Pankaj Agrawal Chief Executive and Technology Officer Compact Solutions

Events

• Perspective Session 1 - Compact Solutions: Architecting Your Enterprise Information TCO: Effective Outsourcing/Offshoring Strategies to Reduce Information Integration Costs it

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Jean Paul Ballerini Senior Technology Solutions Expert EMEA IBM Internet Security Systems

Events

• DAMA TRACK: The Hand Is Quicker than the Eye: The Cost of Compromised Information and How to Protect Against it

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Robert Barnfather Principal Consultant Oakton Services

Robert Barnfather is an information professional with over 15 years experience in information and data management, information system development and project management. This experience has been gained primarily across the telecommunications and IT sectors as well as the military. He has a unique blend of skills and experience that sees him taking a pragmatic and holistic approach to his work. This experience has been developed over the years, first while in the army where he developed strong information management disciplines without the influence of information technology. He then added structured information system disciplines through formal education and work experience ensuring a well rounded approach to solving business information problems.

Events

• DAMA TRACK: Categorizing Information Needs Into Architecture

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Christopher Bradley Head of Information Management Practices IPL

Christopher Bradley has spent over 27 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 first degree was in Chemical Engineering & later he obtained his MBA. Mr. Bradley’s post academic career started for the UK Ministry of Defence where he worked on several major naval database systems and on the development of the ICL Data Dictionary System (DDS). 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. Within their Enterprise Architecture group, he has established Data Modelling as a Service & has been developing a group-wide Data Management strategy to ensure that common business practices and use of master data and models are promoted throughout the group. These have involved establishing a data management framework, evangelising the message to management world wide, developing governance and new business processes for Data Management and developing and delivering training.

Events

• DAMA TRACK: Establishing Data Modelling as a Service at BP
• DAMA TRACK: BPMN For Dummies

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Andrew Bridges Data Quality & Supplier Manager Loyalty Management Group

Andrew Bridges joined Loyalty Management Group in November 2004 as Data Quality & Supplier Manager. His main responsibilities focus on full end to end data management procedures including managing and controlling the quality of the Nectar database, operational business processes and supplier management including all data processing and data capture suppliers. He has a wealth of experience within the data arena and have actively been working with data for more than 10 years. Prior to LMG, Andrew worked for VNU one of the biggest business publishers in Europe.

Events

• IQ TRACK: Nectar Card Case Study: Maintaining Customer Loyalty through Data Quality and Data Management Policies

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Jon Brooks CEO Datactics

Jon Brooks joins Datactics from its partner Lagan Technologies, a global leader in local Government CRM systems. As COO, Brooks oversaw strategic client and partner engagements, and was instrumental in doubling revenue over a 2 year period. His role as CEO at Datactics is to accelerate business growth through expansion of international partnerships and continued innovative product development.

Prior to Lagan, he was responsible for Geac’s worldwide Library Solutions Division, a leading provider of information management solutions to national, public, academic, corporate and special libraries in more than 20 countries. Brooks successfully managed its extensive product portfolio and drove over 300 sales worldwide with the launch of a new product.

Previous senior management positions at global software organisations Group Bull and Software AG have formed the basis for a notable career. A Chartered Accountant with over 25 years senior management experience in the IT industry, Jon Brooks has a track record in developing world class businesses.

Events

• Perspective Session 2 - Datactics: Keep it Clean! DQ Firewalls for Product, Financial and Supplier Data

Marco Bussadori Denodo

Marco Bussadori holds a BSc and an MSC in computer science from the University of London and has over 15 years experience holding several techincal, sales and management roles with numerous leading infrastructure companies across EMEA.

Events

• Perspective Session 2 - Denodo: Mighty Data Mashups – Integrate external/internet data with internal data and do so with surprising ease and short time...

Stu Carty Gavilan Research Associates

Stu Carty, the Principal & Founder of GRA, is an accomplished, international metadata solutions expert with 20 years progressive experience in the enterprise software industry. Mr. Carty has worked for notable metadata companies such as Informatica, Data Advantage Group, R&O Software (the original vendor of Rochade), Manager Software Products, Viasoft, and Reltech Group (the original vendor of CA’s Advantage Repository). Stu 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. Gavilan Research Associates (GRA) is an expert consulting firm that helps companies to evaluate and select enterprise technology solutions. GRA is the world’s foremost authority on metadata management applications and vendor/product research.

Events

• META DATA TUTORIAL: How to Evaluate, Select, and Implement your Metadata Management Solution

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Donald Chapin Business Semantics

Donald Chapin has pioneered methods for defining concepts, structuring knowledge, and expressing business rules in the language of the business since the beginning of his career. Having co-founded a manufacturing company with responsibility for its organization, processes, management system and recordkeeping, he proceeded to bring that business orientation to the design of IBM's first training program for business application development. He continues to enable organizations to document and manage their business vocabularies, policies, rules, services and processes as a strategy, tools and methods consultant, workshop facilitator, trainer, mentor, and quality reviewer. Donald is co-chair of the OMG Revision Task Force for the Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR), co-chair of the OMG Business Modeling & Integration Domain Task Force, and the OMG Liaison to ISO TC 37 (Terminology and other Language and Content Resources).

Events

• DAMA TUTORIAL: From SBVR to Logical Data Models

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Malcolm Chisholm President Askget.com

Malcolm Chisholm, AskGet.com. Malcolm 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
• DAMA TRACK: Mapping the Data Landscape and Source Data Analysis

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Doug Coombs IBM Information Strategist IBM Corporation

Doug Coombs has over 25 years’ industry experience. Based in the UK, he is primarily responsible for communicating IBM’s Information on Demand strategy to clients, partners and internal staff. Information on Demand is a comprehensive vision for unlocking the business value of their information to optimise business performance.

Coombs joined FileNet, acquired by IBM in 2006, as a pre-sales consultant and progressed to leading the team for the Europe North region. He joined Product Marketing in 2003, specialising in Business Process Management, before taking the lead role for Product Marketing in EMEA for FileNet and then IBM’s Enterprise Content Management portfolio.

Prior to joining FileNet in 1995, Coombs spent five years at BP plc as a developer and business consultant within client computing and oil products distribution groups. He has also held senior consultancy positions at European Software Publishing, First Horizon and Watermark Software.

Coombs is a graduate of the University of Newcastle with a BA Hons degree in Business Studies.

Events

• Perspective Session 1 - IBM: Is your information accurate, complete, in context, insightful .... how can you trust your information?

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Ian Davis Global Project Delivery Manager, Dow Jones Client Solutions Dow Jones

Ian Davis is a Global Project Delivery Manager working in the Dow Jones Client Solutions Taxonomy Delivery Team and based in the London office. Ian works to develop and deliver a range of content and information solutions for their global clients. Projects can include discovery assessments, taxonomy strategy and creation, taxonomy mapping, search support, information architecture and website development. He also assists in the marketing and deployment of Synaptica, a semantic management tool offered by Dow Jones, and the website www.taxonomywarehouse.com. He joined Dow Jones in February, 2006, after 13 years developing taxonomy and indexing solutions for still images libraries at both Corbis Corporation and Photonica (formerly part of Amana Japan and now part of Getty Images). At Corbis, he served as head of the UK division’s image cataloguing department. At Photonica, he worked to create and implement the e-commerce website www.iconica.com and was responsible for the development of www.photonica.com. Ian also developed, implemented and maintained all vocabularies underpinning the classification and retrieval of Photonica's extensive digital image content. One aspect of this included creating an extensive English language thesaurus and managing the localisation of that controlled vocabulary into five European languages. He managed a team of ten still image indexers and five thesaurus developers. After leaving Photonica, he worked as an independent consultant for BUPA in the area of metadata and taxonomy creation and development, and the implementation of an enterprise search solution. His particular areas of interest include: developing taxonomies, thesauri, and metadata schemas, manual and automated indexing of still and moving images, deploying and using Synaptica controlled vocabulary software, the challenges of managing teams of geographically dispersed information workers, website creation and development, and the localisation of content into multi-lingual environments.

Events

• META DATA TRACK: Putting Structured Business Vocabularies to Work

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Arjen de Graaf Managing Director ARVIX

Arjen de Graaf is the Managing Director of ARVIX. He is a publicist, a speaker and a strategic consultant. He studied Business Administration at the University of Groningen. Arjen has extensive experience as a consultant and has held many management posts and directorships at various leading consultancies. Arjen is also a co-founder and member of the board of DAMA Nederland. Through his active role in this international platform, he would like to create awareness for the actual management of information and data quality and the importance of IRM/DRM positioning. In addition to this, Arjen is on the editorial board of TIEM, where his background and extensive practical experience enables him to make a significant editorial contribution.

Events

• IQ TRACK: Managing Data: Urgency Leads To Quality Improvement

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Barry Devlin 9sight Consulting

Barry Devlin is among the foremost authorities on business insight and data warehousing. He is a widely respected consultant, lecturer and author of the seminal book, "Data Warehouse – from Architecture to Implementation". Barry’s current interest extends to a fully integrated business, covering informational, operational and collaborative environments to offer an holistic experience of the business through IT. He is founder and principal of 9sight Consulting (www.9sight.com), specializing in the human, organizational and IT implications and design of deep business insight solutions.

Events

• DW/BI TUTORIAL: What Next for Business Intelligence - Changing Gears or Shifting Paradigms?
• DW/BI TRACK: Business Insight is the Next Iteration of BI

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Ken Dunn Head of Information Architecture BP

Ken Dunn heads the Information Architecture team for BP. In this role he is responsible for the development and implementation of IT strategies to help BP manage and gain greater value from their vast information assets. His team drives the Master Data Management, Data Warehousing and Document Management strategies for the company. Over the last 4 years they have initiated programs to improve Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Access, Data Modeling and Metadata Management. Ken moved into this field after 15+ years in Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. He built data warehouses for several companies including a 10 terabyte data warehouse for BP’s Downstream US operations. Ken graduated from the University of Tasmania, Australia and he also has a Masters degree from the University of Sydney.

Events

• DAMA TRACK: Establishing Data Modelling as a Service at BP

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Walid el Abed CEO & Founder Global Data Excellence

Walid el Abed Is a visionary and thought leader in the Data Excellence and Business Excellence practices for global organizations. Expert in the domains of Data Governance, Data quality, Data conversion, Meta data and master data management, he is leading strategies and implementations of frameworks and methodology to achieve Data Quality and Data Governance Excellence in Global enterprises over the last 8 years. CEO and Founder at Global Data Excellence Limited helping global organizations to setup the vision the execution strategy and the implementation plan to get value out of their data. Author of the Global Data Excellence and Data Governance Frameworks including their roadmap, their global execution strategy and implementation plan. Dr. el Abed is a recognised international speaker and delivers training, seminars and conferences on Data Excellence from vision to value generation. He is ITIL, PMI certified and more than 13 years of service oriented experience in managing projects, teams, and initiatives related to business data excellence. His specialization is in business intelligence, data quality, data modeling, and data architecture type of initiatives. He is a lecturer on "Data modeling", "computational linguistics" subjects and PhD students' Director at Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France. Active member of the research centre in computer science and language science Lucien Tesnière responsible for conferences and seminars at national and international levels. 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".

Events

• IQ TUTORIAL: Global Data Excellence Framework (GDE-F WeA-9.0) from Vision to Value Generation
• IQ TRACK: Summary of the Global Data Excellence Framework (GDE-F WeA-9.0)

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Tony Ellis Head of ICT London Borough of Brent

Tony Ellis is an acknowledged champion of the need for councils to improve the quality of their customer information. During his public sector career he has been responsible for the building and implementation of 2 council wide master customer databases. He has chaired the customer user groups of 2 major Customer Data Integration (CDI) suppliers. In 2006 he established and chairs the Data Connects group whose membership is made up of local authorities who’ve already started CDI/MDM projects or just want to know how to get started. The aim of the group is to devise and share best CDI/MDM practice for UK local government and its partners. His day job is Head of ICT at the London Borough of Brent.

Events

• IQ TRACK: A UK Local Government Perspective on How to Improve The Management and Quality of your Customer Data

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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: ABCs of Information Quality
• Joint Chair Introduction
• IQ KEYNOTE: Grounding IQ Management in Sound Quality Management Systems

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Dave Evans British Telecom

Dave Evans is one of the founders of the Data Management Association (DAMA), UK Chapter and is now its chairperson, a role he held since 2004. Dave has worked for BT in the UK for 21 years. He has experience and knowledge in many aspects of Information Management disciplines. His current focus is to provide professional services, strategic business case development and solutions to BT’s external customers. He specialises in data quality, information architecture, metadata management, business intelligence and data extraction, transformation and load. He is heavily involved in managing BT’s relationships with some of its key strategic software suppliers. He has previous project management experience, delivering significant components of BT’s marketing data warehouse and operator services systems, all realising major data quality and management benefits. He has also delivered a number of collaborative working solutions. He is an experienced presenter and has spoken at many Information Management conferences in the UK, the US and Europe.

Events

• IQ TUTORIAL: Driving Positive Business Impacts through Data Quality
• DAMA TRACK: Panel Discussion: Data Modelling Isn't Enough: Today's and Future Challenges Facing Data Management

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Mike Ferguson Managing Director Intelligent Business Strategies Ltd

Mike Ferguson is Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies Limited. As an analyst and consultant he specializes in business intelligence and enterprise business integration. With over 26 years of IT experience, Mike has consulted for dozens of companies on enterprise architecture, business intelligence, technology selection, enterprise portals, business process integration, SOA, data integration and master data management. He has spoken at events all over the world and written numerous articles. Mike is a resident expert on the Business Intelligence Network, providing articles, blogs and his insights on the industry. Formerly he was a principal and co-founder of Codd and Date Europe Limited – the inventors of the Relational Model, a Chief Architect at NCR on the Teradata DBMS and European Managing Director of Database Associates. He teaches popular Enterprise 2.0 master classes in Service Oriented Architecture, Enterprise Portals, Operational Business Intelligence and Performance Management, and Master Data Management.

Events

• DAMA TRACK: Building On-demand Information Services using Data Integration Tools

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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: Panel Discussion: Data Modelling Isn't Enough: Today's and Future Challenges Facing Data Management

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Jonathan Geiger Intelligent Solutions

Jonathan G. Geiger has over thirty years of management and hands-on experience in information management, including data warehousing, customer relationship management, quality assurance, data administration, application development and support, productivity management, and training. Mr. Geiger specializes in data warehousing, customer relationship management, and data management, having gained his initial experience as a program manager at a major electric utility company, and subsequently as a consultant. He led a multi-company effort to develop a commercial enterprise data model for the utility industry, and has been very involved with activities related to Total Quality Management. Jonathan has written over sixty articles on data warehousing, customer relationship management, and related topics, is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences, and is a co-author of Data Stores, Data Warehousing and the Zachman Framework: Managing Enterprise Knowledge (McGraw-Hill, 1997), Building the Customer-Centric Enterprise: Data Warehousing Techniques for Supporting Customer Relationship Management (John Wiley & Sons, 2001), and Mastering Data Warehouse Design (John Wiley & Sons, 2003).

Events

• META DATA TUTORIAL: A Business Approach to Metadata Deployment
• META DATA KEYNOTE: Why Do We Call It Metadata?

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Sandy Georgas-Gait Data Warehouse Data Architect McDonald’s Corporation

Sandy Georgas-Gait has been in the Data Management profession since 1986, in roles including Enterprise Data Architect, Data Architect Team Leader, DBA, DBA Manager, and is currently the Global Data Warehouse Data Architect for McDonald’s. She has designed a vast number of databases in almost all major DBMS platforms, including four data warehouses, two of which were in the multi-terabyte size, as well as numerous OLTP and OLAP databases. She has developed several Enterprise Data Models, defined Data Architecture processes, taught new DA’s, and has developed many company specific data architecture tools and standards. She has worked in a variety of industries including energy, banking, retail, restaurant and transportation. In addition, as a graduate of the famous Second City in Chicago, she peppers her presentations with humor, making her sessions entertaining as well as educational.

Events

• DW/BI TRACK: Global Data Warehousing - A Happy Deal of Success for McDonald’s
• DAMA TRACK: Data Profiling Gains Respect at McDonald’s

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Keith Gordon Independent Consultant 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” was published by the British Computer Society in 2007.

Events

• DAMA TRACK: Data Modelling in the Era of the Object Relational Database

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Simon Gratton Managing Director Adastra UK

Simon Gratton brings over 15 years experience in the IT and Business Information Management fields to Adastra’s clients in the UK. He has honed his consultancy skills in various European and North American industries including transportation, telecommunications, retail, and financial services. Mr. Gratton has extensive experience in project management, and in designing and bringing to fruition broad strategic initiatives that have brought significant business and technological benefits, as well as return on investment, to leading companies.

Mr. Gratton is a seasoned speaker and thought leader, and has delivered many well received talks in the field of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing at various conferences as well as for more intimate gatherings. As Managing Director for Adastra’s UK operations, Mr. Gratton is responsible for supporting and servicing our UK and Continental European clients in their drive to streamline their Business Information Management systems and processes. Backed by the Adastra team, he helps clients find new ways to leverage their technology investments and valuable data to exceed performance expectations and secure competitive advantage into the future.

Events

• IQ TRACK: Banker IQ: Approaching Information Quality in CDI Solution

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Bridgette Griffiths British Telecom

Bridgette Griffiths is a Project Delivery Manager in Information Management at BT Design , the software engineering arm of BT. She has over 20 years experience in the industry, the last 15 in Information Management. She has been involved in many of BT’s major BI initiatives during that period.. Having worked on many of the activities to move BT towards being a real-time enterprise throughout its key end to end processes she is now focussed on BT’s drive into the external, ICT market.

Events

• IQ TUTORIAL: Driving Positive Business Impacts through Data Quality

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Richard Hague Lead Data Architect Elsevier

Richard Hague leads the Data Architecture Team at Elsevier and is based in Oxford. Richard has global responsibility for the data architecture of all back-office systems covering groups in the US, the Netherlands and the UK. He is responsible for developing and implementing Elsevier’s Data Architecture and is also responsible for improving the quality of business data by championing the use of standard processes, procedures and tools across all business units. He is an expert in data and database management whose recent achievements include the development of a data quality management infrastructure.

Events

• Perspective Session 1 - Informatica: Improving Identity Resolution, Elsevier’s dual edged strategy

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John Hall Model Systems

John Hall is a principal of Model Systems, a London-based consultancy. He has more than 35 years’ experience of IT and business systems, with a strong background in enterprise architecture, modelling and methodology. His current focus is as a mentor for application of the Object Management Group (OMG) specifications for “Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules” (SBVR) and the “Business Motivation Model” (BMM). John is active in the OMG on the task forces for SBVR and BMM (chair) and the Regulatory Compliance SIG (co-chair). He represents the OMG on the W3C’s Rule Interchange Format (RIF) working group.

Events

• DAMA TUTORIAL: From SBVR to Logical Data Models

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Neil Harvey Commercialization Manager JohnsonDiversey

Neil Harvey has worked within the industrial cleaning and sanitization industry for over 20 years in product development, engineering, technical service, IT and information management. He is currently manager for process design and information in the Commercialization team of JohnsonDiversey, driving continuous information quality improvement throughout the Global network.

Events

• IQ TRACK: Simple Data Stewardship in a Complex Organization

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Tom Haughey President InfoModel LLC

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 was published in 2007.

Events

• DAMA TUTORIAL: Transition from Logical Model to Physical Database
• DAMA TRACK: Panel Discussion: Data Modelling Isn't Enough: Today's and Future Challenges Facing Data Management
• DAMA TRACK: Star Schema vs Snowflake

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David Hay President Essential Strategies

David Hay is a veteran of the Information Industry since the days of punched cards, paper tape, and teletype machines, Dave Hay has been producing data models to support strategic information planning and requirements planning for over twenty years. He has worked in a variety of industries, including, among others, power generation, clinical pharmaceutical research, oil refining, banking, and broadcast. For fifteen years, now, he has been President of Essential Strategies, Inc., a consulting firm dedicated to helping clients define corporate information architecture, identify requirements, and plan strategies for the implementation of new systems.

Events

• DAMA TRACK: Data Modeling & OWL: Two Ways to Structure Data

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Steve Hoberman Data Modeller 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: Data Modelling Challenges within EIM
• META DATA TRACK: Redefining Meta Data

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Sander Hoogendoorn Capgemini

Sander Hoogendoorn In his role of principal technology officer at Capgemini, Sander is concerned with innovation of software development and a thought leader on agile development. He coaches organizations and projects and has published numerous articles and columns in international magazines and has written books on UML and agile development. Besides that Sander is a frequent speaker at international conferences, which include OOP (Germany), JAOO (Denmark), SET (Switzerland, Javapolis (Belgium), TDWI and DevDays. Sander is a member of Microsoft’s Advisory Board for Visual Studio, the advisory boards of @Portunity (MDA vendor) and the new Tijdschrijft voor IT Management and of the editorial board for Software Release Magazine.

Events

• DW/BI TUTORIAL: Using Agile Best Practices in Business Intelligence Projects

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Janine Joseph Manager Business Intelligence Target Corporation

Janine Joseph is a Manager in the Business Intelligence area at Target Corporation. In addition to her current position, she has extensive experience in stewardship and data warehousing including managing a group of 8 data stewards who oversaw an existing analytic databases as well as the creation of a dimensional analytic enterprise warehouse. She worked to evolve corporate commitment of stewardship to encompass a broader, multi-tiered data governance structure that closely aligns the business and IT communities. She also led the effort to create a metadata repository. This repository was the winner of the 2008 Wilshire Best Practices Metadata award. She received a BS from the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota and completed a mini master of software design and development from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Events

• META DATA TRACK: Using Meta Data to Transform Data into Information

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Carsten Kraus CEO Omikron Data Quality GmbH

Carsten Kraus was born in 1964. During his schooldays he already started founding Omikron. First, he was very successful with a self developed programming language and in the early 90s was involved in developing FACT (Fragmentary Alikeness Comparison Technique), an innovative comparison technology. Since 1992 he has been CEO of Omikron Data Quality GmbH. The company is very successful and steadily growing. At the moment Kraus is leading approx. 50 employees 8 dealing with business outside of Germany.

Events

• IQ TRACK: Challenges in Matching International Customer Data

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Krish Krishnan Sixth Sense Advisers Inc.

Krish Krishnan is an expert in the strategy, architecture and implementation of high performance data warehousing solutions. He is a recognized data warehouse thought leader, writing and speaking at industry leading conferences, user groups and trade publications. He is a certified Bill Inmon professional and holds all major DBA certifications. In his 18 years of professional experience he has been solving complex solution architecture problems spanning all aspects of data warehousing and business intelligence for fortune 1000 clients. With his ‘get it done’ approach he has implemented data warehouse solutions ranging up to hundreds of terabyte data volumes and drives performance tuning into existing BI/DW investments to realize greater than 90% performance gains. Krish leads the Data Warehouse Appliance and Architectures Expert Channel at BEyeNetwork.com and is helping drive and mature the data warehouse appliance market. Krish also serves as Associate Vice President of Programs, DAMA Chicago.

Events

• DAMA TUTORIAL: Using Unstructured Data To Enable A Better Business Decision
• DAMA TRACK: Panel Discussion: Data Modelling Isn't Enough: Today's and Future Challenges Facing Data Management

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Milan Kucera Certified TIQM Consultant Data to Information

Milan 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.

He has substantial experience with business case development and development of different RFP/RFIs (metadata management, information management, information quality, data warehouse, ETL and data cleansing). He is also very knowledgeable about information quality tools.

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) certified consultant. 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) based on Philip Crosby"s Management Maturity Grid from his book "Quality is Free".

Mr. Kucera has written more that 30 articles discussing business intelligence, data mining, data warehouse, information quality and data management issues. He was the first to promote information quality in the Czech market.

Events

• IQ TRACK: How to Maximize Benefits from Quality Assessment

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John Ladley President IMCue Solutions

John Ladley is an internationally known information management practitioner and a popular speaker on information and knowledge management. John is widely published and has several regular columns. Mr. Ladley is an authority on enterprise information management, data architectures, data governance, and risk management and assessment of data. John is currently President of IMCue Solutions, a new firm focused on aligning data governance, enterprise information management and new technologies.

Events

• DAMA TUTORIAL: Effective EIM and Data Governance for Business Leaders
• META DATA TRACK: Data Governance for Business Leaders
• DW/BI TRACK: Using Information Management to Sustain Data Warehouse

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Pascal Laik VP MDM Strategy Oracle

Pascal Laik is the Vice President of Oracle Master Data Management (MDM) Product Strategy. His group's responsibilities include the direction of Oracle’s investment in the Master Data Management area as well Oracle’s MDM go to market strategy. Prior to that position Pascal led the Customer Data Integration (CDI) Oracle/Siebel practice in EMEA. This responsibility included sales and delivery of CDI based solutions and projects. Before Siebel, Pascal worked 8 years in Consulting including 4 years with Andersen Consulting in Paris and Chicago as a Senior Consultant and 4 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Paris as a Manager. As a consultant, Pascal directed and participated in a wide range of team-based engagements ranging from IT strategy to design and implementation of enterprise front-end and back-end solutions in the high-tech, media, government and banking industries. Pascal has a Master of Science in Engineering from Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees (ENSTA), Paris France and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the Wharton School from the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated with a major in Finance in May 2000 with distinction.

Events

• DAMA TRACK: The Role of Master Data Management in an Enterprise Information Architecture

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Johnny Long Professional Hacker, Security Researcher & Author

Johnny Long is a Christian by grace, a professional hacker by trade, a pirate by blood, a ninja in training, a security researcher and author. He can be found lurking at his website (http://johnny.ihackstuff.com). Johnny is the founder of Hackers For Charity (http://ihackcharities.org), an organization that provides hackers with job experience while leveraging their skills for charities that need those skills.

Events

• DAMA KEYNOTE: No-Tech Hacking

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Chris Maynard Consultant Transforming Information

Chris Maynard has worked in I.T. user organizations since 1980, in a career spanning Programming, Software Management, Database Management, Technical Services Management, Data Architecture and Information Management. He was “Global Data Architect” and an Information Steward at JohnsonDiversey for ten years. He is now a freelance consultant in Information Management and Data Quality.

Events

• IQ TRACK: Simple Data Stewardship in a Complex Organization

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Lance Miller VP Global Services Marketing Teradata

Lance Miller is Vice President, Global Services Marketing, for Teradata,. Mr. Miller is a subject-matter expert in several areas of the software industry including: databases, data warehouses, decision support (DSS/EIS), data visualization, CRM, and very large database technologies. Mr Miller is a frequent speaker and panelist at industry trade shows where his knowledge is in high demand. Before joining Teradata, Mr. Miller was Chief Technology Officer (CTO), CIO, and VP, Software Development for Customer Insight Company. Previously, Mr. Miller served in a variety of senior IT and technology positions with Cray, Honeywell, Solbourne, and Woodward-Clyde. Mr. Miller holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the U.S. Air Force Academy and an MBA (Strategic Marketing) from Chadwick University.

Events

• DW/BI TRACK: How does Enterprise Data Management Relate to Data Warehousing?

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Pankaj Mistry Head of Data Governance, Risk Fulfilment Barclays

Pankaj Mistry is a chartered banker who has been in working in Banking & Financial Services for 22 years. 16 years of this time has been spent in Barclays in various roles such as Financial Reporting, Data Warehouse development, Risk & MI Systems, Country Risk, Integrating the Woolwich Bank and SAS Strategy. The remaining time has been spent at HSBC, HBOS and The Skipton Group in consultancy roles involving MIS Strategy, Credit Risk Projects and Emerging Markets. In his present role Pankaj is responsible for the strategic Data Governance programme in addition to managing Data Quality for Regulation & Compliance purposes. With the recent acquisition of Data Flux software Pankaj is aiming to evolve the measurement and control of data to a ‘Proactive’ Model across the Retail Bank.

Events

• IQ TRACK: Implementing a Data Quality Firewall

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David Montgomery Head of Data Management and Continuous Improvement RWE npower

David Montgomery is Head of Data Management and Continuous Improvement for RWE npower, responsible for Data Management across their Retail organisation. With 10 years experience in the UK Utilities market David has extensive experience in the in the design of the UK Utilities market and is seen as an expert in the Retail aspects of Operation. David’s roles within the Utilities sector have been varied covering Operational Management, Industry Design Authority and IT/Business Project Management. Latterly, David has been involved in the activities surrounding the monitoring, improving and assurance of key business processes and data throughout the organisations critical processes. Data Management has been a fundamental part of David’s approach and he has established Data Quality Management frameworks in the companies he has worked with.

Events

• DAMA TRACK: Data Management Implementation in the UK Utilities Retail Environment

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Larissa Moss Method Focus, Inc

Larissa Moss is president of Method Focus Inc. She has 29 years of IT experience, with a focus on data warehousing and data management for the past 20 years. She frequently speaks at conferences worldwide on the topics of data warehousing, business intelligence, master data management, project management, development methodologies, and other information asset management topics, such as enterprise architecture, data integration, and information quality. Ms. Moss is widely published. In 1991 she self-published her first methodology RSDM 2000, Relational System Development Methodology, Volumes I & II. Since then, she co-authored the books Data Warehouse Project Management, Impossible Data Warehouse Situations, Business Intelligence Roadmap, and Data Strategy. Her articles are frequently published in DM Review, Teradata Magazine, Cutter IT Journal, TDWI Journal of Data Warehousing, TDWI Flash Point and EIMInsight Magazine. Her white papers include Organizational and Cultural Barriers to Business Intelligence, Developing BI Decision-Support Applications: Not Business As Usual, Data Quality is Not Optional, and The Importance of Data Modeling as a Foundation for Business Insight.

Events

• DW/BI TUTORIAL: Business Intelligence Roadmap: Agile Project Management and Spiral Methodology for DW and BI Projects

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Richard Neale Product Marketing Director Business Objects

Events

• Perspective Session 2 - Business Objects: Data Quality - Enabling better Business Intelligence

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Daragh O Brien IAIDQ

Daragh O Brien is a regular presenter and writer on Information Quality topics, with numerous articles and a published industry paper to his name. He is a Charter member of the IAIDQ and has served on the Board of Directors since 2005 and co-founded their Irish CoP. He is a Member of the Irish Computer Society. Daragh lectures on Legal Regulation for Information Systems at a leading Irish University, has developed the curriculum for an introductory course on Information Quality that is accredited by the Irish State, and is a member of the IAIDQ’s Certification Leadership team. In his day job he is a Senior Project Manager with a leading Irish Telco.

Events

• IQ TRACK: Redefining the Information Quality Management Challenge

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Mehmet Orun Senior Manager & Principal Architect Genentech

Mehmet Orun currently serves as the Principal Architect and Senior Manager of the Data Services Center of Excellence group which he founded at a Fortune 250 organization, where he is responsible for data architecture, data services rollout, and associated technology roadmaps, methodologies, and governance. Mehmet's interest and expertise includes data and meta data driven solutions to improve data quality, maintainability, and utility while bridging the gap across applications, processes, and structured and unstructured data sources. Mehmet serves as a subject matter expert on data modeling and design practices, data management and data quality best practices and how they relate to systems development, master data management, business intelligence, and data design approaches for services oriented architecture, and integration best practices (EII, ESB, ETL). He has previously served on the Semantic Technology conference advisory board and has presented at a number of international conferences. Mr. Orun has an MBA in Management and Management Information Systems, post graduate studies in Computer Science, Bachelors in Computer Engineering and a minor in History. The latter of which helps him frame most future challenges as likely problems encountered or solved in the past . Mr. Orun is also the President of the San Francisco chapter of DAMA.

Events

• DAMA TUTORIAL: Designing, Implementing and Maintaining SOA Solution and Data Services
• DAMA TRACK: Managing Master Data, A Case Study

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Will O’Shea Technical Design Architect NHS, Connecting for Health

Will O’Shea is a Technical Design Architect for SUS Programme at Connecting for Health (NHS). He is an experienced consultant focusing on Data warehousing and Oracle RDBMS. He was a Data Warehouse Consultant at Pfizer and at Johnson & Johnson. He gained and an MBA from University of Manchester (MBS) and a BSC from University of Waterloo, Canada. His subject matter expertise is Financial, Healthcare & Pharmaceutical.

Events

• DW/BI TRACK: Adventures in Enterprise Warehousing

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Yagan Padayachee Head-Client Information Systems Unit Nedbank

Yagan Padayachee was previously the Senior business analyst on the core Client Information System (CIS) within Nedbank and now Heading up the unit that looks after Data Quality and the CIS ensures that Data Quality and the Management thereof is a priority and key deliverable. Key tasks include provision of a Data Quality monitoring system and management of the CIS. Having been employed at Nedbank Retail for more than ten years has given me in-depth knowledge and experience essential in managing the quality of client data. My background of analysing and re-engineering client information processes has helped me define and refine Data Quality standards, procedures and governance within Nedbank.

Events

• IQ TRACK: Data Quality Management: Business Sustainability

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Leticia Pagan Associate Professor Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico

Leticia Pagan is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Management at the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico where she gives specialized courses on MIS and other business related topics.She has published and presented academic papers in many international conferences. As a strategic management practitioner, Dr. Pagan has participated as designer, content expert, analysts, and team leader in projects of/for retailing, distribution, manufacturing, financial, and service companies in the Unites States, the Caribbean and South America. Her research interests include Information Quality, Economic Value of Data, Business Intelligence, Accounting Information Systems, Web Analytics, Mobile Commerce, and E-Commerce.

Events

• IQ TRACK: Information Quality and the Economic Value of Data

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Andres Perez IRM Consulting

Andres Perez is a Senior Information Management Consultant and President of IRM Consulting, Ltd. Co. based in San Antonio, Texas. Mr. Perez provides consulting in methodologies and tools in the disciplines of enterprise-wide Information Resource Management and Information Quality Management (TIQM®). He conceived and implemented an information stewardship program called “Data Certification.” Mr. Perez has authored several Information Management articles and is a well known speaker at conferences such as DAMA International, Information Quality, ZIFA, and IBM’s IAA. Mr. Perez is the current VP of Operations for DAMA International and past Board member of IAIDQ and IAA User Group.

Events

• IQ TUTORIAL: Quality by Design: Event Management for Effective Data Movement
• IQ TRACK: Event Management Overview: Controlling Data Movement

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Jason Perkins BI Solution Architect British Telecom

Jason Perkins is a Lead BI Solution Architect at BT, the communications services company. For more than a decade he has specialised in BI technologies and the design of enterprise class data warehouses. Having worked across the health, retail and telecoms industries he has focused on BI Tools, ETL architecture, CDI, Marketing system, Data strategy and modeling. Mr Perkins is both a Certified Business Intelligence Professional (CBIP) specialist in Leadership and Management from The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI) and Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) Master level from Data Management Association (DAMA). He is also a Oracle User Group (OUG) member and regular contributor to BI/DW SIG.

Events

• DW/BI TRACK: Adventures in Enterprise Warehousing

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Nick Porter Silwood Technology

Nick Porter is Technical Director of Silwood technology Ltd, the originators of Saphir, the metadata extraction tool for large application packages such as SAP, Siebel, PeopleSoft and Oracle EBS. Nick has over 30 years IT experience, the last 15 being in the Data Modeling space, providing tools and consulting to support projects needing an understanding of data structures for ERPs.

Events

• Perspective Session 1 - Silwood Technology:  Enterprise Applications - Delivering Real Metadata Intelligence on ERP & CRM Packages

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Godfrey Rust Chief Data Architect Rightscom Ltd

Godfrey Rust has thirty years experience of information management in content and copyright, as a corporate executive and consultant. He is a Director of Rightscom and principal Data Architect for Rightscom’s ontology-based metadata product initiative, Ontologyx. He has been played a prominent role in the development of the UK music charts; the UK National Discography; the copyright societies’ global Common Information System plan; the <indecs> metadata framework and a range of metadata standards including DDEX, ONIX, the RDA/ONIX Framework, various international standard identifiers including DOI and (as co-editor) the MPEG-21 Rights Data Dictionary. For eight years was the director of Data Services for the UK’s music collecting societies MCPS and later PRS.

Events

• DAMA TRACK: Ontology-led Metadata Management

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Nigel Sanctuary Senior Business Consultant Kognitio

Nigel Sanctuary joined Kognitio in 2004 and has 23 years business and marketing experience gained in the financial services and consulting industries operating at senior management level. Nigel has managed multi-million pound credit portfolios for some of the UK’s leading retail outlets and devised and launched an insurance business based on Customer Relationship Management and Customer Value Management operating principles. His consulting experience has been gained with PwC, KPMG and Unisys where he held project direction and management roles. Projects included developing analysis based customer management technical infrastructures and business models.

Since joining Kognitio, Nigel has provided lead consulting roles for a range of clients from telecommunications, financial services and hospitality. He has identified and documented the business benefits, operating models and business requirements and aligned them to Kognitio’s database technology and services.

Events

• Perspective Session 2- Kognitio:  Achieving high performance and driving value from Massively Parallel Processing databases

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John Schley Principal Financial Group & 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 TRACK: A Case Study on Implementing Data Architecture in a Financial Services Company

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Victor Schneider Information Architect IKEA

Victor Schneider works as Architect in IKEA's global IT organization in Sweden where he focuses on Information Architecture. He has worked earlier in Application Development in the Retail, Distribution, and Finance area as well as with the introduction of methods and tools and architectural work within IKEA. Today he leads an internal competence network responsible for IKEA's enterprise wide information model and drives the implementation of a common meta data and meta model repository. Victor is a member of the Scandinavian DAMA chapter, engaged in the program committee for the conferences of that chapter, and certified Data Architect (DAMA Scandinavia).

Events

• META DATA TRACK: Managing the Enterprise Information Model

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Bob Schork Team Leader Citi

Bob Schork is a Team Leader with the Citi Architecture and Technology Engineering (CATE) Center for Technical Excellence group at Citi. Bob has over 25 years of IT experience and over 15 yrs of Metadata Management experience. Bob has installed both Platinum (CA) and Rochade (ASG) Metadata Repositories and has modeled Enterprise Data Warehouse and other Enterprise Architectures. He has also installed Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) packages which include Tool evaluations, Data Mapping and API Accesses to downstream systems. Bob has also designed and implemented Home Grown Metadata Repositories, with scanners and designed and implemented their change control processes. Bob has performed Metadata Analysis of several Fortune 500 Corporations. He has a background as a Developer and Data Base Administrator, Business Analyst, Data Analyst as well as a Data Administrator. All of these skills give Bob the unique ability to see the entire picture and design a workable framework. Bob has implemented several Metadata solutions, including the creation of Standards and Procedures to help the Enterprise Architectures function properly. He currently works in the group that is responsible for setting Enterprise-wide Architectural and Metadata Standards for Citi (formally called Citigroup).

Events

• META DATA TRACK: Adding Business Metadata to Technical Metadata

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Harvey Tessler Vice President of Marketing Syncsort

Harvey Tessler is Sr. VP Marketing at Syncsort with over 38 years IT experience including management of system and software development as VP Software Engineering for Syncsort. Helped lead Syncsort to profitability for every single calendar quarter for the last 33 years. Responsibilities at Syncsort have included Product Management, Worldwide Customer Services and Product Marketing. Extensive product knowledge in IBM mainframe and Open Systems. BA Mathematics, New York University. MBA Management, cum laude, New York University

Events

• Perspective Session 2- Syncsort:  The Value of High Speed Data Integration

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Glenn Thomas Director Data Architecture Kentucky Government

Glenn Thomas, For the past two year, Glenn Thomas served as the Director of Data Architecture for Kentucky’s Office of Technology and was the chief strategist for the creation of the Kentucky Enterprise Data Architecture (KEDA). He was recently promoted to Director of IT Governance, where he will oversee a modernization of the Commonwealth’s entire Enterprise Architecture. Glenn has more than 20 years in IT as a programmer, analyst, and project manager leading system development as well as research missions around the globe. His background includes work for the US military, private industry, and the public sector as both a contractor and an employee. This wide range of experience allowed Glenn to bring a unique perspective to the challenge of implementing an enterprise data architecture program.

Events

• DAMA TRACK: Application of the DAMA DMBoK in an Enterprise Data Architecture

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Gwen Thomas President Data Governance Institute

Gwen Thomas is President of The Data Governance Institute, which provides publications, training, and consulting in Data Governance, Stewardship, and Compliance. Gwen also serves as publisher of www.DataGovernance.com, the web’s largest collection of Data Governance information and humor, as well as publisher of www.SOX-online.com, the Vendor-Neutral Sarbanes-Oxley site. Gwen has designed Data Governance programmes for Sallie Mae, Wachovia Banks, Walt Disney World, Coors, NDCHealth/Wolters Kluwer, and others, working with IBM, systems integrator CIBER, and other partners. A frequent presenter at industry data events, Gwen is a columnist for z/Journal, on the presentation faculty for Institutional Investor, and is the author of Alpha Males and Data Disasters: The Case for Data Governance.

Events

• META DATA TRACK: Ubiquitous Data Governance
• DW/BI TRACK: Five Things Your Leader Must Know About You and Your Program

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Luke Thompson Solutions Consultant DataFlux Corporation

Luke Thompson has over 14 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 Luke 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. Before joining Kognito, Luke was a business analyst at BBC technology Ltd, he oversaw automated software tests, the running of software training and a large data migration project. Thompson held several senior data analyst and project management positions in CRM, data ware housing, data modeling and quality.

Events

• IQ TRACK: Implementing a Data Quality Firewall
• Perspective Session 1 - DataFlux: Data Governance – Making Your Data Behave

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Jason Tiret Director of Modeling and Design Solutions Embarcadero Technologies

Jason Tiret, Director of Modeling and Design Solutions at Embarcadero Technologies, has over 10 years of experience in data modeling, metadata and database management and currently manages Embarcadero’s entire product line of award-winning modeling solutions. In this role, he has consulted with many Fortune 500 companies, published articles for various industry magazines and has been a frequent speaker on the topics of data architecture, metadata and data governance.

Events

• Perspective Session 1 - Embarcadero Technologies: You want me to put WHAT in my data model? Effective data models for effective data management

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Steve Tuck Datanomic

Steve Tuck joined Datanomic as Chief Strategy Officer in 2005 with responsibility for setting the strategic direction for the development and market positioning of Datanomic's products. He also has responsibility for Datanomic's solutions and marketing.

Steve brings more than 20 years IT experience to Datanomic, 14 of which have been gained specifically in data quality management. During his career, Steve has improved data quality for organizations including BT, Thomas Cook, Credit Suisse, Norwich Union and the Inland Revenue.

Steve has also held a number of senior IT roles including manager of products and services at data management specialist Kognitio and Managing Director of Tranato, a specialist data quality consultancy acquired by Datanomic in 2006. He is also a Charter Member of the International Association of Information and Data Quality (IAIDQ - www.iaidq.org) and Secretary of its UK Community of Practice.

Events

• Perspective Session 2- Datanomic: I Love Data, Confessions of a Data Geek

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Nigel Turner British Telecom

Nigel Turner is Head of ICT Customer Management within BT Exact IT, BT’s main software house. He leads a team of 130 consultants & technical experts in CRM, Billing and Data & Information Management, including specialists in data warehousing, data migration, data quality, data mining, data visualisation, Siebel, Interactive Voice Response & Computer Telephony Integration. Nigel has worked in BT for 25 years, mostly in a variety of IT roles including project & programme management. He also spent five years in BT’s Group Strategy unit, where he led business information management and corporate data quality initiatives. Outside BT he is a part time Associate Lecturer with the UK Open University where he teaches Systems & the Management of Change. Nigel has published several papers on information management and data quality, and is a regular speaker in IM conferences. Before joining BT, he worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science in the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Events

• IQ TUTORIAL: Driving Positive Business Impacts through Data Quality

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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

• DAMA TUTORIAL: Presentation Skills for IT Specialists
• Joint Chair Introduction
• DW/BI KEYNOTE: The Data Warehouse is Dead, Long Live the Virtual Data Warehouse

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Jos van Dongen Senior Consultant Tholis Consulting

Jos van Dongen has been involved in software development, business intelligence and datawarehouses since 1991. Before starting his own consulting practice Tholis Consulting in 1998 he worked for a top tier systems integrator and one of the world’s leading management consulting firms. Over the past 10 years, he has successfully implemented several datawarehouses for a variety of organisations, both profit and non-profit. He regularly covers new developments in BI and datawarehousing for the Dutch Database Magazine. Currently he’s focusing on emerging technologies such as real-time BI, Open Source and of course, high speed analytical databases, both in writing and presenting.

Events

• DW/BI TRACK: Hi-Speed Databases

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Sandra Wennemers Capgemini

Sandra Wennemers is managing consultant with Capgemini in The Netherlands. As Business Intelligence Consultant she has a broad experience in the field of data warehouse design, development and implementation. For ten years she fulfilled a wide variety of roles ranging from ETL developer to BI business analyst. Sandra currently advises several clients on Data Warehouse architecture, manages a small team off BI professionals within Capgemini, teaches a wide variety of Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse courses for the Capgemini Academy and is a speaker at international conferences.

Events

• DW/BI TUTORIAL: Using Agile Best Practices in Business Intelligence Projects

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Matthew West Principal Consultant Information Logic

Matthew West had worked for Shell since 1978, and since 1987 on the computing/business interface with a particular interest in Information Management and Data Modelling and is currently responsible for Shell’s Downstream Data Model. He is a key technical contributor to ISO 15926 – “Lifecycle integration of process plant data including oil and gas production facilities” and is participating in the development of ISO 8000 – Information Quality. Matthew is also the Shell Visiting Professor in the Keyworth Institute at the University of Leeds. Matthew is becoming an independent consultant before the conference.

Events

• IQ TRACK: ISO 8000, Standards for Data and Information
• DAMA TRACK: 4 Dimensional Data Modelling: An Ontological Approach

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Graham Witt Lead Consultant Ajilon

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: Data Modelling For Business Rules
• DAMA TRACK: A Methodology for Migrating Legacy Data

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Ed Wrazen VP Product Management & Strategy Harte-Hanks Trillium Software

Events

• Perspective Session 1 - Harte-Hanks Trillium Software: Operational Data Quality: Building Reusable Processes Across Your Enterprise
  

Suzanne Yoakum-Stover, PhD Senior Research Fellow Potomac Institute for Policy Studies & Lead Scientist US Army CERDEC I2WD Information Exploitation Futures Lab

Suzanne Yoakum-Stover is a science & technology strategist, computational scientist, software systems architect and engineer with a Ph.D. in physics (Stony Brook University,1992). She has worked in a variety of science and technology domains including artificial intelligence and natural language processing. As a Senior Research Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies in Washington D.C., she currently supports the US Army’s Information and Intelligence Warfare Directorate (I2WD) working in close partnership with US Army Intelligence (DA-G2) to bridge the gap between computational sciences and current operational systems. As Lead Scientist of the I2WD Information Exploitation Futures Lab (IXFL), she and the IXFL team are dedicated to addressing today's data exploitation challenges with methods appropriate for the Ultra-Large Scale Systems environment.

Events

• DAMA TRACK: Unified Integration Architecture for Intelligence Data

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John A. Zachman President Zachman International

John A. Zachman is the originator of the "Framework for Enterprise Architecture" which has received broad acceptance around the world as an integrative framework, or "periodic table" of descriptive representations for Enterprises. He is not only known for this work on Enterprise Architecture, but is also known for his early contributions to IBM’s Information Strategy methodology as well as to their Executive team planning techniques. Mr. Zachman retired from IBM in 1990, having served them for 26 years. He is Chief Executive Officer of the Zachman Institute for Framework Advancement (ZIFA), an organization dedicated to advancing the conceptual and implementation states of the art in Enterprise Architecture. He also operates his own education and consulting business, Zachman International.

Events

• DAMA TUTORIAL: Introduction to the Zachman Framework for EA
• DAMA TRACK: Zachman Enterprise Framework 2™

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