Call for Presentations
Deadline January 16, 2015
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We are interested in proposals that focus on case studies, lessons learned, success stories, and the "how-tos" related to information quality, data governance and stewardship.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Case studies and success stories
  • Best practices and lessons learned
  • Business oriented presentations
  • Selling data governance or information quality
  • How to get started with data governance or data quality
  • Developing a data governance or information quality strategy
  • Post implementation issues. Pitfalls to avoid
  • Data stewardship
  • Governance, risk and compliance
  • Data governance or data quality in an agile environment
  • Data governance and Master Data Management
  • Soft skills in data governance or information quality
  • Data governance or data quality metrics
  • Practical solutions for data quality improvement
  • Data governance or data quality for unstructured data
  • Information quality environment and culture
  • Big data governance, reference data governance, metadata governance
  • Data governance and data quality roles and career paths
  • The Chief Data Officer

Presentations may be proposed in the following categories:

  • Conference Sessions (50 minutes)
  • Special Interest Groups (30-50 minutes)
  • Tutorials and workshops (half and full day)
  • Panel Sessions (50 minutes)
  • Lightning Session (5 minutes)

How to Increase Your Chances of Being Accepted

We receive a large number of submissions, so it is not possible for us to accept all proposals. Positive weighting is given to presentations that are:

  1. First-hand, detailed case studies from personal experiences .
  2. Concise abstracts outlining what attendees will learn and why/how it is useful to them.
  3. Abstracts with topics besides defining data quality  and data governance
  4. Solutions regarding  resolving data quality issues not a overview of common problems
  5. Abstracts for sessions providing takeaways in data governance and data quality

Important Dates

Proposal Submission Deadline - January 16, 2015

Approval Decision - January 26, 2015

Presentation Files Submission Deadline - May 8, 2015

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