Call for Speakers

Data Governance Europe Conference
2012
Call for Speakers Deadline Extended to 14 November 2011
Presentation proposals are now being accepted for the 5th Annual Data Governance Conference, Europe scheduled for 23-25 April, 2012 at the Radisson Blu Portman Hotel, London, UK .The conference is produced by IRM UK. This event will be co-located with the 7th annual Master Data Management Summit 2012.
The Data Governance Conference Europe will focus on all aspects of data governance from beginning a data governance function, improving and sustaining your data governance program to achieving data governance maturity.
We are interested in proposals for novices as well as advanced sessions that focus on case studies, lessons learned, success stories, strategies and methodologies relating to data governance. We encourage novice presenters as well as professional presenters to submit proposals for this event.
Presentations may be proposed in the following categories:
- Conference Sessions (1 hour duration)
- Special Interest Groups which include facilitating and leading a discussion (1 hour duration)
- Panels (1 hour duration)
- Full/Half day Tutorials
- Keynote
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Case studies and data governance success stories
- Best practices for data governance
- Getting started with data governance
- Approaches and methodologies for data governance
- Data security, protection and privacy
- Governance, risk and compliance
- Tools for data governance e.g. templates, scorecards
- Data governance and master data management
- Building the business case and gaining executive support for data governance
- Data governance as a component of data and information strategies
- Data stewardship
- Roles and responsibilities
- Role of communications in successful data governance initiatives
- Change management and process reengineering in data governance initiatives
- How to develop a data governance organization
- Data governance strategies for global organizations
- Standards and regulatory related issues
- Selling data governance Internally
- How to launch data governance with a limited budget
- How to build grass-roots support for data governance
- Practical advice for data governance leaders
- How to break down silos and foster greater collaboration with data governance
- Measuring the benefits of data governance
- Impact of data governance on other initiatives including enterprise architecture, business intelligence, data integration, metadata management, data quality, SOA and ERP
- Metrics and measurements for evaluating your data governance program
- Pitfalls and roadblocks to avoid in data governance deployments
- How to align data governance with ITIL and COBIT strategies
- Future trends in data governance
- Drivers for data governance in vertical industries
- Role of data quality in data governance
- Project management and programme management for data governance
- Information governance - unstructured content
- Leveraging data discovery to identify, manage and govern data
- Data lifecycle management
- Governing test data
Please CLICK HERE to submit a proposal.
Please direct any questions regarding submissions to Jeremy.hall@irmuk.co.uk.
Sponsorship Opportunities Are Available
Please
contact Shane Mcglynn at shane@irmuk.co.uk.
Jeremy Hall
IRM UK Strategic IT Training

