Peter Aiken VCU/Data Blueprint

Peter Aiken is Founding Director of the Data Blueprint/Institute for Data Research (a professional services-based data services corporation) 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 (McGraw-Hill 1996/99). 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 16 different counties. His research publications have appeared in the Communications of the ACM, 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.

Events

• Meta Data Tutorial: XML FOR DATA MANAGERS - AN INTRODUCTION
• Meta Data Tutorial: ADVANCED XML-BASED DATA MANAGEMENT
• DAMA Track 1: Data Management Practice Maturity Survey - Do You Know Where Your Meta Data Is?
• DAMA Closing Panel: Shed The Hype – What Really Works

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Michael Brackett Data Resource Design and Remodeling

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 was the President of DAMA International from 2000 to 2003, and is listed in Who's Who in the West, Who's Who in Education, and International Who's Who.

Events

• DAMA Track 3: Foundation for Data Resource Quality
• DAMA: DAMA Professional Groups Meeting

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Stu Carty Gavilan Research Associates

Stu Carty is an accomplished metadata solutions expert with over 20 years progressive experience in the enterprise software industry. Mr. Carty has worked for notable metadata companies such as Informatica, Data Advantage Group, R&O Software, Manager Software Products, and Reltech Group. Stu has personally given well over one thousand presentations to Global 5000 companies on enterprise metadata management, and has successfully helped hundreds of companies to evaluate, select, and implement meta-data management solutions.

Events

• Meta Data: Meta-Data Vendor Solutions – Latest Product Trends & Comparison Research

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Phil Cole Reuters

Phil Cole has been with Reuters for 8 years, holding a number of roles within the Data Management function. Early in his career Phil was part of team to deliver a global metadata solution for Reuters, before heading up a number of data production functions, where Phil was responsible for the quality, sourcing, and data management activities. Phil is presently the Global Head of Quality where he leads a global team of Quality specialists whose activities include process review, audits, metrics programmes and quality consultancy.

Events

• Information Quality: IQ Metrics and Program Strategies and Techniques

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Patrick Curry Cornwell Management Consultants

Until recently, Patrick Curry was a member of the UKCeB Task Force, a small, joint MOD/Industry team tasked to “accelerate the sharing of information across defence in support of acquisition”. Three years ago, Patrick founded the Transatlantic Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP) which is tasked to develop guidance, based on best practice information management and security technologies and techniques, to enable international collaboration in major acquisition programs. It continues to develop and the companies and governments involved contract him to lead it. In addition, Patrick chairs the UK Defence Asset Management Working Group, with members from UK industry and the Ministry of Defence, which is focused on the implementation of unique identification of tangible items throughout the equipment lifecycle.

Patrick spent 24 years in the UK Army where his experience in research, UN and NATO maintenance & logistic operational planning, C2, intelligence systems, corporate financial systems and asset tracking systems in theatres of operations have helped him play a leading role in getting the enablers in place for collaboration to develop. He has received 4 awards for his work including an OBE honour from the Queen, and team awards from the US Association for Enterprise Integration and also from UK industry for enabling industry to have Secure Connectivity with MOD and for enabling the UK RAF to access a major company’s fault management database.

Events

• DAMA Track 1: Data Management and Multi-Jurisdictional Regulations

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Tom DeMarco Atlantic Systems Guild

Tom DeMarco is a Principal of The Atlantic Systems Guild, a computer systems think tank with offices in the U. S., Great Britain and Germany. He is also a Fellow of the Cutter Consortium and a Fellow of the IEEE. He was the winner of the 1986 Warnier Prize for "lifetime contribution to the information sciences," and the 1999 Stevens Prize for "contribution to software methods." His consulting activity focuses on project management and litigation involving software intensive endeavors. DeMarco is the author of nine books, mostly on organizational dynamics and technology management; his most recent is Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects, [Dorset House, 2003]. His first mainstream novel, Dark Harbor House, was published November, 2000 by Down East Books.

Events

• DAMA INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE: SECRETS OF THE AGILE ORGANIZATION

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Kim Duckworth New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries

Kim Duckworth has tertiary qualifications in marine ecology and information technology. Kim spent four years working as a user of fisheries data before a chance attendance of a Larry English seminar turned him into a crusader for information quality. Kim complained about information quality until his employer formed an IQ group of two people to address these issues. Seven years later Kim manages a team of nine people tasked with managing information quality in approximately 40 datasets. In those seven years Kim has had some IQ wins, some losses, has learnt a lot of patience, and has never been bored.

Events

• Information Quality: Developing and Implementing a Strategic Plan for Improving the Quality of Fisheries Commercial Catch Data: Avoiding the Silver Bullet, Acquiring a Silver Machine Gun

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Simon Dunford Rolls Royce

Simon currently works for Rolls-Royce in improving business processes for the military aircraft engine division based in Bristol. He has recently returned from a two year secondment to the UK Council of electronic Business (UKCeB) where his role was to accelerate electronic working in the UK and to lesser extent European defence sectors. During the secondment Simon became closely with DAMA.International in which he became European adviser, played an active part in establishing DAMA.UK and actively encouraged the creation of DAMA Benelux. Simon's previous varied business experience as General Manger of a UK Crane company and a French Nuclear Safety Studies company have led to his passion of creating awareness amongst the business community as to the value of effective data management. Simon's academic qualifications include a BSc Eng (Hons) from UCL and an MBA from Newcastle-on-tyne.

Events

• DAMA Track 1: Data Management and Multi-Jurisdictional Regulations

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Larry Dziedzic DAMA International

As an Information Management Data Architect for Johnson & Johnson, Larry is responsible for supporting global data standardization, as well as consulting on process and modeling standards for the worldwide Consumer and Medical Devices group. This includes supporting data standardization of global ERP applications, defining data stewardship functions and interfacing with the worldwide Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices and Diagnostic groups. He is also responsible for establishing relationships of J&J with external industry standards groups. Larry has worked in all areas of data and information management over the last 30+ years, but has primarily focused on pharmaceutical and insurance companies. He has worked on the technical side of Information Management as a programmer, systems analyst and as a data base administrator. On the data side, he has been responsible for purchase and implementation of data repositories, and data processing and modeling software and training. Larry is President of DAMA International. He has also served as VP of Operations and Vice President of Finance for DAMA International. He is also a Past President of DAMA New Jersey USA. Larry has presented papers at both DAMA International and DAMA US events. Larry has also presented internationally at the Enterprise Data Management Conference in Sydney, Australia.

Events

• DAMA Tutorial: ACHIEVING DATA EXCELLENCE
• Joint Chair Introduction
• DAMA: DAMA Professional Groups Meeting
• DAMA Closing Panel: Shed The Hype – What Really Works

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Larry English President INFORMATION IMPACT International, Inc.

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.

Events

• Information Quality Tutorial: INFORMATION QUALITY PRINCIPLES AND PROCESSES: FOUNDATION FOR IQ MANAGEMENT
• Information Quality Keynote: MATURING YOUR IQ MANAGEMENT FUNCTION: KEYS TO SUSTAINABLE VALUE DELIVERY
• International Association for Information and Data Quality (IAIDQ) Meeting
• Joint Chair Introduction

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David Evans BT Exact

Dave Evans has worked for BT in the UK for 17 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 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. He is also the Chairman of the UK Chapter of DAMA International.

Events

• Information Quality Tutorial: DRIVE BUSINESS BENEFIT GROWTH? IMPROVE ROI? FOCUS ON IQ IMPROVEMENT!
• DAMA Closing Panel: Shed The Hype – What Really Works

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Mike Ferguson Intelligent Business Strategies

Mike Ferguson is Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies Limited, a leading information technology analyst and consulting company. He is also a founder and partner in iBonD – “Intelligent Business on Demand”, a partnership of 5 leading independent European experts. As an analyst and consultant he specializes in business intelligence, business integration and commerce chain management (CRM,SCM,ERM). With over 23 years of IT experience, Mike has consulted for dozens of companies, spoken at events all over the world and written numerous articles. He is currently a columnist on www.businessintelligence.com and an expert on www.PortalsCommunity.com. Formerly he was co-founder and Principal at Codd and Date (Europe), the inventors of the Relational Model, and a Chief Architect at NCR working on the Teradata DBMS.

Events

• DAMA Tutorial: INTEGRATING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE INTO THE ENTERPRISE
• Meta Data: Metadata Integration: The Route to Shared Business Vocabulary and Trusted Metrics

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Dagna Gaythorpe Consultant Information Architect

Dagna is an Enterprise Information Architect with over 20 years experience in IT, following the lifecycle from programmer to analyst to architect. She got involved with Corporate Data Administration (as it was called then) during her first Warehouse project, back in 1992. The Warehouse model became part of the Corporate Data Model, and then she started to think about other useful things that could be added. This led to the approach that she has successfully used at three subsequent employers - a structured set of Information Architecture tools that cross-reference the basic Data, Process and Applications metadata, and can be developed as time, resources and demands dictate, to deliver a useful and responsive Information Architecture service.

Events

• DAMA Track 2: "So, Tell Me About Your Data" - Using Entity Life Cycles To Get The Users To Develop The Logical Model

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Keith Gordon Gordon Blain Associates Limited

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 mplementing 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, an examiner for the Information Systems Examination Board of the British Computer Society and a founder member of the DAMA UK Chapter.

Events

• DAMA Track 3: It’s All About Semantics

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Anthony Harris Air Products and Chemicals Inc

Anthony started with Air Products 27 years ago in Operational Research, gradually moving into mainstream IT. He started work with Linear programming and multi-dimensional modelling, moved into data warehousing and executive information systems, and later into data integration using operational data stores. He is currently in charge of the company’s enterprise data integration strategy.

Events

• DAMA Track 2: Data Management issues During and After a Major SAP Implementation

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David Hay Essential Strategies

A veteran of the Information Industry since the days of punched cards, paper tape, and teletype machines, Dave Hay is originally from Colorado, but he went to College in California before moving to New York City, where he started his career in information technology. He worked for consulting companies and New York University, before spending ten years in corporate life, managing manufacturing systems. Joining Oracle Corporation in 1986 launched him into his current career of data management consulting. .

Events

• DAMA Tutorial: A REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS WORKSHOP
• DAMA Track 3: Data Model Quality – What is it?
• DAMA Track 1: PANEL: Future of Data Modeling

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Arthur Haynes Siemens Business Services Media

Arthur leads a team of data analysts within BBC Technology. The group provides a general data integration service for the BBC as well as supplying a wide range of direct data analysis help for projects both within BBC Technology and with its clients. He has worked in the IS/IT industry for over 30 years across a wide range of industries. Over the last few years he has specialised in Data Management implementations.

Events

• Meta Data: Data Integration within the Media Industry

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John Hunter European Court of Human Rights

John Hunter is responsible for the implementation of the short and long-term I.T. strategies of the European Court of Human Rights. he developed and implemented HUDOC (http://www.echr.coe.int/) a knowledge management gateway to the jurisprudence of the Court as well as implementing CMIS (Court Management Information System) and the CMIS Knowledge Portal.

Events

• DAMA Track 3: Unstructured Data Management at the European Court of Human Rights

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Kathy Hunter HarteHanks Europe

Ms. Hunter has over 16 years information systems experience during which time she has developed specialist skills in information quality, information management, data warehousing, business intelligence and CRM. A summa cum laude graduate of Gwynedd-Mercy College in the US, Ms. Hunter holds a BSc in Mathematics.

Kathy, as Information Quality Principal, has helped UK companies get to grips with their information quality problems. Clients include major UK telcos, banks and high-tech companies. She is a popular speaker at conferences and seminars including several IQ Conferences in London.

Events

• Information Quality: Overcoming the Challenges of Global Data

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Diana Joseph Old Mutual

Diana Joseph is an architect at Old Mutual Cape Town South Africa. She has over 30 years expereience in IT but has a strong affinity with business. Her passions are architecture, methodologies, reuse, and continuous improvement. She found her niche in 1999 when she joined the Information Quality Management team (then known as DISC) at Old Mutual. .

Events

• Information Quality: Data Quality, Meta Data and Business Rules: Partnered in the Pursuit of Information Quality

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Benjamin Kahn Aon Limited

Benjamin Kahn has worked in IT architecture, design and strategy for over 15 years, providing CMS, DM, KM, Search, B2B/B2C/B2E and portal solutions to blue chips across multiple sectors. At Aon he helps formulate and define IT strategy and technology portfolio, provides enterprise architecture and liaison with international counterparts, trading partners and market bodies. He has led the introduction of infrastructure, technology and processes around CMS, metadata, search, collaboration & portals, helped design and establish Aon’s messaging hub, used for secure interchange of transactional data and risk documentation with channel partners internationally. Benjamin represents Aon on Acord, the global insurance market body, where he is leading efforts to standardise the use of web services for inter-operation of market repositories.

Events

• Meta Data: Metadata You Didn’t Know You Had, And Some New Uses For It

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John Ladley KI Solutions

John Ladley is a well-known information management practitioner and a popular speaker on information and knowledge management. John is widely published and has several regular columns. Prior to founding KI Solutions, John was Senior Program Director of Data Warehouse strategies and a Research Fellow at Meta Group. Mr. Ladley is an authority on information architectures, business performance measurement architectures, collaborative applications, and information resource management. He is currently working on a new book, “Knowledge Logistics™ – Managing the Value of Information and Knowledge”.

.Events

• DAMA Tutorial: DATA WAREHOUSE – ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN AND SUSTAINING
• DAMA Track 3: Information Asset Valuation and Business Cases
• DAMA Closing Panel: Shed The Hype – What Really Works

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Sam Lowe Head of Architecture & Technology Strategy glue: ltd

Sam Lowe leads glue’s Architecture & Technology Strategy practice, advising companies on the identification and definition of value-adding pragmatic architectures, strategies for the use of key Enterprise technologies, as well as the establishment of Enterprise Architecture teams, offices, processes and methodologies. This has involved working with a large number of blue chip companies, covering many industries including Retail, Consumer Products, High Tech, Life Sciences, Media and Financial Services, and speaking at many public and client events around his practice’s direct experiences in subjects such as SOA, Enterprise Architecture, Architecture Governance, Integration, Data Architecture, and Metadata Management.

Events

• DAMA Track 2: Enterprise Information Architecture in Uncertain Times – React and Adapt

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Craig Lumsden Co-operative Financial Services

Craig Lumsden is a Business Graduate with an Masters Degree in Finance & Accounting. The first half of his career was spent in financial and planning roles within manufacturing industry sold out to financial services in 1989 for thirty pieces of silver. He held a variety of roles within Planning and Marketing from Head of Strategic Planning, Head of Quality to Head of Brand Development . He joined CFS to work at smile the award winning internet bank. Current role involves specifying and managing CFS Marketing's Change Programme which is focussed upon creating an infrastructure and environment that realises the vision of being customer led and data enabled.

Events

• DAMA Track 1: Creating a Co-operative Single View of Customer Co-operative Financial Services

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Chris Maynard JohnsonDiversey

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 currently works for JohnsonDiversey as “Global Data Architect”..

Events

• DAMA Track 2: Shell UK Exploration - Implementation Architecture in A Fast Changing Organisation
• DAMA Track 2: Global Data Management on a Shoestring

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Dave Mills BT Exact

Dave Mills has worked for BT for 24 years. After various Application Development and Business Analysis roles, he moved into MIS delivery. Since the mid-nineties Dave has had a lead role in Data Warehousing within BT. More recently Dave has led the reorganisation of the Business Intelligence capabilities to enable the ever-increasing BI requirements to be designed and delivered in an integrated, cost effective way, providing a "one-BT" view of it's information.

Events

• Information Quality Tutorial: DRIVE BUSINESS BENEFIT GROWTH? IMPROVE ROI? FOCUS ON IQ IMPROVEMENT!

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Maggie O'Hara East Carolina University

Maggie O’Hara is an Assistant Professor of MIS at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC. Maggie's main research interests are: data excellence, the impact of technology on the organization, distance education and e-learning.

Events

• DAMA Tutorial: ACHIEVING DATA EXCELLENCE

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Carol Owens Siemens Business Services Media

Carol Owens is Head of Media Data Group in the Consulting Services division of BBC Technology Ltd., with responsibility for providing the BBC’s metadata integration service, including the SMEF Data Model, and media asset management consulting. She has been at the BBC for 25 years, spending the first half of her career in film editing and (briefly) production, then moving into operational management. The last 9 years have been spent in developing strategic thinking about digital production technology and its impact on the business, culminating in the present work on metadata standards and asset management. She is Chair of the European Broadcasting Union’s P/Meta group and was made a Fellow of the Royal Television Society in November 2001.

Events

• DAMA Track 3: Data Management in the Media Industry

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Duncan Painter ClarityBlue

Duncan Painter founded ClarityBlue, formerly known as Sand Technology, in 1997 to offer Customer Intelligence solutions to blue-chip companies. Basing the company proposition on the need for better business applications and consulting to support sophisticated technological solutions, Duncan has driven ClarityBlue to punch above its weight and beat much larger organisations to win impressive clients. From 1997 until the formation of the ClarityBlue division in 2002, Duncan was the president of Sand Technology's EMEA sales operation. Prior to joining Sand, he worked for 14 years in IT and project implementation, including European Director of Solutions, Sales, and Systems Integration for Hitachi Data Systems, where he increased the division's revenue to more than £26m within three years, and in 1997 he became the youngest-ever board director of Hitachi.

Events

• DAMA Track 1: Customer Intelligence - Crucial for Effective Data Management Campaigns at Lloyds TSB

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Dan Paolini The State of New Jersey

Dan Paolini is the State of New Jersey's first Director of Data Management Services. In this role, he leads the database administration, data administration, data warehousing and data integration efforts for both agency-specific and enterprise-wide information technology projects. Prior to this position, he was the State's first data architect. He co-founded and led a successful database consulting and training firm for six years, and has served as the Chief Technology Officer for a public school district and an educational institution. He is a former contributing editor for a monthly database magazine and the technical editor for three database books. He has presented eight keynotes and more than fifty technical papers at over twenty conferences in North America and Europe. Papers have included such diverse topics as data warehouse modeling, metadata management, data warehousing technologies, reusable component development, query management, rapid application development and user interface design.

Events

• DAMA Track 3: EAI Versus ETL-The What, Why, When and Where
• Meta Data: How We Learned NOT to Manage Meta Data

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Iain Patterson is the IS head of Marketing and Commercial department for British Gas which is responsible for supporting the business' initiatives in eCommerce, Data Warehousing, Data Quality and Customer Insight. British Gas has the leading eCommerce site in the UK Utilities sector and one of the largest customer data warehouses in Europe.

Events

• Information Quality: Managing Addresses and Customers

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Michael Peeters Mobistar

Michael Peeters has an engineering degree in telecommunications and he started his career in a production plant of Siemens in Belgium where he became responsible for logistics and planning. Eight years ago he joined Mobistar at the very beginning of the company, about 3 months before the commercial opening of the network. Three years ago he took the challenge of organizing Datamanagement at Mobistar and to get the DWH back on track. With the CFO of Mobistar as major sponsor, the new DWH became a great success.

Events

• DAMA Track 2: How do IT and Business work together to make Mobistar's Data Warehouse a Success?

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Andres Perez IRM Consulting

Mr. Perez is a Senior Information Management consultant experienced in Data Architecture and Data Management. He has provided oversight on data archeology (re-engineering) tasks, data definition and modeling, data standards, and data quality management. Using TIQM® (Total Information Quality Management) principles, Andres 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.

Events

• Information Quality: Data Certification: Experiences With New Data Management & Quality Methods

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Terry Quatrani IBM

Terry Quatrani is the UML Evangelist at IBM Corporation. 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 IBM, Terry was employed by Rational Software Corporation where she was the UML Evangelist and General Electric Company where she was a founding member of the GE Advanced Concepts Center as well as a programmer and analyst. She started her professional career as an 8th grade Math teacher in Pennsauken, NJ. Terry holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Events

• DAMA Track 2: Writing Good Use Cases
• DAMA Track 1: PANEL: Future of Data Modeling

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Gerry Ray Associated Wholesale Grocers

Gerry Ray has worked in Information Technology for nineteen years. For the past seven years he has worked as a data consultant at Associated Wholesale Grocers which is the second largest retailer-owned grocery wholesaler in the United States serving over 1200 stores with projected sales of $5.1 billion in 2004. He has been instrumental in the design, development, and implementation of AWG's data warehouse which currently has over 100 regular users, 400 to 600 ad hoc queries each day, 150 scheduled queries every week, and continues to grow in size and scope. His experience includes facilitation, data modeling, database design, ETL design, data warehouse design, metadata, and business intelligence development. He brings a common sense, bottom line, and results oriented approach to data warehousing.

Events

• DAMA Track 1: How to Implement a Data Warehouse on a Budget

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April Reeve Metro Solutions LLC

April Reeve is a 23-year veteran of numerous global system implementations. She has specified and implemented solutions for some of the largest international firms, including Citibank, Merrill Lynch, UBS, and Wyeth. As a VP Information Systems for Citibank Private Bank, Ms. Reeve managed the design, development, and implementation of a worldwide Data Warehouse for Finance. She managed the implementation of a global Data Warehouse for Merrill Lynch and a Sales and Marketing Data Warehouse for Wyeth Consumer Healthcare. She worked on design, conversion, and implementation of securities transaction processing systems while an employee of a software solution vendor. Ms. Reeve has spent many years architecting the global application and data strategies for the organizations for which she has worked.

Events

• DAMA Track 2: The Buy Solution Secret: The Critical Role of Data Architecture and Administration in Implementing Application Packages

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Graham Rhind GRC Database Information

Graham Rhind is an acknowledged expert in the field of data management. He runs his own data consultancy company, GRC Database Information, in The Netherlands, where he researches postal code and addressing systems, collates international data, runs a busy postal link website and writes data management software. Graham also regularly speaks on the subject and is the author of Building and Maintaining a European Direct Marketing Database, The Global Sourcebook of Address Data Management and Practical International Data Management - a guide to working with global names and addresses.

Events

• Information Quality Tutorial: ENSURING GLOBAL ADDRESS QUALITY

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Martin Richley Ministry of Defence

Martin Richley has been employed in Data and Information Analysis with the UK Ministry of Defence for some 25 years. He gained his MSc in Design of Information Systems in 1989 and now heads up a highly specialist team of Information Analysts working to ensure that future Information Systems that support the Army can interoperate at the information level. He has been instrumental in driving the need for an information modelling language for which CBML® has been developed.

Events

• DAMA Track 1: An Innovative Approach to Information Modelling

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Rosemary Rock-Evans 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.

Events

• Joint Chair Introduction

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Marie Roemer Metlife Insurance Company

Marie Roemer is an information management professional with over 20 years of experience. Her experience includes implementing a Data Administration function at Beneficial as well as implementing Metadata Management as a function at Metlife. The breadth of her experience includes the marketing, funding, implementation and management of enterprise and application-oriented information services and solutions. She has pioneered the implementation of using Operational Metadata to provide End-to-End Application knowledge for Metlife's Technology Operations Data Center personnel. She has served as the founding president of the NYC Area Advantage Repository User Group (1997-2000) as well as the President of the International Advantage Repository Executive Committee (1999, 2001-2004).

Events

• Meta Data: Supporting Operational Metadata Information Needs at Metlife

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Brid Seery Co-operative Financial Services

Brid has 16 years practical IT experience, in particular development methods including physical and logical data modelling. She has four years experience of data migration projects for large volumes of customer data (up to 10 million customer records) and one years experience of data migration across two organizations.

Events

• DAMA Track 1: Creating a Co-operative Single View of Customer Co-operative Financial Services

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Graeme Simsion University of Melbourne

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.

Events

• DAMA Tutorial: DATA MODELLING ESSENTIALS - REVISITED
• DAMA Tutorial: BEING RIGHT ISN'T ENOUGH: A CRASH COURSE IN CONSULTING SKILLS
• DAMA Track 1: PANEL: Future of Data Modeling
• Meta Data: Business Process Re-engineering, Data Management and Data Modelling
• DAMA Closing Panel: Shed The Hype – What Really Works

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Ian Sinclair Cornwell Management Consultants

Events

• Information Quality: Information Quality in the Public Sector: Too Little Too Late? 

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Kirit Solanki Siemens Business Services Media

Kirit Solanki is a Senior Data Architect in the Consulting Services division of BBC Technology Ltd., with responsibility for enabling metadata integration across the BBC’s media asset management solutions. He has also been at the heart of the development of the BBC’s SMEF Model for metadata management and architected the first SMEF compliant solution within the BBC. The last six years have been spent within the BBC focusing on the rapidly advancing areas of content scheduling and playout across linear and non-linear services.

Events

• Meta Data: Data Integration within the Media Industry

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R Todd Stephens BellSouth

Dr. Todd Stephens is the Director of the Metadata Services Group for the BellSouth Corporation, an Atlanta-based telecommunications organization serving over 44 million customers in 20 countries. Todd has served as the director since 1999 and is responsible for setting the corporate strategy and architecture for the development and implementation of the Enterprise Metadata Repositories, which include metadata, data transformation, component, XML, content, documentation, UDDI, messaging, metrics, interfaces, and the Enterprise Information Portal using XML technologies.

Todd writes a monthly online column in DMReview and has delivered keynotes, tutorials and educational sessions for a wide variety of technology conferences. Todd holds degrees received in 1986 in Mathematics and Computer Science from Columbus State University, an MBA degree from Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA., in 1990 and a Ph.D. in Information Systems at Nova Southeastern University.

Events

• Meta Data Tutorial: ENTERPRISE METADATA: DISCOVERING THE SECRETS OF CREATING LASTING VALUE
• Meta Data: The Return of Enterprise Reuse

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