Conference Sessions
November 20, 2013
| Wednesday November 20 7:30–3:30 |
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| Wednesday November 20 7:00–8:00 |
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- 8:50 CONCURRENT SESSIONS |
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One for All and All for One" -- Successful Data
Governance is a Balancing Act Anthony Algmin, Manager, West Monroe Partners BI programs in general, and Data Governance programs in particular, have a poor track record of success. The ways to fail are countless, but to succeed you must not only have strong strategy, planning and execution - but you must deliver value quickly enough to generate interest (and resources) to reach critical mass. The challenge is far less technically-complicated than it is about complex organizational change - and people-based systems are a notoriously difficult upgrade! To succeed in your company's Data Governance efforts, the most important component is balance - in tools, responsibilities, techniques, and even paperwork! Even the best-intended and logically-designed governance program can lose its balance quickly if not carefully guided. This session will be most helpful to those just getting started on the journey. This session will highlight:
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The Data Governance Bill of "Rights" Robert S. Seiner, President/Publisher, KIK Consulting/TDAN.com A Bill of Rights is typically a list of the most important rights of the citizens of a country. Think of your organization as a country with the Data Stewards as your citizens. Think about the “rights” associated with the citizen’s participation in your Data Governance Program. In many organizations, a Data Governance Bill of “Rights” may include getting the “right” people involved at the “right” time in the “right” way using the “right” data to make the “right” decision leading to the “right” solution. Does that sound right? If Data Governance is all about these “rights”, the Data Governance Bill of “Rights” may be considered an easy way to get the citizens of your organization to get a better handle on the purpose and the actions of your program. In this fifty minute session, Bob Seiner will tell you that you cannot go wrong with this idea. Bob will share a detailed look at each of the “rights” and provide each attendee with something to take back to their organization. Attendees of this session will learn:
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Guerrilla Governance – Standing start to ROI Henry Olson, Director Product Management, Embarcadero Technologies Many have found it hard to get started with Data Governance. Should it be policies, consultants, software, staffing, or something else entirely? It’s hard to do any of this without budgets and sponsorship. The good news is that the key elements of a strong governance foundation may exist in what you already have and do. With the right plan and tactics it’s possible to jumpstart an iterative program that delivers early results on the way to widespread adoption. This session will focus on the mission and methods of Data Governance, the importance of the business case and where to get one, and the guerilla manifesto – strategy and tactics for getting started now. |
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Accelerating Data Governance and Improvement through Intelligent Automation Rich Flynn, Vice President, Partner Relations, Global IDs Organizations seeking to maximize business value from strategic data governance initiatives need to select the right technologies that can help them better understand and control their data assets. The technologies chosen should be flexible enough to scale across the entire enterprise data landscape. In this session, attendees will learn how data governance professionals can use intelligent automation to accelerate the discovery, classification, organization and integration of key data assets into manageable portfolios regardless of location, structure, format or data source. Features and functionality for improving data quality and facilitating data monitoring will be highlighted. |
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| 9:30
- 10:00 COFFEE BREAK AND EXHIBITS OPEN |
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Groupe Mutual Insurance, A Success Story in Predictive Governance Walid el Abed, Founder President, Global Data Excellence Limited Eric Michellod, Data Governance Director, Groupe Mutuel Assurance Yvan Zermatten, Data Governance Implementation Leader, Groupe Mutuel Assurance Groupe Mutuel Assurance embarked into a Data Governance program since 2009. A transformation program was launched to modernize the insurance business through the implementation of a new system NOVA. The data conversion from the old systems to the new application highlighted major issues in the data quality which triggered the data governance program. The main objective of the DG group created was to enable smooth GO LIVE and increase the confidence of the business functions in the data migrated. The benefits and value of such a program were quantified along with the implementation and reported to top management in a regular basis. The top management realized that with the increasing volumes of data and the tsunami of rules and regulations combined with the cyber-attacks and security risk the traditional leadership approach demonstrated its limits, hence the need for a new leadership approach. In this session you will learn how GMA decided to adopt and implement a new value based leadership framework enabling effective data governance. GMA will share with you their 4 year experience data governance journey and tell their true story of how the data governance team was able to move the data governance program from the CIO agenda to the CEO agenda. Among other topics this session will cover:
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Starting up Data Governance from Scratch - Lessons
from Banking Sunil Soares, Founder & Managing Partner, Information Asset Marie-France Ouimet, Data Governance Senior Advisor, National Bank of Canada This session will focus on the best practices to start up a data governance program from scratch in banking and with specific reference to National Bank of Canada. We will discuss the following topics:
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Data Stewardship in Action: Notes From the Field Analise Polsky, Thought Leader, SAS Deciding to establish a data governance initiative is a great first step, but what happens next? What are the tasks that support the data governance initiative? What do they look like in action? Data stewardship is the link between data governance and data management. In other words, data stewardship acts as a gate between the information processes and policies established in data governance, and the execution of those policies by business and IT. In this session we explore the role of data stewards and examine the types of data quality measures that give data stewards the information and tools essential to supporting the framework, strategies, and policies set forth by the Data Governance Team. This presentation will feature best practices from award winning data stewardship company and demonstrations of several key data stewardship tasks. What You Will Learn:
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Governing The Data Supply Chain Jim Jarvie, CMO, Global IDs Samir Mehta, VP Data Governance, Interactive Data Across all industries, organizations with large & complex data landscapes often have difficulty systematically governing their data assets. The challenges can be even more acute when your core business model is providing quality financial data and services to satisfy your clients. This presentation describes a methodology for governing complex data landscapes using software automation and includes a real-world account of how Interactive Data delivers business value with its data governance initiative. This session will include these insights for governing the data supply chain:
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Connecting Your Business Processes, Data and Systems Together for Better Impact Analysis Tamara Blaha, Master Data Process Lead, Schlumberger Junadi Junadi, Master Data Analyst, Schlumberger Xinyue Shi, Master Data Analyst, Schlumberger So let’s
say you have identified and understood what your business processes are. Your
IT organization has multiple systems implemented and running with many data
entities, attributes, and complex relationships. You come to a realization,
through the lifecycle of your business processes, that your business
processes need to be changed. What will you be required to do? Do you know
what kind of impact changes to the Business Processes will have towards your
data? Which parties in your organization will be impacted and need to be
pulled together? How do you solve the problem?
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| 11:50 - 1:15 LUNCH | |||||||||||||||||||
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Five Pitfalls to Avoid When Starting Your Data
Governance Program — Lessons Learned from a Bruised Veteran Pablo Riboldi, Solution Manager for Information Governance & Quality, LDS Church Winner of the 2013 DG Best Practice Award If you are starting a Data Governance program in your organization, this real case study can help you learn common mistakes some programs (not ours, of course!) have made and how to avoid them. Some of the pitfalls we will discuss are:
We will also discuss strategies that have worked in our organization and what you can do in yours. Level of Audience: |
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PANEL:
Data Governance in the Financial Sector Moderator: Michael Atkin, Managing Director, EDM Council Panelists: Steve Zagoudis, CEO, MetaGovernance Inc David Kowalski, Senior VP, Bank of America Natalie Sendele, Manager Data Governance, Artisan Partners James Luisi, Solution Partner, Knowledgent This panel will address the unique challenges of the financial sector in implementing data governance programs Topics include:
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| 2:05
- 2:20 COFFEE BREAK |
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Making
it “Real” – Evaluation Criteria for Data Governance Leveraging Data Quality Kira Chuchom, Data Governance, Microsoft Making it "Real" - Evaluation Criteria for Data Governance Leveraging Data Quality takes an innovative, game-like approach to facilitate decision-making for Business, Data and IT professionals. The session covers:
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Success Factors of a Healthy Risk and Data Management
Program Michael Atkin, Managing Director, EDM Council Michele Hoffman, Managing Director, MorganFranklin Geoff Harkness, Managing Director, MorganFranklin Increasing regulatory pressures and a changing competitive landscape are requiring organizations to evaluate the status of their risk and data management programs. In an effort to prevent history from repeating itself, industries such as financial services, healthcare and energy in particular, are creating frameworks to proactively identify and analyze risk as well as data efforts. While organizations have these regulatory and competitive pressures driving their risk and data organizations, many companies are performing data and risk management activities in a silo despite the fact that many of the objectives and dependencies faced by each group are overlapping. There are opportunities to improve the results and business value-add of each group. If these functions recognize these linkages and work more closely together this would lower the total operational cost to support these activities and increase capabilities to meet the growing internal and external business demands. Through research and discussions with industry executives, MorganFranklin and the Enterprise Data Management Council will present the top 5 success factors of a healthy risk and data management program which include. Accomplishing these success factors is viewed as a way to meet the challenges of governance, guide the maturing roles of stewards and owners, ensure that data quality exists at the provisioning points, and finally, to traverse the intersection of risk and data management. Level of Audience: |
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Lessons from the Trenches Measuring and Demonstrating the Value of Your Data Governance Program Moderator: Tony Shaw, Founder and CEO, DATAVERSITY Panelists: Michele Koch, Director, Enterprise Data Management, Sallie Mae George Yuhasz, Director, Data Process & Governance, HealthNow NY Inc | BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York Eric Michellod, Data Governance Director, Groupe Mutuel Assurance Pablo Riboldi, Solution Manager for Information Governance & Quality, LDS Church Now that you have you implemented your data governance program what do you need to do to show the value of your program. Learn how your peers at other organizations are measuring and showing the value of their data governance programs. Learn how dashboards, scorecards, maturity models, data quality measurements, reporting and much more are being utilized by practitioners to measure and show the value of their programs. Level of audience: |
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KEYNOTE: Predictive Data Governance - The Vision for the Future Walid el Abed, Founder President, Global Data Excellence Limited Over the past few days we have heard presentations regarding how to be successful and overcome roadblocks in data governance. In this keynote, Walid el Abed will give his vision and present how data governance will evolve to revolutionize and change our business models, belief and behaviors. He will discuss:
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