Call for Presentations Deadline Extended to 10 November 2008

Presentation proposals are now being accepted for the 4th Annual MDM Summit Europe 2009, scheduled for 20-22 April, 2009 at the Park Plaza Victoria Hotel, London, UK .The conference is produced by IRM UK and The MDM Institute.

Do you or any of your team have a formal presentation to contribute to our MDM Summit Europe 2009 taking place in London? All selected speakers will be entitled to attend the event free of charge. Or would someone like to sit in on a panel discussion (in return for one free conference pass)?

Details …

• The Call for presentations is now open for our London MDM SUMMIT Spring 2009 event. To view this please click here.
• The CFP deadline for submissions has been extended to 10 November 2008 with the agenda to be published Mid December.
• For your reference, at the end of this page is a summary of the presentations that previous attendees indicated are most desired.
• To view a sample of past MDM Summit Europe Attendees click here.
• To see what past attendees say about our events click here.

Hot topics for either stand alone sessions or panels in London include: hierarchy management, identity resolution, ROI, PIM, data governance, the first 6-12 months, high-end scalability, going enterprise-wide, multi-entity MDM (adding product to customer, or customer to product), SAP MDM, IBM InfoSphere MDM Server, best practises in Financial Services, best practises in Telecoms, best practises in Government and master reference data.

Permit us to highlight why you may want to share your MDM experience with our projected 300+ summit attendees:

• Make visible and champion industry, vendor and product-specific issues that are vital to your MDM success, and therefore decrease time-to-ROI and risk for your project
  • Meet with other serious evaluators of MDM solutions – both early adopters (speakers and attendees) as well as IT professionals at the same stage in the product evaluation lifecycle as you are
  • Save yourself the lengthy process of vetting vendor references by networking with those-already-in-the-know
  • Exchange real-life best practices
  • Listen to fellow professionals Interact with vendor representatives at the exhibition hall as well as during panel presentations
• Expand your industry network and increase your personal market value
  • There will be numerous opportunities to network with other MDM professionals – CTOs, enterprise architects, data stewards, et al
  • Get public visibility for your personal and professional achievements
• Fill critically short-staffed MDM positions
  • Looking to recruit MDM process or product experts? This audience has the critical mass of IT talent with MDM credentials

There will of course be numerous opportunities to network with fellow MDM professionals – CTOs, enterprise architects, corporate data stewards, et al. We also provide 2+ hours per day to visit with the 25+ software vendors and systems integrators who will be staffing demo booths, etc.

Pre-Conference Workshops/Tutorials on Monday (Half/Full Day)

• Data Governance
• Data Quality
• Data Quality Tools Evaluation & Justification
• Identity Resolution Algorithms Evaluation & Justification
• Essentials of MDM for Pharmaceutical/Life Sciences
• Essentials of MDM for Healthcare Payer/Provider
• Essentials of MDM for Global Capital Markets
• Essentials of MDM for Private Banking/Wealth Management
• Essentials of MDM for Regional & Community Banks
• Essentials of MDM for Communications Services Providers
• Essentials of MDM for B2B & High Tech Manufacturing
• IBM InfoSphere MDM Server Special Interest Group
• Initiate Systems Identity Hub Special Interest Group
• Oracle-Siebel Customer Data Hub Special Interest Group
• Oracle-Siebel UCM Special Interest Group
• SAP Master Data Management (MDM) Special Interest Group
• Siperian MDM Hub Special Interest Group

Tracks – Conference Sessions Occur During One of Three Conference Tracks on Tuesday & Wednesday

• Customer Data Integration
• Master Data Management, Reference Master Data & PIM Data Hubs
• Data Governance/Data Quality/Identity Resolution
• Financial Services (virtual track)
• Government (virtual track)
• Telecoms (virtual track)

Preferred Format – 45 Minute Conference Presentation During Main Conference on Tuesday & Wednesday

• BEST PRACTISES – Experiential findings on particular subject; may be specific to a given industry or track, i.e. “Master Reference Data for Financial Services” might fit in both MDM and Financial Services track
• CASE STUDY – Thought leadership example or use case of the application of a particular set of best practices, e.g., “Moving from Product-Centricity to Customer-Centricity”; business or governmental agency name need not be supplied if a generic or anonymous case study
• EXPERT TESTIMONY – Thought leadership on a particular topic
• EXPERTS PANEL – Special interest group (SIG) discussion with 5-10 minute overview, then moderator-facilitated discussion; typically 3-5 panelists; vendors are welcome as are systems integrators, consultants, and industry analysts

Requested Topics (ranked in order of level of interest from previous conference attendees)

• Strategies for ROI justification & CxO engagement (developing the business case, socializing the concepts)
• Data governance
• Data quality
• Best practices in evaluating Hierarchy Management capabilities
• Best practices in evaluating Identity Resolution capabilities
• Trends & strategies for “process/policy hubs” — including BPM & workflow trends
• "Master reference data" trends & strategies
• Managing the Systems Integrator relationship
• Hierarchy management strategies for global account management
• Case studies from early adopter industries — esp. financial services, high-tech manufacturing, telecommunications, & pharma/life sciences
• MDM strategies to support M&A’s
• Comparisons & reviews of MDM software solutions
• EAI, EII & ETL “do it yourself” frameworks for MDM
• The “future” of MDM technologies — including metadata, unstructured data, semantics
• Ideas on how to use MDM technology solutions to run your company better
• "Product data hub" (PIM) trends & strategies
• Basic 101 explanations of key topics

Please CLICK HERE to submit a proposal.

Please direct any questions regarding submissions to Jeremy.hall@irmuk.co.uk.

Jeremy Hall
IRM UK Strategic IT Training
&
Aaron Zornes
The MDM Institute

Sponsorship Opportunities Are Available

Please contact Shane Mcglynn at shane@irmuk.co.uk