Conference Agenda

TUTORIALS and AFTERNOON CONFERENCE SESSIONS - December 4, 2017
7:00-
6:00
Registration
7:00-
8:30
Continental Breakfast
8:30-
10:00
AM1 - Data Governance 101: Policies, Processes, Roles, Metrics

David Loshin
President
Knowledge Integrity
AM2 - Driving Your Data Governance Program from a Business Viewpoint: Best Practices, Direction and Advice

John Ladley
President, Chief Delivery Officer
First San Francisco Partners

AM3 - Building a Business Glossary
 

Sunil Soares
Founder & Managing Partner
Information Asse
10:00-
10:15
Coffee Break
10:15-
11:45
Morning Tutorials Continue
11:45-
12:00
Room Change
12:00-
12:30
Data Governance Solutions
Data Offense or Data Defense: Why Not Both?

Paul Brunet
VP, Product Marketing
Collibra

Cart Before the Horse? The Relationship of Data Governance and MDM

Mark Rowan
Head of Global Sales
Prolifics

12:30-
1:30
Lunch
1:30-
3:00
PM1 - Defining Effective Data Policies

David Loshin
President
Knowledge Integrity

PM2 - Rescuing a Struggling Data Governance Program

Anne Buff
Advisory Business Solutions Manager
SAS
 

PM3 - Best Practices for Developing Data Quality and Data Governance Metrics

Michele Koch
Director Enterprise Data Intelligence
Navient
&
Barbara Deemer
VP Financial Systems and Chief Data Steward
Navient
 

3:00-
3:15
Coffee Break - Sponsored by DAMA International
3:15-
4:45
Afternoon Tutorials Continue
4:45-
5:00
Room Change
  AFTERNOON CONFERENCE SESSIONS
5:00-
5:45
Building Data Governance from Scratch

Kristi Lahti-Johnson
Hennepin County Data Governance Officer
Hennepin County

Data Governance in a Big-Data-as-a-Service-Platform - Utility Industry Case Study

Bob Thomas
Director Energy Market Analysis
Dominion Energy
&
Peter Carr
Principal
CapTech Consulting

Lessons Learned When Building a Customer Data Strategy

Jeraldyn Rivest
Director Customer Data Strategy
U.S. Bank

 
CONFERENCE DAY 1 - December 5, 2017
7:00-
6:00
Registration
7:00-
8:30
Continental Breakfast
7:45-
8:30
A Deep Dive into Data Governance Roles and Responsibilities
The Data Governance Professionals Organization (DGPO) Annual Winter Meeting
8:40-
8:45
Welcome
8:45-
9:15
KEYNOTE
Emerging Trends in Data Sovereignty, Big Data and the Internet of Things

Sunil Soares
Founder & Managing Partner
Information Asset

9:15-
9:45
KEYNOTE
What Did Your Data Do Last Night?

Scott Buckles
Vice President
IBM Analytics
&
Caitlin Halferty
Client Engagement Executive
IBM Chief Data Office

9:45-
10:15
Coffee Break
10:15-
11:00
Using Business Value to Drive Information Governance Decisions with Information Governance Cloud

Tyler Warden
VP of Product Solutions
BackOffice Associates

Operationalizing Data Governance Quickly at Quicken Loans

Maggie Hubble
Director, Data Governance
Quicken Loans

GDPR: The "Thermo Nuclear" Change in Data Ownership

Evan Levy
VP, Data Management Services
SAS

11:00-
11:10
Room Change
11:10-
11:40
Data Governance Solutions
Classifying the Data Ecosystem (for GDPR)

Dr. Arka Mukherjee
Founder and CEO
Global IDs Inc.

Governance Can Lead to Operational Efficiency and Satisfy the "Need for Speed" with the Data Stewardship Platform

Matt Wagnon
Senior Director Global Product Strategy
BackOffice Associates

The Data Rules that Make your Data Rule!

Derek Hardison
Manager, Pre-Sales Support
SAS

11:40-
12:45
Lunch and Roundtables
12:45-
1:30
Creating a Sustainable Mature Data Centric Environment in State Government

Virginia Hambric
Project Manager
State of Michigan
&
Rob Surber
Director, Enterprise Portfolio Management Office
State of Michigan
 

Mission Impossible? How Business and IT Can Partner to Craft and Implement a Cohesive Data Strategy

Erik Ferrone
Senior Manager, Finance and Actuarial Data Governance
TIAA

Supporting Agile Development with Data Governance Leadership

Ted Curran
Senior Director, Chief Data Governance Officer
UPMC Insurance Services Division

1:30-
1:40
Room Change
1:40-
2:10
Data Governance Solutions
Delivering Business Value by "Putting Data Governance to Work"

Ralph Hodgson
CTO
TopQuadrant

New Data Landscapes Offer New Governance Challenges!

Don Loden
Director, Data and Analytics Practice
Protiviti

Turning Your Data into a Competitive Advantage

Maggi Sowko
Director, Project Management
DATUM

2:10-
2:20
Room Change
2:20-
3:05
Best Practices for Data Classification at Dun and Bradstreet

Lisa Baughman
North America Data Governance Leader
Dun & Bradstreet

Data Quality as a Commodity Service of Data Governance

Jo Sannes
Lead Data Governance Advisor
JLL
&
Peter Serff
Partner
Centennial Data Group
&
Jonathan Stevens
Managing Partner
Centennial Data Group

What Does It Say on your Business Card?
How Are You (re)defining Information Governance?

Brian Mayer
Information Governance
IBM
&
Mark Lynch
Information Governance Practice Leader
IBM

3:05-
4:00
Ice Cream Reception and Exhibits Open
4:00-
4:45
How an Organization Leveraged the Data Debt Metric to Sustain Data Governance

John Ladley
President, Chief Delivery Officer
First San Francisco Partners
&
Gwen Thomas
Corporate Data Advocate
International Finance Corporation

From Glossary to Governance

Shannon Fuller
Director Data Governance
Carolinas Healthcare System

4:45-
6:45
Reception and Exhibits
 
CONFERENCE DAY 2 AND AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS - December 6, 2017
7:00-
3:30
Registration
7:00-
8:00
Continental Breakfast
7:20-
7:50
Zen with Len
What Does Zen Have to do With Data Governance. The Answer is "Everything". Find Out Why

Kensho Len Silverston

The Leader’s Data Manifesto and Data Governance

Danette McGilvray
President and Principal
Granite Falls

8:00-
8:45
BAM! Kicking Data Governance up a Notch!

Anne Buff
Advisory Business Solutions Manager
SAS

Data Governance in Service of Data Science: Rethinking the Value of Data

Gary Mesick
Manager, Analytics Data Warehouse and Data Governance
The Boeing Company

Leveraging Data Governance in meeting the Identification of Medicinal Product Regulation

Robert Class
Director, RIM Data Standards, Governance & Operations
Janssen R&D
&
Pete Seliga
Associate Director, RIM Data Standards, Governance & Operations
Janssen R&D 

8:45–
9:15
Coffee Break and Exhibits Open
9:15–
10:00
Lessons Learned from a Mature Data Governance Program

Susan Yamin
Enterprise Data Governance Director
Ally Financial Inc.
&
Miah Manns
Risk Manager Enterprise Data Governance
Ally Financial Inc.

Data as a Transformational Asset

Parul Kalve
Enterprise Data Management Portfolio Lead
Strathcona County

A Day in the Life of a Chief Data Steward

Barbara Deemer
Vice President, Financial Systems & Chief Data Steward
Navient

10:00–
10:10
Room Change
10:10-
10:40
Data Governance Solutions
Introducing the erwin Enterprise Data Governance Experience - Because Data Governance is Everyone's Business

Danny Sandwell
Senior Product Manager
erwin, Inc.

IBM Unified Governance: Applying Automation and Machine Learning to your Governance World

Matthew Crittendon
Information Governance Architect
IBM
&
Mark Hensley
Information Governance Architect
IBM

10:40–
10:50
Room Change
10:50-
11:35
Supersizing Data Governance – The Micron Technology Case Study

David Marco
President
EWSolutions
&
Michael McNea
Metadata Manager
Micron Technology
&
Wayne Radue
Enterprise Data
Governance Program Manager
Micron Technology

Bottom-up Data Governance

Russ Starck
Senior Data Quality Consultant
Datasource Consulting

Establishing A Data Stewardship Tactical Working Group

Jennifer Kish
Data Governance & Quality Lead
Dept. of Homeland Security
&
Curtis Ross
Business Intelligence Lead
Dept. of Homeland Security

11:35-
11:45
Room Change
11:45-
12:30
KEYNOTE PANEL
Tips from the Trenches
Practitioner Panel
If I Only Knew Then What I Know Now

Moderator:
Len Silverston
President
Universal Data Models

Panelists:
Susan Yamin
Enterprise Data Governance Director
Ally Financial Inc.
&
Ted Curran
Senior Director, Chief Data Governance Officer
UPMC Insurance Services Division
&
Maggie Hubble
Director, Data Governance
Quicken Loans
&
Gary Mesick
Manager, Analytics Data Warehouse and Data Governance
The Boeing Company

12:30-
1:30
Lunch and Exhibits
  AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS
1:30-
3:00
W1 - 7 Essential Artifacts for a Successful Data Governance and Data Quality Program

David Marco
President
EWSolutions

W2 - Zen and the Art of Data Governance:
Organizational Change and Human Behavioral Techniques Crucial to Data Governance

Len Silverston
President
Universal Data Model

W3 - Meeting the Challenge of the Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Malcolm Chisholm
Chief Innovation Officer
First San Francisco Partners

3:00–
3:15
Coffee Break
3:15-
4:45
AFTERNOON WORKSHOP CONTINUES AFTERNOON WORKSHOP CONTINUES AFTERNOON WORKSHOP CONTINUES
 
Seminars - December 7, 2017
7:00-
8:30
Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30-
10:00
A Complete Guide To Data Stewardship

David Plotkin
Director of Metadata Services
MUFG

Ten Steps to Quality Data

Danette McGilvray
President and Principal
Granite Falls Consulting, Inc.

10:00-
10:30
Coffee Break
10:30-
12:00

Seminar Continues

Seminar Continues

12:00-
1:00
Lunch
1:00-
2:30

Seminar Continues

Seminar Continues

2:30-
2:45
Coffee Break
2:45-
4:15

Seminar Continues

Seminar Continues

 
Seminars Continue - December 8, 2017
7:00-
8:30
Continental Breakfast
8:30-
10:00
A Complete Guide To Data Stewardship

David Plotkin
Director of Metadata Services
MUFG

Ten Steps to Quality Data

Danette McGilvray
President and Principal
Granite Falls Consulting, Inc.

10:00-
10:15
Coffee Break
10:15-
12:00

Seminar Continues

Seminar Continues

12:00-
1:00
Lunch
1:00-
2:30

Seminar Continues

Seminar Continues

2:30-
2:45
Coffee Break
2:45-
4:00

Seminar Continues

Seminar Continues