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Active Data Governance Methodology

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Forrester Wave: Data Governance Solutions, Q3 2021

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Ventana: Embracing Modern Data Governance Practices

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Moderator

Jim Barker

Director of Professional Services, Data Strategy at Alation.

Reconsidering IT and Transforming Healthcare

Paige Francis

Chief Information Officer | Art and Wellness Enterprises (AWE)

Francis has been a leading-edge higher education CIO for many years. Now, she has taken an even more impressive role at Art and Wellness Enterprises, which supports the nonprofit entities of Alice L. Walton. In her current position she’s building an IT organization from the ground up with the objective of supporting the transformation of healthcare. This Summit Series session will glean lessons learned from this digital-native foundation.

Hear from Paige Francis, CIO of Art & Wellness Enterprises, to learn:

• How to build an innovative startup from the ground up
• Lessons from higher education that apply to the world of healthcare 
• Why transforming healthcare begins with great data 

This is a can’t-miss event for leaders like you. Register now to save your spot!

Future Ready

Stephanie Woerner

Director of MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) and Author of Future Ready: The Four Pathways to Capturing Digital Value

In her new book, Future Ready: The Four Pathways to Capturing Digital Value, Woerner and her co-authors discuss the pathways for organizations needing to transform from silos and spaghetti. This involves conscious choices and business risks. The goal they suggest is to be Future Ready. Firms that achieve this have the adaptability and agility to succeed in almost any environment. As important, they outperform competitors in growth and margin.

Hear from Stephanie Woerner, Director of MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), to learn:

This is a must-attend for data leaders like you!

• The role of training in creating a digitally savvy workforce 
• How the 4 V’s of data have transformed modern analytics 
• The four core pathways to transforming data to insight to action — and what that means for your business 
  

The Unicorn Within

Linda Yates

President of Mach49, Author of The Unicorn Within: How Companies Can Create Game-Changing Ventures at Startup Speed, Public Company Board Member and Public Company CEO

In her new book, The Unicorn Within: How Companies Can Create Game-Changing Ventures at Startup Speed, Yates shares how leaders of internal startups can be successful and how legacy organizations can create venture factories. Her prescriptions provide a formula for legacy firms to win against Silicon Valley startups. Yates says disruption is not inevitable: Although existing companies have built-in advantages of ideas, capital, intellectual property, customers, goodwill, global reach, and homegrown talent, what’s often missing is a way to catalyze talent to create an internal growth engine.

At this session with Linda Yates, president of Mach49, you will:

Get a competitive edge for the next chapter of analytics

• Hear how you can build a venture factory 
• Learn how to nurture startups that compete with Silicon Valley 
• Learn how to integrate your ventures into your business
  

The Evolution of the Enterprise Data Catalog: O’Reilly Author in Conversation

Tues, April 11. 2023

10:00 am PT  |  1:00 pm ET

Ole Olesen-Bagneux

Ph.D. in Library and Information Science, is a long time data practitioner as a specialist, leader and architect. Ole has created a technology agnostic company called Searchingfordata.com that participates in conversations on data catalogs, adjacent technologies, and enterprise data management.

Today, enterprises are awash in data. How can data producers and consumers not just stay afloat – but find the data they need, and use it to make a meaningful impact?

In his new animal book from O’Reilly, The Enterprise Data Catalog, data expert Ole Olesen-Bagneux reveals how a data catalog can empower people in organizations to discover and wield data to drive business success. Joining Olesen-Bagneux are Deb Seys and Jason Lim from Alation for a discussion on how to organize data for your catalog, search for what you need, and curate data within the catalog for maximum impact. Olesen-Bagneux takes a data management and library and information science perspective to offer tips that will help catalog newcomers launch this platform successfully.

Deb Seys

Alation’s Sr. Dir., Self-Service and Adoptability, has a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, she led data and information management, discovery and search efforts at companies including eBay, Kaiser Permanente, and HP Labs.

Giveaway: 3 copies of the e-book

All In on AI

Thomas Davenport

Distinguished professor at Babson College, a visiting professor at Oxford’s Said Business School, a research fellow at MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and a senior advisor to Deloitte’s Analytics Practice.

Hear from Thomas Davenport, distinguished professor at Babson College and Nitin Mittal, Principal with Deloitte Consulting to learn:

• New approaches to machine learning that are making AI easier
• Practical ways for organizations to use AI ethically
• Key principles to becoming an AI fueled organization

Hear firsthand how business leaders are becoming more AI savvy and where the biggest AI opportunities exist today.

Nitin Mittal

Principal with Deloitte Consulting. Currently serves as the US AI Strategic Growth Offering Consulting Leader.

Data Governance for Dummies

Tues, Feb 7. 2023

8:00am PT  |  11:00am ET

Jonathan Reichental:

Former CIO of Palo Alto, winner of the Best CIO of Silicon Valley Award, and founder of Human Future, a global business and technology advisory firm. He is also the author of Data Governance for Dummies.

In Data Governance for Dummies, Jonathan Rechiental makes the topic of data governance much more approachable for practitioners and lay people. He shares how to make the business case for data governance, including during tough economic conditions, and then how to build a data governance program. In this webinar, Reinchental and Swanson will share their insights on how to implement a successful data governance program — with an eye to what’s worked for the most successful and innovative companies in data today.

Denise Swanson:

Data governance practitioner who has led data governance strategy at consumer companies including Groupon and Chewy. Today she leads the data governance implementation at Alation.

Moderator

Jason Lim

Alation’s Director of Cloud and Product Marketing, co-founded Koombah, a real-estate startup in China, and AsiaRecon, a technology and innovation tour in Australia. Jason was a contributing writer to Forbes Asia, covering startups and tech trends. Jason is originally from Sydney, Australia and now lives in California.