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Agenda At-a-Glance

Wednesday, 6/7/2023

Continental Breakfast

07:00 AM - 08:15 AM Wed, Jun 7

Zen with Len

07:30 AM - 08:00 AM Wed, Jun 7

Title Speakers Audience Track
Zen with Len: What Does Zen Have to Do with Data Governance?
Len Silverston, Universal Mindful, LLC
 All Levels
Human Factors

Conference Sessions

08:15 AM - 09:00 AM Wed, Jun 7

Title Speakers Audience Track
Clear the Fog from Your Data Landscape: Demystifying the Enterprise Data Model for Governance
Dave Wilkinson, D3Clarity, Inc.
Earin Persson, D3Clarity, Inc.
 All Levels
Data Governance
Data Strategy and Governance - The Journey Continues
Kiersten Farmer, City of Henderson
David Dellett, City of Henderson
 Case Study
Data Governance
Building Core Change Management Expertise to Empower Your Data Governance Program
Lacy D Smith, ERM
Erin Olshefski, ERM
Lee Kurzhal, ERM
 All Levels
Human Factors
Accelerating Metadata Onboarding with Gamification
Adam Milward, MetadataWorks
 All Levels
Data Governance
Discovering and Governing Confidential Data
Tami Flowers, MetaGovernance
 All Levels
Legal and Regulatory Issues
Brag Session (Because We Understand You!)
Gwen Thomas, The Data Governance Institute
 All Levels
Data Governance
SIG: Data Quality for Healthcare Organizations (Especially with Non-Technical Users)
Becky Lyons, First San Francisco Partners
 All Levels
Data & Information Quality

Keynote Presentation

09:15 AM - 10:00 AM Wed, Jun 7

Title Speakers Audience Track
Adventures in Data Governance
Toby Hall, Roosevelt Innovations
Curtis Mischler, Roosevelt Innovations
 All Levels
Data Governance

Keynote Presentation

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Wed, Jun 7

Title Speakers Audience Track
Music and Data?! A Journey of Learnings for Creativity
Tiankai Feng, Thoughtworks Europe
 All Levels
Human Factors

Coffee Break and Exhibits Open

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM Wed, Jun 7

Sponsored Sessions - Data Governance and Data Quality Solutions

10:45 AM - 11:15 AM Wed, Jun 7

Title Speakers Audience Track
The Future of MDM
Malcolm Hawker, Profisee
 All Levels
Master Data Management
Making Your Data Governance Program Successful!
Matthias Czerwonka, DATAROCKET® (by innoscale AG Germany)
 All Levels
Data Governance
5 Factors That Cause Data Quality Projects to Fail (And How to Overcome Them)
Michael M. Ott, Innovative Systems, Inc.
 All Levels
Data & Information Quality
Controlling the Chaos: How to Discover, Manage, and Govern Your Unstructured Data
Steve Woodward, DryvIQ
 All Levels
Data Governance

Exhibits Open

11:15 AM - 11:45 AM Wed, Jun 7

CDMP Exams

11:15 AM - 01:15 PM Wed, Jun 7

Conference Sessions

11:45 AM - 12:30 PM Wed, Jun 7

Title Speakers Audience Track
Jumpstarting and Unsticking Your Data Governance Program
Scott Peachey, Invesco Ltd.
Ashley Daniel, Invesco
Jennifer Loffredo, Invesco
 All Levels
Data Governance
Data Governance Communication: Making it CLEAR
Valerie Calvo, BankUnited
 All Levels
Data Governance
The Fine Art of Data Governance – A Sommelier’s Guide to Cataloging Data
Anjali Bansal, Cervello, a Kearney Company
 All Levels
Metadata
Universal Data Access…Tear Down This Data Wall!
Pragnya Gandhi, FINRA
Joanna Chodzynska, FINRA
 All Levels
Analytics Governance
Putting the Ducks in a Row: Going from Low to High Quality Data
Valentina Niklasson, Volvo Penta
Håkan Edvinsson, Informed Decisions Consulting
 Business
Data & Information Quality

Lunch, Desserts on the Exhibit Floor

12:30 PM - 01:45 PM Wed, Jun 7

Conference Sessions

01:45 PM - 02:30 PM Wed, Jun 7

Title Speakers Audience Track
Building Lasting Momentum with Data Governance (Panel)
Anthony J. Algmin, 8rain Station
Christine Haskell, Dative.Works
Gwen Thomas, The Data Governance Institute
Lisa Henry Horne, Newell Brands
Scott Peachey, Invesco Ltd.
 All Levels
Data Governance
Scaling Master Data Management via Data Mesh
Samia Rahman, Seagen
Marcie Stoetzel, Seagen
 All Levels
Master Data Management
Are We Even Allowed to Say That? Normalizing DEIA Metadata to Meet Tomorrow’s Governance Needs
Erica Hornung, Salt Flats
 All Levels
Metadata
Converting Data Language Into Business Speak – Can You Talk the Talk?
Scott Garner, Global Data Strategy
 Intermediate
Data Strategy
Enabling Automated Data Quality Management with a Data Catalog
Holly Maykow, Enterprise Knowledge LLC
Fernando Aguilar Islas, Enterprise Knowledge
 Case Study
Data & Information Quality
Business Value Assessment to Identify Data Governance Priorities
David Loshin, Knowledge Integrity
 All Levels
Data Strategy

Conference Sessions

02:45 PM - 03:30 PM Wed, Jun 7

Title Speakers Audience Track
Emotional Intelligence Disciplines for Data Governance Professionals
Andrew Andrews, Enterprise Data Management Council
 All Levels
Human Factors
Data Management from a Risk Management Perspective
Gerard Koster, Rabobank
 All Levels
Risk Management
Governance by Design - Not as an Afterthought
Anil Kumar Kunden, AmFam Group
 All Levels
Data Governance
Who Gets the Soup? Prototyping Cross-Functional Data Governance
Lance K Tucker, Boston College
Daniel Riehs, Boston College
 All Levels
Analytics Governance
Next Gen Data Quality Monitoring
April Reeve, Reeve Consulting
 All Levels
Data & Information Quality
SIG: Data Governance Implications of ChatGPT and Generative AI
Juan Sequeda, data.world
 All Levels
Industry Trends
Privacy

Coffee Break

03:30 PM - 03:45 PM Wed, Jun 7

Closing Keynote Session

03:45 PM - 04:45 PM Wed, Jun 7

Title Speakers Audience Track
Award-Winning Data Governance: Journey to Building a Mature Data Governance Program
Diane Schmidt, London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)
 Business
Data Governance
Data Strategy

CDMP Exams

05:00 PM - 07:00 PM Wed, Jun 7

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