Ken Allen Partner Skellbase

Dr. Ken Allen has spent 40 years in the IT for industry, commerce and academia. For 21 years Ken has been running Skellbase, an information and data management consultancy providing services to banks, industry, commerce and government. 10 years ago he established QBQCompliance and during this period he has been developing rule software and the rule development process. Ken's main current work is the development of an information modelling language for the British Army with an associated rule driven information and data repository to reconcile disparate perceptions of information and data storage structures.

Events

• Meta Data Track: Merging Companies and Information Reconciliation

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John Anderson Business Architect Ealing Council

John Anderson is Business Architect for Ealing Council's Response Programme - an ambitious change programme to deliver, by December 2005, a customer centric council with contact managed across four channels to 80% resolution. He is responsible for knowledge management, management information and for process migration. Formerly John was Director of Policy and Strategy for Ealing Social Services following secondment from the Department of Health.

Events

• DAMA Track 3: Implementing Enterprise Data Management in a Local Counci

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Mark Ashenden Services Life Cycle Information Rolls-Royce Defence Aerospace

Mark Ashenden has worked at Rolls-Royce for the last 13 years in various fields from IT implementation to safety and reliability. His current role is within the Services organisation looking at the data and information required to operate and improve service offerings. Having been both a user and provider of data, Mark understands that data provision is always a compromise between what the engineers need and what can be cost effectively captured and maintained. Mark’s academic qualifications include a BSc (Hons) from Imperial College and an MSc in System Operational Effectiveness from Exeter University. Mark is also a Chartered Engineer through the Royal Aeronautical Society.

Events

• DAMA Track 3: Implementing Through Life Cost Modelling for Services

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Dr. Frank Block CEO FinScore SA

Dr. Block is CEO and founder of FinScore SA, and is an experienced CRM and Data Mining practitioner. He has successfully managed several large, strategic projects and knows how to Data Mining in business practice such as to maximally leverage its benefits. The range of experience includes designing and building large data warehouses, implementing business intelligence solutions, designing and introducing campaign management systems, leading information quality task force groups, developing and applying data mining methodologies in practice. Dr. Block contributed a chapter on Customer Data Analysis Process Methodology to the book Databased Marketing: Managing Profitable Relationships (Wiley, April 2005) by Prof. Dr. Reinartz (INSEAD, Paris).

Events

• Information Quality Track 1: Information & Process Quality: One Coin, Two Faces

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Michael Brackett Consulting Data Architect Data Resource Design & Remodeling

Mr. Brackett retired from the State of Washington in June, 1996, where he was responsible for developing a common data architecture for the State that spans multiple jurisdictions and multiple disciplines. 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 developed many innovative concepts, principles, and techniques for designing and managing data resources. He has written six books on data design and the Common Data architecture. 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. His book on Data Resource Quality: Turning Bad Habits into Good Practices explains how to stop the creation of disparate data. Mr. Brackett was the President of DAMA International for 2000 through 2003 and is currently the Past President of DAMA International and President of the new DAMA International Foundation.

Events

• DAMA Tutorial: The Common Data Architecture in Perspective
• DAMA Track 2: How to Get Business and Data Professionals Interacting

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Tim Brennan Data Administrator Mayo Clinic

Tim Brennan is currently a Data Administrator and DA Team Coordinator at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Tim has a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Information Systems and is currently completing his Master's in Business Administration. He started his career in Data Management at Minnesota Life 9 years ago as a Data Analyst Intern working on reverse engineering data models. Tim transitioned into the programming world for a few years before doing IT project management and software classroom training. During his time at Mayo Clinic, Tim has been involved with numerous data initiatives spanning Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence, ERP, Genomic Research, Information Management & Data Stewardship, Mayo Integrated Clinical Systems, and Mayo's Metadata Repository. Outside of Mayo, Tim has been the Education Officer (2003 & 2004) for DAMA-Minnesota and is currently their President for 2005.

Events

• DAMA Track 1: Information Management at Mayo Clinic

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Jonathan Carter Principal Architect Enterprise Architecture Solutions

Jonathan Carter is a principal with Enterprise Architecture Solutions, focussing on technology, software and application architectures. He has extensive experience of technology strategy development, enterprise architecture and integration architecture, applying SOA across supply chain, FMCG and media companies. He is currently part of a team delivering a global data integration platform based on SOA in a large, global FMCG company.

Events

• DAMA Track 3: The Role of SOA in Enterprise Data Integration

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Stu Carty Gavilan Research

Gavilan Research Associates (GRA) is an expert consulting firm that helps companies to evaluate and select enterprise technology solutions. GRA is the world’s foremost authority on metadata management applications and vendor/product research. Stu Carty, the President & Founder of GRA, is an accomplished, international metadata solutions expert with 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 (the original vendor of Rochade), Manager Software Products, Viasoft, and Reltech Group (the original vendor of CA’s Advantage Repository). Stu gave his first metadata presentation over 18 years ago at Portland-DAMA. Since then, Carty has personally given over one thousand presentations & training workshops to Global 5000 companies on enterprise metadata management and has successfully helped hundreds of companies to evaluate, select, & implement metadata management solutions.

Events

• Meta Data Tutorial: How to Evaluate, Select, and Implement Metadata Management Solutions?

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Mike Collett Director Schemeta

Mike Collett has been actively involved in promoting open technical standards to support learning in UK, European and international groups for several years. He is currently Chair of the British Standards Institution's committee and the European committee responsible for e-Learning Technical Standards and represents the UK at the international level.

Events

• DAMA Track 2: Bringing Structure to Unstructured Information

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Robert Daniels-Dwyer Network Rail

Robert Daniels–Dwyer is currently responsible for designing, implementing and monitoring the Data Quality Strategy at Network Rail, the operator of Britain’s rail infrastructure. Before joining Network Rail, he was the Data Quality Architect at Yell, the publisher of Yellow Pages, and was previously a data warehousing consultant for Oracle and Bull. He began his data management career in the modelling and analysis of complex archaeological data sets, using geographic information systems, computer­–aided engineering and activity based costing. He is also a member of the Society for Computers and Law and the Administrative Law Bar Association, with interests in data protection, freedom of information and intellectual property.

Events

• Meta Data Track: Case Study: Experiences with a Meta Data Repository at Network Rail

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Simon Dunford Cost Analysis and Process Improvement Rolls-Royce Aero-Defence

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 3: Implementing Through Life Cost Modelling for Services

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Mark Dunleavy Manager, Financial Services Similarity Systems

Mark Dunleavy is a business process and management expert with more than 10 years experience in delivering business-focused compliance and IT solutions to financial services sectors. He has a deep understanding of the data quality and compliance needs of banks and insurance firms. As manager of Similarity Systems’ Financial Services team he works closely with many of the company’s top clients to help them implement lasting and effective data quality management programs.

Throughout his career Mark has focused on the intersection of business and technology – initially in delivering specialised applications for financial services clients in the UK and Australia and latterly focusing on the impact of information quality on major financial services business initiatives.

Events

• Information Quality Track 2: Data Quality and Basel II: Where Does it Start?

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Larry Dziedzic President 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 at the DAMA International and DAMA US events as well as at last years DAMA Europe Conference. Larry has also presented internationally at the Enterprise Data Management Conference in Sydney, Australia.

Events

• DAMA Track 2: How to Get Business and Data Professionals Interacting
• DAMA Tracks: Panel Discussion - Shaping The Future of Data Management

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Larry P English President Information Impact International

Mr. English, internationally recognized authority in information management and information quality, has consulted in 29 countries on five continents. His TIQM?® methodology applies quality principles to information quality management. English’s highly acclaimed book, Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality has been translated into Japanese by the first IS organization to win the Deming Prize for Quality. He writes the “Plain English about Information Quality” column in the DM Review and also serves as an editorial advisor for DM Review.

Events

• Information Quality Tutorial: Developing An Information Quality Plan: “Where Do I Go From Here?”
• Information Quality Track 1: IQ Featured Presentation: Essentials of Effective IQ Management

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Dave Evans BT Exact

Dave Evans has worked for BT in the UK for 19 years. He currently leads a team specialising in information architecture, metadata, data quality and ETL, providing solutions for internal and external clients. He is now responsible for identifying the skills the market requires and helping his people develop into these areas. He led on the formulation of 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

• DAMA Track 2: How to Get Business and Data Professionals Interacting

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Mike Ferguson, MD Intelligent Business Strategies Limited

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 24 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 Track 2: How to Get Business and Data Professionals Interacting

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Jim Goetsch Data Architect Schneider National, Inc.

Mr. Goetsch is Data Architect for Schneider National, Inc., Green Bay, WI USA. He is co-developing the Information Stewardship program and a BPR team member. He is an Adjunct Faculty Member – Business Dept., Saint Norbert College, De Pere, WI USA. Schneider has been recognized by Dr. Michael Hammer (Re-engineering Expert) in a recent Harvard Business Review article regarding the success of their Acquire New Business process redesign.

Events

• Information Quality Track 2: How to Perform Information Stewardship within Business Process Redesign

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Jack Goodhew Head of ICT Dover Harbour Board

23 years in the IT industry with my “formative years” spent in system support of ICL mainframes within BT. Three eventful years in the early 1990s as a Computer Centre Manager migrating and consolidating disparate Vax VMS systems from around London onto one large site (previously a banana warehouse).

Further consolidation experience with Edexcel Foundation (following a merger of the very different examination bodies of BTEC and London University). I still have the scars.

Head of ICT at the Port of Dover since 1999 where the main challenges have been upgrading operations systems (such as Port Control) and integrating them the management systems, such as finance and asset management. Responsible for all ICT at the port including such diverse things as radar, radios, CCTV and freight weighbridges!

Also milkman, maths teacher, logistics manager, publican at various stages of my career.

Events

• DAMA Track 1: Implementing a Common Data Architecture - a Case Study

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Keith Gordon Gordon Blain Associates Limited

Keith Gordon has been an independent consultant and trainer since retiring from the British Army in 1998. 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. He 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 1: Implementing a Common Data Architecture - a Case Study

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Leon Gütz Information Manager Data Rabobank Group ICT

Leon is a biologist and a beekeeper who has been working in IT for about 20 years, always involved in the data-part of large infrastructural projects. After projects on subject databases and data dictionaries at the Dutch Ministry of Education he joined Rabobank in 1990. As a data architect and teamleader of modellers he was responsible for data modelling, metadata and data quality of important developments like the Marketing Database, the Customer Information System and recently the Central Data Warehouse. His beehives are located at the computercenter of Rabobank at Zeist, and are therefore the best guarded bees in the Netherlands (behind fences and 7*24 camera-observation ;-)

Events

• Meta Data Track: Experiences in Using the IBM Banking Models for Financial Datawarehousing

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David Hay President Essential Strategies

A veteran of the Information Industry since the days of punched cards, paper tape, and teletype machines, Dave Hay 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 Requirements Analysis: From Business Views to Architecture, from Prentice Hall. He is currently working on a book to describe the definitive schema for a metadata repository.

Events

• Meta Data Tutorial: Data Model Patterns: Metadata

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Arthur Haynes Principal Data Architect Siemens Business Services

Arthur is responsible for a team of data architects that specialise in meta data management for the media industry. The Group provide the BBC’s Data Integration Service and support a range of projects associated with media on behalf of Siemens Business Services. Arthur has been involved in a wide range of IS/IT applications and developments for over 35 years. This has covered many alternative industry types and roles undertaken. For some years he has worked in Data Management and has implemented a number of successful data management initiatives for different organisations. For a few years he chaired the British Computer Society’s Data Management Specialist Group. Arthur has given many presentations on this or related topics at UK and international conferences either in relation to an industry-biased audience or to an information management audience.

Events

• Meta Data Track: The BBC's Data Integration Service

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Steve Hoberman SAP Functional Analyst Mars, Inc.

Steve is a global reference data expert for Mars, Inc. and a data modeling consultant and trainer for organizations worldwide. Steve has been teaching data modeling since 1992 and has presented at over 20 international conferences, including the Data Warehousing Institute World Conferences and DAMA International. He is the author of the book Data Modeler's Workbench, Tools and Techniques for Analysis and Design. Steve specializes in data modeling training, design strategy, and in creating techniques to improve the data modeling process and deliverables. He has an innovative approach to reviewing data models and is the founder of Design Challenges, a discussion group which tackles complex data modeling scenarios.

Events

• DAMA Tutorial: Leveraging Subject Area and Logical Data Models to Understand ERP Systems
• DAMA Track 2: Using the Scorecard to improve Data Model Quality

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Jane Hooper Managing Director StepChange Training

Ms. Hooper launched StepChange Training 7 years ago, when her experiences in working with Cap Gemini and many their many corporate clients, opened her eyes to the opportunities, to enable people involved in change programmes to rise to the challenges and be the drivers for success. Her passion for creating conducive cultures for success, in teams and organisations has led her to develop applications of NLP that build cultures that work for the business, the people, the customer and all the stakeholders.

Events

• Information Quality Track 1: IQ Featured Presentation: Data Versus Communication

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Mike Howard Network Rail

Mike is an Enterprise Architect working for Network Rail based in London. As part of the Information Managements Directorates Strategy and Innovation Department he defined the Meta Data and Information Stewardship strategies and a pragmatic approach to implementation. Mike has worked in the Information Architetcure field since 1988 when he was involved in a major implementation of the James Martin Information Engineering Facility (IEF). His MBA dissertation investigated the relationship between Business and IM Strategies focussing on the Soft Systems Methodology (Checkland). One of his current responsibilities is leading the strategy and implementation of Network Rails Geospatial and Asset Repository systems.

Events

• Meta Data Track: Case Study: Experiences with a Meta Data Repository at Network Rail

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Robert James Data Architect, Corporate Investment Banking and Markets HSBC Group

Events

• DAMA Track 2: Integrating the Capital Markets Organisation using XML-Based Standards

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Becky Kirkpatrick Associate Vice President / Enterprise Information Architect A. G. Edwards & Sons, Inc.

Becky Kirkpatrick, a data processing professional of 20 years, is an Associate Vice President for A. G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. in St. Louis, Missouri (USA). As the firm’s Enterprise Information Architect, she is responsible for defining the architectural vision and strategy for managing the corporation’s business information: both electronic (structured data & content) and non-electronic records.

Becky holds a Masters in Information Management Systems from Sever Institute, Washington University, Missouri. She recently presented at the 2004 DAMA-International Symposium / Metadata Conference in Orlando, Florida, and is remembered for her “Data Architecture on a Shoestring” presentation given at the 2001 DAMA-International IRM-United Kingdom conference, featuring her strategy to a self-sustaining, web-enabled data resource directory of data, hardware, and software.

Events

• DAMA Track 1: Data Security On A Shoestring – Four Basic Steps to Shielding Business Information

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Jos de Kruif Ticketing Manager CTS Eventim

Mr. de Kruif started out in database marketing for Claritas. As product manager for Staatsloterij (the Dutch national lottery) he first became acquainted with ticketing. Before joining the Uefa (the European Football Association), he also worked for the Flying Dutchman project (loyalty program) with KLM. Jos is now works for CTS Eventim (2nd largest ticketing company in the world) organizing the FIFA WorldCup 2006 Germany.

Events

• Information Quality Track 2: Europe, A Whole Other Ballgame: The Value of Information Quality in International E-ticketing

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John Ladley President KI Solutions

John Ladley is an internationally 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, knowledge management, collaborative applications, and information resource management. In January 2005 KI Solutions was acquired by Navigant Consulting where John serves as a Director in the Knowledge and Information area.

Events

• DAMA Tutorial: Using Information Management to Sustain Data Warehouses
• DAMA Track 1: Using Information Management to Manage Risk

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Rick F. van der Lans R20/Consultancy

Rick F. van der Lans is an independent consultant, author and lecturer specialising in Internet, XML, data warehousing, and application integration. He is Managing Director of R20/Consultancy based in The Netherlands. Rick has advised many large companies worldwide on defining their Internet, client/server, and data warehouse architectures. Rick van der Lans is an internationally acclaimed lecturer. For the last twelve years, he has been presenting professionally, and has lectured in many of the European countries, South America, the USA, and in Australia. He has presented many keynote speeches at international events. He is chairman of the Database Systems Show (organised annually in The Netherlands since 1984), he is columnist for two major newspapers in the Benelux, called Computable and DataNews. Additionally, he is advisor for magazines such as Software Release Magazine and Database Magazine. His popular books, including 'Introduction to SQL' and 'The SQL Guide to Oracle', have been translated into many languages and have sold over 100,000 copies. Recently, he has published a very successful book on presentation skills.

Events

• Meta Data Tutorial: Can Service Oriented Architectures be Developed Without Metadata?
• Meta Data Track: Where is the Metadata with Generic Information Modelling?

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Greg Larsen Data Management Principal Harte Hanks Ltd.

Greg has over 20 years experience in the Information Technology industry working as a designer, engineer, technical architect and project manager, specialising in marketing systems. He is currently the Data Management Principal at Harte-Hanks, and is an expert on data management. Greg’s technical background includes programming experience in C, C++, Cobol and Pascal; database development and administration (he is a certified Oracle DBA), experience working with major CRM systems such as Siebel, and over 10 years experience implementing the Trillium Software System® (“Trillium”) at major global corporations. His thorough understanding of the business combined with his technological knowledge give him unique insight into the entire spectrum of Data Management. Greg has worked extensively in Europe as well as the United States, giving him a global perspective on Data Quality. Prior to joining Harte-Hanks, Greg worked as an independent consultant specialising in Customer Data Management. His clients included Hewlett-Packard, 3Com, 3M, Sun Microsystems and the Bank of New York.

Events

• Information Quality Track 1: How Yell Ltd Increased IQ While Saving Money

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Andrew Larter Data Manager The Number 118-118

Mr. Larter is Data Manager of The Number Ltd 188118 in the UK which has taken a 45% market share in the deregulated Directory Enquiries market. Prior to that he managed the largest UK directory website, 192.com and produced directory CD-Rom products.

Events

• Information Quality Track 2: Using IQ Tools & Methods to Increase Productivity at one of Europe's Largest Directory Services

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Peter Lawson Information Analyst MOD

Peter Lawson has been involved in IS/IT for the last 20 years, specialising in system analysis and design, a subject that he lectured on for 5 years. For the last 10 years he has been employed by the UK MoD in his capacity as a data/information modeller/manager and was part of the team that developed the Defence Command and Army Data Model (DCADM). For the last 5 years he has been intimately involved in the development of the Information Definition Language, CBML, and has developed and delivered courses for practitioners. An experienced data and information modeller and lecturer.

Events

• Meta Data Track: Merging Companies and Information Reconciliation

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Sam Lowe Sector Chief Enterprise Architect Capgemini

Sam Lowe works within Capgemini’s Enterprise Architecture 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

• Meta Data Track: Metadata Management and Governance with Enterprise Level SOA Initiatives

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David Marco President EWSolutions

Mr. Marco is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of data warehousing, enterprise architecture and business intelligence, and is the world’s foremost authority on meta data. He is the author of several widely acclaimed books including “Universal Meta Data Models” and “Building and Managing the Meta Data Repository”. These groundbreaking books have been broadly endorsed by many of the largest software companies in the industry and by several major magazines. Mr. Marco has published hundreds of articles and is a regular columnist for several technology magazines and has served as a judge in dozens of industry awards. In addition, in 2004 Mr. Marco was selected to the very prestigious Crain’s Chicago Business “Top 40 Under 40”.

Mr. Marco is a highly sought after speaker and has presented hundreds of keynote addresses and courses at the major business, data warehousing, and meta data conferences throughout the world. Mr. Marco has taught at the University of Chicago and DePaul University, and is the founder and President of EWSolutions, a GSA schedule and Chicago-headquartered strategic partner and systems integrator dedicated to providing companies and large government agencies with best-in-class knowledge-based solutions using enterprise architecture, data warehousing, and managed meta data environment technologies.

Events

• Meta Data KEYNOTE: Meta Data ROI: Using Meta Data to Attain a Strategic Corporate Advantage
• Meta Data Tutorial: Managed Meta Data Environment Full Life-Cycle Roadmap

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Peter Mayhew Information Manager AMEC Oil and Gas

Pete Mayhew is Information Manager for AMEC Oil and Gas. He is responsible for the AMEC Oil & Gas global business information management strategy, its implementation, technology development and ongoing support. He is responsible for the selection of supporting technology and the development of the AMEC business data Extract, Treat, Load and Deliver process and the integration of the process with the AMEC document management solution, to deliver a total electronic business information management model. Pete has spent 35 years in the Oil and Gas industry, 10 of those in engineering, 10 in IT/IS development and management and 15 years in information management.

Events

• Information Quality Track 1: Information Quality Supports Performance Targets

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Chris Maynard Global Data Architect 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: The Four Pillars of Common Coding

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Adrian McKeon, MD Infoshare Limited

Adrian McKeon is Managing Director and Joint Founder of Infoshare Limited. He helped to design and implement Infoshare’s unique ClearCore technology. ClearCore delivers clear line-of-sight data audit trails across all IT. These let staff drill down to sub field level to investigate/fix data and business rule anomalies that destruct data anywhere in IT. Infoshare has over 250 public and private sector clients. Adrian regularly speaks on business rule issues at conferences in the UK and USA.

Events

• Information Quality Track 1: How Semantic Business Rules Improve Veracity of DW Info: Case Studies

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Adrian Miley Senior Partner Miley Watts LLP

Adrian Miley is a senior partner of Miley Watts LLP, formerly known as The Applied Information Management Group, a specialised consultancy providing Data Architecture expertise and non-executive oversight across the Financial Markets and Government business sectors. Prior to forming Miley Watts LLP, Simon was responsible for Enterprise Data Architecture across Reuters Group global operations and for their Fundamental and Reference Data Domain. Adrian is an Abstract Cogitation Specialist generally employed as a Data Architect because he likes to solve significant data-processing problems. His engagements have been many and varied and it would be unfair to emphasise one over another.

Events

• DAMA Track 2: Managing Synchronised Distributed Data-Sets

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Christian Nentwich Senior Consultant Zuhlke Engineering Limited

Events

• DAMA Track 2: Integrating the Capital Markets Organisation using XML-Based Standards

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Sqn Ldr Bob Nielsen Military Advisor Air Attack Dstl Policy and Capability Studies

After university in New Zealand Bob joined the RAF for pilot training. He deployed for the Gulf War, and has flown Jaguars over Iraq, Bosnia and Kosovo. He spent several years instructing NATO pilots in task analysis, planning, and problem solving skills, as well as airborne tactics. He served as the Strike Command Flight Safety Officer and analysed many incidents and accidents to determine causes and remedies. He quickly realised that the vast majority of incidents were caused by ‘human factors’ and team performance issues. He concentrated on teaching teamwork, communication skills, crew resource management and performance analysis, to reduce accidents and enhance performance. This analysis and performance training expertise he now deploys as a StepChange Training consultant, together with continued work in aviation training, and in research projects for the UK MoD and the US DoD.

Events

• Information Quality Track 1: IQ Featured Presentation: Data Versus Communication

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Ralph Nijpels Business Analyst KLM Cargo

Ralph Nijpels is a Business Analyst for the Cargo Business of the largest Airline in Europe: Air France – KLM. Within the Cargo Business he specializes in the Commercial Processes, ranging from pricing, capacity control, order taking to invoicing and accounting. He successfully introduced the combination of methods described in KLM Cargo.

Events

• DAMA Track 1: Rules for Requirements Analysis

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Daragh O’Brien Senior Project Manager Eircom

Mr. O’Brien holds an internal consulting role with a leading European telecommunications company on Single View of Customer and Information Management projects, with 8 years experience with the Information Quality issues relating to CRM and elsewhere within his organization. He is Local Convener for the IQ Network, collaboration between IAIDQ members in Ireland and the Irish Computer Society. He also acts as moderator of the DAMA Global Chapter discussion forums. He holds a Bachelors degree in Business and Legal Studies from the National University of Ireland (Dublin).

Events

• Information Quality Track 1: Reframing Information Quality Management

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Dr. Joyce Orsini Director The W. Edwards Deming Institute

Dr. Orsini is Director of The Deming Scholars MBA Program, a program she created in 1992. She is also Associate Professor of Management Systems. She is President of The W. Edwards Deming Institute and serves on its board of trustees. She has been a management consultant for more than thirty years and has published over 100 articles on management, statistics, finance and banking topics. She held positions of Vice President and Chief Statistician, CFO, Chief Human Resources Officer, COO, and CEO for varying periods over 18 years in the banking industry. Her PhD is in quantitative analysis from New York University.

Events

• Information Quality Keynote: Morning Glories, Mukluks and Mushy Peas: A Systems Approach to Management
• Information Quality Tutorial: Deming's Theory of Management

Aija Palomaki Enterprise Architect Nokia Corporation

Aija Palomäki is Enterprise Architect in the area of Information Architecture at Nokia Corporation. She has been developing Nokia Enterprise Information Model for Nokia's data and process integration purposes. Currently she also manages the architecture and data modeling work of Nokia's Enterprise Data Warehouse program. Aija is a founder member of the DAMA Finland Chapter.

Events

• DAMA Track 1: Utilising Object Orientation, UML and MDA in Data Warehouse Development

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Gerry Rankin Information Architecture Principal Yell, Ltd.

Gerry Rankin has been instrumental in establishing the Data Architecture function at Yell Group Plc. With a strong background in Database Design and Administration, his appreciation of the benefits and need for data architecture were learnt the hard way. Having attained greater understanding of the need for Information Resource Management to drive integrated business systems strategy, Gerry's work has focused on building data architectures within several industry sectors; air express, telecoms, publishing and advertising. He has come to understand how traditional data architecture combines with and complements business data quality initiatives.

"If Data Architecture is about anything, then it definitely includes data quality."

Events

• Information Quality Track 1: How Yell Ltd Increased IQ While Saving Money

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April Reeve Information Architecture Consultant Metro Solutions LLC

April Reeve has more than twenty years experience with information management. She has specified and implemented solutions for some of the largest international firms, including Citibank, Merrill Lynch, Union Bank of Switzerland, and Wyeth. She speaks at data management and data warehouse conferences worldwide. Her career has included developing enterprise information strategy for many global organizations and numerous large system implementation projects including package implementations, business intelligence and data warehouse projects, and enterprise data integration.

Events

• DAMA Track 2: Data Activities in Package Implementation

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Graham Rhind Proprietor 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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Harold D. Rutan Technical Director Advanced Broadband Solutions Inc.

Harold D. Rutan, is the Director for Technical Operations for the contractor supporting the Department of Defense's Executive Information/Decision Support (EI/DS) Program Office for the Military Health System. He is a former Army Nurse Corps Officer with extensive experience in Healthcare Informatics. He holds a Masters degree in Informatics from the University of Maryland at Baltimore and a Bachelors' of Science in Nursing Degree from the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth Minnesota.

Events

• Information Quality Track 2: Operational Procedures for Data Completeness Assessment -Healthcare Data Warehousing

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Zvi Schreiber CEO Unicorn

Zvi Schreiber has many years of international experience as a software innovator and executive in the US, UK and Israel. He is CEO of Unicorn Solutions (www.unicorn.com) which he founded - Unicorn is successfully rolling Enterprise Architecture and Metadata Management delivering the ONE Enterprise vision to leading Global 1000 enterprises and governments. Schreiber previously founded Tradeum Inc., which pioneered the concept of business-to-business e-commerce exchanges; Tradeum was acquired for $500 million and was chosen as the platform for the Converge consortium of high-tech companies in a deal worth $115 million. Prior to that Schreiber worked in the UK introducing model-based software development methods to the UK's rail industry for safety-critical use and before that working on communications software which was OEM'd by IBM & HP. Schreiber is the inventor of over twenty patents and is a frequent writer and speaker at major industry events.

Events

• Meta Data Track: Semantic Management of Metadata - Building One Enterprise

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Michael Scofield Assistant Professor Loma Linda University, California

Michael Scofield is Asst. Professor, Health Information Management at Loma Linda University. He is a popular lecturer on topics of data quality assessment and data warehouse design. He has spoken in conferences and professional meetings in over 65 cities in the United States. He has spoken five times in the UK and twice in Australia. Audiences include The Data Warehousing Institute, Meta-data Conferences, many DBMS User Groups, Information Quality Conferences, DAMA chapters and conferences, and Institute of Internal Auditors. His articles on data management have been published in various journals including Data Management Review, InformationWeek, The Database Newsletter, the IBI Systems Journal, and others. He also has humor published in the LA Times and other journals.

Events

• DAMA Tutorial: Semantic Data Integration
• DAMA Tracks: Panel Discussion - Shaping The Future of Data Management

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Alec Sharp Consultant Clariteq Systems Consulting Ltd.

Alec Sharp has managed his own consulting business, Clariteq Systems Consulting Ltd., for almost 25 years, and currently has clients throughout North America, Asia, and the UK. Alec’s expertise includes facilitation, business process improvement, application requirements specification, and, of course, data modeling. In addition to consulting, he conducts workshops on these topics which consistently receive “excellent” ratings. His presentation of “The Human Side of Data Modeling” was the top-rated session at the 2004 DAMA International in Los Angeles. Alec co-authored “Workflow Modeling” (Artech House, 2001) which is currently the best-selling book in the process modeling area.

Events

• DAMA Tutorial: Skills for the Advanced Data Modeller - Honing Your Techniques
• DAMA Track 3: Process Modeling for Data Professionals
• DAMA Tracks: Panel Discussion - Shaping The Future of Data Management

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Len Silverston President Universal Data Models, LLC

Len Silverston is an author, consultant, and speaker with over 24 years of experience helping organizations integrate their data and systems. He is the best-selling author of “The Data Model Resource Book” series, which describe over 230 reusable data models and which was rated #12 on the Computer Literacy Best Seller List. Mr. Silverston has been a columnist for Data Management Review and has been a frequently invited speaker at many international conferences. He is the winner of the DAMA International Professional Achievement Award for 2004. 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.

Events

• DAMA Tutorial: Politics in Data Management

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Graeme Simsion Senior Fellow 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: Everything You Wanted To Know About Modeling But Were Afraid To Ask, Part 1 Concepts and Techniques
• DAMA Tutorial: Everything You Wanted To Know About Modeling But Were Afraid To Ask, Part 2: Data Modelling from Start to Finish
• DAMA Tutorial: Being Right isn't Enough: A Crash Course in Consulting Skills
• DAMA Tracks: Panel Discussion - Shaping The Future of Data Management

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Henrik Liliendahl Sørensen Consultant

Mr. Sørensen runs his own consultancy and development company based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has implemented advanced data quality solutions at Dun & Bradstreet, Experian and other global as well as local leading service providers and organizations.

Events

• Information Quality Track 1: Mass Producing Quality Data

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Doug Stacey Manager, Data Management Allstate Insurance

Doug Stacey has been in the IT industry for over 20 years, primarily in database management. He has published several articles on data related topics and served for four years on the International DB2 Users Group Board of Directors. In 2003 he and his team at Allstate received the Wilshire Award for Metadata Best Practices.

Events

• Meta Data Tutorial: Acquiring, Storing and Using Your Metadata
• Meta Data Track: Automated Metadata Utilization in the BI Envionment

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David Waddington Founder Tyson Consulting BV

The former Chief IT Systems Architect for Unilever’s two Food Groups in Europe, Dr Dave Waddington, is one of a number of IT directors who joined the field from a business background. He also served as Section Head of the Linear Programming Group and was a founding member of the IT team that supported the move to open systems standards. Since the mid-1990's, he has worked on establishing common data standards and data warehousing and was the first to introduce KALIDO® software into Unilever. More recently, he has led a team to develop a Master Reference Data Repository, which is now being implemented in Unilever. Dr. Waddington has helped companies like Kalido, and Unilever amongst many others.

Events

• DAMA Track 1: CPG Performance Management

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Ian Walton Chief Designer Enterprise Information and Data Management Solutions British Telecom

Ian Walton is the Chief Designer for BT's Enterprise Information and Data Management Solutions. Ian’s career in IT has spanned more than 20 years during which he has worked in most arms of IT and with all of BT’s lines of business and also with external customers. In the past 10 years he has focused his extensive knowledge on IT architecture and design for the delivery of data warehousing and information management solutions.

Events

• DAMA KEYNOTE: Data Management Technology Challenges - Past, Present and Future
• DAMA Track 2: How to Get Business and Data Professionals Interacting

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Holger Wandt Principal Advisor Human Inference

Mr. Wandt joined Human Inference in 1991. As a linguist he spent many years working on the quality of the Human Inference products. In his current position as Principal Advisor he is responsible for all knowledge-related data quality issues. In addition, as the expert he has final responsibility for all aspects related to national and international name and address standardization.

Events

• Information Quality Track 2: Europe, A Whole Other Ballgame: The Value of Information Quality in International E-ticketing

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Simon Watts Senior Partner Miley Watts LLP

Simon Watts is a senior partner of Miley Watts LLP, formerly known as The Applied Information Management Group, a specialised consultancy providing Data Architecture expertise and non-executive oversight across the Financial Markets and Government business sectors. Prior to forming Miley Watts LLP, Simon was responsible for Enterprise Data Architecture across Reuters Group global operations and for their Fundamental and Reference Data Domain.

Events

• DAMA Track 2: Managing Synchronised Distributed Data-Sets

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Graham Witt Group Data Architect Commonwealth Bank of Australia

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 disciplines 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 and third editions of the seminal text “Data Modelling Essentials”.

Events

• DAMA Tutorial: Everything You Wanted To Know About Modeling But Were Afraid To Ask, Part 1 Concepts and Techniques
• DAMA Tutorial: Everything You Wanted To Know About Modeling But Were Afraid To Ask, Part 2: Data Modelling from Start to Finish
• DAMA Track 3: The Time Dimension in Data Modelling
• DAMA Track 2: How to Get Business and Data Professionals Interacting

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Tim Young Director Netezza

Tim has almost 20 years experience in the IT industry, much of which was spent conducting large-scale data management and modeling projects. Engagements include Shell, British Airways, Inmos, Mercury (T-Mobile), BT and Ford. He has spoken at numerous conferences and has had many papers published on topics that include corporate data management, Six Sigma in IT, business process re-engineering, balanced scorecards and IT service quality. Conferences he has presented at include IT Systems Management Forum (itSMF), IBM DB2 User Conference, CMG, Oracle Open World and European Oracle User Group. Today, Tim works for Netezza Corporation as a Director responsible for business development in EMEA. He has worked for Oracle, CACI and BMC Software and was a co-founder of Patrol Software and Proxima Technology.

Events

• DAMA Track 3: Driving Down TCO with Data Warehouse Appliances

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John Zachman President Zachman International

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.

Events

• DAMA Tutorial: Enterprise Architecture

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