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Peter Aiken Founding Director VCU/Institute for Data Research |
Peter Aiken is Founding 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) is due out in 2002. Related 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), has been a DAMA International Advisor since 1999 and received their 2001 International Achievement Award. He has lectured internationally on these and related topics.presentation style make him a sought after speaker and he has spoken at numerous foreign and domestic conferences and events.
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- Meta Data Tutorial: META DATA FUNDAMENTALS & REALITIES
- Meta Data Tutorial: META DATA REPOSITORIES: TODAY’S FUNDAMENTALS
- DAMA: DAMA PANEL - MODEL-DRIVEN ARCHITECTURES OR ARCHITECTURE-DRIVEN MODELS - Thoughts from a Panel of Experts
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Shaku Atre |
Shaku Atre is president of Atre Group, Inc., Santa Cruz, CA, a Business Intelligence, and a Data Warehousing Corporation. She is on the board of AtreNet,Inc., a Web agency, based in Santa Cruz, CA. Ms. Atre was a partner with PriceWaterhouse Coopers. She has held a wide variety of management and staff positions within IBM for fourteen years and has taught at IBM’s prestigious Systems Research Institute. Ms. Atre is an internationally renowned expert and she lectures in the business intelligence, data warehousing, data mining, client/server computing, end-user computing, and database fields. She has extensive practical experience in helping a number of clients in establishing successful business intelligence and data warehousing installations. She has lectured on the subject to professional organizations in the USA, Canada as well as in Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia. She has taught graduate level courses at New York University.
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- DAMA Tutorial: BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE THE COMPLETE PROJECT LIFE CYCLE
- DAMA Track 2: Top 10 Critical Challenges for BI Success
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Trevor Bedeman |
Trevor Bedeman is the Enterprise architect for LTSB Insurance, and the Head of Insurance Customer Data Management. Together with the IT architect, he has built up the architecture function within Insurance and can list some major impacts on its development. He has lectured widely on the development of customer based data systems, and is a Director of Insurance Data Services Ltd, which manages shared insurance industry claims data, and a past chairman of SCOR which manages credit industry default data. He is the co-author of the UK credit data sharing agreement, the Principles of Reciprocity, and chairs the LTSB External Data Sharing Group.
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- DAMA Track 1: Developing Enterprise Architecture in Practice
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Michael Brackett |
Michael Brackett retired from the State of Washington in 1996 where he was the State's Data Resource Coordinator where he was responsible for developing a common data architecture for the State that spans multiple jurisdictions. 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-tier five-schema concept, the data rule concept, and the business intelligence value chain. 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 written six books on the topic of application design, data design, and common data architectures. His books on Data Sharing Using a Common Data Architecture and The Data Warehouse Challenge: Taming Data Chaos explain the concept and uses of a common data architecture for developing an integrated data resource. His latest book on Data Resource Quality: Turning Bad Habits into Good Practices explains how to stop the creation of disparate data. He has written many articles and is a well-known author, speaker, and trainer on data resource design and data resource quality. He is the President of DAMA International for 2000, 2001, and 2002, and is listed in Who's Who in the West, Who's Who in Education, and International Who's Who.
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Stephen Brobst CTO Teradata, a division of NCR |
Stephen Brobst is the Chief Technology Officer for the Teradata Division of NCR. His specialization is in the design and construction of data warehouse solutions for Fortune 500 companies in the United States and internationally. Stephen performed his graduate work in Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where his Masters and PhD research focused on high-performance parallel processing. He also completed an MBA with joint course and thesis work at the Harvard Business School and the MIT Sloan School of Management. Stephen has authored numerous books and articles related to advanced data management techniques. Stephen has been on the faculty of The Data Warehousing Institute since 1996 and teaches courses related to Active Data Warehousing and High Performance Data Warehouse Design.
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- Meta Data Tutorial: BEST PRACTICES IN META DATA MANAGEMENT AND ENTERPRISE DATA WAREHOUSE DEPLOYMENT
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Derek Chalmers |
Derek Chalmers originally qualified as a Biochemist achieving a Ph.D in the area of Endocrine Oncology in his native Scotland. Upon leaving research Derek spent a number of years collecting, processing and analyzing clinical data for Parexel International. In 1990 Derek joined Glaxo as a biostatistical programmer and moved through a number of roles before heading UK data management technical support. After leaving GlaxoWellcome in 1999, Derek spent some time as manager of live applications support team for PhaseForward Europe; a provider of web-based clinical data capture solutions. Then, following a period of freelance consultancy, Derek returned to GlaxoSmithKline in 2001 within Global Standards having special responsibility for novel opportunity assessment. Derek first became involved with CDISC during a 1997 secondment to North Carolina and is currently co-leader of the European (North) Group.
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Brett Champlin |
Brett Champlin is an internal Process Consultant with a large insurance company where he has been primarily responsible for building an enterprise process model solution including a Business Process Model Repository, process modeling methods, tools and techniques. He has led over 50 projects redesigning business and IT processes there. Prior to that, Brett designed and implemented enterprise-wide architecture and software development projects for both very large and medium sized companies in a variety of industries.
He has over 20 years of experience working in Information Systems and Management. He has an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Roosevelt University and an MBA from Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). Brett is a Certified Systems Professional (CSP) and Certified Computing Professional (CCP) with proficiencies in Information Management, Systems Development, Software Engineering and Data Resource Management. He is a Senior Lecturer in the MBA and MSIS programs of the College of Business at Roosevelt University where he has taught for the past 16 years.
Brett is a popular speaker at international conferences, seminars and professional associations, including the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the Chicago Quality Assurance Association (CQAA), the Data Management Association (DAMA) International Symposia in the US and Europe, Meta Data Conferences, Data Quality Conferences, Delphi Group's Knowledge Management Conference, the Information Resource Management Association of Canada, and at DAMA chapters all over the US.
He is a Past President
of the Data Management Association (DAMA) Chicago Chapter and has been
on the board of directors of DAMA International for the past 5 years.
Brett is a director of the Institute for the Certification of Computing
Professionals (ICCP) and chairs their strategic planning committee. He
was a contributor to the publication, "Guidelines for Implementing
Data Resource Management", produced by DAMA Chicago and published
by DAMA International. He is an occasional contributor to DM Review and
TDAN (The Data Administration Newsletter).
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- DAMA Track 2: A Framework for Business Process Architecture
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Donald Chapin |
Donald Chapin is principal of Business Semantics Ltd. (UK). He 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 structured business vocabularies and requirements definition for large business information systems as a tools and methods consultant, facilitator, trainer, mentor, quality monitor, and business analysis project manager. Donald is a member of the OMG Business Rules SIG as well as the Business Rules Group, and co-editor of new BRG "Structuring Business Vocabulary for Business Rules" standard under development.
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Chris Date |
Chris Date is an independent author, lecturer, researcher, and consultant, specializing in relational database technology. He is best known for his book An Introduction to Database Systems (seventh edition published in 2000), which has sold well over 650,000 copies and is used by several hundred colleges and universities worldwide. He is also the author of many other books on database management, including most recently Foundation for Future Database Systems: The Third Manifesto (2nd edition, coauthored with Hugh Darwen); The Database Relational Model: A Retrospective Review and Analysis; WHAT Not HOW: The Business Rules Approach to Application Development (all published by Addison-Wesley in 2000); and Temporal Data and the Relational Model (coauthored with Hugh Darwen and Nikos A. Lorentzos, published by Morgan Kaufmann in 2003). Mr. Date enjoys a reputation that is second to none for his ability to communicate complex technical subjects in a clear and understandable fashion.
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- Meta Data Keynote: DATABASE GRAFFITTI: SCRIBBLES FROM THE ASKEW WALL
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Robert Dias |
Robert Dias has been involved in data and databases for most of his career in the IT industry. He was the database “guru” for Burroughs UK in the late ‘70’s. He designed databases, was part of the Data Dictionary Systems Working Party and, once he had moved to a software house, was involved in migrating hierarchical and network databases to relational. He has worked with a number of CASE tools and used a number of OO products to design systems.
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Art D'Silva |
Art D'Silva is a senior manager at RBC Financial Group responsible for Information Architecture and Strategies. He has worked in IT for over 28 years and has been involved in all aspects of Data Warehousing in its modern context since its inception at RBC Financial Group more than 8 years ago. This naturally includes strategies for Meta Data Management. Having successfully deployed a world class award winning meta data management infrastructure, Art is now focused at defining and developing architectures and strategies for enterprise-level integration of metadata management. In his presentation, Art will discuss RBC's meta data management infrastructure and the strategies deployed to evolve the environment to its current state.
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Larry English |
Larry English is an internationally recognized authority in information and knowledge management and information quality improvement. He has provided consulting and education in more than 28 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 Information Quality Management (TIQM®)-has been implemented in several organizations worldwide. He writes the "Plain English on Information 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: HOW TO CONDUCT INFORMATION QUALITY PROCESS IMPROVEMENT: Plan-Do-Check-Act Applied to Information Processes
- Joint Chair Introduction
- Information Quality Keynote: REVERSING THE HIGH CO$T$ OF LOW QUALITY INFORMATION
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David
Evans Data Quality Consultant BTexact |
Dave Evans has worked for BT in the UK for 16 years. He currently leads a consultancy team specialising in information architecture, metadata, data quality and ETL, providing solutions for internal and external clients. He led on the formulation of, and now manages, an Information Management tools portfolio for BT's Wholesale business and has delivered a number of collaborate working solutions. He has previous programme management experience, delivering significant components of BT's marketing data warehouse and operator services systems, all delivering major data quality and management benefits
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- DAMA Track 2: Universal Data Model Panel
- Information Quality: Broadband Changes UK Telephony & BT’s Attitude to IQ Forever
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Mike
Ferguson |
Mike Ferguson is the Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies Limited in the United Kingdom. As an analyst and consultant he specializes in database systems, business intelligence, enterprise application integration, corporate and e-business portals, customer relationship management and supply chain intelligent business solutions. With over 21 years of IT experience, Mike has consulted for dozens of companies, spoken at events all over the world and written numerous articles. Formerly he was a principal and co-founder of Codd and Date UK and a chief architect at NCR on the Teradata DBMS.
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Tom Fish |
Tom Fish has held a number of roles as IT analyst, manager and architect for a multinational chemical company, based in the UK, US and Belgium. For the last 10 years he has concentrated on the “I” in IT, first as Enterprise Data Architect, then as Data Quality lead on an SAP implementation. He has finally escaped from IT and leads data quality from within the company’s newly formed Business Process Improvement organization.
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- Information Quality: Data Quality, Business Processes…and SAP
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Gabriel Fuchs |
Gabriel Fuchs is a former business intelligence consultant in Sweden and France for Swedish-based consultancy companies, having served customers in Sweden, France, Switzerland, Germany, Finland and Holland. He was the founder of a French company, serving customers in France, Sweden, Switzerland and Belgium on business intelligence. He was the founder of the business intelligence department at La Suisse Insurance Company in Switzerland. Gabriel is presently involved in implementing data visualization and visual geomarketing solutions La Suisse Insurance Company. He also writes articles on business intelligence, including data visualization and data quality, for specialist journals.
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Keith Gordon |
Keith Gordon established himself as an independent consultant and trainer in 1998 after serving a full career in the British Army. Keith's Army service, which included many technical and educational appointments, culminated with him leading the Army's Data Management programme, in which he was responsible for developing and implementing the policy, standards and procedures to manage data as a corporate resource across the Army. Keith has continued to pursue his interest in data management in his consultancy and training work since he retired from the Army. Keith is also an Associate Lecturer with the Open University and an examiner for the Information Systems Examination Board.
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- DAMA Track 3: The Information Delivery Component of Network Coherence
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Patricia
Graham |
Patricia Graham is a Systems Director at Prudential Financial Services and has been involved with meta data management in one capacity or another for 15 years. At Prudential, she has developed the Enterprise Model, determined Data Naming Standards, implemented policies and procedures, established a data modeling practice, created a data archaeology area, and implemented a data repository. Patricia is a past officer of DAMA NJ. She has presented at DAMA NJ and NY, DAMA International in London and CA World. Prudential’s meta data management program was awarded a ‘High Commendation’ for Meta Data Best Practices in 2002 by Wilshire Conferences and DM Review. Patricia was selected as one of Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders for 2003.
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- Meta Data: Managing Your XML Assets
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Peter Haine |
Peter Haine's early experience with relational database, whilst with the Savant organisation, taught him the importance of data modelling and data management fundamentals. In 1981 he worked with James Martin to build a training course in strategic data planning and relational data modelling that was delivered at public forums as well as to a plethora of blue chip companies in Europe and the US. Since that time Peter has never been far away from the challenges of integrating critical business processes, including a global supply chain initiative for GlaxoSmithKline, through ensuring a stable underpinning data environment.
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- DAMA Track 3: Servicing the Need for a Global Resource
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Brett
Hannam Director of IT Northern Ireland Office, UK Government |
Brett Hannam is the Programme Manager for the Causeway Programme, the initiative aimed at data and process integration in the Northern Ireland justice system (the subject of our presentation.) He is also the Director of IT for the Northern Ireland Office.
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David
Hay President Essential Strategies |
In the Information Industry since the days of punched cards, paper tape, and teletype machines, Dave Hay has been producing data models to support strategic and requirements planning since the mid-1980's. He has worked in a variety of industries, including, among others, power generation, clinical pharmaceutical research, and all aspects of oil production and processing. He is the founder and 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.
Dave is the author of the book, Data Model Patterns: Conventions of Thought, and Requirements Analysis: From Business Views to Architecture.
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- DAMA Track 2: Universal Data Model Panel
- DAMA Track 2: Modelling Business Rules
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Dr.
Markus Helfert |
Dr. Markus Helfert is Lecturer in Information Systems at the School of Computer Applications, Dublin City University (Ireland). He has significant project and research experiences in Data-Warehouse-Systems and Data Quality Management. He published several articles including his doctoral thesis in data quality management. Dr. Helfert holds a Doctor of business administration from University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), a Master-Diploma in business informatics from University Mannheim (Germany) and a Bachelor of Science from Napier University, Edinburgh (UK-Scotland).
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- Information Quality: Data Quality Management for Data Warehouse Systems: Experiences at a Swiss Bank
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Helen Hepburn |
Helen Hepburn is part of an established Information & Knowledge Management team in BT Group. Helen has worked on IT projects for 18 years. The last three have been spent exclusively on Information Architecture, managing BT’s corporate information architecture and representing BT on industry forum work (TeleMangement Forum) to produce an industry information model.
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John Hodges |
John Hodges is a data quality tools consultant within BT’s Information and Knowledge Management division. He has been engaged in several major data quality projects in the past three years and prior to this led developments in BT’s next generation marketing systems. His current projects include network asset improvement initiatives both within and outside BT, data quality tool evaluation, and acting as a primary consultant to BT’s Information Management Forum.
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- Information Quality: Broadband Changes UK Telephony & BT’s Attitude to IQ Forever
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Kathy
Hunter |
Kathy Hunter is an associate of INFORMATION IMPACT and Information Management Consultant with InfoAdvantage Ltd. in the UK. She has 16 years information systems experience including eight years working with a major U.K. telecomm company, more than half of that time involved in information quality. She specialises in Information Quality, Customer Information Management, Data Warehousing and CRM and is a popular speaker at conferences and seminars including the Information Quality Conference in London, 2000 and 2002.
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- Information Quality: Measuring ROI from Your Information Quality Initiatives
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Noreen
Kendle |
Noreen Kendle has been with Delta Technology (the IT of Delta Air Lines) for over 6 years. She is presently an Enterprise Architect. Noreen developed the Enterprise Data Modeling methodology and was the Manager of the Enterprise Modeling group which composed of 24 modelers. Noreen has been working on the Enterprise Data Model for nearly 3 years. Delta Technology has developed extensive modeling, data, naming, XML, review and integration standards. Prior to managing the enterprise modeling group Noreen worked as a data architect across the airline on a variety of projects. She has been involved in the development of the ATA airline model. Prior to joining Delta Noreen worked for AT&T as an Oracle DBA, Unix Admin, Data Modeler and application developer. Prior to AT&T she worked at Masco Corporation, EDS - World Computer, AT&T Corporate/Chrysler, and Ford.
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Irene Miller |
Irene Miller is an Independent consultant. She is a highly experienced data management consultant with metadata modeling, metadata design and management, repository implementation and CASE tool integration. Irene started her IT career as a programmer in 1971 and soon moved on to data base administration with IMS. She moved into consultancy joining CACI 10 years later where she developed data modeling skills. She then became a method and case tool expert, assisting clients to implement these while at Inforem (4 years) and Ernst and Young (5 years). As an independent Irene has focused on data management and metadata management.
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Steve Mutch |
Steve Mutch: DW Team Leader, Shell UK Exploration & Production (EXPRO). Steve Mutch has been involved in several data integration and finance system projects within Shell UK Exploration and Production dating back to 1993. 3 Years ago he was part of the technical implementation team for Shell Expro’s Data Warehousing project and for the last 2 years has been the Team Leader responsible for managing a team of 7 responsible for the ongoing support and development. Steve background in Finance means he has experienced many of the data integration and reporting problems first hand in his previous roles in Management, Financial, Revenue and Joint Venture accounting roles.
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Joe Oates |
Joe Oates is an internationally known speaker, author, thought-leader and consultant on data warehousing, database design and object-oriented (OO) development. He has more than 30 years experience in the successful management and technical development of business, real-time, OO and data warehouse applications for industry and government clients. He has designed or helped design and implement more than 30 successful data warehouse projects in North America, South America, Europe and Asia/Pacific. Joe is the Chief Architect for Sybase BI Division and is the primary designer of the Sybase Industry Warehouse Studio data warehouse product, which has been installed all over the world. He served as Director of Data Warehousing for General Motors Corporation. His successful data warehouses include the following industries: banking, health care, credit card, telephone, distribution and life insurance, in the U.S., Asia and the Pacific, South America and Europe.
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Fabian
Pascal |
Fabian Pascal has a national and international reputation as an independent technology analyst, consultant, author and lecturer specializing in data management. He was affiliated with Codd & Date and for 20 years held various analytical and management positions in the private and public sectors, has taught and lectured at the business and academic levels, and advised vendor and user organizations on data management technology, strategy and implementation. Clients include IBM, Census Bureau, CIA, Apple, Borland, Cognos, UCSF, IRS. He is founder, editor and publisher of DATABASE DEBUNKINGS (www.dbdebunk.com), a web site dedicated to dispelling persistent fallacies, flaws, myths and misconceptions prevalent in the IT industry (Chris Date is a senior contributor). Author of three books, he has published extensively in most trade publications
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Vicki Peacock |
Vicki Peacock is Head of Information Strategy and Information Quality within Abbey National. She has been with Abbey National for almost 12 years and for the majority of that time has been involved with all aspects of information, from IT application development, project management of Information Management related projects, Information Quality and latterly Information Strategy and the strategic development of information to support business strategy. Vicki is responsible for a specialist information team within the key business division. Vicki has been instrumental in driving forward the development of a central architecture to support the Information, in addition to promoting a culture of Information Governance.
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- Information Quality: Information Quality Management in a De-Polarised World
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Andres
Perez |
Andres Perez is a Senior Information Management consultant experienced in Data Architecture and Data Management. Using TIQM® principles, he helps organizations with their data architecture and management strategies including management processes, technical architectural direction, implementation, roll out, and migration as well as a Change Management plans. He possesses a BS in Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (Monterrey, México), 1978. Andres is a well known speaker at DAMA International Conferences and DAMA Chapter meetings, Data Quality, ZIFA and IAA User Conferences.
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- Information Quality Tutorial: ABCS OF INFORMATION QUALITY
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David Plotkin Lead Data Architect Inovant (A Visa Solutions Co) |
David Plotkin is a Lead Data Architect for Inovant, providing IT for Visa, the world's largest credit card company. He has been implementing systems for over 15 years, and built Metadata management environments in three companies, including the implementation of several corporate repositories. He is currently leading an effort to put business rules in Inovant's corporate repository. His experience in implement CRM led him to learn XML, including how to create and manage XML-based metadata.
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- Meta Data Tutorial: INTRODUCTION TO XML FOR DATA PRACTITIONERS
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Terry Quatrani |
Terry Quatrani is the UML Evangelist at Rational Software, part of IBM. Terry travels the world preaching the visual modeling gospel according to Grady, Jim, and Ivar. She is the co-author of the book Succeeding with the Booch and OMT Methods and the author of the best selling books Visual Modeling with Rational Rose and UML, Visual Modeling with Rational Rose 2000 and UML and Visual Modeling with Rational Rose 2002 and UML. Prior to working for Rational, Terry was employed by General Electric Company where she was a founding member of the GE Advanced Concepts Center as well as a programmer and analyst.
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- DAMA Track 2: UML For Data Management
| Martin Roberts |
Martin Roberts graduated from University of Wales, Aberystwyth, having studied Computer Science. On leaving university he worked on real-time systems in the chemical and manufacturing industries before joining BT. Since then he has worked on customer facing applications from early CMIP interfaces and is currently the architect for the XML interfaces for the Wholesale division of BT. He has been an active member of the ebXML initiative, and a contributor to some ITU standards. He was a founder member of the CAM TC and has produced one of the first implementations.
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Peter Robson |
Peter Robson has specialised in database since 1977. He is the Database Administrator for the British Geological Survey, which he joined in 1980. He introduced relational dbms to BGS. He designed the corporate Data Architecture. He has also designed and built database user interface systems (including intranet systems), comprehensive audit systems, and asynchronous master-master replication systems. Peter is currently maintaining, extending and consolidating the Data Architecture at BGS. He is a very experienced speaker on database issues at international conferences in the UK, Europe and the USA. Peter is a qualified geologist.
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- Meta Data: Meta Data in the British Geological Survey
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Rosemary Rock-Evans Consultant RRE Associates |
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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Nick Rozanski |
Nick Rozanski is currently employed as a Technical Architect with The French Thornton Partnership in London. As an architect, he is involved in all stages of the project lifecycle, from initial qualification through to analysis, build and acceptance. His role is to work closely with business and technology stakeholders to turn often imprecise business needs into robust, architected technology solutions. He has worked as a consultant since the early 1980s, and has taken senior roles on projects for a wide range of public and private sector clients. Nick’s technology background includes enterprise application integration, package implementation, relational databases, data replication, and object-oriented software development.
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Zvi Schreiber |
Zvi Schreiber has many years of international experience as a software innovator and executive. He currently serves as CEO & Founder of Unicorn Solutions. Prior to Unicorn he was the Founder and CEO, then CTO of Tradeum Inc., eventually selling the company for $500 million. Schreiber is the inventor of over a dozen patents and is a frequent writer and speaker at major industry events. He holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Computer Science in semantics from Imperial College of Science, London.
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- Meta Data: Improving Metadata’s Value Through Semantics
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Alec
Sharp |
Alec Sharp has over 25 years of experience in the data management field, and has operated his own consulting business since 1981. For the past ten years, his practice has emphasized business process redesign, and the application of process-oriented approaches to data management, requirements definition, and the selection and implementation of purchased applications. His workshops on Data Modeling, Workflow Process Modeling, and Use Cases & Application Logic have been conducted throughout North America, as well as in Europe and Asia. Alec is a past-president of the DAMA chapter in Vancouver, BC and is a popular speaker at DAMA meetings internationally. He co-authored “Workflow Modeling” (Artech House, 2001) which is currently one of the best-selling titles in the field.
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Janet Siebert |
Janet Siebert is a data architect with over 17 years of industry experience. She has worked on data conversions and data warehouses in telecommunications, health care, and financial services. As a former educator, she enjoys making complex concepts pleasantly understandable. Always looking for the next challenge, she strives to automate repetitive tasks, thus freeing up resources for more interesting activities. She shares her innovative ideas at national and international conferences.
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- DAMA Track 3: The Training and Mentoring of Data Analysts
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Len Silverston |
Len Silverston is a data management consultant with over 20 years of experience in helping enterprises integrate data. He is the author of the best-selling "The Data Model Resource Book" series, which describes over 230 integrated, reusable generic and industry-specific data models. Mr. Silverston has developed extensive software versions of these data models some of which are now licensed worldwide by Microsoft and some that are available for licensing directly. He was nominated for the DAMA International Individual Achievement Award in both 2002 and 2003. Mr. Silverston's company, Universal Data Models, provides consulting, training and software to jump-start data modeling and data warehouse design efforts while increasing design quality and facilitating data integration.
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- DAMA Tutorial: TO INTEGRATE OR DISINTEGRATE? UNIVERSAL DATA MODELS TO INTEGRATE DATA!
- DAMA Track 2: Universal Data Model Panel
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Graeme Simsion |
Graeme Simsion is a regular presenter at DAMA conferences and was last year's keynote speaker. In 1999, he sold the consultancy which he had run for some twenty years, and is now a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of the book Data Modeling Essentials, as well as numerous papers covering a wide range of information systems topics.
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Ken Sloan |
Ken Sloan has been active in planning, implementing, and operating large information-intensive systems for over thirty five years in government, the military, and the private sector; in management roles, project leadership roles, and as a vendor. For the last sixteen years he has focused on improving information quality in large multi-national financial institutions. In the fall of 2002 he founded a new company, Synergeist, based in Basel, Switzerland, focused on improving information quality for companies in the Life Sciences industry sector.
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- Information Quality: Successful Information Quality Improvement in a Global Finance Services Company
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Peter Smillie Metadata Consultant BTexact |
Peter Smillie has spent the last 6 years working within BTexact, part of BT Group plc. Initially involved in many aspects of the management, transformation and utilisation of Customer Operational Data, he has spent the last 2 years leading work on the metadata management strategy within BT. This has included involvement with associated initiatives such as a Common Information Architecture, Data Quality, Business Process Modelling, ETL management strategy and others.
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Alan Snow |
Alan Snow has over 30 years IT and Data Management experience. Previous employers include IBM, Prism Solutions, Ardent Software, Informix, and Business Coaching Europe, where he combined his IT background with Business Process Re-Engineering. After a few years as an independent DQ/DM consultant, Alan now works as a senior business intelligence consultant for Ordina in The Netherlands. Alan has managed/participated in several DQ, data warehouse and BI projects for organisations in 8 countries, in the Telco, Retail, Utility, Logistics, Automobile and Public Service sectors.
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- Information Quality: Translators Needed, Fluent In "IT-Speak" And "Business-Speak"
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Alberto Villari |
Alberto Villari is an IT Graduate on 1993; Consultant as OO Developer, then Database analyst for 5 years. In Bulgari from 1998 as DWH manager, running the Bulgari Data Quality project from 2000, and Data Quality manager from 2002.
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- Information Quality: Data Quality at Bulgari: A Case Study
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Prof. Dr. Robert Winter |
Prof. Dr. Robert Winter is director of the Institute of Information Management, University of St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland, and director of HSG's Executive MBA program in Business Engineering. He received Master degrees in Business Administration and Business Education from Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Being a research assistant with Goethe University for ten years, he received a doctorate in social sciences and venia legendi for business administration. Since 1996 he is teaching and doing research at Switzerland’s premier business school. He is responsible for several competence centers (research consortia funded and supported by large Swiss and German companies) in data warehousing, integration management and architecture management.
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Graham Witt |
Graham Witt: In Graham's 30+ years of industry experience, he has developed specialist expertise in system specification, user interface design, data modelling, relational database design, data quality, the use of metadata repositories and CASE tools, and information management. As well as completing a number of successful projects in these areas for major clients in such industry sectors as education, health, finance, transport, logistics and utilities, he has a reputation as an effective educator in these disciplines, and has published in the information management press. He is the co-author, with Graeme Simsion, of the second edition of the seminal text "Data Modelling Essentials".
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- DAMA Tutorial: INFORMATION MODELLING IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT
- DAMA Track 2: Universal Data Model Panel
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John A. Zachman |
John 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 of Enterprises. He has been focusing on information strategy and architecture since 1970 and has written a number of articles on those subjects. John is retired from IBM, having served them for 26 years. He is Chief Executive Officer of the Zachman Institute for Framework Advancement (ZIFA), an organisation 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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