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Larry
P English |
Larry English is an internationally recognized authority in information and knowledge management and information quality improvement. He has provided consulting and education in more than 28 countries on five continents. He was featured as one of the "21 Voices for the 21st Century" in the January, 2000 issue of Quality Progress. DAMA awarded him the 1998 "Individual Achievement Award" for his contributions to the field of information resource management. Mr. English's methodology for information quality improvement-Total Information Quality Management (TIQM®)-has been implemented in several organizations worldwide. He writes the "Plain English on Information Quality" column in the DM Review. Mr. English's widely acclaimed book Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality, is also available in Japanese.
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Peter
Hinssen |
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.
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Bill
Inmon |
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.
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Rick
van der Lans |
Rick F. van der Lans is an independent consultant, author and lecturer specialising in XML, data warehousing, application integration, and information modelling. He is Managing Director of R20/Consultancy based in The Netherlands. Rick has advised many large companies worldwide on defining their data warehouse architectures. Rick van der Lans is an internationally acclaimed lecturer. For the last fifteen 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.
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John
Schley DAMA International |
John Schley is President of DAMA International, the Premier Organization for Data Professionals and was Vice President Chapter Services for DAMA International for 2004-2005. Prior to that, he was a founding member and first president of the DAMA-Iowa chapter. He is a Specialist in Data Administration at Nationwide Insurance in Des Moines, Iowa and an adjunct faculty member at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, where he teaches data management classes. John received a Certificate in Data Resource Management from the University of Washington in 2002. He has a BS in Mathematics from Southwest State University in Marshall, Minnesota.
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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.