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Gary Baverstock is Regional Director, UK & Ireland for denodo technologies. He is responsible for denodo’s commercial operations in the UK and Ireland including and his role is to extend the use of denodo technology to more customers and partners in this region through demonstrating the business value that data integration provides. He brings over 25 years business experience in sales, marketing and business development. He has a long and successful track record of selling business critical IT solutions which deliver high returns on investment. Before joining denodo, Gary was Vice President, UK for Swiss Integration company, E2E Technologies. Previously he was UK Sales Director for Information Builders/iWay Software and prior to this was UK Country Manager for Corechange Inc. Gary also spent 7 years at Software AG where he became UK Sales Director. Under his direction the company doubled the size of its sales organisation and established successful corporate account management, new business and partner programs. He gained a degree in Psychology/Sociology from Southampton University and resides in Chalfont St Giles, England with his wife and two children. Session:
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Peter Black is the Managing Director
of EnergySys Steps Limited, developers of the world-leading On Demand
solution for production reporting and hydrocarbon allocation. The
ENERGYSYS product is revolutionary not just because of its innovative
technology, but also because of its disruptive business model. It
transforms the economics of acquisition and ownership of these business
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Chris Bradley has spent almost 30 years in the Information management field, working for several blue-chip organisations in Data Management Strategy, Master Data Management, Metadata Management, Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence. Following University, Mr. Bradley’s career started for the UK Ministry of Defence, and included Volvo as data architect, Thorn EMI as Head of Information 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. Here he worked on major international projects including data management strategies, data warehouses, data governance, and the largest Data Management strategy undertaken in Europe. Currently, Mr. Bradley heads the Business Consultancy practice at IPL, a UK based consultancy. Chris is currently advising several commercial and public sector clients on Business Process and Information Asset Management. Chris is a member of the Meta Data Professionals Organisation (MPO) and DAMA, and has recently co-authored a book Data Modelling For The Business - A Handbook for aligning the business with IT using high-level data models. Session:
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As a former Gartner Research Vice President, and with twenty years of intense experience in a variety of roles, Frank Buytendijk is a well-known contributor to the field of performance management and business intelligence. Next to his global responsibility for thought leadership at Oracle Corp., he is a visiting fellow at Cranfield University School of Management (one of the Top 5 European business schools), and author of several books, including "Performance Leadership", that was published in 2008 by McGraw-Hill. Session: |
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As Senior Director EMEA Sales at Jaspersoft, Tom Cahill is responsible for building the EMEA sales organization and driving both channel and direct sales. Jaspersoft is the market leader in Open Source Business Intelligence, the most world’s most widely used BI software, with more that 8 million total downloads worldwide and more than 10,000 commercial customers in 96 countries. Prior to Jaspersoft Tom Cahill held sales management responsibilities at a number of European and US-based software organisations with responsibility for US, European and Asian regions (Valista, Serco, CampusIT) covering both Fortune 500 accounts as well as SMB markets. Previously, in the ICT industry, Tom held the position of Managing Director at Interxion, Europe's leading operator of Internet Data Centres, where he established and managed the UK and Irish operations. Tom has also held the posts of COO at ETP and General Manager Europe at Music Control (now a Nielsen Company). Tom has a degree in International Marketing from Dublin City University and is fluent in several European languages. Session: |
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Al Chester is a Portfolio Manager for Vodafone UK. His background is within Fraud, Risk and Security specialising in EU DRD and UK RIPA compliance centred on Communication Data and Lawful Intercept. This entails ensuring requests for Vodafone UK communications data meet the legal requirements, are accurate, complete, secure and serviced within specified timeframes. Session: |
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Sharon Chiarella is Vice President of Amazon Mechanical Turk, an online platform for outsourcing work. In this role, she works with organizations of all sizes to leverage technology and the “crowd” on the internet to get work done faster and at lower cost. She has 20+ years of experience developing and managing innovative high-technology products and businesses with over 15 years focused on Internet technologies. Prior to joining Amazon Mechanical Turk, Sharon served as Vice President of Product Management and Business Development at Presto Services, a Kleiner Perkins funded startup. Preceding Presto, she created and ran businesses at Yahoo!, Microsoft and Kodak. Session: |
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Malcolm Chisholm is an internationally recognized thought leader in the fields of Metadata and Master Data Management. Malcolm is the author of the book Managing Reference Data in Enterprise Databases. In his consulting practice he concentrates on practical solutions for governance and MDM issues, and brings this perspective to his speaking engagements and publications. He runs the websites www.masterdatamgmt.com and www.refdataportal.com. Sessions:
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Annie Cobbe has over 20 years experience in Data Management with roles spanning large multi-national and start-up companies in Europe and North America. Her current role as VP Market Development at Informatica focuses on the Data Quality market and the expansion of Informatica’s business in this area. Previously with Similarity Systems, she was responsible for establishing and developing Similarity’s consulting practice in Data Quality before acquisition by Informatica in 2006. Earlier experience focused on the oil and gas sector with British Petroleum and Landmark Graphics where she held a variety of roles focused on both driving the development of data management technology and working with global oil companies on their enterprise strategies for their key data assets.’ Session: |
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Reuven Cohen is leading developer of Cloud Computing products and solutions focused on enterprise businesses. Founder & Chief Technologist for Toronto based Enomaly Inc. - Cohen is a thought leader in the emerging cloud computing industry and maintains a blog at www.elasticvapor.com. Sessions: |
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Jonathan Crenner has 10 years experience in consulting for the Business Intelligence and Data Management areas. He is Wipro’s principal consultant for Information Management in Europe, and his responsibilities span from thought leadership to sales, alliance management and delivery ownership. His experience and field of activity are cross-industry with a focus on public services and energy. Jonathan’s expertise is centred around business intelligence, data architecture, data quality, data governance and MDM. He has led numerous projects for a wide range of organisations across the world covering the whole scope of information management. Session: |
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Kasper Damsø, System Manager (BSC-system), Novo Nordisk Kasper is the system manager of the BSC-system in Novo Nordisk and as such responsible of development and maintenance of the system. He has 10 years of data warehouse experience in large Danish companies. To ensure that BI solutions developed brings value to the business; Kasper has always been employed in line of business. Kasper is currently project manager on the BI strategy project in Product Supply, Novo Nordisk. Session: |
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Barry Devlin is among the foremost worldwide 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, specializing in the human, organizational and IT implications and design of deep business insight solutions. Sessions: |
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Nigel Dowden has 10 years of experience in the BI/DW industry, mainly focused on defining and delivering information-based solutions. Along with Andy Wolstenholme he established Anari in autumn 2006 with a focus on delivering BI solutions that add real value to their customers. The Anari skills have been show-cased in the airline industry, where they have developed a range of intelligent BI/DW solutions that use data across the whole booking cycle. The company tripled in size in its first 2 years and now has 15 customers of which 4 are international airlines. Nigel has previously held senior operational, sales and marketing positions in British Telecom and British Airways before taking his current entrepreneurial path. 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. Sessions: |
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Elizabeth Fong is a computer scientist currently working in the Software and Systems Division, Information Technology Laboratory of National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). She performs research, analysis, and evaluation of innovative data management software and practices with emphasis on new fields of computer technology for Federal applications. The new fields of computer technology include software assurance, software metrics and measurement, tools and testing techniques, object technology, distributed computing, and knowledge-based systems. She is active in national and international standardization groups among them Database System Study Group, and NCITS H7 Object Information Management Technical Committee. She speaks at numerous conferences including Department of Homeland Security Software Assurance Forum, Verify Conference, DAMA conference. She received MS in computer science from Stanford University and pursued graduate studies from University of Maryland. Session: |
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Erik Fransen BSc MSc has been working as a Business Intelligence consultant and project manager since 1994. He has a degree in Knowledge Engineering (Middlesex University) and has been involved in many projects where data, information and/or knowledge management was the key enabler to achieve business value. Furthermore, he has been working as a senior course leader and teacher for many years, developing and teaching BI and datawarehousing courses in the Netherlands for major system integrators and BI users and managers. Erik's clients include, amongst others, KLM/Air France, Nutreco (animal feed), several Dutch departments and major local authorities. Erik is a frequent speaker at BI conferences with themes ranging from Data Search to Datavault and Business Analytics. Erik is currently Business Development Manager and Senior Business Consultant at Centennium, a BI consultancy firm based in The Hague (the Netherlands). Session: |
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Jo Franssen is a Sr. Data Warehouse Analyst at ABN AMRO Bank N.V. with 20 years of experience in the business. After nine years with NCR Teradata, he joined ABN Amro in 1998. Within ABN Amro he worked in various positions on Data Warehouse development, management and design. He specialized in metadata and data quality. Currently he is working as a business consultant on Data Quality Management for Basel 2 and the ABN Amro Data Warehouse. Session: |
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Dagna Gaythorpe is a Data Architect with over 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 with warehouses and enterprise models in a range of industries. Session: |
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Drawing on over fifteen years of experience in IT and consultancy, Anthony Golledge is the head of enterprise architecture at Detica UK. This group works closely with clients to provide advice ranging from IT strategy and technical design to specialist counsel and covering a wide range of technical subjects, such as security and privacy, identity and fraud, and emerging trends in web and mobile technologies.Anthony started work as a software engineer at IBM, and later moved to Accenture as a technical architect in the financial services sector, before joining Detica in 2003 as an information security specialist. Throughout his career he has advised global clients within both the private and public sector on security and general technology issues. Anthony holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Technical Communication from Sheffield-Hallam University and a BA in Experimental Psychology from Oriel College, Oxford. Session: |
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Keith Gordon has been an independent consultant and trainer since retiring from the British Army in 1998. At the end of Keith’s Army service he was leading the Army’s Data Management programme, covering 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 a UK delegate to Working Group 2 (Metadata) of the International Standards Organization Subcommittee for Data Management and Interchange (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC32), an Associate Lecturer with the Open University, an examiner for the Information Systems Examination Board of the British Computer Society, a founder member of the UK Chapter of DAMA and secretary of the Data Management Specialist Group of the British Computer Society. Keith’s book “Principles of Data Management: Facilitating Information Sharing” was published by the British Computer Society in 2007. Session: |
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Andy Hawkins joined Aster Data as Technical Director in the summer of 2009. Prior to joining Aster Data Andy was one of the first employees for Opsware Europe and played a major role as overall lead architect overseeing all of the major Implementations throughout Europe. Opsware was later acquired by HP, where Andy acted as the lead consultant for HP’s software portfolio across the public sector. Before joining Opsware, Andy spent eight years at Perot Systems where he held senior technical roles in the systems integration practice leading the design and implementation of data warehouse, enterprise resource planning and web solutions. Session: |
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Jan Henderyckx is a highly rated independent consultant, speaker and author with more than 20 years experience in the field of information architecture and relational databases. He has presented, moderated and taught workshops at many international conferences and user-groups meetings worldwide. As a consultant for numerous corporations, ranging from Fortune 500 to small businesses, Jan has witnessed the inner workings of a broad range of companies. 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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Kathy Hunter has worked in Information Quality since 1998. In her role as Information Quality Manager at T-Mobile (previously One2One), she introduced the concepts of TIQM to the organisation and went on to enable the company to recover more than £10 million pounds a year. In 2002, she joined Harte-Hanks UK and built an information management practice from the ground up. She then directed her focus to Global Data Management and, with her team of global experts, developed solutions that have enabled some of the world's largest companies to make optimal use of customer information from over 200 countries with a process that treats the whole world as if it were just one country. Session: |
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Bill Inmon, the father of data warehousing, has written 50 books translated into 9 languages. Bill founded and took public the world's first ETL software company. Bill has written over 1000 articles and published in most major trade journals. Bill has conducted seminars and spoken at conferences on every continent except Antarctica. Bill holds nine software patents. Bill's latest company is Forest Rim Technology, a company dedicated to the access and integration of unstructured data into the structured world. Bill's website - inmoncif.com - has attracted over 1,000,000 visitors a month. Bill's weekly newsletter in b-eye-network.com is one of the most widely read in the industry and goes out to 75,000 subscribers each week. Sessions:
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Martin James joined Talend in January 2009 as the first employee in the UK with responsibility for setting up the UK operation which is now fully operational with customers and partners throughout the UK & Ireland. Martin has 20 years of IT sales experience with 10 of these specifically in the Data Management and Integration business. Prior to Talend he was at DataSynapse where he built a UK and Benelux sales operation to support their rapidly expanding business in the telecommunications, media, government, manufacturing and energy industries. Before that he was at OpenPages, a governance, risk and compliance management firm where he was the first European employee in the role of regional director for EMEA and he opened its UK, French and German offices. From 1998 to 2004 he was the EMEA sales director for Sonic Software, responsible for building the company’s European sales team. He has also held senior sales and marketing positions at Candle Corporation and Computer Associates. Session: |
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Dylan Jones is the founder and editor of the online community resource, Data Quality Pro. He has over 16 years experience operating in complex data quality, data migration and business intelligence projects across the automotive, retail, financial and telecommunications sectors. In recent years he has focused his efforts on creating social media platforms that serve to educate and connect data quality professionals across the globe. Session: |
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Inna Kogan is the Principal Enterprise Data Architect at Iron Mountain. She is a Data management professional with strong experience in Enterprise Data Architecture, Metadata Management, Data Modeling, Database Administration, and Data Warehousing. Past experience includes the financial, telecommunication and insurance industries. Inna specializes in enterprise-wide data concepts and robust designs that feature metadata. Session: |
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Mary Kotch brings with her over 16 years of IT experience ranging from Global IT Service Management Operations to Leading Enterprise Architecture Initiatives. She spent a number of years as a “principle consultant” providing consulting services Pharmaceutical companies solving complex Document Management, Customer Integration, Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse applications problems with Large Data Volumes(terabytes of data). She led and was a member of a number of industry consortiums driving new architectures and standards: Pharmaceutical IMPACC, ACORD Model Driven Framework, Behavioral Health Committee for Informatics. She held a variety of roles including Enterprise Data Architect Data Management Global Director at Campbell Soup Company where she created and executed upon the Enterprise Data Architecture Strategy and consolidation and outsourcing of data management services. Biovail Pharmaceutical’s, she created IT Consolidation Outsourcing Strategy while managing Global IT Operations. She holds a master degree from Temple University and she taught over fourteen years as an Adjunct Professor, currently at Muhlenberg College teaching information management courses. Session: |
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As the author behind the “Lessons from History” series, Mark Kozak-Holland brings years of experience as a consultant who helps Fortune-500 companies formulate projects that leverage emerging technologies. Since 1985 he has been straddling the business and IT worlds making these projects happen. He is a certified business consultant, the author of several books, and a noted speaker. Mark has always been interested in tracing the evolution of technology and the 3 industrial revolutions of the last 300 years. Whilst recovering a failed Financial Services project he first used the Titanic analogy to explain to project executives why the project had failed. The project recovery was going to take 2 years and $8m cost versus the original $2m cost and 1 year duration. As a historian, Kozak-Holland seeks out the wisdom of the past to help others avoid repeating mistakes and to capture time-proven techniques. His lectures on Lessons from History projects have been very popular at gatherings of project managers and CIOs. Mark’s educational background - B.Sc. with Joint Honours degree in Computer Science and Statistics 1980-1983 (University of Salford, UK). Sessions: |
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Dan Linstedt is an internationally known Data Warehousing/BI expert. He writes, speaks, and authors many different ideas in the industry. He is well known as the inventor of the Data Vault Model and Methodology (both of which are freely distributed). He has a world-wide blog available at: http://www.b-eye-network.com/blogs/linstedt where he writes on behalf of Bill Inmon. You may also find more information about Dan at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/linstedt, he also maintains a community at: http://www.DataVaultInstitute.com. He has worked in fortune 500 and along side of many different government initiatives throughout the years. He is officially trained in SEI/CMMI Level 5, PMP, and Six Sigma. His certifications include: CBIP, ICCP Data Management Master, and DW2.0 Architect. 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 consultant he has advised on the design and implementation of database and data management systems in manufacturing, oil and gas, finance and electronics industries. In the 10 years to 2008, 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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Ron Macdonald is a Senior Data Management professional with a proven track record in Business Intelligence, Master Data Management, Data Warehousing, Data Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Software Development and Project Management (Prince2 practitioner) across various industry sectors. A passionate evangelist of the power of Data and Business Intelligence whose recent achievements include creating the Data Architecture vision and strategy for a global publisher and implementing a global ecommerce data architecture. Session:
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Kevin Mclean is an experienced senior civil servant and was Director of the Magee Review for the Home Office. Session: |
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Tony O'Brien is a Finance Manager within Remploy, the largest provider of employment opportunities for disabled people within the UK and is currently leading the information and data quality initiative within the organisation. He has over thirty-five years experience within the fields of Finance and IT and has been involved in the implementation and development of a number of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Tony holds an MBA and is currently in the final year of a Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) programme, focussing upon sustaining data quality within planning and information systems. He is also the Joint Moderator of the IAIDQ's 'Ask the Expert' Forum. Session: |
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After a decade in operational direct marketing, Gary Palmer then spent a dozen years building a proven track record of ensuring business value from data-driven marketing projects ranging from campaign management and list selection to data warehousing and CRM. Gary is a pioneer of the use of Information Quality management to ensure success in direct marketing operations. Having worked in industries as disparate as mail-order, text retrieval software, professional publishing and even TV licensing, Gary left corporate life in 2006 to set up Information Alchemy Ltd, and now helps organisations take control of their data resource and extract from it maximum value through sound data governance, data-driven marketing and customer insight. Session: |
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Niko Papadakos is a Director in Sapient's Trading and Risk Management practice in London, focusing on Business and IT Planning engagements. He has more than 15 years of experience in IT consulting and senior technology management. For the past 2 years he has focused on the development and implementation of Data Management strategies. Niko holds a master's degree in computer science from Michigan State University and a master's degree in education from Grenoble University, France. Session: |
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Bob Pearson is leading Asterdata’s expansion into the European market. He has a very strong background in helping to successfully establish USA companies in the European market, with Opsware and Loudcloud being the two most recent successes over the past 10 years. He has a 25 year background in the industry with a very rich and experienced technical, project management and leadership career in a wide variety of high growth companies – Tandem Non Stop, Cisco, and Concord Systems. Robert also holds a non-executive board position with Rightscale, a high growth innovative cloud computing provider. 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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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 seven years he has worked in the area of data management. Initially he was responsible for the management of reference data within BP’s trading systems, including assessing the data impacts of several system changes including a SAP implementation. More recently he has been implementing a Data Management Framework across the oil trading business, alongside a methodology for assessing and tracking the manageability of data. Session: |
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Alex Pratt is a senior technical consultant and has worked for Sybase for over 10 years. Alex’s expertise covers a wider spectrum of technology from development and design tools to data management servers. For the past 2 years Alex has been focusing on architecture and design frameworks and has been involved in several high profile implementations of Sybase PowerDesigner, making organizations more productive. Alex has a BA(Hons) in Business Information Systems and Strategic Management. Session:
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As a senior analyst with a broad data remit Julie Radcliffe has been involved in a range of data initiatives and has been instrumental in work that has resulted in board approval for the 1st iteration of an MDM project. Session: |
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Neil Raden is the founder of Hired Brains, a research and advisory firm in the BI industry. In the past, he's been a mathematician, an actuary, a software developer, a DSS consultant, and a founder of a SI doing DSS/Data warehousing/BI. He has almost 30 years experience, is a widely published writer, well-known speaker, and consultant. He has personally designed over 100 data warehouses and implemented dozens of large analytical applications in finance, marketing, distribution, logistics, actuarial, scientific, statistical, consumer products and more. He is the co-author of "Smart Enough Systems," Prentice Hall, 2007. Sessions:
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Before becoming CEO, Yossi Rissin served as InQuera's CTO for almost 5 years. During this time he designed and developed InQuera's technology and gained profound knowledge and practical experience in the Product Data Quality realm. Prior to joining the company, Yossi founded and was president and CEO of Visopt BV, developers of a unique supply chain optimization package, targeting process industries. Before establishing Visopt BV, Yossi was the president and CEO of MedaTech, an ERP company, which was acquired by Attunity Ltd. (Nasdaq: ATTU) in early 2000. Session: |
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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. Session: |
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Navin Sharma is the Director of Global Product Strategy- Data Quality for Pitney Bowes Business Insight. He has more than 10 years of experience in data management and helping companies with modeling, analysis, design and implementation of their data management strategies. Sharma manages the ever-expanding Pitney Bowes Business Insight portfolio of Spectrum Technology Platform products and solutions. Session: |
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Alec Sharp has managed his consulting and education business, Clariteq Systems Consulting Ltd., for close to 30 years. Serving clients from Ireland to India, and Washington to Wellington, Alec’s expertise includes facilitation, strategy development, data management, business analysis, and business process improvement. He conducts workshops and conference presentations on these topics globally, consistently receiving “excellent” ratings. Alec is the author of the recently-released second edition of “Workflow Modeling” (Artech House, 2008) which is widely used as a university text and is a best-seller in the field. Sessions:
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Adrian Simpson has been at SAP for over eight years working on the rollout of new technologies within SAP, within the partner ecosystem, and ultimately to SAP customers. This has included working within SAP Portals, the Global NetWeaver Initiative and the Customer Advisory Office team in the customer adoption of Enterprise SOA. Adrian is currently the Presales Manager for the Business User and NetWeaver teams. Adrian graduated with a B.Sc (Hons) in Computing Science in 1988. He has worked in the UK, USA and Australia for companies such as GE Capital (Retailer Financial Services), Lincoln National Corporation, Roadway Express. He spent 12 years working on large scale database applications with the Computer Corporation of America including a marketing database system using highly innovative technology that allowed companies such as Marks and Spencer, Next, Thomson Holidays, Freemans and Littlewoods to highly target their customers with marketing activities. Session:
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Simon Slocombe is Director of Consulting at Evaxyx (UK) Limited. He has 15 years experience in working with large scale distributed systems, working across the financial, retail and government sectors. More recently, he has been focussing on governance issues associated with master data management and customer data integration, and is currently assisting an investment house in defining their enterprise data governance strategy. Session: |
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Jørgen Steines, Practice Director, Business Intelligence, Platon Corporate Jørgen is one of Platon’s lead consultants on strategic advisory within the areas of Information Management and Business Intelligence. He carries more than 12 years of experience from numerous projects across many industries. Jørgen is Practice Director for business intelligence across all Platon countries and is regularly used as speaker at national and international Information Management conferences. He holds a Masters degree in business administration and computer science. Session: |
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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. Session:
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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. 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. Sessions: |
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Rik van der Schalie has been working with Capgemini Netherlands and its predecessors since 1981. After a career in system development he turned to data in the early nineties. He worked as a Database and Data Administrator for the government, banks and industry. Since the turn of the century he has specialized as a Business Information Architect in Capgemini’s Products sector, with special attention to Data Quality, Master Data Management and Information Governance. He was responsible for assessing End User Computing and formulating the End User Computing policies for a large chemicals company. Session: |
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Jos van Dongen is one of Europe's leading analysts, authors and speakers on Open Source BI systems. Jos has been involved in software development, business intelligence and data warehousing since 1991. Over the past years he has successfully implemented business intelligence solutions for a large variety of organisations, both profit and non-profit. He regularly covers new developments in BI and data warehousing for the Dutch Database Magazine. All articles covering open source BI have been recently revised and published in a book titled “Open Source BI, Low cost, high value?”. Jos also co-authored the first book on developing Open Source BI solutions with Pentaho, “Building Pentaho Solutions”, published by Wiley in August 2009. Sessions: |
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Ing. Werner Wiggers MMC CMC. Owner of www.effectual.nl has a Phd in Information Engineering (HIO) in the Netherlands. Werner began his career in 1982 at RAET, after which he was self/employed for several years. He was then employed by BSO/ORIGIN in 1987 where he worked until 1996. He then joined KPMG Management Consulting in the World ClassIT business unit. At this moment he is a freelance consultant. Werner possesses a lot of knowledge and experience throughout the entire field of organizations and Information technology. In more then 60 engagements during the past 25 years, he has been involved in all aspects of, programming, developing, and designing information systems. He has built know-how and experience in the following areas: information strategy, policy and planning, project, program & interim management. The last 7 years he is specialized in Change Management in the area of Dataownership and implementing Data Quality. Session: |
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Paul Woodward has worked at British Airways for the last 20 years in roles ranging from Systems Analyst through to Enterprise Data Architect including spells in the commercial team responsible for the creation of “ba.com”, the airlines award winning website. Mr. Woodward created the model for implementation of data governance within British Airways as well as managing the implementation responsibility for data governance. Prior to his data governance charter, he was responsible for the development and improvement of data structures for the integrated corporate data warehouse and promoting the use of modelling within the Information Management community. Mr. Woodward also provided consultancy to project teams within BA in addition to developing of enterprise data models across BA and promoting their use. Session: |
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Ed Wrazen is VP Product Management & Strategy with Harte-Hanks Trillium Software, a leading provider of total data quality solutions. Working with customers, partners and industry analysts, Ed is responsible for product planning and release co-ordination. Ed has over 25 years experience working on IT systems, having started his career as a computer programmer on retail banking and travel reservation systems. He has been heavily involved in database and data management technologies as a product developer, consultant and lecturer, specialising in data architecture, performance design, data integration and data quality. Ed is a regular speaker at industry events worldwide and author on topics relating to data management. Session: |
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Volker Würthele studied computer sciences at Stuttgart University with business administration as subsidiary subject. For more than ten years, he has been working in data quality management within financial institutions. Volker spent the first five years of his professional life as a project manager working for WestLB in Düsseldorf. In 2000, he changed for a new position at UBS and began a doctorate in parallel to his work as a project leader of data management projects. He received a PhD at ETH Zürich for his dissertation on metering data quality. From various working areas, Volker has ad wide experience both in methodical and practical aspects of information quality management, including topic owner data quality within Credit Risk Control significantly forming tools, processes for data quality metering, issue management. Presently, he maintains the Target Business Model within Risk Control. Session: |
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C. Lwanga Yonke is a seasoned information quality and information management expert and leader. He has successfully designed and implemented projects in multiple areas, including, data management, data governance, business intelligence, data warehousing, data architecture, and information quality,. His initial experience is in petroleum engineering and operations. An ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, Lwanga holds an MBA from California State University and a BS degree in petroleum engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. Lwanga is a founding member of the International Association for Information and Data Quality (IAIDQ) and currently serves as an Advisor to the IAIDQ Board. He is also a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and a senior member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ). Additional activities include serving on the Program Committees of the 2006 and 2007 MIT International Conference on Information Quality, of the 2007 Australasian Conference on Information Quality, and serving on the Boards of several non-profit organizations. Sessions:
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