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Peter Aiken is an award-winning, internationally recognized thought leader in the area of organizational data architecture and engineering. As a practicing data manager, consultant, author and researcher, he has been actively performing and studying these areas for more than twenty-five years. His sixth book is titled XML in Data Management and is co-authored with David Allen. He has held leadership positions with the US Department of Defense and consulted with more than 50 organizations in 17 different counties. Dr. Aiken's achievements have resulted in recognition in Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century and bibliographic entries in Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, and other recognitions. His entertaining but clear and concise insights make him a sought after speaker, lecturer and consultant. He is an Associate Professor in Virginia Commonwealth University's Information Systems Department and the Founding Director of DataBlueprint.
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Iain
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Iain Bourne joined the information Commissioner’s office in 1996. During his time with the Commissioner he has dealt with a wide range of areas, including health service compliance, new technologies, international issues and privacy at work. Iain worked for a couple of years on the freedom of information side of the Commissioner’s office, before moving back to data protection in 2006 to deal with information-sharing policy. He was appointed Head of Data Protection Projects in April 2007.
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For the past ten years Alex Challis has been helping customers understand and apply innovative new data security technologies to control business IT risk. Prior to joining Imperva he helped leading global commercial and governmental organisations realise the successful early adoption of security management technologies in solving compliance and insider-threat related problems. Having over the past twenty years witnessed the mass adoption of first data networking and then data security technologies, Alex is able to quickly understand and articulate the business impact of emerging threats to data security.
Alex holds a BSc with honours degree in Computer Science from Imperial College, University of London.
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Malcolm Chisholm, AskGet.com. Malcolm has over 25 years of experience in data management. He has worked in manufacturing, finance, and government. During this time Malcolm has sought to reconcile conceptual understanding with the delivery of implemented solutions for clients. In particular, he has focused on metadata engineering to build a variety of applications. These include repositories, reference and master data management systems, and business rules engines. Malcolm has written numerous articles and has spoken at many venues. He has written two books: Managing Reference Data in Enterprise Databases (Morgan Kaufmann, 2000) and How to Build a Business Rules Engine (Morgan Kaufmann, 2003).
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Elizabeth
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Elizabeth Davis is a founding member of the Information Quality Group (“IQ Group”) within the International Finance Corporation (IFC). After leading the unit for the last three years, she was recently promoted to the position of Special Assistant to the VP, Risk Management. IFC is a multilateral finance institution of 2,700 global staff with a mission to “promote sustainable private sector development in developing countries with the aim of reducing poverty and improving people’s lives”.
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Larry
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Larry P. English, president and principal of INFORMATION IMPACT International, Inc., is an internationally recognized authority in information management and information quality improvement. He has provided consulting and education in more than 30 countries on five continents. He was featured as one of the “21 Voices for the 21st Century” in Quality Progress. English received the “Individual Achievement Award” for his contributions in information management from DAMA. He wrote the seminal article on “Information Stewardship” in 1993 and is considered the “Father of Information Stewardship” by a number of people. English’s widely acclaimed book Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality, is also available in Japanese. He is a co-founder of the International Association for Information and Data Quality (IAIDQ).
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Mike Ferguson is Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies Limited. As an analyst and consultant, with over 26 years of IT experience, he specialises in business intelligence and enterprise business integration. Mike has consulted for dozens of companies on business intelligence strategy, technology selection, enterprise architecture, enterprise portals, business process integration, SOA and data integration. He has spoken at events all over the world and written numerous articles. Mike is a resident expert on the Business Intelligence Network, providing articles, blogs and his insights on the industry. Formerly he was a principal and co-founder of Codd and Date Europe Limited (the inventors of the Relational Model), a Chief Architect at NCR on the Teradata DBMS and European Managing Director of Database Associates. He teaches popular Enterprise 2.0 master classes in Operational Business Intelligence and Performance Management, Master Data Management, Service Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Portals.
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Seán Kelly is the Managing Partner of Sean Kelly & Associates and is acknowledged as being the first European software engineer to implement a full enterprise-wide data warehouse in 1991 and his detailed knowledge of data warehouse design have afforded him an unrivalled position among business intelligence authorities. Sean has established a global reputation in the field of customer segmentation and profiling and has amassed a large number of clients who have managed to successfully transform fragmented customer data into intelligent customer profiles that drive direct marketing, product creation and business strategy. Together with Earl Hadden Sean developed the widely used Hadden-Kelly methodology for data warehouse design and implementation which has developed over the years to include modules for data governance and security. Seán has completed his latest book, Customer Intelligence, (published this year by Wiley) which charts the transition from mass marketing to targeted marketing techniques. He consults internationally in the field of data warehousing, data governance and customer segmentation and profiling. He is a regular speaker on the international conference circuit, with particular focus on the areas of customer relationship management (CRM) and information exploitation for business advantage. In addition, he is regularly sought out for his opinions by the media and his perspective on emerging trends regularly appear in print.
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Chris Maynard has worked in I.T. user organizations since 1980, in a career spanning Programming, Software Management, Database Management, Technical Services Management, Data Architecture and Information Management. He was “Global Data Architect” and an Information Steward at JohnsonDiversey for ten years. He is now a freelance consultant in Information Management and Data Quality.
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Toni McDerment is an Enterprise Data Architect with 12 years experience in the IT industry, with a record of achievement in data management and business analysis. At Reuters she is responsible for evolving the Enterprise Data Architecture and performing consultancy and governance in respect of that architecture.
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Nick
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Nick Millman is a Senior Director in Accenture Information Management Services, which focuses on helping its clients to achieve high performance through more effective use of information. Nick leads Accenture Information Management Services for the UK & Ireland. During the course of 14 years in management consulting and technology, he has worked with a broad range of organisations in the areas of information management strategy, governance, business intelligence, data management and architecture. Nick specialises in working with clients through the full lifecycle of information management from developing a strategy through to architecting, designing, building and deploying solutions which address the people, process and technology dimensions of information management.
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David
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David Plotkin is the Manager of Data Quality for Wells Fargo Consumer Credit Group (CCG), one of the fastest growing companies in Wells Fargo. He has been working with data modeling, metadata and data quality for over 15 years. He has built and currently maintains the CCG metadata repository, and is directly responsible for the data quality (and the data quality organization) at Wells Fargo CCG. He is also a leader in the drive to build, maintain, and document data integrity across the many data touch points in the company, and is a key player in the Basel II initiative. He is one of the leaders of the metadata, stewardship, and data quality initiatives at Wells Fargo corporate, serving as a subject matter experts on many topics.
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Colin Rickard joined DataFlux UK Ltd as Managing Director in 2006, bringing over 15 years experience in the construction and implementation of customer systems in both the UK and US markets. Rickard’s key responsibility at DataFlux is to raise the company’s profile in both UK and Europe by developing DataFlux’s commercial prospects within this market and overseeing the Sales and Technical teams. Prior to this role Rickard held the position of Head of Managed Services at Detica, a specialist IT consultancy. Within this role Rickard played a key role in the establishment of the cross industry counter Insurance Fraud Bureau and was responsible for leading projects for clients including Cable and Wireless and the Operational Risk Insurance Consortium. Before joining Detica he held a number of senior consulting positions at MDS Global Consulting, Cedar Group and Kognitio Knowledge Solutions.
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Olliver Robinson has worked in Transport for London, and prior to that, London Transport Buses since 1994. He joined the IT department in 1999 having worked in 3 different business departments supporting technology-based change. Since 1999 Olliver has worked as a systems analyst and business analyst, and has focused on all stages of the systems development lifecycle. His successes have been founded on robust data modelling and business process modelling. He spearheaded the use of Oracle Spatial in TfL, and the implementation of centralised standards-driven Business Intelligence. He is now leading the introduction of an ECM services platform right across TfL. Olliver has always championed a structured standards-driven approach to the specification of business technology, and to achieve success implementing standards across today’s large organisations requires strong governance; nowhere more so than in the field of business data.
Olliver has been the Data Subject Matter Expert in TfL Group IM since July 2007, and leads the operation of TfL’s data governance framework.
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Chris Saunders is an experienced business consultant with experience across the Government, financial services, aerospace, automotive and telecommunications industries. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a member of the Operational Research Society, and an Associate of the Institute of Actuaries. Chris has particular in-depth experience in data governance, data quality management, data warehousing, business intelligence, regulation and compliance. Chris has frequently spoken at data warehousing/CRM conferences, run workshops and written white papers on the practical implementation of data governance and information management programmes (including Basel II and Solvency II), as well as the use of business intelligence and data warehousing.
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Robert
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Robert S. Seiner is the President & Principal Consultant of KIK Consulting & Educational Services, LLC. KIK focuses on delivering practical and pragmatic data governance and data stewardship programmes, meta-data management programmes and enterprise data management programmes. Mr. Seiner is the Publisher of The Data Administration Newsletter, LLC – www.TDAN.com – an award winning e-publication that focuses on sharing data management best practices.
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Simon Slocombe is Principal Consultant at Evaxyx (UK) Limited. He has 15 years experience in working with large scale distributed systems, working across the financial, retail and government sectors. More recently, he has been focussing on governance issues associated with master data management and customer data integration, and is currently assisting an investment house in defining their enterprise data governance strategy.
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Gwen Thomas is President of The Data Governance Institute, which provides publications, training, and consulting in Data Governance, Stewardship, and Compliance. Gwen also serves as publisher of www.DataGovernance.com, the web’s largest collection of Data Governance information and humor, as well as publisher of www.SOX-online.com, the Vendor-Neutral Sarbanes-Oxley site. Gwen has designed Data Governance programmes for Sallie Mae, Wachovia Banks, Walt Disney World, Coors, NDCHealth/Wolters Kluwer, and others, working with IBM, systems integrator CIBER, and other partners. A frequent presenter at industry data events, Gwen is a columnist for z/Journal, on the presentation faculty for Institutional Investor, and is the author of Alpha Males and Data Disasters: The Case for Data Governance.
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Tjerrild Thykjaer |
Thomas T. Thykjaer is the project manager of Grundfos’ Master Data Management Project. Here he is leading the global implementation of a Master Data Management strategy and a data quality KPI concept. Previously he worked 7 years with Master Data Management and SAP Implementations at York International. His experience covers projects in Europe, America and Asia and he has a strong knowledge of MDM and the challenges that global companies are facing in implementing MDM strategies. He has previously given presentations about MDM at SAP and IBM seminars in Denmark as well as on London 2007 CDI-MDM SUMMIT. Mr. Thykjaer recieved his B.Sc. in Business Administration & Information Science from Aarhus School of Business.
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Helen Townsend is an Enterprise Data Architect in the Chief Architecture Office at Reuters, with responsibility for evolving the Enterprise Data Architecture and for providing consultancy and governance to projects across the organisation. Prior to joining Reuters, she had a long and varied career in IT including periods in systems programming and university lecturing, but has predominately worked with commercial data management systems.
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Nigel Turner is Head of ICT Customer Management within BT Exact IT, BT’s main software house. He leads a team of 130 consultants & technical experts in CRM, Billing and Data & Information Management, including specialists in data warehousing, data migration, data quality, data mining, data visualisation, Siebel, Interactive Voice Response & Computer Telephony Integration. Nigel has worked in BT for 25 years, mostly in a variety of IT roles including project & programme management. He also spent five years in BT’s Group Strategy unit, where he led business information management and corporate data quality initiatives. Outside BT he is a part time Associate Lecturer with the UK Open University where he teaches Systems & the Management of Change. Nigel has published several papers on information management and data quality, and is a regular speaker in IM conferences. Before joining BT, he worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science in the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
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Paul
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Paul Woodlock is a business process and management expert with over 20 years experience in delivering business-focused information technology solutions. Throughout his career Paul has focused on the intersection of business and technology – initially in delivering specialised applications for financial services clients. Throughout the ‘90s Paul managed the design and deployment of large multinational supply chain solutions in the US, Canada and Western Europe. Prior to joining Informatica Paul worked for a global consulting company where he was responsible for the delivery of data and information quality solutions for its clients.
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