Call for Presentations

Deadline January 27, 2012

DebTech International, Dataversity and IAIDQ are now accepting proposals for the 2012 Annual Data Governance and Information Quality Conference, scheduled for June 25-28, 2012, Catamaran Resort Hotel and Spa, San Diego, CA.

We are interested in proposals that focus on case studies, lessons learned, success stories, strategies and methodologies related to data governance and data and information quality. We encourage novice presenters as well as experienced presenters to submit proposals for this event.

Suggested topics include but are not limited to the following:

  • Case studies and success stories
  • Best practices and lessons learned
  • Business oriented presentations
  • Building the business case  and selling data governance or information quality
  • How to get started with data governance or data quality
  • Developing a data governance or information quality strategy
  • Compliance, risk management, data protection, information security and privacy
  • Post implementation issues. Pitfalls to avoid
  • Data governance or data quality in an agile environment
  • Data governance and Master Data Management
  • Home grown tools of data governance or information quality
  • Data stewardship
  • Assessing the effectiveness of your data governance program
  • Architectures for data quality
  • Data governance or data quality for unstructured data
  • Data governance or data quality in Cloud computing
  • Information quality environment and culture
  • Information quality measurement and improvement (including Lean and Six Sigma)
  • Impact of big data, ERP, BI, supply chain, product data, point-of-sales data, data migrations on data governance and information quality

Presentation Guidelines

Presentations may be proposed in the following categories:

  • Conference Sessions (50 minute duration)
  • Special Interest Groups (30-50 minute duration)
  • Full and half day tutorials
  • Panel Sessions (50 minute duration)
  • Lightning Session (5 minute duration)

Please take note of all the requirements and follow the presentation guidelines carefully.

  1. We expect a great deal of competition for speaking opportunities at this conference. Therefore, incomplete or poorly constructed proposals tend to be quickly eliminated from consideration. If you are unsure of your proposal, you may email us with questions so we can guide you before you make an official submission. PLEASE NOTE: We cannot tell you if your proposal will be accepted or not. This would not be fair to the other potential speakers who have also submitted proposals. We receive many abstracts defining data governance and why it is important. In order to increase your chances of acceptance we suggest that additional topics need to be included in your proposal.
  2. Presentations from corporate practitioners that reflect real-world experience will receive priority consideration.
  3. Vendor organizations may submit proposals but please understand that vendor presentations are viewed very cautiously, in light of past experience with sales pitches and commercialism. Therefore, very few speaking slots are ultimately offered to vendor organizations (vendors interested in promoting their products may purchase exhibit space or other sponsorships.)

Speaker Presentation Conditions

  1. All speakers must agree to provide their presentation to Dataversity, DebTech International and IAIDQ in a standard electronic form (PowerPoint is required), no later than May 21, 2012. This is necessary to prepare the event conference proceedings and documentation. Speakers who are delinquent in meeting this deadline risk being replaced on the program.
  2. By submitting a proposal, the speaker agrees to the standard copyright and reproduction terms of this event. These terms provide that copyright in original presentation material remains with the speaker, however Dataversity, DebTech International and IAIDQ are granted the right to record, reproduce and distribute each presentation in all forms of printed and electronic conference materials, including, but not limited to, the conference CD-ROM, printed attendee notes, the conference web site, and audio and/or video recordings (digital and/or analog), without royalties or fees payable to speaker. Sorry, there are no exceptions to these requirements.
  3. All sessions will be rated by the audience for commercial content. Any speaker who is judged by the audience to have made an inappropriate sales pitch for his/her own company, book, product or service during a conference session risks having their presentation interrupted and/or halted, and will not be invited to participate at future conferences.
  4. By submitting a proposal, speaker agrees that he/she has permission from his/her company to make the presentation under the terms outlined in this Call for Papers. If you do not have approval at the time you make the proposal, you must indicate this clearly.
  5. One speaker per accepted session receives complimentary attendance to the entire conference. Additional speakers will be asked to pay a modest fee of $495 to cover the costs of their attendance. Such registration must be completed at least one month prior to the start of the conference in order to be included in the conference program and materials. Additional speakers who were not originally nominated in the speaking proposal must register and pay for their conference attendance at the regular registration rates prevailing at the time of their registration. Lightning session speakers do not receive complimentary attendance.
  6. All Conference Session, Lightning Session, Panel and Special Interest Group speakers are responsible for their own travel and living expenses.
  7. Workshop and Tutorial speakers receive a fee ($500 for half-day tutorial speakers, $1250 for full-day tutorial speakers, plus a $250 bonus for submitting final presentations by the deadline) plus an expense reimbursement in accordance with the standard conference policies. An expense budget will be established and confirmed with the speaker prior to final acceptance.

For additional instructions regarding submitting an abstract please click here.

Please CLICK HERE to submit a proposal.