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Peter Aiken Founding Director Institute for Data Research |
Peter Aiken is Director of the Institute for Data Research and an Associate Professor of Information Systems at Virginia Commonwealth University. His research has widely explored the area of data engineering and its relationship to systems and business reengineering. He is the author of Data Reverse Engineering and Clive Finkelstein's co-author of Corporate Information Portals (McGrawHill 1996/99). A new collaboration titled Achieving EAI with Service-Based Architectures (ISBN:0471415154 Wiley 2001). His research publications have appeared in the IBM Systems Journal, IEEE Software and many others. He is a member of ACM, and the IEEE (Senior Member). He has been a DAMA International Advisor since 1999 and received their 2001 International Achievement Award. He has lectured internationally on these and related topics.
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- Meta Data Tutorial: Meta Data Fundamentals
- DAMA Track 1: XML: ITS IMPACT ON DATA MANAGEMENT, ADMINISTRATION AND ARCHITECTURE
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Gareth
Bevan R&D Director Quillion Ltd |
Gareth has over 15 years experience delivering Information Technology solutions to the commercial and financial services sectors working for a number of product and service providers including Logica and KPMG Consulting. For 6 year Gareth was on the board of Synopsys Limited as Product Director. At Quillion Gareth is Research and Development Director with responsibility for technology strategy and direction.
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Michael Brackett President DAMA International |
Mr. Brackett retired from the State of Washington in June 1996, where he was the State's Data Resource Coordinator. He was responsible for developing common data architecture for the State that spans multiple jurisdictions, such as state agencies, local jurisdictions, Indian tribes, public utilities, and Federal agencies, and includes multiple disciplines, such as water resource, growth management, and criminal justice. He is the founder of Data Resource Design and Remodeling and is the consulting data architect specializing in developing integrated data resources. Mr. Brackett has been in the data processing field for nearly 40 years, during which time he developed many innovative concepts and techniques for designing applications and managing data resources. He is considered the originator of the common data architecture concept, the data resource framework, the data naming taxonomy and data naming vocabulary, the five-schema concept, the three-tier five-schema concept, the expanded five-tier five-schema concept, the data rule concept, the business intelligence value chain, and the concept of data resource data.
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Don Carlson Data Infrastructure and Configuration Management Program Manager Motorola |
Mr. Carlson has 22 years experience in Automation, Manufacturing Engineering, Process Engineering and Operations in Electronic and Semiconductor Manufacturing. For the past 2.5 years he has led Motorola Semiconductor Product Sector's Program to improve its information and data quality. He presented "The Value of Data in Supply Chain Planning" at IQ 2000.
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- Information Quality: METRICS, A KEY SUCCESS FACTOR FOR IQ
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Donald
Chapin Consultant Business Semantics Ltd |
Donald Chapin has been involved with business rules since introducing decision tables to IBM internal application development training in the late 1960's. He has designed four requirements tools where business rules were a key component, as well as defining the rules for those tools. His business rule focus has been on requirements definition for large data-driven business systems as a tools and methods consultant, facilitator, trainer, mentor, quality monitor, and business analysis project manager. Donald is a member of the Business Rules Group, and co-editor of its new "Organizing Business Concepts" standard under development.
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Malcolm
Chisholm Manager Deloitte & Touche |
Malcolm Chisholm is currently a Manager with Deloitte & Touche and has over 20 years of experience in information technology, both in Britain and the United States. He has worked in a variety of organisations in manufacturing, insurance, banking, accounting and the public sector. Most of this time has been spent in systems development and data administration. A particular focus of his work has been to extract metadata from data models and use it to automate the generation of systems components. He is the author of the recently published book "Managing Reference Data in Enterprise Databases", and runs the associated web site www.refdataportal.com.
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- DAMA Track 2: MANAGING REFERENCE DATA AT THE ENTERPRISE LEVEL
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Karen is a Senior Manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers, working in the area of Data Management. Prior to this she was Director of Business Data Management at Bank of Scotland. Karen is recognised as a leading practitioner of Data Quality in the UK and has presented at the 1999 World and European Information Quality Conferences.
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- Information Quality: DATA: THE HIDDEN CATALYST
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Mr. Gosztonyi is the principal consultant with Zanka Consulting. He successfully introduced and deployed the COPC-2000 call centre quality standard in Bell Canada’s consumer call centres. He has been in the telecommunications industry over 27 years and has extensive experience in Call Centres, strategic planning, business case development, and marketing support.
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- Information Quality: IMPLEMENTING QUALITY IN THE CALL CENTRE, WHICH STANDARD IS RIGHT FOR YOU?
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Larry English |
Mr. English, President and Principal of INFORMATION IMPACT International, Inc., is an internationally recognized authority in information and knowledge management and information quality improvement. He has provided consulting and education in more than 25 countries on five continents. He was featured as one of the "21 Voices for the 21st Century" in the January, 2000 issue of Quality Progress. DAMA awarded him the 1998 "Individual Achievement Award" for his contributions to the field of information resource management. Mr. English’s methodology for information quality improvement—Total Quality data Management (TQdM®)—has been implemented in several organizations worldwide. He writes the "Plain English on Data Quality" column in the DM Review. Mr. English’s widely acclaimed book Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality, is also available in Japanese.
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- Information Quality Tutorial: ABCs of Information Quality
- Joint Chair Introduction
- Keynote: Data Quality Is Not The Goal - The Goal is Wisdom: Lessons (That Should Be) Learned from IT Failures
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After the study of computer science in Munich, Davor worked on software projects for database applications in retail and finance area for different companies as developer, consultant, and project manager. He joined Rational in 1997 and worked as a technical representative. He joined the Rose Business Unit as a marketing engineer for the Rose Data Modeling product.
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Patricia Graham is a Systems Director at Prudential Financial Services and has been associated with Prudential for 17 years. She initiated the data management practice at Prudential Property and Casualty in conjunction with Anderson Consulting in 1990 and has been involved in data management in one capacity or another ever since. She has developed the Enterprise Model, determined Data Naming Standards, implemented policies and procedures, established a data modelling practice, established a data archaeology area, centralised the database administration function, and implemented a data repository. She has extended the data management practices to project management and implemented several data warehouse projects.
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A veteran of the Information Industry since the days of punched cards, paper tape, and teletype machines, Dave Hay has been producing data models to support strategic information planning and requirements planning since the mid-1980's. He has worked in a variety of industries, including, among others, power generation, clinical pharmaceutical research, oil refining, forestry, and broadcast. He is President of Essential Strategies, Inc., a consulting firm dedicated to helping clients define corporate information architecture, identify requirements, and plan strategies for the implementation of new systems. He is the author of the book, Data Model Patterns: Conventions of Thought, published by Dorset House, and, more recently, producer of Data Model Patterns: Data Architecture in a Box™, an Oracle Designer repository containing his model templates.
He is a member of The Business Rules Group, DAMA International, and the International Oracle User's Group, as well as local chapters of these.
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Ho-Chun Ho has over 10 years experience in enterprise architecture planning and IT management. His areas of expertise include e-commerce, enterprise data architecture, data warehousing, system integration, project management, corporate metadata management and repository implementation. He works for Nekema.com as a director of technology.
Ho-Chun has published and lectured about
leading edge technologies such as data warehousing, meta data management,
CASE, etc., in many national and international conferences. He was invited
to speak about meta data, XML, business rules engine technology and his
current implementation of an online B2B web application. He was a key
note speaker at DAMA Australia, 2000.
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Mr. Hodges has an 18-year career of project management in information systems development. The last three years has been dedicated to improving information quality within BT’s many systems through use of a "best of breed" commercially available information quality toolset supplied by a number of the major information quality tool manufacturers.
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- Information Quality: HOW TO CHOOSE AND USE DQ TOOLS TO HELP YOUR BUSINESS WIN!
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Ms. Hooper worked in IT and Business consultancy for 15 years before launching Step Change 3 years ago. Her clients include DHL, McDonald’s Restaurants, Warburg Dillon Read, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Marks & Spencer and Barclays. She likes to take an innovative approach to learning and specialises in helping organizations and individuals to achieve successful change.
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- Information Quality: CULTURE CHANGE FOR CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
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John is responsible for the short and long-term I.T. strategy of the Court including analysis of needs and evaluation of solutions in relation to the Court's information data collection and dissemination systems. John's team has implemented a 350 user decentralised client server NT network. This has involved the development of a case-file database C.M.I.S (Court Management Information System) containing all the relevant information pertaining to the case-files of the Court.
John designed and implemented the Court's
internet site and was also responsible for the project management and
roll out of HUDOC, which provides access to all the judgments of the Court
available via keyword, article,respondent, government etc. (http://www.echr.coe.int/hudoc).
HUDOC won a Microsoft industry solution award in 1999 for "best search
and publish solution".
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Mark
Johnson |
Mr. Johnson is President, CEO and Principal Consultant of InER-G Solutions, Ltd., a Denver-based consultancy that specializes in Data Warehousing. Mr. Johnson has been senior consultant to organizations such as Ameritech, Sears, Roebuck & Company, Coors, Sarah Lee, Gallo Winery, and Associates Bancorp. Prior to founding InER-G, Mr. Johnson held the position of Data Warehouse Manager at a U.S. Telecommunications company. Mr. Johnson is a frequent lecturer on Business Intelligence information systems. He has lectured on these topics in the United States, Canada, South America, the United Kingdom, Germany, Turkey and South Africa. His rare mix of extensive product knowledge, practical hands-on experience and relaxed lecture style make his lectures a rich learning opportunity.
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- Information Quality Tutorial: Data Stewardship: A Framework for Achieving & Maintaining Data Integrity in the DW
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Becky Kirkpatrick is a Data Architect with Union Pacific Technologies in Clayton, Missouri. A data processing professional of 20 years, she holds a Masters in Information Management Systems from Sever Institute, Washington University, St. Louis, and Missouri. Becky started her career with McDonnell Douglas as a programmer analyst, becoming a charter member of the Data Administration team focused on data integration and quality data base design. As a member of the Union Pacific's Data Architecture team, Becky draws on her experience in process and data modelling, model management, data warehouse/decision support, reverse engineering, and application data analysis, database design & development. Becky Kirkpatrick has served on the board for the DAMA-St. Louis chapter, and recently presented at the 2001 DAMA-International Symposium / Metadata Conference in Los Angeles, California.
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- DAMA Track 1: DATA ARCHITECTURE ON A SHOESTRING
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Sue
Lloyd |
Sue has 15 years experience in the Telecommunications industry, now responsible for managing a team of auditors and data analysts for the measure of data quality, identification of root causes and driving improvement and preventative measures across EMEA Management Systems with an emphasis on cost avoidance and data reliability.
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- Information Quality: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO RUNNING AN INFORMATION QUALITY PROJECT
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Karen Lopez, I.S.P. is the principal consultant at InfoAdvisors, Inc., a Toronto-based Information Resource Management services organization. She has specialized for the last 15 years in information architectures, IT project management and IT methodologies at large government, retail, utility, and healthcare organizations.
Ms. Lopez moderates several IRM-related discussion groups at InfoAdvisors.com. She has served as a board member of CIPS Ontario, as well as being Past President of the Information Resource Management Association of Canada (IRMAC). She is the Canadian Information Processing Society's Director of Professional Standards. She graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems.
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- DAMA Tutorial: Data Modelling Contentious Issues
- DAMA Track 2: CERTIFICATIONS AND DESIGNATIONS FOR DATA MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONALS
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Mr. Molloy has over 20 years experience as a Senior Manager. He has successfully implemented ISO9001 and TQM systems at BT, Marconi and Lucas. At BT, he was also a member of an award winning team using the EFQM Excellence Model. An exceptional speaker, Mr. Molloy has delivered many, well-received presentations in the UK, Europe and the USA. He is a Member of the Institute of Quality Assurance and is the ITNET member representative for the European Foundation for Quality Management.
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- Information Quality: USING THE EFQM EXCELLENCE MODEL TO IMPROVE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT QUALITY
Peter
Nell
Ministry of Defence
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- DAMA Track 1: DATA MANAGEMENT IN THE REAL WORLD
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Professor,
Dr.Oscar Pastor |
Oscar Pastor is currently the Head of the Dept of Computation and Information Systems Department, Valencia University of Technology (Spain), and the leader of the Research Group on Object-Oriented Methods of Software Production in the same Dept. He received his phD degree from the Valencia University of Technology in 1992, after a research stay in HP Labs, Bristol, UK. He is currently Professor of Software Engineering at the Valencia University of Technology. His research activities have been involved with object-oriented conceptual modelling, requirements engineering, information systems, web-oriented software technology and model-based code generation. Author of over 100 research papers in conference proceedings, journals and books, he has received numerous research grants from public institutions and private industry, and devoted considerable effort to issues of technology transfer from academia to industry.
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- DAMA Track 2: CONCEPTUAL MODELLING OF WEB APPLICATIONS
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Barbara worked for HP from 1980 - 2000 - Established and managed cross functional and multi-geographic data standards forum within HP for 8 years.
Developed HP's Enterprise Global Data Standard Program and trained HP Enterprise Data Standards Administrators on data standard development/maintenance. Developed all global enterprise customer metadata for HP. Developed 'Effective Facilitation' program and trained subject area data standard administrators. Facilitated major CRS (Customer Reference Server) initiative to determine what SAP fields should be shared in CRS. Defined and implemented all CRS data standards. Spearheaded the design and development of the CID (Unique Customer Identification) 'Data Assessment/Data Mapping' WEB application. From 2000 - 2001 she was employed by Agilent Technologies. Developed Global Enterprise Data Standard Program and website. Established and managed cross functional and multi-geographic data standards forum within Agilent Technologies for 1 year. Developed all international customer metadata for Agilent Technologies. Responsible for 'customer master data' in major Oracle ERP implementation (Oracle's biggest yet!). 1999 - Keynote speaker for HP's Customer Data Management Symposium and Worldwide Seminar. 2000 - Presented at the DAMA conference in Anaheim, CA.
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Graham Rhind has specialised for over 12 years in international address and postal code methodologies. He started by building the European database of Scitex SA in Brussels, and then became Research and Development Director for OTS Group in The Netherlands. He is now an independent consultant and owner of GRC Database Information. His researches have led him to publish two books, "Building and Maintaining a European Direct Marketing Database" and "Global Source Book for Address Database Management". His third book, "Practical International Data Management - A guide to working with global names and addresses" is currently in production. He is a regular speaker at conferences in both Europe and the United States, and has developed a range of software for optimal international address data standardisation, formatting, validation and de-duplication."
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- DAMA Track 1: PRACTICAL INTERNATIONAL DATA MANAGEMENT
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Trevor
Richards |
Mr. Richards is the founder and CEO of Interact Management Consultants, an Australian based Customer Information Quality and Relationship Marketing Consultancy. With offices in Sydney and Adelaide, it services a growing list of Blue Chip corporate clients in Australia and Overseas. Mr. Richards has over 25 years specialist consulting experience in the areas of Customer Information, Relationship Marketing, Business and Information Technology Strategy. A former partner of KPMG, he is also Chairman of the SA Enterprise Workshop, Fuel and Combustion Technologies and Camms Automation Pty. Ltd.
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- Information Quality: KEY CUSTOMER INFORMATION & THE DATA QUALITY DILEMMA
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Pete Rivett is Chief Technology Officer of Adaptive, a company specializing in the application of metadata and repositories to enterprise modeling and bridging the gap between business and IT. Pete has spent his career in modeling and the development of repository and metadata management software – including at ICL, National & Provincial Building Society and Adaptive which he co-founded in 1997. He is a regular conference speaker and has participated in standards work including CDIF and the Object Management Group, where he is currently active in the areas of Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM), Meta Object facility (MOF), XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) and business models such as Organizational Structure and Software Portfolio Management.
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Stephen
Roberts |
Stephen has 21 years experience in the Telecommunications industry. He has track record in delivering complex multi-million pound IS Programmes. He has led successful cross-departmental Programme teams identifying and delivering "balanced scorecard" improvements through commercially and regulatory driven strategies; these include, for BT's Access Network, UK Numbering 2000, Y2K, "Informed Selling" (taking network availability and usability information and influencing sales) and a number of others. He is currently EMEA Business Information Manager for Worldcom, leading a IQ Change Programme across Europe.
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- Information Quality: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO RUNNING AN INFORMATION QUALITY PROJECT
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Rosemary is currently recognised as one of Europe's leading authorities on tools and methods. She has a considerable number of successful and widely acclaimed books to her credit and is frequently a keynote speaker on conferences and seminars all over the world. Rosemary has well over 20 years experience in the computing industry, developing systems and providing consultancy in tools, methods and metrics.
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Michael Scofield is Director of Data Quality for Experian (formerly TRW Credit Data) in Orange, California. Prior to this position, he was Vice President and Manager of Information Quality for Home Savings of America (Los Angeles). He is keenly interested in data quality assessment, and reverse engineering and mining of production databases. His articles on data architecture and data quality techniques have been published in Information Week, IBI System Journal, Data Management Review, and the Database Newsletter. His speaking engagements include DAMA-International conferences, Meta-data Conferences in London and the U.S., various DAMA chapters, DB2 user groups, and various CASE user group conferences. He also writes humor, published in the Los Angeles Times and other journals.
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Arvind
Shah |
Arvind D. Shah is a Principal of Performance
Development Corporation (PDC). He is internationally known for his expertise
and publications in the area of Information Resource Management. He has
developed methodologies for eBusiness Planning, Change Management, Business
Process Reengineering, Information Strategy Planning, IT Restructuring,
Data Warehousing, Data Administration, Technology Platform Selection,
and Business Area Analysis. His consulting has involved almost all facets
of business and government in a broad range of applications. Clients who
have benefited from Mr. Shah's consulting services include AT &
T, Getty-Texaco, GTE/Verizon, IBM, Exxon, United Biscuits (UK), Thorn
EMI UK), Hallmark Cards, Eli Lilly, UNUM, Norsk Hydro (Norway) and Iron
Ore of Canada.
He has developed a practical approach that blends Change Management, Business Reengineering, Information Engineering, and Total Quality Management (TQM). His principal interests focus on the risk-free deployment and management of ever advancing information technology. He has taught seminars and managed projects for Fortune 500 and equivalent organizations in the United States, Canada, Europe, and other continents.
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Derek Shaw is a Technology Strategist in the Data-Warehousing area for Computer Associates, the eBusiness Infrastructure leaders. Prior to joining CA, Derek was the marketing solutions manager of data warehousing for Viasoft, Inc., a leading provider of business solutions, integrated technology and professional services. He has more than 20 years experience as an implementation consultant in the IT industry. Prior to joining Viasoft, he gained extensive data- warehousing knowledge at Platinum technology Inc. and Praxis International.
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- Meta Data: META DATA STRATEGIES FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM
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Mr. Solstad is a Senior Manager with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Telecom Media Network, Strategic Business Consulting unit in Norway. His experience includes working in the manufacturing, oil & gas, insurance, telecommunication and pharmaceutical industries. Mr. Solstad has held roles as a project manager, systems manager and Vice President of IT. Mr. Solstad is one of the thought leaders in the Norwegian practice on establishing business driven IT-Strategies, IT-Effectiveness, Software Process Improvements, IT-Metrics using Function Point Analysis, Enterprise Application Architectures and Information Resource Management. Mr. Solstad is a frequent speaker at both national and international conferences.
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- DAMA Track 1: CLEANING UP THE LEGACY PORTFOLIO
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Stephan Stadelmann combines 14 years of experience in all areas of Information management in the USA, Europe and Asia. Starting from database management, through design and planning to organisational restructuring and start-up consultancy. He is based in Singapore, where he heads a team of designer and consultant, for Reuters Asia Financial Information Group.
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- DAMA Track 1: ONLINE MULTILINGUAL META & KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
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Nigel
Turner |
Nigel Turner is Head of Information Strategy & Knowledge Management within BT Computing Partners' Information & Knowledge Management Practice. Prior to this he led a series of information & knowledge management initiatives within BT's Group Strategy division. He is also a part time Associate Lecturer with the UK Open University where he teaches Systems and the Management of Change.
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- Information Quality: HOW TO CHOOSE AND USE DQ TOOLS TO HELP YOUR BUSINESS WIN!
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Founder of Synon Corporation and of Lazy Software. Fifteen years of database application design experience. Author of "The Associative Model of Data", ISBN 1-903453-00-3. BSc Hons Computation at U.M.I.S.T. Member, British Computer Society. Numerous appearances at COMMON and SHARE in many countries over many years. Keynote speaker at Synon user groups in fifteen countries over 12 years with audiences up to 800. Speaker at OT2001.
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- DAMA Track 2: THE ASSOCIATIVE MODEL OF DATA
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Graham Witt is a senior consultant with Simsion Bowles & Associates, an Australian subsidiary of the Tier Group. With 30 years of industry experience, he advises major clients in a variety of industry sectors (including education, health, telecommunications, finance, transport and government) on system specification, user interface design, data modeling, relational database design, data quality and the use of metadata repositories and CASE tools. As developer and presenter of a number of Simsion Bowles’ training courses, he has developed a reputation as an effective educator in these disciplines. He has published in Database Programming & Design and the Journal of Data Warehousing.
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John A. Zachman is the originator of the "Framework for Enterprise Architecture" which has received broad acceptance around the world as an integrative framework, or "periodic table" of descriptive representations for Enterprises. He is not only known for this work on Enterprise Architecture, but is also known for his early contributions to IBM’s Information Strategy methodology as well as to their Executive team planning techniques. Mr. Zachman retired from IBM in 1990, having served them for 26 years. He is Chief Executive Officer of the Zachman Institute for Framework Advancement (ZIFA), an organization dedicated to advancing the conceptual and implementation states of the art in Enterprise Architecture. He also operates his own education and consulting business Zachman International.
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- DAMA Tutorial: Enterprise Architecture