Peter Aiken VCU/Data Blueprint

Peter Aiken is an award-winning, internationally recognized thought leader in the area of organizational data architecture and engineering. As a practicing data manager, consultant, author and researcher, he has been actively performing and studying these areas for more than twenty-five years. His sixth book is titled XML in Data Management and is co-authored with David Allen. He has held leadership positions with the US Department of Defense and consulted with more than 50 organizations in 17 different counties. Dr. Aiken's achievements have resulted in recognition in Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century and bibliographic entries in Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, and other recognitions. His entertaining but clear and concise insights make him a sought after speaker, lecturer and consultant. He is an Associate Professor in Virginia Commonwealth University's Information Systems Department and the Founding Director of datablueprint.com.

Events

• Meta Data Tutorial: Beyond the Basics - Managing Metadata in the Real World
• DAMA Track: Corporate Data Mashups

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Annick Andries Belgacom

Events

• IQ Track: Information Quality within Belgacom
• IQ Track: Plenary Panel: Ask the Expert Practitioners

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Steve Benton BT

Steve Benton leads the Governance, Risk and Compliance discipline in BT’s Business Continuity, Security and Governance Practice. He has been involved in the IT industry for over 17 years, a graduate from Queens University Belfast with 1st Class Honours in Information Technology. Through his career Steve worked a variety of applications from speech recognition, to high speed financial dealer board systems, BT’s Billing, CRM and OSS systems and the development of BT’s narrowband and broad band internet services. Since 2001 Steve has been working in the Governance, Risk, Compliance and Information Management space. During the build up in 2004 to the introduction of the Freedom of Information Act in the UK Steve worked in BTopenaccess defining a holistic set of services and products to assist the public sector in addressing their access to information needs, reducing information risk, achieving compliance and improving corporate governance. For the last two years he has lead the Operational Risk Management practice in BT defining and developing BT’s suite of assured risk and compliance consultancy, tools, methods, and treatments. He has also worked with global clients, advising on operational risk management strategy and services.

Events

• DAMA Track: Delivering Decision Ready Information to The Risk Agile Organisation

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Jason Bloomberg Senior Analyst and Principal ZapThink

Jason Bloomberg is Senior Analyst and Principal at Service Orientation advisory and analysis firm ZapThink. He is a leading thought leader in the areas of Enterprise Architecture and Service-Oriented Architecture, and helps organizations better leverage their IT resources to meet changing business needs. He is a frequent speaker, prolific writer, and pundit.

Mr. Bloomberg has a diverse background in eBusiness technology management and industry analysis, including serving as a senior analyst in IDC’s eBusiness Advisory group. He co-authored the books Service Orient or Be Doomed! How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business and XML and Web Services Unleashed.

Events

• Meta Data Track: Managing Metadata for SOA: How to deal with contracts and policies in the context of SOA governance and the SOA lifecycle
• DW/BI Keynote: Building Data-Rich Service-Oriented Business Applications in a Heterogeneous Environment

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Christopher Bradley IPL

Christopher Bradley has spent over 26 years in the data management field, working for several blue-chip organisations in data management strategy, MDM, metadata management, data warehouse and business intelligence implementations. His career included Volvo as lead data base architect, Thorn EMI as Head of Data Management, Readers Digest Inc as European CIO, and Coopers and Lybrand’s Management Consultancy where he established and ran the international Data Management specialist practice. During this time he worked upon and led many major international assignments including data management strategies, data warehouse implementations and establishment of data governance structures. Currently, Mr. Bradley heads the Information Management practice at IPL, a UK based consultancy and has been working exclusively for the last 3 years with a British HQ’d super major energy company.

Events

• DAMA Track: Establishing Data Modelling as a Service in a Multinational Energy Company

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Gordon Brown AMT-SYBEX

Gordon Brown BSc, MSc is a recognised thought leader in the management of internal and external data within the UK utilities and transport sector. His many information management project experiences have been gathered in over 10 customers over 14 years where he has helped in the formulation and delivery of information management strategies. His initial thesis in unstructured information management formed the basis of ideas that have been developed through a successful consulting career in AMT-SYBEX. Gordon now leads the Information Management Business Area within AMT-SYBEX with overall responsibility for Data Management, Energy Dataflow Management, Systems Integration and Business Intelligence.

Events

• IQ Track: Strategies for Data Quality Management: Survey findings from UK Utilities and Transport

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Donna Burbank Embarcadero

Donna Burbank brings more than 12 years of experience in the areas of data management, metadata management, and enterprise architecture to her current role at Embarcadero where she oversees the strategic direction of Embarcadero’s architecture and modeling solutions. Prior to joining Embarcadero, Donna served in key brand strategy and product management roles at Computer Associates and as a senior consultant for 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 at industry conferences on the topic of metadata, data management, and enterprise architecture.

Events

• DAMA Track: Establishing Data Modelling as a Service in a Multinational Energy Company

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Liz Calder AstraZeneca

Liz Calder is a Senior Information Architect working with Discovery scientists in the major pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. She has a wealth of knowledge in business rules, information management and process modelling and has focussed on business improvement through better information management since joining AstraZeneca five years ago. Liz specialises in working with global initiatives, helping the business understand how to move from siloed working practices to a culture of information sharing and re-use, and especially enjoys the challenge of cross-cultural working! Liz is a scientist by training who came into IT following a computer modelling Ph.D. She has wide knowledge of both the manufacturing and pharmaceutical industries and her experience ranges from system design and programming through to project management and service and support provision.

Events

• DAMA Track: Developing Business Rules in a Pharmaceutical Research Environment

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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

• Meta Data Tutorial: Effective Metadata Management
• Meta Data Track: Master Data versus Reference Data

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Kasper Damsø Novo Nordisk

Kasper Damsø is the system manager of the BSC-system and as such responsible of development and maintenance of the system. He has 10 years of data warehouse experience in large Danish companies. To ensure that BI solutions developed brings value to the business, Kasper has always been employed in line of business.

Events

• DW/BI Track: Performance Management for Everybody

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Robert Daniels-Dwyer Network Rail

Robert Daniels-Dwyer leads a specialist data quality team within Network Rail’s Information Delivery department, having joined the company in May 2005 He has 12 years’ experience of data management, ranging across relational, multidimensional, GIS and CAD/CAE databases. He read Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge, and after completing his PhD in the modelling of construction economics, joined Oracle Consulting. After a period with Bull Information Systems, he moved to Yell plc, first to manage its data warehousing environment, and then as data quality architect.

Events

• IQ Track: Embedding DQM Best Practice into the IT Project Lifecycle
• IQ Track: Plenary Panel: Ask the Expert Practitioners

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Chris Date

Chris Date is an independent author, lecturer, researcher, and consultant, specializing in relational database technology. He is best known for his book An Introduction to Database Systems (seventh edition published in 2000), which has sold well over 650,000 copies and is used by several hundred colleges and universities worldwide. He is also the author of many other books on database management, including most recently Foundation for Future Database Systems: The Third Manifesto (2nd edition, coauthored with Hugh Darwen); The Database Relational Model: A Retrospective Review and Analysis; WHAT Not HOW: The Business Rules Approach to Application Development (all published by Addison-Wesley in 2000); and Temporal Data and the Relational Model (coauthored with Hugh Darwen and Nikos A. Lorentzos, published by Morgan Kaufmann in 2003). Mr. Date enjoys a reputation that is second to none for his ability to communicate complex technical subjects in a clear and understandable fashion.

Events

• DAMA Tutorial: Database in Depth: Relational Theory for Practicioners
• DAMA KEYNOTE: DATABASE GRAFFITI: Scribbles from the Askew Wall

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Dr. Walid el Abed Nestlé

Dr. el Abed is a Doctor in Computer science and linguistics and more than 11 years of service oriented experience in managing projects, teams, and initiatives related to business data excellence. Specialization in business intelligence, data quality, data modeling, and data architecture type of initiatives. Lecturer on “Data modeling”, “computational linguistics” subjects and PhD students’ Director at Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France. He is an active member of the research centre in computer science and language science Lucien Tesnière (CNRS France) responsible for conferences and seminars at national and international levels. He is member of the European experts’ database responsible for the expertise of European projects in the domain of information management, Natural language processing and artificial intelligence. He specialises in driving the strategy for Nestlé group in the area of Data Excellence. Main domains are Data quality, Data conversion, Meta data and master data management.(Frameworks and KPIs definition and design).

Events

• IQ Track: Data Quality Framework at Nestlé
• IQ Track: Plenary Panel: Ask the Expert Practitioners

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Larry P English INFORMATION IMPACT International

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

• IQ Tutorial: The ABC’s of Information Quality
• Joint Chair Introduction
• IQ Track: Seven Deadly Misconceptions about IQ: Implementing IQ for Business Effectiveness

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Robert Eve Composite Software

Robert (Bob) Eve leads Marketing at Composite Software after holding executive level marketing and business development roles at leading enterprise software companies such as Informatica, Mercury Interactive, PeopleSoft, and Oracle. At Mercury, Bob created the IT Governance product category. At PeopleSoft and Oracle, Bob led innovative alliance programs. In addition, Bob developed Oracle’s original applications for Manufacturing. Bob holds a MS degree in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BS degree in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley.

Events

• DW/BI Track: The Virtual Data Warehouse - Yesterday’s Vision is now Today’s Reality

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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. With over 26 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 Tutorial: A Business Process and Performance Management Framework for the Intelligent Business
• DW/BI Track: Leveraging Enterprise Information Integration (EII) in Data Warehousing

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Tom Fish Air Products & Chemicals

Tom Fish has 12 years experience in Data Quality, establishing architectures, accountabilities, processes, measures and systems, in SAP and legacy systems environments. He currently plays a global role coordinating data quality process improvement across all master data areas, with a particular focus on Material Master data. He gave a standing-room-only presentation at the Data Governance stream at the SAP User Group in 2006, and has been active in the SAP Data Governance group since it was formed in 2004.

Events

• IQ Track: Master Data Quality Measurement in SAP—Beyond the Basics
• IQ Track: Plenary Panel: Ask the Expert Practitioners

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Suzanne Freestone Harte-Hanks

Suzanne Freestone has 16 years of marketing data and database management experience, gained by working for major UK based direct marketing services providers. During the past 5 years she has worked with Global companies to help them to define business requirements and develop solutions to meet their global marketing data challenges. Suzanne has a BA (Honours) degree in International Marketing, as well as a Diploma in Interactive and Direct Marketing.

Events

• IQ Tutorial: Data Through Marketing Eyes

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Dagna Gaythorpe Independent Consultant

Dagna Gaythorpe is a Data Architect with about 25 years experience in IT, following the lifecycle from programmer to analyst to architect. She got involved with Corporate Data Administration (as it was called then) during her first Warehouse project, back in 1992. The Warehouse model became part of the Corporate Data Model, and she discovered how much fun there is to be had with big models. Since then, she has had a lot of fun developing enterprise and project data models for data warehouses, databases, index sequential files and magnetic tape in a range of industries.

Events

• DAMA Track: We Don't Need a Corporate Model (Oh, Yes, You Do!)

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Dr. A. Blanton Godfrey North Carolina State University

Dr. A. Blanton Godfrey (Blan) is Dean and Joseph D. Moore Professor of Textile & Apparel Technology & Management, College of Textiles, North Carolina State University. The College is the leading institution of its type in the world and produces over half the doctorates in its field in the United States. Prior to joining NC State in 2000, Blanton was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Juran Institute, Inc., the leading international management consulting, research, and training organization focused on quality management and business excellence, a position he held for thirteen years. Prior to Juran Institute, Blanton was Head of the Quality Theory and Technology Department of AT& T Bell Laboratories. For nineteen years Blanton was also an Adjunct Professor in Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science where he taught graduate courses in quality management and control. He has also been a guest lecturer in clinical quality management at Harvard University.

Events

• IQ KEYNOTE: So Many Data, So Little Time: Exploring, Understanding and Presenting Data with a Bias for Action

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Jim Goetsch Schneider National

Jim Goetsch is concentrating on advancing the quality, value and business usage of Schneider National's information resources (www.schneider.com). Jim focuses on Foundation Architecture, Information Stewardship, Enterprise Information Management, Master Data Management, Systems Integration and promoting “Information as an Asset”. He is presently President of the Wisconsin DAMA Chapter (www.widama.us), Adjunct Faculty of Business Administration at Saint Norbert College (www.snc.edu), Board of Director for the Northeast Wisconsin Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (www.jdrf.org) Jim has 22 years of IT experience. Jim holds a Masters degree in Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering.

Events

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

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Keith Gordon Gordon Blain Associates

Keith Gordon has been an independent consultant and trainer since retiring from the British Army in 1998. Keith’s Army service culminated with leading the Army’s Data Management programme. He was responsible for 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 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. Keith’s book “Principles of Data Management: Facilitating Information Sharing” is to be published by the British Computer Society in 2007.

Events

• DAMA Tutorial: Data Management in Plain English

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Paul Gysemans Belgacom

Information Quality Specialist. Graduated in 1979 in Brussels at the NA.RA.FI. as technical engineer specialization electronics. After a few months as service engineer at UCB, changed function to RTT, (now BELGACOM) in 1980. After 16 years experience in exploitation services mostly access and backbone network, switched to the HQ of BELGACOM. Between 1996 and 1999, worked on a number of project like: new ana (automatic number assignment) and APA (automatic pair assignment ). Since 1999 member of the Information Quality Team of BELGACOM.

Events

• IQ Track: Information Quality within Belgacom
• IQ Track: Plenary Panel: Ask the Expert Practitioners

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Sükrü Haciyanli Meteksan

Events

• DW/BI Track: Using Data Services and a Data Warehouse to Enable Real-Time Customer Analytics

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David Hammer Shell

David Hammer is Shell Downstream's Master and Reference Data Development Manager. He joined Shell in 1985, working in the Procurement Division with postings in Europe and the Middle East. Since 1998 David has specialised in the area of Data Management. David lives in Cheshire with his wife and two young children and is an enthusiastic, if aging, hockey player.

Events

• DAMA Track: Progressing Up the Data Management Maturity Curve

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Tom Haughey InfoModel

Tom Haughey is considered one of the four founding fathers of Information Engineering in America. He is currently President of InfoModel, LLC, training and consulting company specializing in practical and rapid development methods. His courses on data management, data warehousing, and software development have been delivered to Fortune 100 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 was also formerly Vice President of Technology for Computer Systems Advisers, who market the CASE tools called POSE and SILVERRUN. He wrote his own CASE tool in 1984. He formerly worked for IBM for 17 years as a Senior Project Manager. He is an author of many articles on Data Management, Information Engineering and Data Warehousing. His book, Designing the Data Warehouse-The Real Deal will be published late this year.

Events

• DW/BI Tutorial: New Advanced Data Modeling Topics for the Data Warehouse
• DW/BI Track: Who Needs Real-time Data Warehouse?

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Arthur Haynes Siemens

Arthur Haynes has fulfilled many roles in the development and implementation of IS/IT applications in a 30+ year career spread over many industry types. He has more recently specialised in the development of data architectures and for the last seven years he has been involved in the BBC’s move towards a more integrated environment for its media assets, by establishing its approach to metadata interoperability. He is a currently chairman of the British Computer Society’s Data Management Specialist Group.

Events

• Meta Data Track: A Complete Data Architecture Development to Support EAI and BI Implementation

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Almar Hijlkema Wehkamp.nl

Almar Hijlkema has a degree on marketing and more than 10 years business experience in different companies (Telegraaf, Dutch Railways, MCI Worldcom) and now works already 4 years for the customer information services department at Wehkamp.nl, the biggest on-line retail company in the Netherlands. He attended recently the Masterclass on Data Quality at Nyenrode Business University and TIQM Mastery Series.

Events

• IQ Track: Customer Data Quality as a (Self) Service in a 24/7 Internet Retail Environment

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Steve Hoberman Steve Hoberman & Associates

Steve Hoberman is a world-recognized innovator and thought-leader in the field of data modeling. He has worked as a business intelligence and data management practitioner and trainer since 1990, and is a popular 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 and inventor of the Data Model Scorecard.

Events

• DAMA Tutorial: All New Data Modelling Challenges

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Kathy Hunter Harte-Hanks

Kathy Hunter has nearly 20 years information systems experience during which time she has developed specialist skills in information quality, information management, and CRM. Working as a consultant, she has helped many companies worldwide get to grips with their information quality problems. These include major telcos, banks and high-tech companies. Ms. Hunter holds a BSc Hons degree in Mathematics.

Events

• IQ Tutorial: Data Through Marketing Eyes

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Josh Kanyemba Transport for London

Josh Kanyemba is a civil engineer with over 15 years experience. He is a specialist geotechnical engineer, with qualifications in information systems. He has several years experience in creating and managing data that includes CAD, AGS & GIS in the construction industry. Six months ago he joined Transport for London to work on the East London Line Project as an Asset Data & Records Manager.

Events

• DAMA Track: Asset Data Management for the East London Line Project

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Ron Klein BMO Financial Group

Events

• Meta Data Track: Information into Action: Delivering Value from Information Governance and Metadata Management

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Michele Koch Sallie Mae

Michele Koch runs the Data Governance Program for Sallie Mae. She has more than 25 years of experience in structured analysis and design techniques for both process and data modeling. Michele spent the first ten years of her career as a consultant providing systems analysis and design leadership using CASE tools to Fortune 500 companies. Her last 15 years have been spent within data administration at Sallie Mae. Currently, she is the Director of the Data Governance Office at Sallie Mae and manages the enterprise data administration team. Michele Koch received a master's degree in MIS and Computer Systems Applications from The American University and a Bachelor's degree from Cornell University.

Events

• DAMA Track: Deciding What Data to Govern

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Milan Kucera Data to Information

Mr. Kucera has more than nine years of experience in Information Technology with a major emphasis on business intelligence, data warehousing, analytical CRM, ETL processes and data warehouse design. As the Director of Data Architecture for a large Telecom in Prague, he was responsible for the development of job descriptions and department descriptions with the authority and responsibility for defining both personal and departmental KPIs. Mr. Kucera prefers to coach over strong line management. This ensures continuous staff improvement (training, re-training). He is a TIQM® (Total Information Quality Management) certification candidate. TIQM, developed by Larry English, applies Kaizen® quality principles to information quality management. Mr. Kucera developed a unique market methodology called Company Information Quality Assessment (CIQA) and used it to analyze a state of management of quality information. This methodology applied the CMM (Capability Maturity Model) developed by Philip Crosby.

Events

• IQ Track: Simple COQ Model and Typical Barriers

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Art Ligthart Ordina

Art Ligthart is a principal solution architect and partner with Ordina, one of the fastest-growing and largest ICT services providers in the Benelux. He specialises in Service Oriented Architecture and modern application integration technology. His main drive is to use SOA as an enabler in solutions for business process improvement and enhanced business agility. He has published several articles and books on application architecture, including a book with best practices for the successful implementation of SOA (“SOA. Een praktische leidraad voor invoering: Socrates™” (SDU, 2005).

Events

• Meta Data Track: Implementing Information Management with SOA

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Sam Lowe Capgemini

Sam Lowe is a Sector CTO working 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: "The Inmates Taking Over the Asylum? … Web 2.0 and Data Management”

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Ron MacDonald Elsevier

Events

• DAMA Track: Gaining Maximum Value from Data Driven Projects

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Toni McDerment Reuters

Toni McDerment is an Enterprise Data Architect with 12 years experience in the IT industry, with a record of achievement in data management and business analysis. At Reuters she is responsible for evolving the Enterprise Data Architecture and performing consultancy and governance in respect of that architecture.

Events

• DAMA Track: Practical Data Governance at Reuters

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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 Holland. He has a PhD in Information Systems from the University of Melbourne and has held academic positions at universities in Iceland, Norway, Spain, Czech Republic, Slovenia and Australia. He has held senior IT positions in some of Australia’s largest and most successful organisations and has conducted consulting assignments in 12 different countries. He is the current President of the Australian Data Management Association (DAMA), Australian Representative for the Information Resource Management Association (IRMA) and is listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering. He has published over 100 scientific papers and has chaired several international conferences.

Events

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

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Daragh O Brien eircom

Daragh O Brien is a Senior Project Manager with a leading European telecommunications company with responsibility for Information Quality Strategy and Implementation. He is a regular conference presenter and contributor to the IAIDQ newsletter and other publications. He is the IAIDQ’s VP for Publicity & Recruitment and chairs the IAIDQ Irish Community of Practice. He is a member of the Irish Computer Society, has contributed Information Quality and Information Management law content to academic syllabi in Irish Universities and has advised the Irish Labour Party on Information Quality Management issues.

Events

• IQ Tutorial: Poor IQ Can Get You Sued
• A joint meeting of IAIDQ's British and Irish Communities of Practice for members and prospective members

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Paul O’Keeffe Marks and Spencer Money’s

Paul O’Keeffe is the Principal Analyst for Marks and Spencer Money’s Basel II Data Quality programme. Paul has worked with the organisation since 2003 and was a founding member of the their Information Management function in 2005. Though an IT professional by career, Paul has a background in Marketing that led him to work on major Data Warehousing and Master Data Management initiatives at British Airways and Ford Motor Co amongst others before taking up his current position.

Events

• IQ Track: Scorecarding—Data Quality in a Business Context
• IQ Track: Plenary Panel: Ask the Expert Practitioners

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Elizabeth Olivieri MITTS Ltd

Elizabeth Olivieri has been in the IT field since 1984, initially joining the Malta Government Computer Centre. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Maths from the University of Malta and an MBA from Henley. She later moved on to join MITTS Ltd., an IT agency for the Government of Malta. MITTS Ltd provides ICT services and professional project management and consulting services to the Government of Malta. Throughout her ICT career within both organisations, Ms Olivieri has worked in several areas – from developer, through team leading, IT consultant, data architect, and project management. With over 20 years of experience in dealing with Government systems, with the last thirteen years gaining experience in data management in government, she has worked upon, led and taken part in many major assignments including, data management strategies, data warehouse implementations and establishment of data governance structures.

Events

• DAMA Track: An Information Sharing Platform for the Public Service

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Thoa Pham Dublin City University

Thoa Pham obtained a PhD degree in Information Systems, and a MSc. degree in Technologies of Information Systems from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Actually she is a postdoctoral researcher in Dublin City University. Her research interests are in Information Systems engineering, especially innovative models and methods for IS modeling, as well as Information manufacturing systems modeling and Information quality.

Events

• IQ Track: A Practical Approach and Tool For Data Quality Assessment

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David Plotkin Wells Fargo Bank

David Plotkin is the Manager of Data Quality for Wells Fargo Consumer Credit Group (CCG), one of the fastest growing companies in Wells Fargo. He has been working with data modeling, metadata and data quality for over 15 years. He has built and currently maintains the CCG metadata repository, and is directly responsible for the data quality (and the data quality organization) at Wells Fargo CCG. He is also a leader in the drive to build, maintain, and document data integrity across the many data touch points in the company, and is a key player in the Basel II initiative. He is one of the leaders of the metadata, stewardship, and data quality initiatives at Wells Fargo corporate, serving as a subject matter experts on many topics.

Events

• Meta Data Track: What Banks Need to Know-Using Metadata Management for Basel II Compliance
• Meta Data Track: Managing Information Flow Through Managed Lineage Meta Data

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Antoine Proult ACP Conseil

Antoine Proult is Enterprise IT Architect Associates at ACP Conseil and both IT architect and project manager on the Semantic EII implementation. He started his career at IBM and then did work at different companies like Michelin, Caisse d'Epagne banking Group, Euriware Integration Services, Sun Microsystems, USWebCKS before launching his own company called ACP Conseil.

Events

• DAMA Track: Semantic Enterprise Information Integration at Orange France Telecom – A Success Story

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Graham Rhind GRC Database Information

Graham Rhind is an acknowledged expert in the field of data management. He runs his own consultancy company, GRC Database Information, based 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 has written three books about international data management and he speaks regularly on the subject.

Events

• IQ Track: Your Web Data Collection Form—Achieving Higher Data Quality

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Suzanne Robertson Atlantic Systems Guild

Suzanne Robertson is co-author of Mastering the Requirements Process, Second Edition (Addison-Wesley 2006) a book that provides guidance on finding requirements and writing them so that all the stakeholders can understand them. Her other requirements book, Requirements-Led Project Management (Addison-Wesley 2005) addresses how to use requirements as input to planning and management. She is also co-author of the Volere approach to requirements engineering. She has more than 30 years experience in systems specification and building. Her courses on requirements, systems analysis, design and problem solving are well known for their innovative workshops and practical applicability. Current work includes research and consulting on finding and involving the right stakeholders, the building of requirements knowledge models and running audits for assessing requirements specifications. She is a principal and founder of The Atlantic Systems Guild and is founding editor of the Requirements column in IEEE Software magazine.

Events

• DAMA Track: Data: The Antidote to Requirements Babel

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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 Data Architect at Principal Financial Group 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.

Events

• Joint Chair Introduction
• DAMA: DAMA International Meeting
• DAMA Track: The Changing Nature of Discourse Between Data Professionals

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Michael Schmitz Business Knowledge Professionals

Michael Schmitz began his career in database management systems working for Software AG and IBM. He began specializing in Data Warehousing in 1987 with Teradata and then worked for Red Brick, Informix and Oracle. At Oracle he served as the Director of Data Warehousing for Mid-Market Solutions. After establishing an independent consultancy he is currently working with HP’s Information Management practice. His experience with various architectures and methodologies has enabled him to evolve his own unique approach to data warehousing utilizing a combination of the best of breed methods and approaches he has worked with over the years. He teaches design and implementation classes internationally.

Events

• Meta Data Tutorial: The Role of Meta Data with Template-Driven ETL
• DW/BI Track: The Active Data Warehouse – A Case Study

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Michael Scofield ESRI, Inc

Michael Scofield is Manager of Data Asset Development at ESRI in Redlands, California. He also Asst. Professor of Health Information Management at Loma Linda University in the Department of Health Information Management. He was a 2007 nominee for the DAMA Award for Professional Achievement. Mr. Scofield is a popular speaker in topics of data management, data quality, data warehouse design. . He has done over 140 presentations to professional audiences. His career has included education and private industry in areas of data quality, decision-support systems, data warehousing, and data management. His articles appear in numerous professional journals.

Events

• DAMA Tutorial: Managing the Data Exchange Relationship
• DAMA Track: Introduction to Geospatial Data Architecture and GIS Data Management

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Alec Sharp Clariteq Systems Consulting

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: Skills for the Advanced Data Modeler - Honing Your Techniques
• DAMA Track: 5 Techniques for Getting Traction with Data Modelling

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Jørgen Steines Platon

Jørgen Steines is one of Platon’s lead consultants on strategic advisory within the areas of Information Management and Business Intelligence. He carries more than 10 years of experience from numerous projects across many industries. Jørgen has for some years been Vice President of Platon’s Information Management Advisory division, and is presently Practice Director across the consulting divisions of the company. Jørgen is regularly used as speaker at national and international Information Management conferences. He holds a Masters degree in business administration and computer science.

Events

• DW/BI Track: Performance Management for Everybody

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Luke Thompson DataFlux

Luke Thompson has established data quality processes and standards employed on various database projects in the UK insurance industry.

Events

• DAMA Track: Gaining Maximum Value from Data Driven Projects

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Helen Townsend Reuters

Helen Townsend is an Enterprise Data Architect in the Chief Architecture Office at Reuters, with responsibility for evolving the Enterprise Data Architecture and for providing consultancy and governance to projects across the organisation. Prior to joining Reuters, she had a long and varied career in IT including periods in systems programming and university lecturing, but has predominately worked with commercial data management systems.

Events

• DAMA Track: Practical Data Governance at Reuters

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Rick van der Lans R20/Consultancy

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.

Events

• DW/BI Tutorial: Improving Business Intelligence through SOA
• Joint Chair Introduction
• DW/BI Track: Why do we need Data Warehouse Appliances?

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Winfried van Holland Human Inference

With a PhD from the internationally renowned Delft University of Technology, Winfried combines a solid technical background with extensive business management experience, to better understand the inter-relationship between business innovation and IT requirements.

Events

• IQ Track: Customer Data Quality as a (Self) Service in a 24/7 Internet Retail Environment

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Graham Witt Ajilon Consulting

In Graham Witt's 30+ years of industry experience, he has developed specialist expertise in information management, requirements specification, user interface design, data/object modelling, relational database design, data quality, business rules, metadata and CASE.

Graham has completed successful projects for clients in education, health, telecommunications, finance, transport and utilities. To ensure solutions meet business needs, Graham has developed innovative methods, including assertion models and object class hierarchies. He co-authored “Data Modeling Essentials” with Graeme Simsion, has presented at conferences in Australia, the US, the UK and France, and has published in the information management press. He is an effective IT educator, having developed and presented Data Modelling and Database Design training courses for various clients in Australia, Canada and the US.

Events

• DAMA Tutorial: Effective Database Delivery from Requirements to Data Modelling and Beyond
• DAMA Track: What Makes A Good Data Model? Data Model Quality Criteria
• DAMA Track: Structured Business Vocabularies

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C. Lwanga Yonke Aera Energy LLC

C. Lwanga Yonke works as Manager, Information Quality at Aera Energy LLC, where he leads the company’s highly successful information quality process. His previous positions include Manager of BI, Data Warehousing, Data Architecture, and various petroleum engineering and operations assignments. An ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, Lwanga earned an MBA from California State University and holds a BS degree in petroleum engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a founding member of IAIDQ and currently serves as an Advisor to the IAIDQ Board.

Events

• IQ Tutorial: Building and Growing a Successful IQ Function

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John Zachman 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. He also operates his own education and consulting business, Zachman International.

Events

• DAMA Tutorial: Introduction to Enterprise Architecture
• DAMA Track: Enterprise Architecture: Straight From the Shoulder

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Aaron Zornes Founder & Chief Research Officer The CDI-MDM Institute

Aaron Zornes is the founder and chief research officer of the CDI-MDM Institute.  Mr. Zornes is a noted speaker and author on Global 2000 enterprise IT issues and is the most quoted industry analyst on the topics of customer data integration’ (CDI), master data management (MDM), and data governance.  Mr. Zornes is also the editor and lead contributor to DM Review’s CDI Newsletter as well as the monthly columnist for both CDI and MDM.  Prior to founding the CDI-MDM Institute, he was founder and executive VP of META Group’s largest research advisory practice for 15 years.  Mr. Zornes also held line and strategic management roles in leading vendor and user organizations, including executive and managerial positions at Ingres Corp., Wang, Software AG of North America, and Cincom Systems.  Mr. Zornes received his M.S. in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona.

Events

• Meta Data Tutorial: Customer Data Integration (CDI) & Master Data Management (MDM) Tutorial
• META DATA KEYNOTE: Milestones on the MDM Road Map for 2008-09

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