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Zainab Asif is the Manager of Risk & Controls Single Family Data Governance & Management at Freddie Mac. With over 10 years of experience in audit, risk and compliance management and information security. In her current role within the Data Governance group, Zainab is responsible for working with application owners to identify and manage risks and develop controls to mitigate risks. She is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). Session: |
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Brian Badinger is currently working for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana as the Director of Enterprise Data Management where he manages the Enterprise Data Governance, Business Intelligence, Clinical Data Exchange, and Quality Assurance teams. He has over 20 years of healthcare and IT experience in the areas of clinical data, corporate strategic planning, enterprise data warehouse integration, data governance best practices, enterprise applications and infrastructure. Brian is a graduate of Southeastern Louisiana University where he received a Bachelor of Science degree. He currently is focused on leveraging the enterprise data warehouse as the single source of truth to enable the business, providers, and members with data driven solutions to enhance all aspects of the care delivery model. Session: |
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Urana Batjargal has been passionate about data governance since her early career. As a Statistical Officer, she was a key contributor to World Bank’s Open Data Initiative, focusing on metadata management and visual presentations of data for wide range of audience. She managed statistical databases (World Development Indicators, Millennium Development Goals, and IDA Results Measurement System) and contributed to World Bank’s flagship publications for development statistics including World Development Indicators, Global Development Finance, Atlas of Global Development, Global Monitoring Report, and World Development Report. When she moved to a new career field in budgeting, business planning, and management accounting, she brought her passion and expertise in data management with her. Urana is currently the Data Governance lead in World Bank’s Budget, Performance Review & Strategic Planning Vice Presidency. She holds a master’s degree in economics from University of Tokyo, and a CPA. Session: |
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With more than 25 years of experience in the software industry in
the areas of big data, system architecture, communications, and signal
processing, Philippe Bettler is a technologist with a passion for
listening and understanding customer requirements to deliver innovative and
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As Data Governance Analyst at Columbia Sportswear Company, Aida Biberic is responsible for the formation, execution, and socialization of data governance policy and framework. She brings a strong background in analytics and public policy development and has a proven track record of creating and executing a strategic vision that enables data informed decision making. Prior to joining Columbia, Aida worked for the BVI Office of the Premier where she created collaborative environment between executive leadership, management, developers, and database administrators to determine root causes of data quality issues and devise remediation plans. Aida’s passion for data quality stems from her career days in Air Quality and Climate Change research when she spent countless hours looking for data, cleaning, standardizing, and defining data to develop models. Session: |
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With experience in human services, higher education and healthcare industries, Deb Bitzan is a well-rounded and strategic data professional. She has several years of experience in analytics, SQL development, customer data administration, change control process management and complex requirements gathering for data warehouse and business intelligence products. Deb is passionate about digital access, STEAM education opportunities for underserved students, and helping women find confidence in the workplace. Session: |
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Daniel Brudner has over 20 years of Cyber Security and Identity and Access Management experience, helping many large enterprises worldwide to protect their sensitive digital assets, use information security to enable the business, and drive digital transformation. Daniel's prior roles include CTO and multiple leading roles in Information Security, at the Israel Defense Force, Navitek and CA Technologies. Sessions:
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Scott Buckles is currently the North American Sales Executive for IBM’s Business Analytics, Data Science, and Data Governance solutions. Mr. Buckles has over 20 years of industry experience as a developer, consultant, and sales executive in numerous technology areas and industries focused helping customers achieve their business goals by leveraging technology, process optimization and people. His passion for customers and technology have helped deliver results from the early e-commerce days to today’s burgeoning world of advanced analytics and artificial intelligence. In his current role, Scott is responsible for sales and customer satisfaction in North America where he leads a team of sales specialists and SME's focused on helping customers transform their raw data into business ready data that they leverage to drive more revenue, competitively differentiate themselves, reduce cost, and ensure compliance. He is committed to delivering meaningful and sustained business value to his clients and partners. Scott lives in Columbus, OH with his wife, Jen, and 3 boys, Charlie, Matthew, and Ryan. He spends his spare time coaching his boys, golfing, skiing, and playing hockey. Session:
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Donna Burbank is a recognized industry expert in information
management with over 20 years of experience in data management and enterprise
architecture. She currently is the Managing Director of Global Data Strategy
Ltd, an international data management consulting company. Her background is
multi-faceted across consulting, product development, product management, brand
strategy, marketing, and business leadership in organizations such as CA
Technologies, Embarcadero Technologies, and PLATINUM Technologies. Session: |
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Jennifer Canney is Columbia Sportswear Company’s Enterprise Data Architect and a member of the Global Information Services team. She began her career 20 years ago testing and developing ETL pipelines, and now leads and shapes modern Information Architectures across industries (Financial, Retail, Card Payments and Real Estate). Her love of outdoors led her to Columbia Sportswear in Portland, OR where she is focused on its Digital Analytics transformation, while also getting to enjoy skiing on the weekends and spending time at the beach in the summer (wearing the fantastic products her company makes). Session: |
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Steven Carlson leads the IT Enterprise Information Governance team. He has built the IT Enterprise Information Governance from ground zero over the last three years laying the foundation for success into the future for Dell. He is a highly reliable, results-oriented Business and IT Leader with over 25 years of diversified experience leading teams to deliver solutions leveraging Business Intelligence, Master Data Management, and ERP experience to solve problems. Session: |
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Malcolm Chisholm has over 25 years of experience in data management and has worked in a variety of sectors including finance, insurance, manufacturing, government, defense and intelligence, pharmaceuticals, and retail. He is Chief innovation Officer with First San Francisco Partners where he specializes in data governance, master data management, metadata engineering, business rules management/execution, data architecture and design, and the organization of Enterprise Information Management. Malcolm is a well-known presenter at conferences in the US and Europe, writes columns in trade journals, and has authored the books "Managing Reference Data in Enterprise Databases," "How to Build a Business Rules Engine," and "Definitions in Information Management." He holds an M.A. from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. from the University of Bristol and can be contacted at malcolm@firstsanfranciscopartners.com. Sessions: |
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Francesco Ciriaci is a data and digital specialist
with 15 years of experience in project and product management, design and
innovation. Entrepreneurial and energetic, he is passionate about applying
digital technology for humanitarian and economic development goals, and he is currently
responsible for the publication of the financial data of the World Bank Group. Session: |
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Julie Conklin is a Sr. Data Management Analyst who works in the Data Stewardship Team for the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. This team leads the Bureau wide Data Stewardship Council, focuses on communicating the Departmental data related initiatives, advocates for data governance, and manages data as a strategic asset. Session: |
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Karen Coronado is a Data Governance professional that has attended the DGIQ Conference 3 times in the last 6 years and love it. She feels she can add value talking about the importance of communication and how over communicating is not possible. Session: |
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Matt Crittenden is a Lead Governance Architect for IBM's North America Information Governance Practice. He has 30+ years of data integration, quality and governance experience across many industries, specializing in data quality and governance initiatives to help clients understand the scope of data issues facing their organization. Session:
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Ted Curran leads the development, build-out and implementation of data governance, information asset management and business intelligence activities across UPMC Insurance Services Division. He has deep management accounting experience and has managed the finances and business operations of the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon. He serves as an expert advisor and consultant in Business Intelligence, Dashboards, Financial Operations, and Data Governance to the higher ed, healthcare and government industries. Session: |
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Tonmoy Dasgupta works in the Regulatory Health Link Division (RHLD) within the Arkansas Insurance Department with IT oversight and management responsibilities. The Division regulates marketplace and Medicaid health and dental insurance plans and is responsible for the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in Arkansas. Arkansas and Kentucky achieved the biggest drop in uninsured rates in the nation through their implementation of the ACA. Mr. Dasgupta has over 25 years of experience in various IT areas but his strength and love is Data Management. He feels an offhand quip by a non-IT person best describes the challenges within Data Governance - “It’s easy to slap around electrons, but very difficult to make people agree” (Dr. Andy Allison, Health Policy expert). Session: |
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Robert Davis began his career at MGP in 2013 as a GIS Specialist and now serves as one of the two GIS Analysts on staff. He is a trained engineer, with a B.S. in Environmental Engineering. He also leads the Data Quality initiative, ensuring that clients have the most optimal information to aid them in making the best decisions. Session: |
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Ron Davis is currently serving as the Data Governance Practice Director for Prolifics. Ron has 33 years of technology experience, with the most recent 8 years focused on Data Quality and Data Governance. This extensive knowledge and experience spans all disciplines of Data Governance and various tools used to implement Data Governance Solutions. Ron’s deep experience and skill base uniquely enable him to engage with customers to drive business solutions and value that satisfy the most pressing needs of organizations across all major industries. One of Ron’s primary focuses over the past 2 years has been helping company develop comprehensive Data Governance Adoption strategies and tactical plans for implementing an enterprise data governance framework, data quality solutions that drive business value in the context of an enterprise data governance implementation. To ultimately drive positive organizational change and adopt the disciplines of effective data asset management. Session: |
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Carmen DiFelice is the Manager of Data Quality and Governance in the Enterprise Information Management organization at Independence Blue Cross in Philadelphia, PA. She manages a cross-functional team of data governance business system analysts and developers who monitor data quality, maintain medical and administrative reference data, facilitate data stewardship workgroups, design reporting cubes and dashboards, and advise business analysts, report developers and data scientists on business rules, code standardization and reporting techniques. Carmen previously served as a consultant with DiFelice Consulting, Answerthink, Inc. (now The Hackett Group) and American Management Systems (now CGI, Inc.), with a focus on data quality, master data management, Big Data, and software development projects for public and private sector companies. Carmen has a Master's degree in Public Policy (MPP) from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Session: |
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Tamara Dusch has worked in various departments and positions with a commercial insurance carrier for over 20 years (starting as an infant, of course), and has managed the Enterprise Data Governance program since 2017. The program was in its basic infancy and needed someone with operational business knowledge to oversee and grow the initiative to an enterprise level effort. Session: |
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Jayne Dutra has worked in the fields of EIM, KM and search for 20 years. Her experience spans 12 years at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory as Senior Enterprise Information Architect, 3 years at LexisNexis as Data Governance Manager of Content Architecture as well as her current gig at Multnomah County (home to the city of Portland, OR) as Data Governance Program Manager. Jayne's signature achievements include the first official NASA Taxonomy, the first enterprise-wide metadata specification for JPL, and a new Data Quality framework for LexisNexis. Data Governance is a new program for Multnomah County and Jayne is enjoying the challenges of communicating the concepts, developing change management strategies and setting data quality goals. However, the first thing she was asked to work on is a robust model for data sharing. Hardly, a traditional DG topic, but an interesting introductory doorway into the field for her coworkers. Sessions: |
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Sheila Embree is the Lead Data Governance Analyst for Amica Mutual Insurance. She first became interested in data and analytics at Wellesley College, where she graduated with a degree in Economics in 1990. She has significant insurance industry experience, having worked for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of RI (BCBSRI) for 20 years. She had various data and analytics roles at BCBSRI, but her favorite role was in Data Governance. Her first Data Governance engagement was there and she brought those talents with her to Amica in 2015. Sheila and her team members continue to evolve the maturity of Amica's Data Governance program. Session: |
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Amirah Fayek is a strategic leader in the healthcare
industry with expertise in planning and performance measurement, data
management and financial management. As the Manager of Planning and
Performance, in the Business Strategy and Analytics department, at the Canadian
Medical Protective Association, Amirah relies on quality data to facilitate
corporate decision-making and the development of strategy. Directly engaged
with data analysts and data-driven strategists, Amirah now chairs the Data
Governance Operations Group that capitalizes on her collaborative style. Session: |
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Tami Flowers is an information strategist with 20+ years of experience advancing business objectives through applied technology. Her areas of expertise include business process improvement, information governance, complex financial and accounting systems, business intelligence, and efficiency in systems program and project delivery through an Agile framework. Tami is a PMP, Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), and Certified Scrum Master. Session:
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Mitch Greenan is a Site Analyst for MGP serving as the GIS Specialist for two Cities in the Chicagoland area. As the MGP Product Lead of Address Verification, he has partnered with communities to standardize business processes surrounding information systems and has worked with local government experts to change the way that they approach data. Session: |
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Maggie Grier is a Business Development Manager for Indirect Channels at Experian’s data quality business, a leading provider of data quality and data management solutions. Maggie is excited to help organizations leverage data quality solutions to enhance their data management framework, whether they are using traditional contact data management solutions or a sophisticated platform approach. Maggie’s previous career endeavors include ScanSource and Avaya, where she was the Manager of the Cloud BD team and DMR team. Maggie is eager to work alongside our partners to solve data quality issues for organizations around the globe. Connect with Maggie @ https://www.linkedin.com/in/maggie-taylor-grier. Session:
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Yolanda Griffin is a Sr. Data Governance Analyst for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana. She completed her Masters of Computer Science at Clark Atlanta University. Yolanda has a diverse background in various technology fields including quality assurance, best practice frameworks, data governance and service operations. She is an ITIL certified professional, currently specializing in value added governance practices. She oversees the day to day operations of vendor relationships, extract management, data source enablement and process integration. Session: |
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Stephanie Grimes is a Sr. Tech Lead at Freddie Mac. With over 15 years in the financial services industry, her expertise is focused on IT application development, business process re-engineering and operations. In her current role, she leads the Business Monitoring & Operational Intelligence program. Session: |
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Nate Haskins is Chief Data Officer of S&P Global, overseeing data operations across divisions. His team is charged with building and deploying modern platform solutions for data sourcing and extraction, process automation, workflow management, and reporting. He is also responsible for the operations centers globally. His aim is to ensure each division capitalizes on the latest technologies and best practices to deliver differentiated data of world class quality to the market. Session:
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Mark Hensley is a Lead Governance Architect for IBM's North America Information Governance Practice. He has over 30 years’ experience helping organizations across multiple industries tackle data quality, integration, governance, and analytics challenges. Session:
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Robert Jensen works for Spinnaker Consulting Services, where he Specializes in Data Governance and Data Quality engagements within supply chain organizations. He has over 30 years of experience in various capacities in and out of IT organizations. His focus on data quality begin in the early 1990's with the formation of McKesson Corporations EDI Services. For the past decade, Mr. Jensen has applied his skills within the Consulting space, where he could indulge his passions for data quality, travel, and meeting new people. Session: |
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Amber Johnson is the Director of Enterprise Data Governance at Sutter Health, one of the nation’s top ten largest health systems. Amber began her career as a financial auditor with Deloitte & Touche, prior to transitioning to Sutter Health. She has over 17 years’ experience in the healthcare industry, including audit, finance, and process improvement. In recent years, Amber has successfully designed and implemented both the Enterprise Risk Management and Enterprise Data Governance functions at Sutter Health. Her data governance team is currently focused on the standardization of reporting and analytics, a framework for external data sharing, and improving data literacy for the organization. Amber received her Bachelor’s degree in Business with a minor in Accounting from California State University, Fresno. Session: |
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With over 20 years of experience in various areas of IT across multiple industries, Jimm Johnson serves as Data Governance Program Manager for Scripps Health, one of the largest healthcare providers in San Diego. Jimm launched the framework for an enterprise data governance program with the company's Epic electronic health record (EHR) and revenue cycle implementation, and is now evolving that DG program toward its next phase of operationalizing DG using a “data asset management” model to govern specific data assets (reports, metrics, extracts, data marts, glossary terms) and engage owners & stewards with the responsibilities & expectations for their official DG roles. Jimm received undergraduate degrees in business administration, finance and Spanish literature and psychology from Western Michigan University and a master’s in counseling psychology from San Diego State University. Sessions: |
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Gary Jordan is a Senior Principal Business Systems Analyst at Red Hat, an Open Source company. Until recently he was a member of the Data Governance Team and was responsible for the governance of the Customer, Transaction and Product data domains. He facilitated the effort to build the Enterprise Business Glossary. He is currently a member of the Data Architecture team and works closely with the Data Governance team to coordinate efforts to improve data quality. Session: |
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Kevin Knipmeyer is a Technology Engineer at State Farm. He has 27+ years of data management and design experience. Session: |
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Michele Koch is the Director of Enterprise Data Intelligence and the Data Governance Office at Navient. Michele was responsible for the successful design and implementation of the enterprise Data Governance and Data Quality Programs at Navient. Their Data Governance Program won 2011 Data Governance Best Practice Award and the Data Warehouse Institute’s (TDWI) 2010 Best Practices Award for the Data Governance category. She is also responsible for the data modeling team who provides support to development teams and the business user community, the enterprise data warehouse team, and the business analytics team. Her 35 years of experience include applying structured analysis and design methods for process and data modeling, managing client/server and mainframe DBAs, and consulting at Fortune 500 companies. Michele received dual masters’ degrees in MIS and Computer Systems Applications from The American University and a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University. Sessions:
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A technology manager, Venkata Komaragiri has 22 years of experience that span insurance, financial, and various technology industries across the United States. Mr. Venkata is an experienced IT leader in leading large-scale IT transformation programs, big data migration efforts, digital transformation and enabling analytics solutions to understand complex customer/business problems. He is an effective change agent experienced in leading IT modernization initiatives, and then designing and implementing the resulting strategies to achieve measurable business benefits. Mr. Venkata holds a master’s degree in electronics from India and an M.S. from the Illinois State University (ISU). Outside of IT, he enjoys travelling, listening to music and outdoor sports. Session: |
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Brian Kordelski is focused squarely on DATA and the value delivered to both IT and Business when data is leveraged confidently. Brian advises clients on everything from Enterprise Architectures down to tactical project implementations. He is comfortable with C level executives as well as technical teams and has traveled to over 70 countries to promote, advise and successfully implement enterprise solutions over the last 29 years. As Global Sales Leader for Data Fabric Brian promotes the value of Big Data solutions and the ease of delivery for our clients and partners through Prolifics branded solutions, accelerators and skilled resources for delivery. Brian comes from a technical background where his history and experience enable him to address business goals efficiently with the right software and services solutions. Session: |
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John Ladley is a recognized thought leader and practitioner with 35 years’ experience in helping organizations achieve successful implementation of information systems. He has delivered actionable and value-added solutions in government, financial services, healthcare, retail and insurance industries. John is widely published and his books, Making EIM Work for Business – A Guide to Managing Information as an Asset and Data Governance, and Data Governance-How to Deploy and Sustain a Data Governance Program, are recognized as authoritative sources in the EIM field. His experience is balanced between strategic planning, project management and practical application of technology to business problems. Sessions: |
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Don LeMay is a Data Governance Analyst for Amica Mutual Insurance. Don has over 20 years of experience in the insurance industry. He has worked in sales, as a trainer and supervisor, and then with vendors working on various projects and systems. During this time, he also acted as a Data Steward before transitioning to a full time position as an analyst on the Data Governance team. Don brings his varied background to Amica’s Data Governance team and feels fortunate to be a part of something from the start, and to be part of its success as it continues to grow. Session: |
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David Loshin is the President of Knowledge Integrity, Inc, (www.knowledge-integrity.com), a consulting company focusing on information management solutions (information quality, business intelligence, metadata, and data governance). David is among Knowledge Integrity’s recognized experts in information management, contributing to Intelligent Enterprise and DM Review, and is a channel expert for the Business Intelligence network (www.b-eye-network.com). David's books include "The Practitioner's Guide to Data Quality Improvement" and "Master Data Management,” and his book, "Business Intelligence: The Savvy Manager’s Guide" (June 2003) has been hailed as a resource allowing readers to "gain an understanding of business intelligence, business management disciplines, data warehousing, and how all of the pieces work together." David has created courses for a number of venues, and is often asked to provide thought leadership to the Information Management Community. Sessions: |
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Kristin Love has deep experience in data warehousing, object-oriented design, application architecture, and enterprise data architecture. In her career, she has provided thought leadership surrounding enterprise data strategies in the domains of health insurance, hospital systems, and pharmaceuticals. She is an active member of the DAMA Philadelphia chapter and currently serves as Enterprise Information Architect and Manager of Business Process and Data Modeling for GSK R&D Tech. Session: |
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Mark Lynch is currently a North America Information Governance Business Development Leader at IBM. With over 20 years of experience within the financial services industry, Mark has first-hand knowledge to consult and assess the best way to develop information integration and governance programs for organizations across many industries working with top firms in the Fortune 500. He has proven success in directing the evaluation and implementation of $20M+ software platforms to achieve stellar results. Mark truly understands how to develop a plan that combines people, process, and technologies to drive business value. Prior to IBM, he was the Vice President and Controller at Coverys where he led a team of 20 having responsibility for financial reporting of 15 entities, investment portfolio management ($2.4B) and treasury operations ($10 - $15M) daily. Mark was also the Vice President and Treasurer at MiddleOak where he managed annual business plan development and presented regularly to the Board of Directors. Mark holds an MBA from Salem State University and is a Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU). Mark is passionate about helping organizations harness the power of data as a strategic asset through integration and governance. He lives on the North Shore of Massachusetts, and enjoys spending time on his boat with his wife and two daughters. Session: |
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Jessica Magee is the Director of Data Quality Assurance at Quicken Loans. Jessica has a history of working in the financial services industry for over 15 years. She is skilled in Accounting, Acquisitions, Business Intelligence, Data Governance, and Data Quality. In her current role, she bridges the gap between business and technology with a focus on driving quality data that is critical to clients, decision making, marketing, risk, process automation, and revenue creation.& Session: |
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Best known as the world’s foremost authority on metadata
management, he is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of data
management, data governance, and business intelligence. In 2004 David Marco was named the “Melville Dewey of Metadata” by Crain’s Chicago Business as he
was selected to their very prestigious “Top 40 Under 40” list and was named by
DePaul University as one of their “Top 14 Alumni Under 40”. In 2008 David Marco
earned the DAMA Data Management Professional Achievement Award. He is the
president of DataManagementU.com and is their lead contributor. Sessions: |
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Brian Mayer has worked within the Analytics division of IBM for over two years where he interacts with a wide variety of clients on data integration, governance and analytics projects helping to get their data “business ready”. Brian applies his line-of-business experience and his knowledge of how to leverage and interpret data to help simplify data complexities and allow clients to unlock their data to find new insights and create better outcomes. Prior to IBM, Brian has worked in Brand Management and Consumer Insights at Abbott Nutrition, Wendy’s and Red Roof Inns. He enjoys exercising, playing baseball, golf and hanging out with his 3 daughters. Session: |
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Autumn McCants is the Manager of Data Governance and Interim Lead of Data Services at Starfish Family Services. She develops and oversees the data governance initiative and manages the data services team. Autumn previously held a Contracts and Accreditation position at the agency after a decade of direct care service at another agency. Autumn holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan. Session: |
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Sally McCormack is the Competency Director of Data Quality at Datasource Consulting. As a subject matter expert, Sally provides leadership, management, vision and technical direction to ensure effective data quality and data governance delivery strategies are met. Through technological training, best practice development, and defined processes, Sally provides the executive oversight required for a successful data quality and data governance consulting arm. She brings over 15 years of data quality, data governance, data integration, data warehousing, and business intelligence excellence. She has expertise in both architecting and implementing data quality, data governance, and data integration solutions and has provided strategic and tactical leadership on numerous projects implementing enterprise data warehouses, data quality, and data governance programs in various industries. Session: |
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Danette McGilvray is president and principal of Granite Falls Consulting, Inc., a firm that helps organizations increase their success by addressing the data governance and information quality aspects of their business efforts. Focusing on bottom-line results, Granite Falls' strength is in helping clients connect their business strategy to practical steps for implementation. Data quality and governance are always tied to an organization's goals, issues, and opportunities. She also emphasizes communication and the human aspects of data quality and governance. Danette is the author of Executing Data Quality Projects: Ten Steps to Quality Data and Trusted Information™. An internationally respected expert, her Ten Steps™ approach has been embraced as a proven method for creating, improving, and managing data quality in all types of organizations. Her Fortune 500 clients and thousands of workshop attendees in countries around the world have benefited from her approach. Session:
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Melanie Mecca, as Director, Data Management Products and Services, CMMI Institute, led development of the Data Management Maturity (DMM) Model and a business-centric method for measuring an organization’s capabilities with the DMM. She has managed 20+ engagements in multiple industries, providing gap evaluation, strengths, and roadmaps for rapid capability acceleration. Melanie led development of the Patient Demographic Data Quality (PDDQ) Framework for Health and Human Services, three successive courses leading to Enterprise Data Management Expert (EDME) certification, a 10-hour eLearning program, and eLearning for Data Stewards for the State of Arizona. In 30+ years solving enterprise data challenges, she has planned and implemented data management programs, strategies and architectures. She teaches classes, presents webinars, seminars, and case studies, and assists organizations to realize business value from their data. In her new venture, DataWise Consulting (datawise.inc@yahoo.com), Melanie offers unique expertise in evaluation, development and implementation of data management strategies and programs. Session: |
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As Enterprise Data Architect in the Enterprise Information Management team, Cliff Miller’s current responsibilities include:
As a business analyst that evolved into a technology leader, Cliff has demonstrated the ability to deliver end-to-end solutions in large scale enterprise environments, whether it be application-based platforms that serve multiple business lines or data centric analytical platforms with a wide variety of data subject areas. This experience has led Cliff to work on a broad spectrum of projects that encompass small groups in very targeted durations to multi-year strategic endeavors with very large teams. Cliff grew up in the Ann Arbor area and has spent the bulk of his 20+ year professional career focused in the retail industry, including roles in application development, systems design, and technical project delivery. Prior to Domino’s Pizza he worked for Borders Group Inc. and TCF National Bank. Session: |
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Curtis Mischler is a seasoned healthcare executive, consultant, speaker, and author. He is particularly interested in realizing value and the practical realities of leadership and implementing change in today's business environment. For the past two years Curtis has led the data governance program at Delta Dental of Michigan. Session: |
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Peter Morris has worked at Information Builders with business intelligence, analytics, master data management, and big data for more than 25 years. He is currently the Director Data Management. Session:
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Tim Musgrove has worked on cognitive semantics, data science and natural language processing since the late 1990's, resulting in a number of product launches, publications and patents. Tools developed by his teams have been generating content (and/or filtering content) in high volume for numerous digital media companies for quite a number of years. Session: |
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Dr. Katherine O’Keefe, co-author of Ethical Data and Information Management: Concepts, Tools, and Methods, is a leading expert in Data Privacy and Information Ethics with Castlebridge. Katherine has worked on a range of projects for clients in sectors as diverse as the non-profit sector, airlines, telecommunications, transport, and education. She lectures on Information Ethics at the Law Society of Ireland and is a contributor to Information Ethics Research at the Adapt Centre at Trinity College Dublin. She speaks regularly at international Data Governance conferences on practical implementation of Ethics in Information Management. Prior to joining Castlebridge in 2013, Katherine completed a PhD in Anglo Irish Literature at University College Dublin In 2016, one of her essays received a “highly commended” distinction in the Alison North New Professionals Awards, and in 2017 she was awarded the DAMA International Professional Achievement Award. Session: |
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Kelle O'Neal is the founder and CEO of First San Francisco Partners. A veteran leader and accomplished information management advisor, as well as a speaker, author and trainer, Kelle is passionate about helping organizations apply data intelligence to gain a true competitive advantage. Session: |
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Zuad Oropeza is an experienced project manager with 10 plus years experience leading a variety of teams in the internet/website industry. She has successfully led technical, product and design teams on a full spectrum of projects ranging from small efforts to large multi-year projects. Zuad holds an MSCS from UCLA. Session: |
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Jim Orrison is a Principle Consultant for XTIVIA who partners with business leaders to ensure data initiatives stay aligned to strategic objectives. With 30+ years in the evolution of Application Development and Database Management systems, Jim has led innovations in Information Integration between platforms and partners. Jim has a passion for solving business problems first and foremost: Understanding root symptoms, abstracting issues with options, gaining consensus and then delegating execution to see teams celebrate the successes that are achieved. He has 20 years with two publicly-traded corporations in management and executive leadership as well as 16 years with Consulting and Product Development Ventures in Enterprise Integration and Data Management. Jim has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Auburn University with a Masters of Business Administration from Samford University. He has taught at the university level and has presented at National conferences in ODTUG, DGIQ and MDM & DG Summit Series. Jim is an active historian, is the Crew 2538 Advisor in Birmingham, enjoys backpacking and college football as well as referees High School soccer. Session:
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Michael M. Ott is a Senior Vice President of Innovative Systems, Inc., a global leader in the development and delivery of 360° View, MDM, Data Governance, Data Quality, and AML compliance solutions. Mr. Ott has extensive experience in executive management, marketing, business development, product management, and software development. For 30+ years, Mr. Ott has been involved in managing the delivery of 360° View, MDM, risk management, data governance, and data quality consulting and solutions to some of the largest companies in the world. He frequently speaks on topics related to achieving better business results through more effective data management and data governance approaches. Session:
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Cynthia Parsons has been in the Insurance industry for 35 years. She has been engaged in Data Governance since 2004 - started "grass roots" effort at Nationwide. She played a key role in the incorporation of Data Governance into Finance, through the development of a Shared Services model. She created the first fully functioning Enterprise wide Data Stewardship council to represent Finance interests across the company. In 2014, she became a member of the Enterprise Data Governance Team reporting up to the Chief Data Officer. As a member of the Enterprise Data Governance Team, Cynthia has had oversight of several domain data governance teams providing assistance for both run and build operations. Currently, Cynthia is leading the effort to refresh the enterprise maturity model and the process design for quality assurance rollout in Q2 2019. Sessions: |
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Scott Peachey has been around aspects of data, compliance and oversight for 14 years. He has been engaged in several roles that include data analysis, data manipulation, security and reporting. Additionally, Scott has been dedicated to continuous improvement throughout his career. In 2014, he became a member of the Enterprise Data Governance Team reporting up to the Chief Data Officer. As a member of the Enterprise Data Governance Team, Scott has had oversight of many business units data governance teams, including current Enterprise Data Governance team engagements. In his current role, Scott is accountable for stewardship support workload distribution, responsible for process development/improvement, training, consulting and video development. Session: |
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Petrus Phoa has been curious and passionate in data, analytics, information governance, best practices, technologies, and automation. As the VP of Customer Success and Business Development, leveraging his tens of years of experience working in fast pace companies - such as Gartner, PayPal, Box, GitHub, Petrus works at Orion Governance to build a world-class customer-centric practices. He is focused on delivering solutions to Orion’s customers to transform their data into trusted information and actionable insights! Orion Governance provides a comprehensive platform to support Digital Transformation and accelerate implementation of Information Governance initiatives thru automation. Petrus lives in San Francisco, CA and travels the world to meet with customers and partners to discuss how to accelerate value from their information. Session:
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David Plotkin is the Director of Metadata Services at a large financial services institution, directing metadata activity in support of data management, including implementing data governance and data stewardship in applications such as Collibra Data Governance Center. He is also responsible for creation of metadata quality standards, enforcement of business rules through the use of workflows and coordination of personnel across the enterprise, and communication of metadata protocols. He was formerly the Data Governance Competency Center Manager for Wells Fargo, working heavily in Data Stewardship and Metadata. He was also Global Head of Data Stewardship for AIG, where he was responsible for rolling out data stewardship as part of an overall Data Governance and Data Management effort. He has previously been a consultant for EMC, working on data quality, data governance and master data management engagements at client companies. He has also previously managed Data Governance at an insurance company and managed data quality at two large banks. He has been working with data governance, data modeling, metadata and data quality for nearly 30 years. He is a popular speaker at DAMA chapters and conferences, and serves as a subject matter expert on many topics around metadata, data governance, business rules, and data quality. He also is the author of the book “Data Stewardship, an actionable guide to effective Data Management and Data Governance”. Sessions:
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Irene Polikoff has more than two decades of experience in software development, management, consulting and strategic planning. Since co-founding TopQuadrant in 2001 Irene has been involved in more than a dozen projects in government and commercial sectors. She has written strategy papers, trained customers on the use of the Semantic Web standards, developed ontology models, designed solution architectures and defined deployment processes and guidance. Session:
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Ruby Ray is a Senior Finance Officer working in the Controller, Vice President’s Office at the World Bank. While her main area of work has been in risk and controls, quality assurance, audit, and reporting, Ruby recently took on Data Governance. She is excited about this new and growing field of work as well as passionate about spreading the word on the importance of data governance. Ruby is developing a Data Governance framework for her department that will be instrumental to manage data quality, leading to better insight and quicker time to insight, better collaboration across departments and more efficient data management, supporting automated analytics, and smarter decision making. Session: |
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Danielle Reno, MHA, CHC, is the Executive Director of Strategy & Operations at Sutter Health Information Services. Danielle designs and oversees strategic planning and operations and has oversight of enterprise data governance. She partners with executive operational leadership, information services, and system functions to enable and integrate the strategic goals of the business. She also provides support for identified data management and informatics initiatives. At Sutter Health, Danielle was responsible for the ICD-10 implementation, and served as the Director of Internal Audit, and supported the implementation of Lean and Six Sigma projects. In addition she was Director for Enterprise Data Governance. More recently, she served in the role of Director of Data Strategy & Integration for Enterprise Data Management team, where she provided strategic guidance, governance, and led initiatives that align directly with system strategy. Session: |
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Marcia Rhode is a veteran data management professional, specializing in data warehousing, architecture and organizational assessment. With over two decades in IT, she brings a broad base of experience to her clients, from strategic planning to hands-on project work. She has a proven track record of working with stakeholders at all organizational levels, in a wide variety of dynamic, complex business and technical environments, including geographically and culturally diverse teams. Ms. Rhode has served on local chapter and international boards of DAMA. She holds a Masters of Arts degree in Organizational Management & Development and is a certified personal, professional, and team coach. Session: |
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Rolf Rosell is currently the Global Sales Director for Orion Governance solutions. Orion Governance provides a comprehensive platform to support Digital Transformation and accelerate implementation of Information Governance initiatives thru automation. Rolf has over 20 years of industry experience as advisor, leader, and sales executive in technology areas like Analytics, Internet of Things, AI and Information Governance helping customers achieve their business goals by leveraging their Information. In his current role, Rolf is responsible for sales and business development focused on helping customers transform their data into trusted information for actionable insights! Rolf currently lives in Sweden but travels the world to meet with customers and partners to discuss how to accelerate value from their information. Session:
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Rene Rydberg is a seasoned data governance professional with account management, consulting, provider relations, quality management and reporting experience. He possesses unique insight to the digital publishing and healthcare industries resulting from comprehensive experience at the ACO, plan, facility, provider, and consultancy levels. He is results oriented, providing the highest level of proven customized solutions for internal and external clients. Session: |
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Danny Sandwell is an IT industry veteran with 30+ years of experience. As a director of product marketing for erwin, Inc., he is responsible for the development and delivery of the company’s data governance solutions to meet evolving customer needs. During Danny’s 16 years with erwin and CA prior, he also has worked in presales consulting, business development and business strategy roles – all giving him deep insight into a broad range of issues facing organizations as they attempt to discover, understand, govern and socialize their data assets to mitigate risk, improve operational performance, and accelerate growth. Sessions:
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Carl Sarrazolla is a seasoned IT Professional and has worked across multiple industries including Aerospace &Defense, Consumer Electronics, Medical and Health Insurance and currently works in the food manufacturing space. He has leveraged this broad base of experience to work with companies to develop improved business processes as well as data management. Session: |
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Robert (Bob) S. Seiner is the President and Principal
of KIK Consulting & Educational Services and the Publisher of The Data
Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com). In 2017, TDAN.com celebrated its 20th
anniversary online, and KIK Consulting celebrated its 15th anniversary focusing
on knowledge transfer and consultative mentoring in the areas of Data
Governance, Metadata, and Information Quality. Bob was recently awarded the
DAMA Professional Award for significant and demonstrable contributions to the
data management industry. Bob specializes in Non-Invasive Data Governance™,
data stewardship, and metadata management solutions, and has successfully
assisted and mentored many notable organizations. Sessions:
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Kevin Shannon Global Head of Enterprise Data Governance is a senior enterprise data governance leader who has held senior roles with companies such as AIG, Standard & Poor's and, currently, Dun & Bradstreet. Overall, he has more than 20 years of experience conceiving and implementing enterprise data management strategies and technology solutions, defining information architecture, establishing vision from concept through completion, and overseeing the associated IT and business process change. Session: |
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Doug Shepelak is a Business Development Manager for Indirect Channels at Experian’s data quality business, a leading provider of data quality and data management solutions. Doug is focused on helping organizations leverage their data to gain actionable insights, make faster, data-driven business decisions, and gain a competitive advantage. Doug’s previous career endeavors include Macromedia, Adobe, Nuance, Oracle and, most recently, Avaya—where he was Director Strategic Channel Initiatives. Doug is committed to building our world-class partner network to address the data management needs of organizations around the globe. Connect with Doug @ https://www.linkedin.com/in/dshepelak. Session:
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Len Silverston is a best-selling author, consultant, and speaker with over 30 years of experience helping organizations in data governance and data management. Mr. Silverston is an internationally acclaimed expert and thought leader in data governance, data modeling, data management, and in the human dynamics of integrating information. He has helped many organizations successfully implement data governance programs, for example, from 2010 through 2012, he provided data governance consulting for his client who won the 2012 Data Governance Best Practice Award. He is the author of the best-selling, 'The Data Model Resource Book' (Volumes 1, 2, and 3 and winner of the DAMA International Professional Achievement Award and the International Community Award. He received the highest speaker rating at several international conferences. His company www.universaldatamodels.com, provides consulting, training, publications and software. He is also a fully ordained Zen priest www.zenwithlen.com. Sessions: |
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Sunil Soares is the Founder and Managing Partner of Information Asset, a consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations build out their data governance programs. Prior to this role, Sunil was the Director of Information Governance at IBM. He is the author of eight books on data governance. Sessions: |
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Ty Sonagere is a passionate and strategic data professional. After serving in various leadership roles in the hedge fund world for a decade, the last 6 years Ty has focused on data governance and data quality. Ty earned an MBA in Finance, has developed 3 data governance programs of varying success, from the ground up, serves on the board of the Buckeye Chapter of DAMA and is a co-author of the Smart Columbus data management plan. Ty lives in Columbus, Ohio. Session: |
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Umang Sukhia is a Senior Business Data Governance Strategy
and Operations Manager with over 30 years of experience in leading integrated
Business & Technology initiatives. At AIG, Umang is responsible for
collaborating with business, risk, and technology teams globally to improve
business processes with data management/governance controls, rationalize
Enterprise level Data Management Policy and Standards, operationalize
Enterprise Metadata Strategy including accountability and stewardship,
establish a business-driven Federated Governance Model, and operationalize EU
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Susan Swanson is a Senior Manager of Data Quality and Governance at Health Care Services Corporation (HCSC), where she and her team lead data quality management initiatives for analytics and reporting within a health analytics ecosystem. Here she provides liaison between business stakeholders and technical development teams to sustain and mature data quality, data governance, and metadata management as part of data solution delivery. Prior to her current role, she developed business intelligence solutions for Sales and Marketing, Campaign Management, Product Performance, Optimization, and Utilization applications. She has presented her data experiences at Enterprise Data World, Oracle OpenWorld, and ESRI user conferences. Session: |
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John R. Talburt, PhD, IQCP, CDMP, is the Acxiom Chair of Information Quality and Director of the Information Quality Graduate Program at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Previously, he led the Data Research and Development group for Acxiom Corporation where he implemented their Total Data Quality Management program. He is currently serving as a member of the U.S. Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in the area of data quality. He is an inventor for several patents related to customer data integration and the author of numerous research papers and articles on information quality and entity resolution. Sessions: |
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Marichelle Tanag has over 17 years of experience in data management, leading programs for data governance, maturity measurement and data analysis focusing on master data management. Currently, Marichelle is the program lead for the Data Management Policy and Compliance framework at AIG, overseeing the development and compliance of the Enterprise Data Management Policy and ensuring the alignments to the firm's partnering control functions including its Application Development framework, Operational Risk and regulations. Marichelle received her degree in Computer Science and Film Studies from Boston College. Sessions:
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Nam Tran leads the Data Governance Consulting Practice at Infogix. She has assisted clients across a variety of industries in crafting the components of a successful and enduring data governance framework. Prior to joining Infogix, Nam focused on related aspects of data governance consulting such as data mapping, data modelling, data analysis, data quality, data reconciliation, financial reporting, business process redesign, and project management. Back-office operations experience allows Nam to intimately understand the needs for governance and to craft practical solutions to meet those needs. Session: |
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Lance Tucker has been a business intelligence and data warehousing professional for over thirty-five years. Early years focused on programming, application development and analytics. For the past several years Lance and his teams have been tasked with developing an information governance program at Boston College. Lance initiated BC's Data Warehouse Program in 2003. This represents the University's largest collection of administrative data. Lance currently oversees the business intelligence, data integration and architecture, and database administration groups. Session: |
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James (Jim) Tyo is the enterprise Chief Data Officer for Nationwide. He is responsible for overall strategic vision, planning, execution and management of all activities related to operation of the Enterprise Data Office (EDO) for Nationwide. With the overarching goal of providing trusted data services for business optimization, they own and deliver on the data and analytics strategy by enabling alignment of needs, skills and governance across the lifecycle of solutions through improved data accessibility and analytic capabilities. They are the champions of data as a strategic asset to challenge and improve current products, services and processes. Jim formerly worked at BB&T; one of the largest financial services holding companies in the U.S., where he was their first enterprise CDO, and USAA; a member owned association dedicated to providing financial services to the military community and their families, where he began their first Chief Data Office. Prior to USAA, Jim held senior positions within GE Capital and Key Bank. Session: |
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Koen Van Duyse, Vice Presidnt of Pre-Sales at Collibra, is responsible for managing a team of solution engineering experts, as they help enterprise companies around the world get value out of their data. Session:
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Jeff Varner serves as a– the largest and most widely used dedicated privacy management technology platform to operationalize privacy, security and third-party risk management. In his role, Varner advises companies large and small on EU GDPR, California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Brazil LGPD, and hundreds of the world's privacy laws, focused on formulating efficient and effective responses to data protection requirements as well as building and scaling privacy programs. Varner is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E) and earned a degree in Political Science from Presbyterian College. Session:
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Maureen Velazquez is the Data Governance Manager for Yale University, advancing awareness and adoption of Yale's data governance framework, policies, standards, and tools. In close collaboration with the producers and consumers of data across the institution, Maureen has responsibility for ensuring that data is treated as an enterprise asset. Maureen's career spans 30 years in data management, performance improvement, analytical reporting, and creative information solutions. Session: |
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Hannah Wamble is a Data Governance Specialist with an education in Actuarial Science. Hannah's background in actuarial as well as strategy and process improvement makes her an ideal contributor to utilize both her business and IT experience to put the pieces together for Data Governance. She has a main focus on developing taxonomy, data standards, communications, and metadata management through a shared services approach. Session: |
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Kathleen Warmoth is Stanford University’s Data Governance Manager, housed within the Institutional Research and Decision Support group. In this role she works on establishing DG goals, policies, standards, and best practices, in addition to providing cross-functional oversight of the business area stewardship groups. Previously Kathleen served as the School of Medicine’s Academic Affairs Data Manager. In that role, she evaluated the integrity of the data associated with the faculty lines at the data source, and developed reporting mechanisms in order to provide accurate reporting and analysis of faculty data for the School of Medicine. Session: |
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David Williams is responsible for Data Standards for AIG, which extends to an overall Data Lifecycle Management framework that includes the establishment of an Accountability framework for data ownership and stewardship, defining the enterprise's Metadata Strategy and providing data risk expertise for local and global regulations impacting data management. He also has responsibilities for AIG’s firm-wide Data Management Policy and supporting standards. David has over 20 years of experience in the Data Management arena and obtained his degree from the University of Westminster, London, England. Session: |
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David A. Williams is the Chief Administrative Officer of Starfish Family Services. His role provides leadership, direction and inspiration that supports the achievement of program objectives. His career experience spans from municipal to profit focused as well as nonprofit organization. David had a decade long career in the real estate industry managing real estate offices for national companies and then used these skills to install business acumen in a quickly growing organization managing operations as the Chief Operations Officer at an animal welfare organization. He honed his leadership skills as well as ability to carefully manage budgets setting profit records and gaining national recognition. His formal education includes an undergraduate degree in Health Services Administration emphasizing finance and management as well as a Master’s in Business Administration. David is a graduate of the University of Arizona and a proud wildcat fan. Session: |
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Lisa Williams is the manager of the Office of Data Management at the Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR). ADWR ensures long-term, reliable water supplies to support the continued economic prosperity of the State. For her first 27 years at the agency, she administered Arizona’s 1980 Groundwater Management Act and assisted the regulated community in understanding, and complying with the requirements of that statute. She was also responsible for implementing new statutory requirements, and for overseeing the collection and compilation of demand and supply numbers for the areas required to report water use. The efficient and accurate collection, storage and use of data has always been her first passion, however, so she officially moved to full-time data management when ADWR began the process of implementing enterprise data management. Session: |
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Steve Zagoudis is CEO of MetaGovernance. Steve is implementing a new paradigm in data governance that puts into practice the nuances in applying technology in a regulated world and addressing regulation through governance process and controls. Steve has substantial corporate experience directing IT, data governance and information governance efforts at BP, IBM, Goldman, and the Federal Home Loan Banks. As a result of his experience base, he has repeatedly demonstrated the dynamics of governance controls in the world of structured and unstructured big data, created value through augmentation of failed data warehouses by improving use from increased data confidence and control automation, and established an approach for eliminating waste across the information flow of organizations. Steve's involvement with executive-level management puts into practice his passion of driving business and competitive advantage through the optimal use of an organization's assets. Sessions: |
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Jenna Zhou is the lead architect for the IT Enterprise Information Governance team. She is a seasoned enterprise architect with extensive experience in the Enterprise Information Management and Enterprise Architecture. She rejoined Dell in November 2015 to help establish and grow the Enterprise Information Governance function. In the last three years, Jenna has successfully led a few key programs (such as the GDPR readiness program, Information Governance for the EMC integration, etc.) and played a critical role in establishing and growing the enterprise information governance at Dell. Before rejoining Dell, she was the Director of Enterprise Architecture at Lenovo and reestablished the enterprise architecture function. Before that, she was an enterprise architect at Dell and a data architect at Eli Lilly and Company. Jenna is a lifetime learner with multiple master degrees, including a MBA, master degrees in Computer Information Sciences, Chemical Engineering and Biochemical engineering. Session: |
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Gal Ziton is an entrepreneur, Business Intelligence expert, and metadata junkie. He is the Co-Founder and CTO of Octopai, the first centralized metadata search engine providing discovery and lineage for BI Groups, data governance, and data catalogs. While leading BI teams at various large enterprises, Gal became extremely frustrated by the time wasted on tedious, manual searches to complete projects and daily tasks. From this frustration came Gal's innovation and Octopai was born. He has his B.Sc. in Information Systems Engineering from Ben Gurion University. Session:
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