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Lisa Baughman is the North America Data Governance Leader at Dun & Bradstreet, focusing on governance practices, policies, procedures, regulatory obligations, and meeting the internal customer needs around data. She also ensures the that data governance is coordinated with her counterparts in UK/Europe and Asia. Lisa is also responsible for the pipeline of cases that come to data governance from across the business. These cases consist of diverse requests from understanding data to new data from outside sources. Lisa's background is in the business, which gives her a unique understanding of the viewpoint of data consumers and their needs. Most recently, Lisa has been involved in the implementation of automated tools to support the data governance function. Sessions:
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CK Bhatia is a 25-year veteran of the Data battles. He currently leads the Data organization at Farm Credit Mid America, a $22 Billion agricultural lending cooperative owned and controlled by our customers. Previous battlegrounds include Metlife, Aflac and Synovus. Session: |
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Ryan Brochez is an Enterprise Data Architect with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He is an experienced architect, developer, and business analyst in designing data centric systems. Holding certifications with Cloudera, Oracle, and Microsoft he has delivered technical training internationally. Over the past 20 years he has worked for clients in defense, education, energy, finance, government, health care, and retail. His work has been tweeted by Oracle, featured in SQLServerCentral, and submitted for a Microsoft Canada Impact Award. He has lived in Argentina, Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Jamaica and the ice rinks are definitely better in Canada. Sessions: |
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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. Session: |
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Scott Buckles is currently the North American Sales Executive for IBM’s Business Analytics, Data Science, and Data Governance solutions. Scott 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, Ohio with his family. He spends his spare time coaching his boys, golfing, skiing, and playing hockey. Session: |
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Anne Buff is the Director of Data Governance for Envolve Healthcare. She has been a specialist in the world of data for over 20 years and is an industry leader in data governance. Over the years, she has developed courseware on data management, master data management, and data governance and served as an executive consultant on data strategy, data monetization, and developing strong data organizations. She has also served on the Board of Directors for the Data Governance Professionals Organization. Anne is passionate about sharing her love for data. Her energy, excitement and enthusiasm for all things data will grab you in ways you never expected, leaving you refreshed and ready to take on your toughest of data issues. Her mission is to help you find your love for data because (as she says) it will love you back. Sessions: |
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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. She has worked with dozens of Fortune 500 companies worldwide in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa and speaks regularly at industry conferences. She has co-authored two books: Data Modeling for the Business and Data Modeling Made Simple with CA ERwin Data Modeler r8. She can be reached at donna.burbank@globaldatastrategy.com. Session: |
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Kristin Cacace is the Data Governance Manager for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama. Kristin, together with executive leadership, assisted in the creation of the Data Governance Office and has been the leader of the Data Governance program at BCBS Alabama since its inception in 2018. Prior to leading the Data Governance Office, Kristin led the Information Management Program at Blue Cross for over one year, focusing on implementing technical solutions to support business development throughout the organization. Kristin is an accomplished Project Manager with over 15 years leading technical projects in the retail and health care industry. Session: |
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Mark Chapman has over 30 years business experience in information technology. Over 25 years, as a technical consultant (post- and pre- sales) for data management and governance software vendors specializing in fuzzy matching, data quality, master data management and data catalogs. Mark is Regional Pre-Sales Manager and Senior Solutions Architect for Talend in the USA, providing deep technical product knowledge and industry experience to solve the challenges faced by Talend’s clients as they strive to become data driven enterprises with the adoption of Cloud, Big Data and Machine Learning technologies. 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 the President of Data Millenium. 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. Sessions: |
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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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Chris Davis is the Data Governance Manager at Alliance Data. He was hired three years ago as the first full time data steward at Alliance Data. Today there are five full time data stewards across the organization. He works in the Credit Risk side of the business, with counterparts in other areas in the business. His background includes extensive work in analytics and has utilized those skills to working in data governance for Alliance and hasn't looked back. 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. 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. Session: |
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Bill Dornback is an experienced leader in the Business Intelligence and Analytics space for over 20 years. Early on Bill was a consultant to several small and mid-size organizations providing custom windows and web-based solutions. He then moved on to working for Takeda Pharmaceutical Company where he helped grow the data and reporting platform. Most recently Bill has been at Seattle Genetics, a BIO Tech company where he has played a role in implementing an enterprise wide data warehouse while managing a Business Intelligence team. He has also been tasked with developing and leading the enterprise Data Governance initiative at Seattle Genetics. Session: |
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Eric Falthzik is the Co-leader of the Data Governance practice for Clarity Insights. Eric is an acclaimed technology leader with extensive experience leading enterprise-level data governance, master data management, data quality, and analytics projects and teams. Eric is Chairman Emeritus of the Data Science and Analytics Society of the Technology Association of Georgia. 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 Director, Safety Program Management at the Canadian Medical Protective Association, Amirah relies on quality data to facilitate development of strategy and corporate decision-making. As a member of the Data Governance Steering Committee and past chair of the Data Governance Operations Group, she leads and directs strategic data initiatives and capitalized on her collaborative style to engage directly with data analysts and data-driven strategists throughout the organization. Amirah has over 20 years of experience in private and not-for profit sectors both in Canada and internationally. Experience in various industries such as biotech, financial services, and international development and most recently, healthcare has allowed her to bring a wealth of insight from various industries and roles. Amirah holds a MBA from Sandermoen School of Business in Fredericton, is a Chartered Professional Accountant and has her Project Management Professional certification. Session: |
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Jean-Michel Franco is Senior Director of Product Marketing for Talend. He has 25 years of experience in Data Management and Business Intelligence and has dedicated his career to developing and broadening the adoption of innovative technologies in companies. He authored 4 books, multiple publications and keynotes on Data Privacy. He regularly publishes articles, presents at events and tradeshows and can be followed on Twitter: \@jmichel_franco 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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Ho-Chun Ho guides and oversees global data governance and management for the Corporate Solutions business line at JLL. The scope includes the business oversight on master data management, data quality, meta-data management and the overall data roadmap. Ho-Chun and his team defined and established the Data Governance function, its organizational structures, global and regional resources, processes and operating procedures, tools, and communication protocols. He also mentors the organization on overall enterprise data strategy to leverage industry best practices and leading edge technology in enterprise information management, business intelligence, master data management and big data. 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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Sonya Jordan is a resilient and resourceful leader in Data Governance. She has helped to develop the UNC Health Care Data Governance Office over the past two years, but also joined UNCHCS with extensive experience in Data Quality execution and Data Governance program development research. Sonya has roots in community service and inspirational speaking. Session: |
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Kim Kaluba is a Senior Product Marketing Manager in Data Management at SAS. Kim has 25 years of experience in data management include sales, marketing, and enablement. Kim received her business degree in Marketing and Management from Stetson University. 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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Josna Koshy is Product Manager of the Enterprise Data Governance Office and her major role within the Data Governance office would be in Master Data Management to centralize, organize and create single sources of truth for major Domains within Cleveland Clinic Data. Her technical expertise in some of the major companies in the Health care and Consulting industry also helps to bring a unique perspective to Data Governance Policy and Procedure. She has been with the Cleveland Clinic for 3 years. During her first year she worked as the Technical MDM Lead for the Master Data Management Implementation after which she joined the Data Governance Office as a Product Manager. Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic, she was a consultant for several years and has implemented MDM at several other Health care organizations. Session: |
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David Kowalski, Ph.D., has spent his entire professional life showing organizations how to manage, govern, leverage & protect their data. As the head of MIDAS Advisory services, he works with senior information managers at large corporations to assess the efficacy of their information management practices and helps to devise strategies to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and reliability of these projects. He appears regularly at conferences across the country and is an active member of the Enterprise Data Management Council. Session: |
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Josh Kraeger serves as a Privacy Consultant at OneTrust – the #1 most widely used privacy, security and third-party risk technology platform. In his/her role, Josh 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. Josh is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E) and earned a degree in marketing and communications from Georgia State University. Session:
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Anil Kumar Kunden joined American Family Insurance 2yrs ago as a Data Quality and Governance specialist. Since then he has been working on identifying and improving information quality services including data health assessments, data validations and reconciliations, data monitoring, data remediation and data conversions. Successfully implemented and helped data analysts save time, effort and overall project and maintenance costs. Prior to American Family, Anil has over 10yrs of experience working in Business Intelligence as Data Architect and Lead at ING Direct (now Capital One), Aegon (aka Transamerica) and Principal Financial Groups. Session: |
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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. Sessions:
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David Loshin, President of Knowledge Integrity, Inc. (www.knowledge-integrity.com), is a recognized thought leader, TDWI affiliate analyst, and expert consultant in the areas of data management and business intelligence. David is a prolific author on topics related to business intelligence best practices. He has written numerous books and papers on data management, including Big Data Analytics: From Strategic Planning to Enterprise Integration with Tools, Techniques, NoSQL, and Graph and The Practitioner’s Guide to Data Quality Improvement, with additional content provided at www.dataqualitybook.com. David is a frequently invited speaker at conferences, online seminars, and sponsored websites and channels. David is also a faculty member and Program Director for the Master of Information Management program at University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies (Maryland’s iSchool). Sessions: |
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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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Miah Manns is a Data Integrity Manager for Enterprise Data Governance at Wells Fargo. She is responsible for overseeing and monitoring implementation of the Enterprise Data Governance Policy which establishes the principles for data governance at Wells Fargo and the requirements to effectively govern Wells Fargo's data. Her skill-set includes in-depth analysis of business processes, implementing data standards and providing training and guidance on Data Governance. Session: |
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Best known as the world’s foremost authority on metadata management, David Marco is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of CDO, data management, data governance, data warehouse 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. He followed up this honor in 2007 by being named one of DePaul University’s “Top 14 Alumni Under 40”. In 2008 David Marco was enshrined into the very select DAMA Data Management Hall of Fame. He is also has earned CDMP, CDP, and CBIP certifications. David Marco is the author of the widely acclaimed, top-selling books “Universal Meta Data Models” and “Building and Managing the Meta Data Repository” which were translated into Mandarin (Chinese). He has published hundreds of articles some of which were translated into Mandarin, Russian, Italian, Portuguese and others. Session: |
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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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David McDowell is an Operational Risk Manager within the Enterprise Data Governance Group at Wells Fargo. He is responsible for building and enhancing the processes and procedures for the companies data management risk program while ensuring those align to the companies Risk Management Framework. Prior to Wells Fargo he spent 10 years as an Operational Risk Manager on the Insurance side of the financial services industry where he was primarily responsible for Risk Analytics & Reporting for the largest life reinsurer in North America. 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. Sessions:
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Matt McGivern leads Enterprise Data Governance for Protiviti and has over 20 years of experience working in professional services focusing on solving client needs in data warehousing, business Intelligence and data governance. He has experience supporting regulatory compliance and business optimization in multiple industries, including financial services, manufacturing, telecom and healthcare. Matt has led efforts to design and implement data governance and information management solutions, including data privacy, security and master data management. Session:
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Andrew McGovern has more than 25 years of experience designing, implementing and supporting enterprise data management solutions with wide-ranging insights into the IT and business challenges faced by organizations in numerous industries. As part of the erwin presales team, he spends nearly every day working directly with customers to determine the right solutions to meet their data management and governance needs. Session:
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Connecting people through data! Kash Mehdi brings deep international data governance experience working with customers across various industries. He continues to support data governance at his current position at Informatica. Previously, Kash worked at Collibra where he started as the 5th member and leading a global advisory team to drive data governance adoption for customers and help guide the company through milestones including double-digit revenue growth, customer acquisition, and market leadership. He also held a research role at the Bioinformatics division of UAMS and designed an ontology-driven quality framework supporting cancer research. Kash also has a Master's degree in Information Quality from UA Little Rock in collaboration with MIT, and a bachelor's in Computer Science from India Sessions: |
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Kevin Mooney is Senior Director of the Enterprise Data Governance Office and is responsible for developing the strategic and cultural framework related to managing high quality reliable data, in compliance with law and regulation, in order to meet data reliant goals at the Cleveland Clinic’s critical points of need. Prior to this appointment, from 2005 through 2017, Kevin was the Lead IT Commercial Counsel for Cleveland Clinic, Chair of its IT Practice Group and heavily engaged in the strategy and implementation of Cleveland Clinic's technology, analytics, digital health, privacy and cyber security initiatives. Kevin is also one of the founders, and current Secretary and Director on the Board of the Northeast Ohio CyberConsortium. Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic, Kevin served as in-house counsel at several other organizations, specializing in technology, intellectual property and commercial law. Session: |
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Rachini Moosavi has been in health care analytics and administration for nearly 15 years. For 9 of those years, she led the Revenue Cycle Analytics team in the governance of data, creation of trusted reporting assets, and the measurement of data quality, all while not knowing that this was a function called Data Governance. As the health system grew, so did its needs for data and analytics. With the creation of the Enterprise Analytics & Data Sciences department, Rachini took a leap of faith to begin the first Data Governance Office for UNC Health Care System. Session: |
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Kirk Nemshick is the Global Head of The Data Management Center of Excellence. Kirk’s team supports the governance of Investment data across the Vanguard Enterprise. This is a newly formed department which is designing new processes to integrate data governance within the Global Investment Data Management organization. Vanguard has more than 20 million investors in about 170 countries as of Dec 31 2018. Prior to this role Kirk lead a data governance team that supported the Investment Product and Account, International, and Finance groups. In addition to his leadership with these domains, Kirk led the data governance technology program, emerging data quality, and metadata management programs. The team was recognized by the Industry Association of Privacy professionals in 2015 with the Privacy Innovation Award, and Vanguard received recognition from the Data Governance Professional Association for best in class program in 2017. Kirk has worked in the non-profit industry for nine years as an Assistant Treasurer and has worked in a variety of Vanguard roles managing business operations groups and has lead corporate wide Information Technology project initiatives. In addition to his bachelor’s degree, Kirk is a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt. Sessions:
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Mike Ostrander has spent 20 years in the healthcare ecosystem, helping others make sense of their data better, faster, and/or more easily. Starting at a major academic medical center as a data warehouse engineer, Mike made the leap to the analytics startup world, and grew from engineer, to architect, to translator, and to diplomat of healthcare analytics. Mike currently leads the Data Governance team at Vizient, the nation's leading health care performance improvement company. In addition to his background at an academic medical center, Mike Ostrander was also CTO/CIO of a health care data warehousing startup which was acquired by Health Catalyst in 2015. 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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Brian Paull has 20 years of experience in a variety of roles within financial services that consistently intersect with Data, Process, and Technology. His experience spans from process re-engineering and optimization, platform/systems product leadership, and enterprise data management working in both large and mid-size financial institutions. In his current role with First Citizens, Brian leads the enterprise data management organization, overseeing the data infrastructure, governance, and quality to utilize data as an asset for First Citizens. 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. Sessions:
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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”. Session:
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Mark Rowan is responsible for global sales for Information Management & Analytics. Mark has over 30 years of experience within the IT industry, holding progressively more senior roles within various segments of the consulting industry. Most recently he served in the role of Prolifics Head of Information Management & Analytics Practice, after joining Prolifics as part of the acquisition of Stream Integration. At Stream Integration, Mark served as President and CEO and was instrumental in building and managing one of IBM's premier partners in Information Management and Analytics. Prior to the founding of Stream Integration, Mark was the Director of IP&S Service at IBM where he managed an IBM Software Group consulting business in the US Eastern region and Canada. Session: |
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Mike Russell is a leader in Enterprise Data Management at First Citizens Bank with extensive experience in designing and implementing enterprise level analytics and data management solutions. He has diverse industry experience in data management and Business Intelligence (BI) solutions, spending the last 5 years in financial services with Genworth and First Citizens Bank. In his current role, Mike is responsible for implementing data quality reporting and metadata management for critical data elements at First Citizens Bank. 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. Session: |
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Kevin Schofield has led ADRM Software to its current position as the leading independent provider of comprehensive industry-specific data models. He has had the privilege to work directly with most of ADRM’s customers across a wide variety of industries in 19 countries around the world to ensure that their diverse and evolving data and analytic requirements are met now and in the future through the use of large-scale industry-specific data models to facilitate comprehensive digital transformation and data architecture and truly engaging enterprise data governance and through the deployment of large-scale DWs, Data Lakes, ODS, and virtualization layers across diverse platforms, while also reducing risk and benefiting from best practices and lessons learned at other similar large organizations. Sessions: |
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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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Gregory Serapiglia joined NEPC in 2016, taking on the Senior Data Steward position. Prior to joining NEPC, Gregory worked at State Street Corporation/State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) for 17 years serving in a variety of roles, many focused-on Data Management and Data Governance. Gregory's last role at SSGA was serving as the North America Client Data Steward, responsible for all client and account related data for all the United States and Canada based clients. Gregory in his current role at NEPC reports to the Director of Data Management, Norman LeBlanc. He also has 2 Data Management Service Analysts reporting directly to him. Session: |
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Amber Sexton is the data governance program manager for the Washington State Health Care Authority. Her unit is responsible for developing guidance on the management of the Health Care Authority’s data assets across the data lifecycle. Due to the risk associated with data sharing, this has been the initial focus of the governance program which has developed a standard Data Request Process, a Data Request Tracking Tool, and facilitates the Data Utilization Committee. Amber joins the Health Care Authority after 10 years at Seattle Children’s, where she managed an international pregnancy and neonate biobank. In this role, Amber developed an innovative regulatory and consent structure ensuring compliance with Health and Human Services human subjects research regulations while allowing for broad access to these scarce specimen and data to biomedical researchers. Her and her team also developed standards for specimen and data collection which were utilized for harmonizing Gates Foundation funded maternal cohorts around the world. In this role, Amber has related publications and has presented her work at the International Society of Biological and Environmental Repositories conventions in Sydney and Berlin and the International Federation of Placenta Association meeting in Paris. Before joining Children’s, she coordinated research projects at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington. Session: |
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Dan Sholler is a software industry veteran who has been working on the hard problems of data management and data integration for his entire career. He spent many years as a Gartner analyst, and has worked at software companies such as Infor, Collibra, and Lenses.io building and delivering data solutions and strategies. He is currently at BigID, contributing to their data management and governance solutions. Dan is an avid sailor, crossfit enthusiast, and likes to cook. Session: |
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Will Shuman is a Senior Manager at Protiviti based out of the Atlanta office. Will sits on the Technology Consulting team with a focus on Business Intelligence, Data Governance, and Data Management efforts. Additionally, he serves as a subject matter expert on projects with an emphasis on data strategy, visualization and automation, governance program rollouts, and defendable data privacy models to support regulatory required individual rights programs. He serves as a board member on the University of Georgia’s MIS Advisory Board and is a CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor). Will has over 8 years of consulting experience where he has focused on assisting senior management with their data strategy, IT general controls environment, and remediation activities. 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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Art Steele is a passionate and strategic data professional. After starting as an intern at Grange Insurance, he has moved through Claims, Underwriting, Sales & Marketing and Technology Services at Grange for the last 16 years. For the last 3 of those years, Art has been changing the way people think and use data. He works with the enterprise to change this behavior through standards and creating a data community of sharing information. Art earned an MBA in Business Administration. Art lives in Columbus, Ohio. Session: |
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Alexis Suer is a passionate Data Leader with a breadth of experience implementing grassroots and formal Data Governance programs across diverse industries such as Retail, Banking, and Financial Services. Her experience in standing-up Data Governance programs has helped her gain first-hand knowledge in “what works & what doesn’t work” for building a sustainable Data Governance program while garnering stakeholder buy-in. In her current role, Alexis is responsible for Data Governance and Data Quality in the US and UK for on-premise and cloud data lakes at FIS. Sessions: |
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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. His books include Entity Information Life Cycle for Big Data: Master Data Management and Information Integration (Morgan Kaufmann, 2015), Entity Resolution and Information Quality (Morgan Kaufmann, 2011), Data Engineering: Mining, Information and Intelligence (Springer, 2010), and Information Quality and Governance for Business Intelligence (IGI Global, 2014). Session: |
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A 30-year veteran of SRP, Greg Whicker now manages the Information Management (IM) department within ITS. The Information Management department provides support for enterprise analytics, content and collaboration services, database administration, data quality and master data management, records management, eDiscovery, information governance, and integration services. The goal of information management at SRP is to optimize the value of its information assets by: managing those assets throughout their lifecycle; keeping them relevant, accurate, and easily accessible; and analyzing them to improve operations, provide better customer insights, and mitigate risk. Sessions:
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Susan Yamin started her career in the Health Insurance industry and Internal Auditing. Through the internal audit profession, she gained the financial, operational and technology auditing skills in the Health Care and Financial Institution Industries. In auditing Susan developed a data mining team of specialist that provided data mining services to the audit teams within a Bank. Data was always the key to every business operation. As the banking industry started to face new regulations requiring a strong data management philosophy Susan took the opportunity to develop and create an Enterprise Data Governance function at Ally Bank. This included a Policy, Standards, Procedures, IBM InfoSphere Tool Suite, Glossary, End to End Lineage, Data Quality Rules, Data Quality Exception Tracking and Data Quality Remediation within the business lines. Susan is currently with U.S. Bank and focused on IBM InfoSphere Tool Suite 11.7 for the Enterprise Data Governance structure of U.S. Bank. Susan has more than 20 years of experience in Internal Audit and now more than 9 years in leading Data Governance. Session: |
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Obsessively detail-oriented, Jennifer Yoakum has been analyzing data and modeling information in the biotech industry for 19 years. Beginning with library and laboratory notebook administration, Jennifer ensured the accurate consolidation of seven disparate systems into one. After that she moved onto metadata, taxonomy, and ontology modeling and management for search and data mining activities. Most recently at Seattle Genetics, Jennifer has been creating integrated, report-layer models for the Enterprise Data Warehouse, enabling grass-roots reference data management with SharePoint and SQL, and collaborating on the development of the Enterprise Data Governance initiative. Session: |
