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Peter Aiken is an award-winning, internationally recognized thought leader in the area of organizational data management, 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. 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 other bibliographic entries. He is an Associate Professor in Virginia Commonwealth University's Information Systems Department and the Founding Director of datablueprint.com. Peter was recently voted President of DAMA International. Session:
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Masliah M. Ali is the Head of Data Governance in Maybank, one of the largest Banks in Malaysia. As a Head of Data Governance, she oversees all source systems of the Bank on Data principles and policies, manages the Data Quality Management Program, is involved in major projects of the Bank e.g. Basel2, Enterprise Data Gaps, B.I and Metadata, Group Collateral Management System, Core Banking Replacement, MIS projects and sits in various Project Steering Committees. She has more than 25 years of banking experience. She began her career in various positions and Branches in the operations frontline, and was a Trainer at Maybank Academy specializing in Banking Operations and Trade Finance. She was instrumental in setting-up the pioneer Support Centre of the Bank before proceeding to become the first Head of Group Customer Information where she spearheaded all integration projects across Maybank and Maybank subsidiaries to achieve a 360 degree single version of truth for customers, online realtime across the Maybank Group. Session: |
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Jon Asprey has over 12 years experience in information management and data analysis, where he has worked for both global consultancies and software vendors with many international clients. Initially working within direct marketing operations, assisting clients to build a single customer view and optimise customer analytics, Jon developed a detailed understanding of managing disparate data systems. Most recently, Jon has focused on data quality management and has advised clients to plan their data quality strategy and build business case justifications for data management initiatives such as Data Governance and MDM. Jon has held senior consulting positions at both HP Consulting and Deloitte. Session: |
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As Manager Northern Europe at Jaspersoft, Neil Barry is responsible for driving both direct and channel sales and business development throughout this region. Jaspersoft is the market leader in Open Source Business Intelligence, the most world's most widely used BI software, with more than ten million total downloads worldwide and more than 10,000 commercial customers in 96 countries. Prior to Jaspersoft, Neil had sales management responsibility with companies in the IT Industry including Oracle and EMC. Neil has a primary degree in Economics from University College Cork and a Masters Degree in GIS from Leeds University. Session: |
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Colonel Giles Baxter was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1984, having read engineering at Cambridge University. His early career took him to Berlin 'behind the Wall', to what was then West Germany, to Australia and to Borneo. He deployed to Iraq in 1991. Iin 1993 he moved into the area of procurement, specialising in armoured engineering vehicles and equipment This role involved the use of operational analysis techniques to inform decisions such as the optimum fleet mix, and most cost effective solutions to meet particular capability requirements In 1998 he moved into the HR field and in 2000, frustrated by the fact that the answer to a simple question such as 'how many soldiers are there in the Royal Engineers?' would be different depending on who answered it, he undertook a research fellowship at Oxford looking at how control engineering design principles might be used improve the Army's manpower planning system. Hoisted by his own petard, in July 1998 he was appointed to the new post of Assistant Director Manpower Systems within HQ Land Forces. He is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. Session: |
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Chris Bradley has spent almost 30 years in the field of Information Management working on Master Data Management, Enterprise Architecture, Metadata Management, Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence implementations. Chris has had over 20 papers published in the last 24 months, authored a Thought Leadership book, is a Director of DAMA UK member of the Metadata professional organization. Currently, Chris is senior Partner leading the Business Consultancy practice at IPL, a UK-based consultancy. Session: |
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Emmet Burke is the Business Intelligence Team Lead for System Dynamics. Emmet has been working on Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence projects for over 10 years. Emmet is the lead consultant and manages a team of Business Intelligence professionals, leading projects that range from large complex enterprise data warehouses to dashboards of key performance indicators. Emmet has experience across the full lifecycle of BI projects from Analysis, through Design, Development and Deployment cycle and regularly fulfils the Solution Architect role for complex BI projects. Emmet has delivered BI Centre of Excellence consulting and he has vast experience on all the major BI technologies from Opensource BI (Jaspersoft, Talend) to Oracle BI, SAP Business Objects and Microsoft BI. Emmet has deployed projects on many industry sectors including public sector, financial services, logistics and distribution, pharmaceutical manufacturing and professional services. Emmet has specific domain experience in the life assurance industry. Emmet is certified at the Kimball University in the Data Warehouse Lifecycle in Depth program. Session: |
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Suresh Chandrasekaran is Senior VP, North America at Denodo Technologies. Suresh has held product management and marketing roles at Vitria, Alta Vista, Compaq and was a management consultant at Booz Allen. Throughout his career Suresh has helped business leverage information, whether internal or external, through the medium of technology to deliver competitive advantage. Suresh has presented on various data integration and BI topics at conferences organized by Gartner, Forrester, Frost & Sullivan, SOA Forum, and DAMA. He has an MBA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and undergraduate degrees from India. Session:
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Malcolm Chisholm has over 25 years of experience in information technology, and is an internationally recognized expert in data management. He specializes in metadata management, data governance, master data management, business rules management, and database design. Malcolm has experience in a variety of sectors both in North America and Europe. He has recently completed the book Definitions in Information Management, and has previously published the books Managing Reference Data in Enterprise Databases and How to Build a Business Rules Engine. Malcolm holds an M.A. from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. from the University of Bristol Session:
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Stijn Christiaens is co-founder and operational director at Collibra (www.collibra.com), a Data Governance enterprise software company. Prior to founding the company he was a researcher at the Free University of Brussels STARLab, a prominent semantic research center in Europe, performing application-driven research in semantics. As such, he participated actively in several national (IWT, FWO, IWOIB) and international (ITEA, FP6, FP7) research projects and conferences (OTM, FIS, ESTC, ...). Stijn has also published various articles in the field of ontology engineering. He is an active DAMA member and speaker at DAMA events in Europe and was recently one of the best received speakers at the IDC SOA event in London with his presentation on 'Business Driven SOA'. Session: |
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Patricia Chung has over 10 years experience in decision support at large healthcare institutions and is currently working at Vancouver Coastal Health Authority. She has managed projects in data warehousing, business intelligence, clinical and administrative systems. Pat has learned firsthand that the success of these projects depends on data quality and has sought to engage users from all aspects of the organization on the importance of data quality. Session: |
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Scott Davis has 20 years experience applying decision science to leading enterprises in several industries, including air transportation, utilities, telecom, mining, high-tech, and financial services. His insights reflect a unique career spanning three different perspectives on BI: departmental executive, external advisor, and technology entrepreneur. Scott's primary research and practice interests have ranged from expert optimization systems in the 90's, to hosted DW/BI in the early 00's, to the convergence of Enterprise2.0 and BI today. Session: |
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Frances Dean has been with BP for 10 years in roles as varied as Social Investment and Project Co-ordination. However, her role as Business Change Manager in a systems development project gave her insight into the criticality of data and huge motivation to take on the challenge of leading Data Management for Integrated Supply and Trading (Oil) at BP. Her Business Change and engagement skills have helped in developing and messaging the Data Management Framework to all levels of the organisation and changing business understanding and commitment to data quality. Session: |
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Alistair Deans has been in the role of Data Architect for 5 years with strong experience in Enterprise Data Architecture, Data Modelling, Integration Strategies and Metadata Management. He has over 20 years IT experience including System Development experience in Retail, Utilities and Insurance industries. He moved into IT contracting in 1995 with a view to experience short term assignments at many different companies. He signed a 6 month contract with Waitrose and has been there every since (joining as a permanent employee in 2000)! Session: |
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Dr. Barry Devlin is a founder of the data warehousing industry and among the foremost worldwide authorities on business intelligence and the emerging field of business insight. He is a widely respected consultant, lecturer and author of the seminal book, "Data Warehouse - from Architecture to Implementation". With a Ph.D. in physical chemistry, Irish-born Barry has almost 30 years of experience in the IT industry, mostly with IBM, as an architect, consultant, manager and software evangelist. He continues to define and discover novel solutions to real business needs in the area of the fully integrated business "informational, operational and collaborative" providing an holistic experience of the business through IT. He is founder and principal of 9sight Consulting, specializing in the human, organizational and IT implications and design of deep business insight solutions, working with leading analysts and vendors in BI and beyond. Session:
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Following experience as an Industrial Engineer with Cadbury Schweppes and business operations with South West Gas, Lee Edwards has worked for Ford Credit Europe for more than 24 years. Initially she fulfilled several roles in business operations and secondments to various IT projects as business analyst before transferring to IT in 1993. In 1999 she became an inaugural member of the project team for the Data Warehouse and, as Data Architect, has lead the design to incorporate data from 19 countries and several disparate business types into an integrated data model, fulfilling both Management and Regulatory Reporting requirements. Session: |
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Mr. Wael Elrifai is the Managing Partner in the Peak Consulting London Office, and chairman of the ETL, Data Warehouse & Adaptive Business Intelligence practice. He is resident in the firm's London office. He concentrates his practice on complex international business intelligence solutions in the financial services, entertainment, retail, pharmaceutical, and high-tech industries. Wael is typically engaged as a management advisor and system architect within the Data Integration, Warehousing as well as Adaptive Business Intelligence/Artificial Intelligence disciplines. Mr. Elrifai holds Master's degrees in Economics and Electrical Engineering. Session: |
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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. Session: |
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Jon Evans is a Principal Business Consultant at IPL, a leading UK IT services company specialising in the delivery of intelligent business solutions. He has over 15 years experience helping a wide range of high profile clients exploit the full potential of their information. With significant information management expertise gained across a variety of sectors, Jon has most recently applied his skills in the area of health informatics. As the senior consultant within the Audit Commission's Payment by Results Data Assurance Framework, he has played a key role in the application of sophisticated statistical techniques to identify anomalies within health data. Session: |
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With twenty two years experience at Prudential, the last seven of which have been as Lead Data Architect, John Ewan has been actively involved in defining and governing Prudential's Data Architecture, covering major Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Master Data Management (MDM), Business Intelligence (BI), Data Governance and Service Oriented Architecture initiatives. Session: |
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Mike Ferguson is Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies Limited. As an analyst and consultant he specialises in business intelligence and enterprise business integration. With over 28 years of IT experience, Mike has consulted for dozens of companies on business intelligence/performance management strategy, technology selection, enterprise architecture, business integration, MDM and data integration. He has spoken at events all over the world and written numerous articles. Mike is a resident expert on the B-EYE-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 master classes in Operational Business Intelligence and Performance Management, Master Data Management, Enterprise Architecture and Data Integration. Session:
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Oliver Gätjeis the Senior Vice President at Platon, where he leads a SWAT team of senior experts supporting multinational organizations on Information Management related subjects. He has over 15 years experience in business and consulting with blue-chip companies across Europe operating in the life sciences, high tech, chemical, consumer products and Food & Beverage sectors. He delivers real benefits from business transformation by combining core process improvement, information management and change management skills with those required to shape, manage and implement a successful business transformation program. Oliver has prior to joining Platon led the European MDM practice at Deloitte Consulting and the global Information Management practice at ABeam Consulting. Session: |
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Brian Gentile brings a successful 25-year technology industry track record to Jaspersoft, helping it to become the open source business intelligence market leader, measured by product downloads, production deployments of its software, number of registered community members, and of course commercial customers. Prior to Jaspersoft, Mr. Gentile was Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Informatica Corporation, the industry-leading data integration software company, where he helped the company grow consistently and substantially. Previously, Mr. Gentile served as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Brio Software, a leading business intelligence software provider, where he was responsible for the company's global market position and strategy, product marketing, corporate marketing and strategic partner relationships. Prior to Brio, as a Vice President at Sun Microsystems, Brian created Sun's first-ever worldwide Developer Relations organization and helped build the Sun and Java Developer Connection Programs, which reached over 2 million active members during his tenure. Also at Sun, Brian built and led SunSoft's Market Development group, which helped Sun's major software platforms succeed among the most sophisticated developer and customer audiences. And prior to Sun, Brian led Apple's Evangelism and Developer Relations team, enabling 10,000 independent software vendors to work closely and successfully with Apple's products and technologies. Brian's professional affiliations include nearly seven years as a Public Governor on the board of the Pacific Stock & Options Exchange (now owned by the New York Stock Exchange) and two years as a public member of the NYSE's Ethics and Business Conduct Committee. Additionally, Mr. Gentile has provided founding Board member assistance for several Silicon Valley start-up ventures and currently serves as a Supervisory Board member for WCC, a Netherlands-based searching and matching technology company. Brian has earned a master of business administration degree from Arizona State University and a bachelor of science in business administration degree from the University of Arizona. Brian writes a blog, The Open Book on BI, that provides expert, exclusive commentary on business and technology issues that exist at the intersection of Web 2.0, open source, and business intelligence. Brian is a blunt commentator on industry trends and newsmakers, as well as a thoughtful pundit on what he calls the "consumerization of information" in the enterprise. Session: |
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From 2005 to the present Mike Gibson has worked at Aston Martin specialising in Field Data Strategies & Systems Integration. He is a subject matter expert for warranty and developed the warranty cost management model used by Aston Martin to manage its multi-million pound warranty exposure. He routinely reports at the director level, with direct responsibility for business critical data reporting and process improvement / reengineering. From 1995 to 2005 Mike worked for Land Rover where he was the recognized company specialist in On Board Diagnostic (OBD) systems specialising in field based evaluation and problem resolution. Session: |
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Gordon Hamilton has 20 years in application development and 10ish years focused on how to dovetail continuously improving data quality and business processes with Data Warehouse development methodologies. A thread through all improvement methodologies is the constant need for quality data to provide visibility into business processes - to quote Michael Hammer, the father of BPR, "Seemingly small data quality issues are, in reality, important indications of broken business processes". Session: |
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Steve Hitchman is the operations director of WhereScape. This UK-based company specialises in the provision of enterprise data warehousing and management reporting solutions. Over the past 14 years, Steve has developed considerable expertise and methodologies in the design and delivery of management information systems, as well as decision support solutions. He is particularly experienced in the implementation of data warehousing and data mining technology for government, telecommunications and financial services organisations. A specialist in data analysis and relational database design, Steve has also accumulated a vast amount of knowledge in the field of risk management in the financial services sector. In his spare time Steve enjoys long distance walking. He holds a Guinness Book of Records title for a walk he completed between Adelaide and Darwin in 1992. Steve donated funds raised from this walk to Leukaemia research. Session: |
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Steve Hoberman is one of the world's most well-known data modeling gurus. He understands the human side of data modeling and has evangelized "next generation" techniques. Steve taught his first data modeling class in 1992 and has educated more than 10,000 people about data modeling and business intelligence techniques since then. Steve is known for his entertaining, interactive teaching and lecture style (watch out for flying candy!) and is a popular, frequent presenter at industry conferences, both nationally and internationally. Steve is a columnist and frequent contributor to industry publications, as well as the author of Data Modeling Made Simple, Data Modeler's Workbench, and Data Modeling for the Business. He is the founder of the Design Challenges group and inventor of the Data Model Scorecard®. Session: |
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Brian Holyer's main roles are to understand customers' requirements for obtaining and exploiting online channel data, and to determine how Speed-Trap's solutions - and solutions that include Speed-Trap technology - provide the appropriate functionality, value and ROI to meet those needs. Brian is particularly aligned to Speed-Trap's relationships with technology partners, and helps customers understand the benefits of using Speed-Trap's online data collection in combination with these other technologies. He is currently working closely with Sybase to integrate Speed-Trap with their data analysis and real-time products. Starting his professional life armed with a degree in Mathematics and Computer Science, Brian has worked in many industry sectors including manufacturing, retail and aerospace; always with an emphasis on data collection and analysis, and its relevance to business intelligence and improvement. Session:
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Michel Kisfaludi has joined illuminate in 2010 after a successful career as an international telecom and banking executive. Over the last 10 years, he has run the $ 500 million retail, private banking and SME clients division of Deutsche Bank in Spain after managing its internet business and marketing department. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, he worked on business development projects for Dassault and France Telecom in France, China and Mexico. Mr. Kisfaludi holds an M.S. in computer science from ENST Br in France and an MBA from Stanford. Session: |
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John Ladley is a Business Technology Thought Leader with 30 years experience in planning, and successful implementation of information systems. John Ladley is a recognized authority in the use and implementation of business intelligence and Enterprise Information Management. He is widely published and frequently writes and speaks on a variety of technology and enterprise information management topics. He is currently editor of the Data strategy Journal, a web-based publication on all topics related to data and EIM. His latest book is entitled "Making EIM Work for Business, A Guide to Understanding Information as an Asset." His Information Management experience is balanced between strategic technology planning, project management and practical application of technology to business problems. Session:
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Mark Lindsay, Channels Director at Experian, has a 20 year background in the software industry - more recently he has been working with Experian Marketing Services building a network of partners who are leveraging Experian Consumer Data and Insight to deliver enhanced value to their clients. Having worked for both software companies and now Experian Mark has a unique insight of the role that Business Intelligence can play in B2C marketing. Session: |
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Cliff Longman is an independent consultant specialising in data modelling and data management. He spent 10 years with Oracle in the UK where he designed Oracle systems, ran the UK training business and was chief architect for the Oracle CASE tools. As an independent he consulted on the design and implementation of database and data management systems in manufacturing, oil and gas, finance and electronics industries. More recently, as Chief Technology Officer at Kalido, Cliff was responsible for product and technology strategy for the software company's data warehousing and master data management portfolio. Session: |
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Craig Lumsden has BA in Business studies & a Masters Degree in Finance Accounting. His experience includes 10 years in Manufacturing Industry (Financial Control Strategic Planning) and 20 years in Financial Services - various executive roles in Strategic Planning / Marketing, Corporate Communications, Operations before settling upon Change Management. An Advanced Practioner MSP (Managing Successful Programmes) with seven years experience of programme managing the pursuit of insight driven 1:1 customer management. Craig is committed to the co-operative / mutual model - currently half way through a part-time programme of study leading to a Master of Management Co-operatives & Credit Unions with St Mary's University Halifax Nova Scotia. Session: |
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George McGeachie has worked in the field of modelling and metadata since the 1980s, in the UK, Saudi Arabia and Germany. George's first IT role utilised the ICL Data Dictionary System, which generated application systems and databases from a metadata repository. Has the world progressed since those days? Session: |
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Tony McGuire is CEO of System Dynamics and has over 35 years experience in the Information Technology industry, with extensive experience in Data Management, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. Tony acquired System Dynamics in 1996, and merged it with Software Structure, which he had founded in 1992. Previously, Tony held the position of Divisional Director at Cap Gemini following its acquisition of Vector Software, a Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence specialist company, where he was CEO for 11 years. Tony has a strong track record of leadership within the software industry. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Irish Software Association from 2003 to 2007 and chaired the Association's Working Group on Public Procurement. Tony was a member of ICT Ireland's Governing Board from 2007 to 2009. Session: |
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Jeff Morris is Senior Director of Technology at Actuate. He joined Actuate in January 2003. He has 20 years of experience in product management and product marketing. The product marketing team enjoys the privileges of being some of the oldest users of Actuate, pioneering examples of Collaborative Reporting, dashboard portals, spreadsheets and interactive reports. The team continues to innovate through Actuate, using their hands-on experience to drive product positioning, demonstrations, competitive analysis and marketing of the technology. Session: |
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Faizah Mustafa is the Head Data Planning/Analyst in Maybank, attached to Data Governance of Maybank, the largest bank in Malaysia. Before joining Data Governance, she was attached to Information Technology Division (IT) for 19 years, heading various applications in Core Banking Department. She has been involved in major IT projects such as enhancement in Customer and Account applications, Core Banking Replacement, various source systems integrations within the Maybank group of companies to Group Customer Information, system conversions and data migration exercises. As the Head, Data Planning/Analyst, she designs, implements and maintain the Data Governance Framework, formulate cross-organization data quality standards and policies, define and review data quality metrics, define roles and responsibilities of Data Stewards, define and review Data Definition and Data Standardization for all source systems, drive and strategize the implementation of Data Quality Management Program across all source systems and to participate in the sourcing, developing and implementing Metadata Repository System. Session: |
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Karsten H. Muthreich is team lead Business Excellence (BE) Data Management at Nestlé's Business Technology Center (BTC) in Vevey, Switzerland. He looks back on more than 30 years of professional business experience in the fields of Supply Chain Management, Business Process Re-engineering, Sales and Trade Marketing, and Information and Data Quality Management. Before joining Nestlé in 2003, he worked for Rothmans Tobacco and Johnson & Johnson Consumer. Session: |
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Rajesh Shashikant Naik is the UK Practice Head for BI/DW at Wipro Technologies. Rajesh is a BI/DW practitioner with over 15 years of experience. He has helped a number of organizations to build effective Information Management strategies, Execute strategies to build BI ecosystems through effective solutions/outsourcing and Sustain/continuously improve these BI ecosystems. He is an outsourcing evangelist and has built a number of BI/DW specific propositions and frameworks such as Factory Models, Commodity Pricing Models, BI and Search Convergence, Data Governance Frameworks. Wipro Technologies Limited, is a well recognized global leader in providing value added BI/DW services across industry. Session:
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Daragh O Brien is the Taoiseach (Managing Director) of Castlebridge Associates, an information quality management, data protection, governance and compliance consultancy based in Ireland. Prior to setting up Castlebridge Associates, Daragh held a variety of roles with a leading Irish telecommunications company all of which centred on the effective management of quality information to achieve and sustain business goals. A regular author, blogger, speaker and commentator on information quality management and Information Asset management issues, Daragh is a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society and a Charter Member and former Director of the IAIDQ. He heads up the IAIDQ's Irish Community of Practice. Session: |
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Boris Otto is senior lecturer and head of the Competence Center Corporate Data Quality (CC CDQ) at the Institute of Information Management at the University of St. Gallen. Prior to this position, he worked as a principal business consultant at SAP Business Consulting, as the head of the Electronic Business Integration group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering and as a consultant at PwC Management Consultants. He has a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Stuttgart and a Dipl.-Ing. degree from the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg. Session: |
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Graham Perkins has over 30 years experience in the IT world and has specialised in the provisioning of Data Warehouse and business intelligence solutions for the last eight years across a wide range of industry sectors. Graham is focused on the innovative column based analytic engine, Sybase IQ, helping customers gain substantial benefits in reduced storage and improved performance. Session:
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After five years experience between 1985 and 1990 in the Information Support Unit from the Defence Planning & Policy Division Serge Pisano started as Assistant Departmental System Administrator (DSA) and then was promoted to DSA until 1999. Then he was requested to be part of a project team to implement the first Document Management System at NATO. He was promoted again in 2005 as Head of the Document Processing Unit and became the Head of the Data Management Unit in 2007. Session: |
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Hugh Potter has worked at BP for over 20 years in a variety of roles, both within the business and within IT. For the last eight years he has worked in the area of data management. Supervising the maintenance of reference data across a number of energy trading platforms and whilst implementing a number of significant systems projects has meant that a number of data management principles have been learnt through experience. This experience is being put to work in the implementation of our Data Management Framework which is addressing our Data Governance agenda while at the same time driving 'fit for purpose' data quality for our transactional as well as our reference data. Session: |
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Andrew Poulter has extensive warehousing and BI experience, working since 2001 in the Data Applications team of the BIT (Business Intelligence Technologies) department. He design and develop architectures, applications and services to support strategic and operational business processes. He is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer and DBA. Session:
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Mark Pritchard has 15 years experience in the IT industry and comes from a consulting background working for major clients in the Financial Services, Energy & Utilities, Media and Government sectors. Joining Informatica in 2005 as a Professional Services Consultant, Mark extended his data warehousing expertise using the Informatica Data Integration Platform and has extensive experience across many market sectors. Session: |
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Chris Rodwell has wide ranging experience in the international software market over 20 years. Has held Senior Management roles with AT&T, Microsoft, Segue Software and Datawatch International. Specialises in Business Intelligence, Performance Management and Business Process strategy and solutions. Currently deploying cloud based analytics and BI solutions. Session:
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In Kenny Sargent's nearly eight years at Compassion International, he has held a number key IT positions spanning database development, training, as well as product management. Today Kenny leads the Enterprise Data Products group and is the visionary behind Compassion's version of the Corporate Information Factory called the Ministry Information Library. This includes the build out of a fully aligned strategy for Enterprise Data Warehousing, Master Data Management, the Data Services (Virtualization) Layer, Data Marts and Cubes, along with supporting integration tooling including ETL, ESB, MDM, and data virtualization. Session: |
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Henk Scholten started his first IT business in 1982. He wrote a book on computer hardware and a book on Fuzzy Logic proces control. Since 1999 he is involved in BI/PM and has supplied major projects to organizations ranging from the top 80 companies in the Netherlands to data intensive small organizations. His vision on BI/PM is described in white papers, articles on this architecture were published in the Dutch magazine DB/M. Session: |
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Andrew Schulze is responsible for Data Architecture across the Shell Enterprise. His background covers diverse industries, with more than 20 years experience in IT, much of it in data architecture. Session: |
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As a strategist and the owner of Partners for Progress, for 20 years Lori Silverman has consulted to organizations across fifteen different industries on enterprise-wide changes and viable long-term strategies to increase success. Organizations she has worked with include Chevron, Bechtel, American Family Insurance and BMW Financial Services. As a keynote speaker, Lori has inspired thousands of conference participants to take action. She has appeared on more than 60 radio and TV shows, talking about using stories to achieve tangible business results, and has authored numerous articles and books including Critical Shift: The Future of Quality in Organizational Performance and Stories Trainers Tell. Her latest bestseller, Wake Me Up When the Data Is Over: How Organizations Use Stories to Drive Results, debuted in the top one hundred books on Amazon. She is an adjunct instructor at the Fluno Center for Executive Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Session: |
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Graham Simpson is a 30 year veteran of the IT industry with knowledge of many of the technologies and demands of user communities throughout this period. Believing that today's strategic enterprise issues are now largely data management centred, led him to co-found Silwood Technology to develop tools to give modellers & analysts real insight into the complex metadata environments at the heart of major organisations i.e. Enterprise Application Packages including SAP and Oracle Apps such as EBS, Siebel, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards. Today he leads the company's tools integration initiatives with leading tool vendors such as IBM, CA and ASG. Giving him unique insights into the data management issues and solutions across enterprise level initiatives from Data Warehousing & BI, through MDM and Data Governance. Session: |
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During his over nine years in Compassion International's IT group Andy Sturt has built his career around data. Starting as a data analyst and then database developer, today Andy is battle-scarred data warehousing and business intelligence practitioner who serves as the data architect for Compassion's Enterprise Data Warehouse. Andy's business need driven approach to data architecture has led him to go outside the traditional EDW box to leverage more virtual data integration methods that accelerate time to business solution without compromising data quality or performance. Session: |
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J.T. Taylor is the General Manager of iWay International at Information Builders, an innovator of enterprise integration solutions. J.T. brings almost 30 years of experience in information technology to his position, with almost 20 years in the commercial software industry. Previously at Information Builders, J.T. was the CTO of the iWay product division. Prior to joining Information Builders, J.T. was the founder and CEO of SemanticSolutions, an independent software vendor and reseller targeting the application development market. Previously, he held the position of Senior Director of Global Product Marketing and Chief Software Architect at Software AG. J.T. is a decorated veteran of the US Army. Session: |
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Peter Thomas has led all-pervasive, Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation projects serving the needs of 500 users in multiple business units and service departments across 13 European and 5 Latin American countries. He has also developed Business Intelligence strategies for operations spanning four continents. His BI work has won two industry awards including "Best Enterprise BI Implementation", from Cognos in 2006 and "Best use of IT in Insurance", from Financial Sector Technology in 2005. Peter speaks about success factors in both Business Intelligence and the associated Change Management at seminars across both Europe and North America and writes about these areas and many other aspects of business, technology and change on his blog http://www.peterjamesthomas.com. Session: |
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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. Session: |
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Jeremy Walters is Head of Systems Development at Virgin Money, the financial services arm of the Virgin Group. He is responsible for all IT change programmes at Virgin Money, including the development of systems to support the recently launched online charitable fundraising and donation business Virgin Money Giving (www.virginmoneygiving.com). Jeremy has over 20 years of systems development experience within the financial services sector, 15 of those with Virgin. He has extensive experience of Data Management systems including the development and operation of Virgin Money's Enterprise Data Warehouse systems Session: |
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Colin White is the founder of BI Research. As an analyst, educator and writer he is well known for his in-depth knowledge of business intelligence, data management, and information integration technologies and how they can be used for supporting smart and agile decision making. With 40 years of IT experience, he has consulted for dozens of companies throughout the world and is a frequent speaker at leading IT events. Colin has written numerous articles and papers on deploying new and evolving information technologies for business benefit and is a regular contributor to several leading print- and web-based industry journals including BeyeNETWORK.com. For more information see www.bi-research.com. Session: |
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Aaron Zornes is the founder and chief research officer of the MDM Institute (formerly 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 master data management (MDM), customer data integration (CDI), and data governance. Mr. Zornes is also the editor and lead contributor to DM Review's CDI and MDM Newsletters as well as the monthly columnist for both CDI and MDM. Prior to founding the 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. Session:
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