Conference Sessions - June 3, 2008
Tuesday 3 June 7:308:30 |
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Tuesday 3 June 8:308:45 |
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KEYNOTE: Betting
on Compliance and Data Governance Terry G. Goodbody, Enterprise Data Manager, Pinnacle Entertainment Is getting buy–in and showing value the major challenge in deploying data governance programs? In this keynote, Terry G. Goodbody, Pinnacle Entertainment will share the unique challenges in compliance and data governance in the gaming industry. While executives in some industries are trying to deal with the ROI for Data Governance and Data Quality the Gaming Industry is governed by a higher source the state regulators of gaming which require in some cases that people (Data Analyst, Data Architects, Etc.) be licensed if they are viewing customer data. Further some states refuse to allow customer data to leave their States without prior approval and in some cases not at all. These and other data breaches can result in heavy fines that can dramatically impact the bottom line not to mention the reputation of the Casino itself. For Gaming, Data Governance and Data Quality is not a nice to have but mandatory if you want to stay in business. |
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Governance & Stewardship
Improving Information Integrity Through Stewardship Janine Joseph, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of MN Governance and stewardship require commitment and participation from all areas of a corporation to ensure success. As early adopters of governance and stewardship BCBSMN has many lessons to share. This presentation describes how BCBSMN's governance and stewardship groups have successfully evolved over the last 15 years from a divisional effort to encompass the entire enterprise.
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Data Governance at a
Large, Bureaucratic, Non-profit Organization—Year 1 Pablo Riboldi, LDS Church A little over a year ago the Information and Communications Systems Department at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)—definitively a large, bureaucratic, non-profit organization—decided to hire an Information Governance Manager to implement a Data Governance program. This is the uncensored story of the adventures and misadventures of that brave (or naïve) soul during his first year on the job. Some of the chapters of this saga include:
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Data Quality: A Perspective
from Data Examiners of a Financial Regulator Lawrence Elliott Blake, Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) As data takes an increasingly important role in the banking and mortgage industry, federal regulators have become more involved in evaluating the quality of data at the institutions they regulate. This presentation will focus on data quality from the regulators perspective. We will discuss the measures we use as a regulator for evaluating data quality. We will differentiate between the regulator’s standards and the institutions standards (e.g. the regulator’s focus on safety and soundness compared to the institution's standard needed for running the business). This presentation will conclude with a question and answer session on the topic of: How can we – industry, regulators, and auditors – work together to bring about better quality data in organizations? |
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Mobilizing an Enterprise
Data Governance Function at a Large Financial Institution Alan Medearis, SunTrust Banks Suntrust is a top ten US banking organization, operating primarily in the Southeast US. Following two failed attempts at establishing an enterprise data governance function (the first as a IT-led initiative, and the second as a compliance activity), SunTrust embarked on a business led initiative to create a vision and implementation roadmap for supporting critical data governance disciplines. Presenter, while a business consultant with IBM Global Services, led the mobilization project team -- and later was hired as Director of Enterprise Data Governance to implement strategy. Presentation will include:
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From Strategy to Execution:
Turning Data Governance Policies into Action Brian McVay, DataFlux Companies turn to data governance programs to gain more control over their information assets. However, many of these efforts have centered around organizing the people and establishing the processes behind data governance. In this session, participants will learn how data quality and data monitoring technology can enforce data governance policies – and communicate the current health of the data to all stakeholders. Topics will include:
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A Visual Tour of Data Governance Arka Mukherjee, Global IDs Governing corporate data environments is becoming increasingly difficult. Human resource constraints, cost-cutting priorities and ever increasing complexity are forcing Enterprise Data Managers to do more with less. Our presentation shows how a corporate data governance program can be sustained over time by focusing on demonstrable business value and visual outputs that can be shown to executive leadership. In our talk, we will present a gallery of visual outputs that can answer key questions related to data governance. Members of the audience will be encouraged to ask similar questions within their own business contexts. |
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Providing the Building Blocks
of Value Driven Data Governance James Cerrato, Adaptive Max Gano, Adaptive Data Governance initiatives can seem overwhelming, especially if you try and tackle all aspects simultaneously. Adaptive, the leader in Metadata Management and Compliance, now offers an incremental approach for tackling data governance. Leverage the new line of Data Governance Accelerators to establish key components of your program quickly and with confidence. Adaptive will demonstrate the first of this line of offerings, the Data Stewardship and Controls Accelerator. Learn about helpful modules which can be downloaded through Adaptive on Demand. Join us as we discuss how to deliver immediate value and generate momentum for a successful Data Governance program. |
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The Creation of Data
Governance at First Data Corporation (FDC) Austin Barnes, First Data Corp In 2005, FDC began looking into a way to create enterprise wide data management through the usage of consistent tools and processes. FDC needed to overcome difficulties in sharing or consolidating data across FDC, prevent data integrity issues, adopt a new environment with consistent controls, and provide support for future initiatives. FDC's vision was to eliminate manual activities, standardize key processes and procedures, improve reporting capabilities, create a common reporting chart of accounts, and create a centralized and integrated data environment for FDC through an Enterprise Data Management Project (EDM). This presentation will discuss the following:
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Large-scale Data Governance
on Small-Scale Budgets: An Implementation Case Study Tom Greitz, McGraw Hill Education With increasing reliance on large and complex data environments, companies expect their Data Managers to have the right controls over their information assets. However, these same Managers are rarely given sufficiently large resources to put together a data governance team that can govern hundreds of databases. So, what to do? The answer: Focus on Business Value, Start Small and Automate Data Governance Tasks This session describes the implementation of a Data Governance program that delivers business value, while creating a network of automated data quality controls over a large data landscape. Participants will learn how best to optimize the use of technological and human resources, while delivering a convincing data governance program. |
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Web 2.0
and Corporate Ethics: We Are in A Brave New World Now, But Where
Do We Go From Here? Dominique Shelton, Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon LLP With billions of dollars spent on digital advertising, video games, and social networking sites, there is no question that digital communication has captured the public imagination and multi-platform interaction is here to stay. Although much of the impetus for Web 2.0 has been user generated, what role can/should corporations play in protecting privacy in this process? Fortune 500 companies are asking themselves this question as, with increasing regularity, significant players in the financial, healthcare and Fortune 500 communities have plunged into the Web 2.0 world, hosting everything from brand enthusiast campaigns on Youtube, to developing microsites for blogging, and establishing social networks. How does Web 2.0 activitiy by CEOs, officers, and employees impact the financial standing of their companies or expose them to shareholder liability? What steps do corporations need to take to protect privacy - even when customers are ready/willing to disclose private information? Can voluntary disclosures of private information by consumers square with corporate ethics regarding fiduciary duties for financial institutions, product and health care companies that engage in Web 2.0 activities. What duties do highly regulated companies owe to their customers to disclose the risks and benefits of Web 2.0? The issues of shareholder derivative lawsuits, defamation and privacy claims spawned by such activities as employee internet postings, CEO blogging and data security breaches will be explored in this discussion of digital trends - cutting across industry sectors. |
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Using Collaborative
Technology to Transform a Large Enterprise into a Data Governance
Culture Julian P. Shelbourne, Kaiser Permanente A shortage of reliable metadata, and the lack of standard business rules and terms, was hindering our strategic goals for enterprise integration, national reporting, SOA, and seamless B2B data-exchange. We lacked alignment between our data assets and our business, but both are so complex that it was a daunting challenge. The only way to break the log-jam was to free our Subject Matter Experts from siloed work-practices and red-tape, to contribute their knowledge directly into a centralized repository, in an iterative, non-invasive, yet structured way. We designed a solution that combines close-to-real-time business-intelligence system metadata with Wiki-like contribution, governance, approval-workflow, auditability, and version-history to enable our SMEs to collaboratively define our business terms and catalog our data-assets. Learn how we overcame the constraints of our existing metadata-management infrastructure, and overcame skepticism amongst the business community, to manage our business intelligence data assets and business-rules in a whole new way. |
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MDM and Governance David Loshin, Knowledge Integrity There are both organizational and operational aspects of data governance that must be put into place when migrating to a master data environment. Organizationally, conceptual issues such as reaching agreement to the definitions to be used for business terms, business concepts, and data elements must be put into place. On the operational side, processes for overseeing the decisions regarding master object identity resolution, hierarchy management, and data quality must be established. Bring your MDM questions and ideas to this session and network with your fellow attendees |
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Building the Business Case
for Data Governance Danette McGilvray, Granite Falls You understand the importance of data governance; but you seem to be the only one. Efforts to start or continue data governance are meeting resistance. What do you need? You need to build the business case for data governance. Where do you turn to figure out this seemingly daunting task? One way is to learn from the experiences of others and to share your own stories and concerns - how to successfully create a business case to launch a data governance program. After all, no one will invest in any initiative unless it is clear there will be a benefit to the organization. This facilitated discussion will give participants the chance to both share their own successes and learn from others. Come join us for a fast-paced hour of highly-interactive dialogue with those who know first-hand the effort required to win support within their organization to venture into the world of data governance. |
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Data Governance Organization
Structures-What Works and Why John Ladley, IMCue Solutions Many shops have governance underneath compliance. This is a new structure for tradition IM staffers. What are some of the other directions in organizations that support data governance. We will discuss alternative structures and what the drivers are for each one. Join us for this facilitated session and bring your questions and ideas on data governance organizational structures. |
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Data Governance in the Government
Sector Bonnie O'Neil, PPC The government entity, whether federal, state or local, has challenges that private enterprises don’t have, such as no customers per se, different bureaucratic challenges, and political pressure, that can create issues for data governance. This Birds of a Feather session is for all those working in the public sector to discuss the unique challenges faced and how we can brainstorm together and create solutions. |
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Ethics of
Data Management and Data Governance Anne Marie Smith, Director of Education, EWSolutions Terry G. Goodbody, Pinnacle Entertainment David Loshin, Knowledge Integrity David Schlesinger, Metadata Security & Compliance Christy Stevens, IBM Dominique Shelton, Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon LLP Ethics is a topic that we don't often think about specifically, yet we act upon every day. As individuals we usually have our own compass to guide us on obvious issues of right and wrong. The law of the land supplements this with guidance on the more complex issues, and then corporations often clarify even further with statements of policy and practice. Yet, in an emerging and fast-changing discipline like data management, sometimes figuring out the appropriate and ethical way to handle new situations is not obvious at all. Frequently, the ethical thing to do conflicts directly with the most profitable thing to do. It's easy to say "do the right thing", but sometimes the right thing isn't apparent, from either a legal or moral standpoint. In this panel we will focus on the practical issues of ethics in IT and business management as they affect data governance. The audience will be encouraged to contribute their own experience and perspectives so we can capture the full range of issues.
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