Conference Sessions and Afternoon Workshops
December 9, 2015
| Wednesday December 9 7:30–3:30 |
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| Wednesday December 9 7:00–8:00 |
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Trinity
Health Enterprise Data Governance- In the Beginning Joyce Ellies, Sr. Manager Data Governance and Research, Trinity Health Trinity Health and Catholic Health East merged in 2013. Previously Trinity Health had standardized on a single Electronic Health Record, with the merger we now were dealing with multiple EHRs and a lack of standardized data in our data warehouse. We were directed by Executive Management to design and implement a Data Governance Program to assist in standardizing and mastering data within our data warehouse. Attendees will:
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Takeaways from Federal Agencies’ Programs that Will
Improve Your Data Governance Program John Adler, Founder and CEO, Data Management Board The Federal Government is effectively implementing a government-wide Master Data Management program focused on Spending Data and is also driving for an improved data transparency and definition. At the same time the cyber security challenges and cloud cost drivers are driving seismic changes within most agencies’ systems and data environments. Smaller agencies are challenged with having significant legacy systems, as well as low implementation maturity, unionized labor, and budgetary constraints. Data Governance is a helpful tool to both highlight a path forward, and also provide a forum for developing a roadmap. In this presentation, we will address the following:
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Enterprise
Data Governance and Stewardship at Pearson: A Real Roadmap Karen Akens, Data Consultant, Data Blueprint Sara Willovit, Director of Data Governance/Stewardship, Pearson Pearson is the world's largest education company, with 40,000 employees in more than 70 countries, whose goal is helping people make measurable progress in their lives. This session will focus on how Pearson implemented business value added data governance from the ground up across the enterprise. Attendees will learn about how we turned the challenges into successes, and how they can apply our lessons learned to their own organizations. Topics include:
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| 8:50 - 9:15 COFFEE BREAK AND EXHIBITS | |||||||||||||||||
| 9:15 - 9:45 DATA GOVERNANCE SOLUTIONS |
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Brief Tour of TopQuadrant's Agile, User-directed Data Governance Hub Irene Polikoff, CEO, TopQuadrant TopQuadrant’s Data Governance solution seamlessly integrates governance of business glossaries, metadata and reference data. Too often, tools used by organizations for managing key governance information can’t share the meaning of the information they manage. Some of the tools are too “geeky” for the business to use, others are too simplistic to capture the information technical stakeholders must know. Many lack the flexibility required by data stewards to seamlessly modify and extend the types of information they govern. In this session, we will present and demo a Data Governance solution designed to address business requirements where:
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Data Leadership: How to Beat the Odds in 2016 Matt Eversmann, VP of Leadership Development, DATUM LLC Leading analyst firms often cite the success rate of data projects at less than 50%. The problem requires a human solution, not a technical one. Strong leadership at every level is the key to beating the odds. In this session, First Sergeant Matt Eversmann (ret.), recipient of the Bronze Star Medal, memorialized in the epic film Black Hawk Down, and the co-author of The Battle of Mogadishu, will discuss the challenge of leading a team that aligns the needs of the business & their IT counterparts. Critical skills like “leading from the middle” and the value of leadership and followership are outlined to create a lasting atmosphere of success in cross-functional data governance teams. Level of Audience: |
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| 9:45
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Help
Us Help You: 7 Things Data Strategists and Architects Wish All Data Governance
Teams Would Do Gwen Thomas, Corporate Data Advocate, The World Bank Group - IFC Laiq Ahmad, Advisor to the CIO, The World Bank Group - IFC Does your program have “raving fans?” One does, and they’re here to share 7 specific activities they wish all Data Governance teams would undertake with their partners. The sad truth is that some Data Governance programs succumb to inertia, withering without the leadership support needed to do great things. But then there are others, who grow and become stronger and are appreciated and make big differences within their organizations. How do you get to be one of them? Part of the answer is partnerships. At the International Finance Corporation (the private sector arm of the World Bank Group), a Data Strategist and team of Architects were invited by a small, but successful Data Governance program to join forces to accomplish goals that none of them could achieve on their own. In this session, learn the 7 things that the Data Governance team did to wow their partners, increase everyone’s effectiveness, and ultimately deliver an award-winning project. Attendees will hear about:
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Creating Value
with Data Governance Automation Ronald Layne, Manager Data Governance and Quality, George Washington University While many organizations are aware that they must govern their data, the tools used to implement this governance vary widely. Portfolios range from siloed capabilities linked to data management, to home grown custom applications. As with any business function, having the appropriate tools in the toolbox makes the process of governance cheaper, faster and more effective. George Washington University has created an enterprise governance process, and has implemented it using a carefully chosen portfolio of technologies. Ron Layne Manager, Data Quality and Governance, will share his findings about requirements for data governance tooling, and the best practices for implementing data governance in a diverse organization. The combination of streamlined processes, self service governance and appropriate tooling has enabled GWU to mature Data Governance and ensure its goal of transparent and trusted data. Level of Audience: |
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Managing
Enterprise Data Quality Christopher Trimble, Manager Enterprise Stewardship, Fannie Mae Aya Smith, Business Analyst Enterprise Data, Fannie Mae Fannie Mae’s initial Enterprise Data Quality Program addressed regulator concerns by implementing a platform and the tools required to report on the quality of core data attributes across multiple software applications. We are now refining the program to emphasize the governance needed to manage data quality requirements and issues at an enterprise level, enforce compliance at an application level, and integrate data quality metrics with business process metrics. The overall objectives of this effort are to:
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Data Governance Success at Ally Financial Leslie Burgess, Director, Enterprise Data Governance, Ally Financial Susan Yamin, Director, Enterprise Data Governance, Ally Financial 4 years ago reporting processes at Ally Financial were often inefficient or inconsistent and we were facing increasing regulatory pressure ( “Bar is Rising”). It was understood that we needed to have measurable confidence in the data we are reporting and using to make business decisions, ensure appropriate use of our data, improve our data quality, ensure compliance with policy and regulations and create a competitive advantage with our data. In this session we will discuss:
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Tips from the Trenches-Lessons Learned from Successful Practitioners Moderator: Malcolm Chisholm, President, AskGet Panelists: Michele Koch, Director of the Data Governance Office, Navient Gwen Thomas, Corporate Data Advocate, The World Bank Group - IFC Donald Levick, Chief Medical Information Officer, Lehigh Valley Health Network Michael Delgado, Director, Information Management Program, Citrix This panel discussion will focus on real life experiences and challenges encountered by practitioners in starting, deploying and sustaining data governance and data stewardship programs. Topics include:
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| 12:45 - 1:45 LUNCH AND EXHIBITS | |||||||||||||||||
| 1:45 - 5:00 AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS | |||||||||||||||||
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W1 - The Top Lessons Learned While
Implementing Successful Enterprise Data Governance and Data Quality Programs Michele Koch, Director of the Data Governance Office, Navient In this workshop, Michele Koch (Director of the Data Governance Office) and Barbara Deemer (Chief Data Steward) will present Navient's (formerly known as Sallie Mae) experiences and resulting best practices while implementing and sustaining their Data Governance (DG) and Data Quality (DQ) programs. Navient's enterprise DG program won the 2011 Data Governance Best Practice Award and TDWI's 2010 Best Practices Award in DG. Attendees will learn:
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W2 - Data Governance for Successful Data Quality Malcolm Chisholm, President, AskGet Inc Data Quality is a primary practice area of Data Governance, but very often Data Governance fails to address it well. This workshop describes what Data Governance needs to do to establish a successful enterprise-level Data Quality program. The scope of Data Quality is described, together with Data Issue Management, which is often overlooked as a discipline that needs special attention. Approaches to continuous Data Quality monitoring are described, especially in the context of data movement. The use of profiling for Data Quality is examined, and the governance of Data Quality Business Rules is explored in detail. In particular, traceability of Data Quality Business Rules, and the coordination with business glossaries and definitions is described. Additionally, the need for governance over the metadata involved in Data Quality, and how this is factored into repositories is described. Traditional issues in Data Quality, such as what the dimensions of Data Quality really mean, are also discussed. Attendees will learn:
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W3 - Advanced Data
Governance: How to Add Value for the Long Term Kelle O'Neal, CEO, First San Francisco Partners Data Governance is becoming a more mature and better understood practice that reduces risk and creates value across all industries. Many organizations have launched Data Governance Programs either to support technology initiatives like Master Data Management, or to address compliance issues - such as Basel & LEI in the Financial Services industry, or The Sunshine Act & Unique Device Identification in the Health and Life Sciences sector. And many companies have even launched Data Governance more than once! Part of the reason many companies launch a Data Governance program again and again is that over time, it is challenging to maintain the enthusiasm and excitement that accompanies a newly initiated program. In this workshopl we will talk about the challenges of making Data Governance a “going concern” in your organization and how to sustain a program for the long term. We will cover:
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