Peter Aiken VCU/Data Blueprint

Peter Aiken is the Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Data Research and an Associate Professor of Information Systems, Virginia Commonwealth University. He has worked with many organisations to help them form data management strategies and evaluate the use of new technologies within the area of data engineering and its relationship to systems and business engineering. In 2001 he was awarded the DAMA International Achievement Award and he has been a DAMA International Advisor since 1999. He is the author of Data Reverse Engineering and Clive Finkelstein’s co-author of Building Corporate Portals Using XML (McGraw-Hill 1996/99). Mr. Aiken is the co-author of the book "XML in Data Management" published by Elsevier.

Events

• DAMA Tutorial: How Data Managers Can Use XML to Leverage Existing Efforts
• Meta Data Track: Understanding Your ERP System as a part of your Enterprise Information Model
• Meta Data Tutorial: Practical Metadata Strategies

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Kevin Allen Data Architect

After graduating in computer science at York University, Kevin Allen has spent the last 15 years of his career addressing Data Management challenges at some of the worlds largest companies, specializing in Finance and Insurance. His expertise covers Data Architecture, Data Warehousing, Reference Data, Data Modeling, and Metadata. He has presented at a number of conferences, both in Europe and the US.

Events

• DAMA Track 2: Business Vocabularies
• Information Quality Track 1: Information Quality for Risk Management

Soren Alsmo TeliaSonero

Soren Alsmo has spent many years working for large companies including IBM, Alfa Laval Food Plant Automation, and TeliaSonera in both the business and IT departments. He has a wealth of experience. In particular he has delivered Strategic IT plans and implementations for companies including SAAB Aerospace and Electrolux. More recently Soren has been working with BPR and Strategic Systems Implementation. He is now a corporate business architect in TeliaSonera heading up the Business Architecture team for Products and Services.

Events

• Meta Data Track: Experiences from Architecture and Metadata work at TeliaSonera

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Steven Bond America On Line (Time Warner)

The team that Steve Bond manages at AOL, has been actively involved in evaluation, development and maintenance of Content Management Systems and Technologies before the term, CMS, became popular. AOL’s content Management System power AOL Movies, Music, TV, Video Games, CityGuide, Sports and News offerings on the web in both US and EU.

Events

• DAMA Track 1: AOL Content Management

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Jurgen Broeren Raab Karcher

Jurgen Broeren holds a bachelor degree in Logistics. In the past 15 years Jurgen gained significant experience in this field at a large Dutch Building & Construction wholesales company. In his role as project manager and manager of the data management department Jurgen has focused over the past 3 years on merging and optimizing data from 54 branches, scattered over 7 ERP systems to one master data repository.

Events

• Information Quality Track 2: Information Transparency Leads to Synergy at Raab Karcher

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Donna Burbank Embarcadero Technologies

Donna Burbank is the Director of Enterprise Modeling and Architecture Solutions at Embarcadero Technologies. In this role, she is responsible is for the strategic direction of Embarcadero’s architecture and modeling solutions and brings over 10 years experience in the areas of data management, metadata management, and enterprise architecture. Prior to joining Embarcadero, she served in brand strategy and product management roles at Computer Associates and as a senior consultant in Platinum Technology’s information management consulting division. She has worked with dozens of Fortune 500 companies worldwide in the USA, Europe, Asia, and Africa and speaks regularly on the topic of metadata and data management, modeling, and enterprise architecture.

Events

• DAMA Track 3: Mapping Your Enterprise Data Strategy

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Andy Bury Teradata

Andy Bury has over 25 years experience working in and ‘around’ IT. For the last five years Andy has worked as Data Quality Manager for Teradata (UK), building and cleaning data warehouses. Prior to joining Teradata Andy worked for Texaco, Avis and Xerox (UK) in various IT, Data Management and Business Process Improvement positions before becoming Data Quality Manager for Xerox (UK), a position he held for 5 years.

Events

• Information Quality Track 2: Common Root Causes of Data Quality Issues

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Stu Carty Gavilan 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 ASG’s Rochade), Manager Software Products, Viasoft, and Reltech Group (the original vendor of CA’s Advantage Repository). Mr. 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: MetaData Management 2007

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Malcolm Chisholm AskGet.com

Malcolm Chisholm has over 25 years of experience in data management. He has worked in manufacturing, finance, and government. During this time Malcolm has sought to reconcile conceptual understanding with the delivery of implemented solutions for clients. In particular, he has focused on metadata engineering to build a variety of applications. These include repositories, reference and master data management systems, and business rules engines. Malcolm has written numerous articles and has spoken at many venues. He has written two books: Managing Reference Data in Enterprise Databases (Morgan Kaufmann, 2000) and How to Build a Business Rules Engine (Morgan Kaufmann, 2003).

Events

• DAMA Tutorial: Successful Master Data Management
• Meta Data Track: Designing a Repository for a Business Rules Engine
• Meta Data Track: Metadata Repositories: Build or Buy?

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Fergal Crehan Self-employed Practicing Barrister

Events

• Information Quality Track 2: Poor IQ Can Get You Sued: IQ Implications in Common Law

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Michael Curth AC Nielsen

After emigrating to England in 1988, Michael Curth worked as a Senior Analyst for Management Technologies, a software house, providing solutions to the banking industry. He joined ACNielsen to implement the first consumer panel in Europe in England in the early 90’s. He has since worked for 4 out of the top 8 market research agencies in the world, pre-dominantly in IT and Operations, always with an international perspective. He has mainly focussed on the challenge to move from the provision of data to the creation of information, all the time dealing with changing technology, increase in the granularity of data, and the human factors in a highly IT driven environment.

Events

• DAMA Track 2: Local Data, Global View, Smarter Spending

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Larry P English INFORMATION IMPACT

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: IQ Principles and Processes
• Information Quality KEYNOTE: MATURING FROM DATA QUALITY TO INFORMATION QUALITY TO BUSINESS QUALITY: Keys to Enterprise Value Delivery
• Joint Chair Introduction

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David Evans Information Management Consultant BT

Dave Evans has worked for BT in the UK for 20 years. He has experience and knowledge in many aspects of Information Management disciplines. His current focus is to provide professional services, strategy development and solutions to BT’s external customers.

He specialises in information architecture, metadata management, data quality, knowledge management, business intelligence and ETL. He is involved in managing BT’s relationships with some of its strategic software suppliers.

He has previous project management experience, delivering components of BT’s marketing data warehouse and operator services systems, all realising data quality and management benefits.

Dave is one of the founders of the Data Management Association (DAMA), UK Chapter and has been its chairperson since 2004.

He is an experienced presenter and has spoken at Information Management conferences in the UK, the US and Europe. He has recently presented on BI at Brussels, Information Management at Stratford-upon-Avon and on Information Quality at Amsterdam.

Events

• DW/BI Track: Benefits of Business Intelligence

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Mike Ferguson Intelligent Business Strategies Ltd

Mike Ferguson is Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies Limited. As an analyst and consultant he specialises in business intelligence, enterprise business integration (enterprise portals, business process management, application integration, data integration) and commerce chain management (CRM, ERP, SCM). 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. Formerly he was a principal and co-founder of Codd and Date Europe Limited – the inventors of the Relational Model and a Chief Architect at NCR on the Teradata DBMS.

Events

• DW/BI Track: Leveraging Data Integration and BI Web Services in a Service Oriented Architecture
• DW/BI Track: Integrating Master Data Management and Data Warehousing

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Dagna Gaythorpe Consultant

Dagna Gaythorpe has been in IT for over 20 years, and has spent most of it in data management. During that time, she has worked in a number of interesting industries (including accountancy, manufacturing, travel, utilities, and investment banking), developing enterprise and project data models for data warehouses, databases, index sequential files and magnetic tape. She translated the entity relationship diagrams in Graeme Simsion and Graham Witt’s “Data Modeling Essentials” into UML; these are now available on the publisher’s web site.

Events

• DAMA Track 1: The Highs and Lows of Data Modelling in UML

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Rafal Gulan Sofrecom Polska

Rafal Gulan has been working as a Consultant in Sofrecom Polska for over 4 years. During that time he was leading projects related to improvement of Data Quality and Information Quality for telecom operators. Formerly Rafal focused on data and information reconciliation tools and techniques. He acted as project manager for joint teams of client representatives and Sofrecom consultants.

Events

• Information Quality Track 1: From IT Integration through Data Quality to Information Quality

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Pieter den Hamer CIBIT

Pieter J. den Hamer, is managing consultant with CIBIT (a DNV company), an international consulting firm for information technology, information management and knowledge management. Pieter has more than 20 years experience applying data warehousing, business intelligence, data mining and other methods and technologies for data integration and analysis. As a lecturer, he teaches parts of several courses and Master of Science programs. He authors regularly in the area of business intelligence and information management – most recently his book ‘the organization of business intelligence’ was published. He frequently speaks on these topics at conferences and seminars. He is co-founder of the DAMA chapter in the Netherlands.

Events

• DW/BI Track: Business Intelligence & Enterprise Information Management - Real-world Applications Using Structured and Unstructured Data

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Tom Haughey InfoModel LLC

Tom Haughey is currently President of InfoModel LLC, a training and consulting company specializing in practical and rapid development methods. He has worked on the implementation of dozens of data warehouses across a wide range of industries. His courses on data management, data warehousing, and software development have been delivered to Fortune 1000 companies around the world. He has worked on the development of seven different CASE tools, over 40,000 copies of which have been sold to date. He was formerly Chief Technology Officer for the Pepsi Bottling Group and Enterprise Director of Data Warehousing for Pepsico. He wrote his own CASE tool in 1984.He formerly worked for IBM for 17 years as a Senior project manager. He is the author of many articles on Data Management, Information Engineering and Data Warehousing.

Events

• DAMA Track 1: Controversial Issues in Data Modeling
• DW/BI Tutorial: Advanced Dimensional Modeling

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Justo Hidalgo Denodo Technologies

Justo Hidalgo is Associate Director of the R&D department of DENODO. His research interests are related to data integration, cost optimization in mediators, semantic and hidden web. He is currently involved in research on cost optimization in heterogeneous data integration systems in distributed environments, and in automatic exploration of the Hidden Web. He also runs courses on Distributed Systems and Software Engineering at University Nebrija of Madrid, where he has held research and coordination positions before joining Denodo, and Master's courses on Enterprise Application Integration in the University of A Coruña. He has published more than 20 refereed papers in national and international conferences related to data integration, real-time B2B systems architecture and research on educational issues.

Events

• Meta Data Track: Enterprise Information Integration on Steroids: accessing, structuring and combining information from the Hidden Web

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Peter Hinssen Porthus

Peter Hinssen is chairman and co-founder of Porthus (www.porthus.com), one of the leading Managed Application Service Providers in continental Europe. He is also the founder of A-cross, a consulting organization with a focus on Business & IT alignment, and online strategy. In 1995, Peter founded e-COM, one of the first European Internet Agencies, that focused on building enterprise Intranets and Portals. In 1999, Alcatel acquired his company, and it became Alcatel e-COM. Since 2000 Peter has been an ‘entrepreneur in residence’ with the firm McKinsey & Company, where he spent two years on entrepreneurship, e-government strategies and business/IT alignment. In 2005 he was named ‘one of the 20 people that matter in the world of Content Management’ by www.cmswatch.com. He is a frequent lecturer on IT subjects, and on Business & IT alignment in particular, on which topic he is currently writing a book.

Events

• Closing KEYNOTE: BUSINESS AND IT ALIGNMENT: CAN INFORMATION MANAGEMENT GUIDE THE WAY?

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Steve Hoberman Steve Hoberman & Associates

Steve Hoberman has worked as a business intelligence and data management practitioner and trainer since 1990. He is a Certified Business Intelligence Professional (CBIP), having achieved mastery level certification in data analysis and design. He is a popular and frequent presenter at industry conferences, both nationally and internationally. Steve is a columnist and frequent contributor to industry publications, as well as the author of Data Modeler’s Workbench and Data Modeling Made Simple. He is the founder of the Design Challenges group, inventor of the Data Model Scorecard, and a recognized innovator and thought-leader in the field of data modeling.

Events

• DAMA Track 3: Enterprise Data Model Flavours
• DAMA Tutorial: Design Challenges Workshop

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Kathy Hunter Harte-Hanks UK Ltd

Ms. Hunter has over 18 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 has helped UK companies get to grips with their information quality problems. These 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 Track 1: Getting Your IQ Projects Off the Ground

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Bill Inmon Inmon Data Services

Bill Inmon, the father of the data warehouse concept, the corporate information factory, and the government information factory has written 47 books on data warehouse, data base, and information technology management. Bill founded Inmon Data Systems, a company that reads and manages unstructured data - emails, telephone transcripts, documents - and processes them for inclusion into a structured data warehouse. In addition IDS creates visualizations for unstructured data. IDS has technology that crosses the bridge between unstructured data and structured data, currently protected by five patents.

Events

• DW/BI Tutorial: DW 2.0™
• DAMA KEYNOTE: BUILDING THE BRIDGE BETWEEN STRUCTURED AND UNSTRUCTURED DATA

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Philippe Jordan AlpVision SA

Philippe Jordan was appointed Vice-President Sales and Business Development of AlpVision in 2005 and assumes responsibility for international sales growth in the fields of brand and document protections. Philippe is a security specialist, and especially dedicates his time meeting with persons in charge of protecting packages against counterfeiting and tampering issues. His main areas range from pharmaceutical to cosmetic and food industries. Philippe is a regular guest speaker a various events where he shares his expertise with others. .

Events

• DAMA Track 3: Securing Office Printed Documents Against Leak Issues and Espionage

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Susan Knight Elsevier

Susan Knight is the Head of Data Quality and Analytics at Elsevier in the Netherlands. Susan is a charter member of IAIDQ and has extensive experience in this field. Originally from Canada, Susan is based at Elsevier’s headquarters in Amsterdam.

Events

• Information Quality Track 1: Information Quality as a Driver of Elsevier’s Single Customer View

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Rick van der Lans R20/Consultancy

Events

• DW/BI Tutorial: The Marriage of SOA and Data Warehousing
• Joint Chair Introduction
• DW/BI Track: Realtime Business Intelligence and Realtime Data Warehousing: the State of the Art

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Sam Lowe Capgemini

Sam Lowe works within Capgemini’s Enterprise Architecture & Technology Consulting 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: Does Web 2.0 Show Us Anything About How Enterprise Information Architectures will Evolve

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Andrew Manning Centrica

Andrew Manning is an Enterprise Architect who has been developing process, data and functional architectures for nearly 20 years. He has worked in several blue chip companies, including international organisations and a dynamic e-commerce consultancy. He has used a range of architectural approaches, modelling techniques, methodologies and tools. His main focus is using models and architectures to achieve business benefit, support strategic alignment, integration, reuse and continuous improvement. This includes work on BPM, content management and portals.

Events

• Meta Data Track: Implementing a Metadata Repository to Coordinate the Integration of People, Process, Technology and Content across a Large Organisation

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Jeanette Møller Nordea

Jeanette Møller holds a Masters Degree in Management Accounting. Jeanette has been working with Information Management for the last 5 years. She joined Nordea in 1997 starting out working in the Finance Department. Jeanette has since then had a number of different positions from Finance IT Manager to Head of Finance Systems, Development & Master Data to Program Manager for the Nordea Information Management Program. Currently Jeanette Møller is Nordea’s senior Master Data Program Manager and carries the responsibility for all Nordea’s Master Data initiatives.

Events

• Information Quality Track 2: Achieving Success on Customer Master Data at Nordea

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Daniel Moody University of Twente

Daniel Moody is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Information Systems at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. He has a PhD in Information Systems from the University of Melbourne and has held academic positions at universities in the Netherlands, Iceland, Norway, Spain, Czech Republic, Slovenia and Australia. He has held senior IT positions in some of Australia’s largest commercial organisations and has conducted consulting assignments in 12 different countries. He is the Australian President of the Data Management Association (DAMA), Australian World-Wide Representative for the Information Resource Management Association (IRMA) and is listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering. He has published over 90 papers in the IS field, and has chaired a number of national and international conferences. His research and consulting interests include data modelling, process modelling, data warehousing, decision support systems, information economics, information architecture and health informatics.

Events

• DAMA Tutorial: The Art (and Science) of Diagramming: How to Communicate Effectively Using Diagrams

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Nicole Nijssen Unilever Europe

Nicole Nijssen started working for Unilever in 1992. Worked on Sales and Finance data warehousing. Developed a integration system, bringing, sales, finance and logistics together, for the business to manage promotional sales. Migrated and standardised master data for a European SAP integration project, thus learning about the importance of good quality. Managed master data teams, and started initiatives to improve the quality, through governance structures, Service levels and KPI’s. Recently developed an integrated data quality toolkit solution and supported improvement initiatives.

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Events

• Information Quality Track 1: Data Quality Toolkit

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Patrick O’Beirne Systems Modeling Ltd.

Managing Director of Systems Modelling Limited since 1981. His current focus is spreadsheet systems modelling and auditing services as well as general IT consultancy. He lectures on Quantitative Methods in the Irish Management Institute. He is current chair of the European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group (EuSpRIG) and of SoftTest Ireland, and a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society. He advised the ECDL Foundation on the content of a syllabus for a new certification in good spreadsheet practices. His latest book is "Spreadsheet Check and Control" (Systems Publishing, 2005, ISBN 190540400X).

Events

• Information Quality Track 2: Minimizing Risk in IQ Spreadsheets

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Daragh O’Brien Eircom

Events

• Information Quality Track 2: Poor IQ Can Get You Sued: IQ Implications in Common Law

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Bruce Ottmann Kalido

Bruce Ottmann is the Principal Consultant who led the initial research for KALIDO, named as co-author on the patent application for the product, has a unique ability to cross the divide between the technicalities of data modelling and needs of business people.

Led workshops with business and technical staff during the introduction of KALIDO in major customers such as Shell, BP, Unilever and assisted in the development of their overall system architectures and data models. Developed the initial training courses for KALIDO which now form part of the commercial offerings of Kalido Ltd.

His knowledge and skill is sought by other consultants when complex requirements arise within their projects and marketing activities.

Events

• DAMA Track 1: Semantics in Data Modeling & ISO Standards

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John Oxton Barclays Bank

John Oxton has worked in IT for nearly 30 years. Initially he worked as an Analyst Programmer, before becoming data focused about 25 years ago. He has performed logical and physical design for hierarchic, CODASYL and relational structures, and provided DBA support to the live environment. For the last 16 years he has worked as a Data Architect at Barclays. During this time he has built a Data Architecture for UK Bank, and now operates as Senior Data Architect at group level with responsibility for DA across the various Barclays Business Units. .

Events

• DAMA Track 2: Data Architecture at Barclays Bank

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Gary Palmer Sweet & Maxwell Ltd

After a decade in operational direct marketing, Gary Palmer has spent a dozen years building a proven track record of ensuring business value from data-driven marketing projects ranging from campaign management and list selection to data warehousing and CRM. Having worked in industries as disparate as mail order, text retrieval software and even TV licensing, Gary returned to professional publishing, joining Sweet & Maxwell in 2001, as Head of Marketing Information. He is currently reconfiguring their information resource in the wake of an enterprise-wide SAP implementation project.

Events

• Information Quality Track 2: Information Alchemy: How to Turn Base Data into Gold

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Aija Palomäki Nokia

Aija Palomäki is Enterprise Architect at Nokia Corporation. She has worked for years as a consultant and architect for a number of Finnish companies. At Nokia she has been involved in improving Nokia's systems engineering processes as well as releases creation of NEIM, Nokia Enterprise Information Model. NEIM is the preferred information model for Nokia's data and process integration purposes. Currently she manages an initiative of wrapping Nokia's ERP system with NEIM in order to speed up integration efforts. Aija is a founder member of the DAMA Finland Chapter and currently the vice president of DAMA Finland.

Events

• Meta Data Track: Understanding Your ERP System as a part of your Enterprise Information Model

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Dan Paolini State of New Jersey

Dan Paolini is the State of New Jersey's Director of Data Management Services and first Information Architect. Before returning to State employment, he co-founded and for six years led a successful database consulting and training firm that specialized in data warehouse solutions. He has also served as the Chief Technology Officer for a public school district and for a State educational institution. He has led successful data warehousing projects for more than a dozen state agencies and private sector corporations. He has presented eight keynotes and more than fifty technical papers at more than twenty conferences in North America, Europe, and Asia on many diverse technology topics, including various aspects of data management. Dan was a contributing editor for a monthly database magazine for three years as well as the technical editor for three database books. He has been an active member of several professional associations and has served as the Vice President for Standards for the DAMA International Foundation.

Events

• DAMA Track 3: Data Architecture – How to Advance an Enterprise Information Architecture in Large, Diverse Organisations
• DW/BI Track: Migrating from Independent Data Marts to an Enterprise Data Warehouse
• DAMA Track 3: It’s All About the Data!: Why the Lack of ‘Data Leadership’ is Diminishing the Data Management Profession

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Nigel Pendse The OLAP Report & Surveys

Nigel Pendse has been involved with what is now called business intelligence for more than 30 years, first as a user, then in a variety of vendor roles and, since 1994, as a strictly independent industry analyst. He focuses on the OLAP segment, and is the author of The OLAP Report and the annual OLAP Surveys, the world’s largest independent survey of business intelligence usage. This research provides real insight into what really happens in BI deployments, which will be used as the basis for this no-holds-barred talk, which analyses the quantifiable factors in BI projects that lead to the greatest business benefits.

Events

• DW/BI Track: BI in the real world -- lessons from six years of The OLAP Surveys

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John Schley DAMA International

Events

• Joint Chair Introduction
• DAMA Track 1: The Rise and Fall of an Enterprise Semantic Model

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Michael Scofield ESRI, Inc

Michael Scofield is an author and consultant in data asset management. He is a popular lecturer on topics of data quality, data integration, and data warehouse design. He has spoken in conferences and professional meetings in over 65 cities in the United States. He has spoken six 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: Selling Data Management to the Enterprise

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Ken Self Shell

Ken Self is Shell Downstream's Master and Reference Data Strategy and Development Manager. An Australian national, he has spent most of his time in Shell Australia, which he joined in 1985 after a few years with CRA. Since then he has also spent time in Sarawak Shell and is currently based in the Shell Downstream head office in London. Ken lives in Surrey with his wife and two teenage children and spends as much of his free time as possible pursuing trout with a fly rod.

Events

• Information Quality Track 1: Developing and Applying Data Quality Standards

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Alec Sharp Clariteq Systems Consulting Ltd

For twenty five years, Alec Sharp has operated a successful consulting and education practice with clients around the world. His work includes facilitation, process redesign, requirements specification, and data management. He is widely recognized as an expert on the practical application of model-driven techniques (e.g., workflow modeling, use cases, and data modeling) and conducts workshops on these topics globally. Alec’s roots are in data management - he is a past-president of the DAMA chapter in Vancouver, Canada, and has been a top-rated speaker at DAMA meetings for many years. Alec is the principal author of “Workflow Modeling” which was published by Artech House (London and Boston) in February of 2001, and is currently the best-selling book in the process modeling arena

Events

• DAMA Tutorial: Process Orientation for Data Management
• DAMA Track 2: The Lost Art of Conceptual Modeling

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Graeme Simsion University of Melbourne

Graeme Simsion is a regular presenter at DAMA conferences and has been a previous 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: 12 Steps to Better Data Models
• DAMA Track 2: 450 Data Modelers Can’t Be Wrong
• DAMA Tutorial: Being Right Isn’t Enough: A Crash Course Consulting Skills For Data Professionals

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Katherine Sivier Caremark Information Technology

Katherine Sivier recently made a career move into Business Analysis at Caremark, Inc. For the 10 years previous to this she was a Data Analyst. She has 20 years of experience working in Information Technology. Katherine served as President for DAMA Chicago for two years following a stint as the VP of Programs for the chapter. She is currently serving as the VP of Operation for DAMA International. In addition, she has a Master of Science degree in Management of Information Services from DePaul University.

Events

• DAMA Track 3: Partnering With Application Development Integrating Data Development with Iterative Design Methodologies

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Anne Marie Smith EWSolutions

Anne Marie Smith is a highly acclaimed author and speaker in the fields of data stewardship, data governance, data warehousing, data modeling and metadata management. She holds a doctorate in Management Information Systems and has taught at LaSalle University. Smith serves on the board of directors of DAMA International and is an expert advisor to DM Review's Ask the Experts. Smith is the director of education at EWSolutions, a GSA schedule partner and systems integrator dedicated to providing companies and government agencies with best-in-class business intelligence solutions using data warehousing, enterprise architecture and managed metadata environment technologies.

Events

• DAMA Tutorial: Facilitation for Information Management Professionals

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Alan Snow Ordina Visionworks

Alan Snow is currently a Senior Business Intelligence Consultant with Ordina, a large Business and IT consultancy in The Netherlands. Alan has over 35 years experience in IT and Business Process Management. His career includes 15 years in IT technical roles at IBM and at Eurocontrol; 10 years in management positions (Ascential Software, SAS Institute, Informix ), and over 10 years as a Business/IT consultant with Bill Inmon’s Prism Solutions, Business Coaching Europe and Ordina, as well as undertaking projects as an independent consultant in Denmark, Hungary, Egypt and Switserland. For the last 10 years Alan has specialized in Data and Information Quality Management and Business Intelligence. Alan has been actively involved in the IBM European Users Association (SEAS/SHARE), the Benelux Group for Computer Measurement, and DAMA UK. In 2004 he co-founded DAMA’s Benelux Chapter and in 2005 DAMA’s Netherlands Chapter, where is is currently the Secretary. He has presented on Information Quality Management and Information Value monitoring at several international Business/IT Management conferences.

Events

• Information Quality Track 2: Measuring and Improving the Business Value of Information (and Getting Management sponsorship)

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Jørgen Steines Platon, A/S

Jørgen Steines is one of Platon’s lead consultants on strategic advisory within the areas of Information Management, Business Integration and Business Intelligence. Jørgen is the Vice President of Platon’s Business Integration division. Jørgen has worked for Nordea for the last two years as the project manager on Nordea’s Master Data management project and carries more than 10 years of industry experience.

Events

• Information Quality Track 2: Achieving Success on Customer Master Data at Nordea

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R Todd Stephens BellSouth

Dr. Stephens is the Director of the Collaboration and Online Services Group for the BellSouth Corporation, an Atlanta-based telecommunications organization. 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 and Collaborative Applications. Todd writes a monthly column in Data Management Review and has delivered keynotes, tutorials and educational sessions for a wide variety of professional and academic conferences around the world. In addition, Todd has nine patent and patent pending applications in the area of information management.

Events

• Meta Data Tutorial: Delivering the Business-Value of Enterprise Metadata
• Meta Data Track: Integrating Collaborative Tools in an Enterprise Metadata Environment

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Don Tapscott New Paradigm

Don Tapscott, one of the world’s leading authorities on business strategy, is CEO of the international think tank New Paradigm, founded in 1993. New Paradigm produces groundbreaking research focused on the role of technology in productivity, business design, effectiveness and competitiveness. New Paradigm recently completed a $4 million investigation of how firms will innovate in the 21st Century entitled “IT and Competitive Advantage,” funded by 22 global corporations. The project continues in 2006.

Tapscott is also an internationally sought authority, consultant and speaker on business strategy and organizational transformation. His clients include top executives of many of the world's largest corporations and government leaders from many countries. The Washington Technology Report says he is one of the most influential media authorities since Marshall McLuhan. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Management, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.

Events

• Meta Data KEYNOTE: MASTER DATA MANAGEMENT: KNOWING AND COMPETING WITH THE TRUTH

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Luke Thompson DataFlux, UK

Luke Thompson is a Solutions Consultant, over 12 years of analytics, project management and consultancy experience. Key responsibilities are to manage client relationships, construct and implement data management solutions to deliver business benefit. Immediately previously to joining DataFlux Thompson was Head of Managed Services at Kognito Knowledge Solutions. He assumed responsibility for the delivery of a managed data warehouse solution for Norwich Union, overseeing the design and delivery of a data quality view application and providing consultancy on the developing environment.

Events

• Information Quality Track 1: IQ in Large Information and Distributed Environments

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Sue Turner Vodacom South Africa

Sue Turner has been involved in IT since 1996. Her first role was as a Systems Administrator for the NHBRC, but she rapidly moved into the area of designing and implementing their business solutions. She left there in 2000 and spent the next 4 and a half years working for a software development company. During that time she was involved in multiple projects covering the business and data analysis of many Companies who required Single Views of their data. Sue spent almost 18 months assisting in the design and development of a Match Processing Engine, single handedly analyzing millions of records of data to create Match Cases. The last 18 months have been with Vodacom firstly identifying and building the EDM and now currently implementing it..

Events

• DAMA Track 2: CDI – Not a Technical Solution but a Powerful Business Tool

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Mathew West Shell

Matthew West has a BSC and PhD in Chemical Engineering and has worked for Shell since 1978, initially as a Refinery Technologist, but since 1987 on the computing/business interface with a particular interest in Information Management and Data Modelling. He has taken a keen interest in the development of International Standards and is a key technical contributor to ISO 15926 - "Lifecycle integration of process plant data including oil and gas production facilities". He is currently the Reference Data Architecture and Standards Manager for Shell's Downstream (refinery to petrol pump) business, where he is responsible for Shell's Global Downstream Data Model. Matthew is the Shell Visiting Professor in the Keyworth Institute at the University of Leeds. He is a Member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, the British Computer Society, and the Chartered Management Institute; and he is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Scientist and a Chartered IT Professional..

Events

• DAMA Track 3: Developing Shell's Downstream Data Model: Approach and Experiences

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Graham Witt AeM Group

In over 20 years of experience Graham Witt has completed a number of successful projects for major clients in education, finance, health, telecommunications and transport, involving business requirements, data modelling, database design, data warehousing, data quality, business rules and metadata. To ensure that solutions meet business needs, he has developed innovative methods, including assertion-based modelling and object class hierarchy modelling. He is known as an effective educator, having developed and presented various public and in-house courses. Graham co-authored the last two editions of “Data Modeling Essentials”, a set text at a number of US universities. He has presented at conferences around the world.

Events

• DAMA Tutorial: Data Models and User Interfaces as Communications
• DAMA Track 1: Modelling Taxonomies

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Kjell Wittmaack Platon A/S

Kjell Wittmaack is an industry expert within the field of Information Management advising large Scandinavian companies on strategic Information Management issues. He is the lead architect on Platon’s unique Information Management methodology (Platon Insight®) covering every aspect of enterprise-wide Information Management. He is also the Chief Knowledge Officer for Platon A/S, an independent Scandinavian based consulting company. He carries the responsibility for knowledge capturing, sharing and leveraging among Platon’s more than 90 consultants.

Events

• Meta Data Tutorial: Integrating Metadata – the Do’s and the Dont’s
• DAMA Track 1: Putting the I Back in IT

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C. Lwanga Yonke Aera Energy LLC

C. Lwanga Yonke works as Data Quality Manager at Aera Energy LLC. He specializes in all aspects of information quality. His previous positions include Manager of BI, Data Warehousing, Data Architecture, and various petroleum engineering assignments. Lwanga earned an MBA from California State University and holds a bachelor of science in petroleum engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. An ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, he has conducted numerous seminars on TQM strategies, and has authored and presented several technical and data quality papers. Lwanga is a founding member of IAIDQ and currently serves as an Advisor to the IAIDQ Board.

Events

• Information Quality Tutorial: Leading Change: Toolkit for the Information Quality Professional

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