professor, Operations, Information, and Decisions at the Wharton School, opens the 2018 People Analytics Conference with an overview of the state of the People Analytics industry (spread and growth) based on LinkedIn data, as well as a summary of the characteristics of conference attendees (location, industry, number of times attended the Conference, etc.) He also reaffirms the purpose of the Conference: sharing ideas and building relationships.