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Launch Data Quality Community & IAIDQ Partnership

Ivan Schotsmans

Keynote session

Achieving Information Quality Maturity:

Lessons Learned and Best Practices

Lwanga Yonke

“Bridge the gap : connect your data”

Wim Geukens - Traviata

Peter De Witte - WDM Belgium

Data Quality:

Lessons learned from several projects

Alec Bews - CSC

Securex Case

Deloitte

Data Standardization and the Business Glossary –

Achieving Trusted Data Though Common Understanding

Mike Ferguson

Closing Session

The Absolutes Of Information Quality Management

In Proven Quality Management Principles

Larry P. English

C. Lwanga Yonke is a seasoned information quality practitioner and leader. He has successfully designed and implemented projects in multiple areas, including information quality, data governance, business intelligence, data warehousing, data architecture and document management. His initial experience is in petroleum engineering and operations.

Keynote session

Larry P. English President and Principal Information Impact International, Inc.
Mr. English is a Futurist and the Foremost authority leading the revolution to bring in the emerging Realized Information Age 3.0. English's experience in many industries enables him to see patterns in business practices that can cause success or failure in the Realized Information Age.

The Absolutes Of Information Quality Management In Proven Quality Management Principles

Mike Ferguson is Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies Ltd. As an analyst and consultant he specialises in business intelligence and enterprise business integration. With over 29 years of IT experience, Mike has consulted for dozens of companies on business intelligence strategy, technology selection, enterprise architecture, enterprise portals, business process integration, applications integration and data integration. He has spoken at events all over the world and written numerous articles. Mike is a resident expert on the Business Intelligence Network, providing articles, blogs and his insights on the industry. Formerly he was a principal and co-founder of Codd and Date Europe Limited - the inventors of the Relational Model - a Chief Architect at NCR on the Teradata DBMS. He teaches popular master classes in Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Enterprise Integration, Enterprise Portal Implementation and Enterprise Data Management.

Wim Geukens, Traviata

As a Computer Science professional Wim Geukens previously worked for different consulting companies. Since 2003 he has been co-founder of a Belgian CRM consultancy company. Wim started to work as an early adopter with Dynamics CRM 1.0 in 2003, as a pre-sales and implementation consultant. After more than 150 CRM projects with a team of 30 people, he can be considered as an experienced CRM guy, who knows the importance and value of Data Quality. Wim started working with DQ tools in 2006, and is still aiming for better integrated solutions, not just for marketing people, but also for sales, service, admin and other roles.

"Bridge the Gap: connect your data"

Peter De Witte, Core Data Director at WDM Belgium

In the last 24 years Peter gained a huge experience holding different positions in IT, Sales, Marketing and General Management in data and (direct)marketing business. His wide range of expertise is in the field of data management and data strategy, building reference databases and providing tools enabling quality assurance and quality control of customer and prospect databases.

"Bridge the Gap: connect your data"

Alex Bews, CSC

Data Quality: "Lessons learned from several projects"