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2023 Speakers

Aaron Kalb, Alation

Aaron Kalb is co-founder and CDAO at Alation. He has spent his career working at the intersection of humans and...

Andrew Andrews, ANZ Banking Group

Andrew Andrews is a senior business and technology leader, who has launched successful new businesses, and led large-scale digital transformations...

Anthony Algmin, Abbvie

Anthony J. Algmin is a data leadership professional who has led data transformations in many industries with roles as a...

Anurag Singh, Incept Data Solutions

The upcoming symposium will feature a presentation and discussion led by Incept Data Solution's Field CTO, Anurag Singh. Anurag's extensive...

Bob Hedges, VISA

Bob Hedges is Visa’s Chief Data Officer responsible for driving the company’s value creation from data and Visa’s global data...

Bryan Feuling, Lightup

Bryan leads the field engineering efforts at Lightup. Previously he was an Enterprise Solutions Engineer at Rockset and Principal Architect...

Captain Brian C. Erickson, U. S. Coast Guard

Captain Brian Erickson currently serves as the United States Coast Guard’s first Chief Data Officer (CDO) and is principally responsible...

Chris Rottler, Food and Nutrition Service

Chris Rottler has served in a number of data analytic roles in both the public and private sectors. Prior to...

David Spirk, U.S. Department of Defense

David Spirk was named the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Chief Data Officer (CDO) on June 22, 2020. David will be...

Diane E. Schmidt, London Stock Exchange Group

Diane Schmidt has more than 25 years of experience in data management with a proven record of successes in developing...

DONNA BURBANK, Global Strategy, Ltd.

Donna Burbank is a recognized industry expert in information management with over 25 years of experience in data management and...

Douglas Laney, West Monroe

We all recognize that monetizing data creates advantage in a digital economy, yet few understand how to do that well....

Dr. Ali Obaidi, MITRE

Dr. Ali Obaidi is a principal data engineer at MITRE acting as a subject matter expert (SME) in a variety...

Dr. Christina Sandema-Sombe

Christina is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon's Chief Data Officer program with over 14 years of practitioner experience in data governance, data...

Dr. Ilya Zaslavsky, Spatial Information Systems Laboratory at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego

Ilya Zaslavsky is Director of the Spatial Information Systems Laboratory at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San...

Dr. Imad Syed, PiLog Group

Senior executive, Digital advisory, Visionary Leader with vast experience in conceiving & designing enterprise information management solutions, data strategies for...

Dr. James Short, Ph.D., San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego

Jim Short is a Lead Scientist at San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego (SDSC). He is a data...

Dr. Joe Perez, Dept of Health & Human Services / SolonTek Corporation

With advanced degrees in computer and secondary education, along with several IT certifications, Dr. Joe Perez brings almost forty years...

Dr. Jonathan Fowler, Logicle Analytics

Practitioner and scholar in big data analytics, data culture, and data strategy. Specifically interested in the relationship of APTitudes™ (Analytics...

Dr. Laura Freeman, Virginia Tech National Security Institute

Dr. Laura Freeman is a Research Associate Professor of Statistics and serves as the Deputy Director of the Virginia Tech...

Dr. Naguib F. Attia

Dr. Attia was responsible for setting up IBM academic relations strategy, creating next generation global technical training programs in collaboration...

Dr. Reza Rashidi, IRS

Reza Rashidi is the Director, IRS, Research Applied Analytics & Statistics (RAAS) Data Management Division (DMD).  He is a member of...

Dr. Tim K. Mackey, UC San Diego

Tim Ken Mackey is a Professor of Global Health in the Global Health Program at UC San Diego, the Director...

Eileen Vidrine, US Air Force

Eileen is currently serving as the Department of the Air Force's Chief Data & Artificial Intelligence Officer where she leads...

Ellen Nielsen, Chevron

Ellen is currently the Chief Data Officer of Chevron and is responsible for making data accessible and trusted to enable...

Fernando Vieira Castelloes

Fernando is a mechanical engineer with a master's and doctorate in computational thermal sciences, with executive graduate and immersion courses...

Francisco, IE University

Francisco Luis Machín (Quico) is the global Chief Data Officer at IE University (masters and undergraduate programs for all schools)....

Hippolyte Lefebvre, University of Lausanne

Hippolyte Lefebvre is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC), University of Lausanne, and research associate...

Issam Hijazi, Quantexa

Issam Hijazi has over a decade of global experience in data management, analytics, and governance. Throughout his career, Issam has...

Jason Foster, Cynozure

Jason Foster is Founder and CEO of the data consultancy, Cynozure, a data and analytics strategy company on a mission...

Joey Jablonski, Pythian

Joey Jablonski is VP of Analytics at Pythian, he leads strategic engagements assisting customers in developing their data strategy, defining...

John Mullins, London Business School

John Mullins is an Associate Professor of Management Practice at the London Business School. He earned his MBA at the...

Julie Champagne, Bank of Canada

Julie Champagne was appointed Managing Director of Corporate Services and Data (CS), effective 5 March 2018. In this capacity, she...

Justin Marsico, Bureau of Fiscal Service

Justin Marsico is the Chief Data Officer for the U.S. Treasury Department’s Fiscal Service, where he is working to modernize the...

Karan Dhawal, ZS

Karan is a professional dedicated, innovative and trustworthy Customer-Centric transformations executive with a strong record of achievement building and managing...

Karthik Murugan, AWS

Karthik Murugan has more than 20 years of experience as an IT professional and has worked with a number of...

Kris Rowley, Conference of State Bank Supervisors

Kris is a seasoned Chief Data Officer who has started data offices in a large and small organizations. He has...

LARS TOOMRE, BRC FinTech

Lisa Ehrlinger, Software Competence Center Hagenberg GmbH

Lisa Ehrlinger is senior researcher at the Software Competence Center Hagenberg (SCCH) in Austria, where she leads the research focus...

Lorraine Fellows, MITRE

Lorraine Fellows has more than 30 years’ experience as a data management practitioner and consultant in the areas of data...

Marcus Gilg, DB Regio Bus

Marcus is Head of IT/CIO at DB Regio Bus. He has a long experience in data management, digitization and public...

Margo ter Bekke, Province of South Holland

Margo ter Bekke studied System Engineering, Policy Analysis and Management at the Technical University Delft and currently occupies the role...

Mark Hereward, UNICEF

Mark Hereward is UNICEF's first Chief Data Officer, appointed in January 2022 in UNICEF Headquarters to pave the organization’s path...

Mark Hogenmiller, Aeyon

Mr. Hogenmiller's background consists of over 30 years of experience in enterprise architecture, business systems automation, financial, logistics, supply chain...

Mark Krzysko, U.S. Department of Defense

Mr. Mark E. Krzysko is currently serving as the Principal Deputy Director for Acquisition Data and Analytics while also leading...

Mark Ramsey, Ramsey International LLC

Dr. Ramsey has over 30 years experience in the successful design, development, implementation, and support of mission critical systems leveraging...

Mayank Mehra, Modak

Mayank Mehra leads the products team at Modak, which builds accelerators that help enterprises automate and streamline data management activities....

Melanie Krause, Internal Revenue Service

Melanie Krause, who is the first Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Chief Data and Analytics Officer (CDAO), is currently the Acting...

Mike Fleckenstein, MITRE

Mike Fleckenstein has over 30 years of experience leading data management initiatives. His range of practice includes founding a data...

Milind Chitgupakar, Modak

Milind Chitgupakar is the Co-founder and Chief Analytics Officer of Modak. Modak is a specialist data analytics company enabling Fortune...

Naras Eechambadi, Universal Music Group

Naras is the Chief Global Data & Analytics Officer for Universal Music Group (UMG), the leading global music company operating...

Omar Khawaja, Roche

Omar Khawaja is a data & analytics thought leader with over 20+ years of experience in the consumer goods and...

Patrick Bangert, Samsung SDS

Patrick heads the AI Division at Samsung SDSA. On the side of AI Engineering, he is responsible for Brightics AI...

Pedro Caceres, Operational Success

Pedro J. Caceres is an American business executive, Chief Operating Officer of Petmate, since 2018. Previously he held executive positions...

Peggy Tsai, BigID

Peggy Tsai is Chief Data Officer at BigID where she is responsible for building the data strategy and enabling governance...

Philip S. Antón, Ph.D, Acquisition Innovation and Research Center (AIRC)

Philip S. Antón is the Chief Scientist of the Acquisition Innovation and Research Center (AIRC) at the Stevens Institute of...

Pieter De Leenheer, 1upHealth, Inc.

Pieter De Leenheer is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and computer scientist. He is Chief Technology Officer at 1upHealth. Previously, Pieter...

Pramod Singh, Envestnet Yodlee

Pramod Singh is the chief analytics officer and vice president of data sciences and analytics at Envestnet|Yodlee since May 2015....

Rachini Moosavi, UNC Health

Rachini Moosavi is passionate about empowering people, delivering value, and improving lives. Over her nearly twenty-year career in healthcare and...

Raj Nimmagadda, Sanofi

Raj Nimmagadda is the Chief Data Officer of R&D at Sanofi. She established the data office and has been leading...

Ren Essene, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Ren Essene has over 25 years of public service experience at the intersection of data, consumer protection, and community development....

Robin Rappaport, IRS

Robin Rappaport is the Data & Analytics Community of Practice Lead for the IRS Research Community.  In this role, she hosts...

Roger Mishoe, U.S. Department of the Treasury

Roger Mishoe is the Chief Data Officer for the U.S. Department of the Treasury where he is responsible for implementation of the...

Sanjeev Mohan, SanjMo

Sanjeev is an established thought leader in the areas of cloud, big data, and analytics. He researches and advises on...

Scott Kahn, LunaPBC

Scott is the Chief Information and Privacy Officer at LunaPBC where he is responsible for all informatics and data science...

Scott Taylor, MetaMeta Consulting

Scott Taylor, The Data Whisperer, has helped countless companies by enlightening business executives to the strategic value of proper data...

Simone Steel, Nationwide Building Society, UK

Simone Steel is the Chief Data and Analytics Officer for Nationwide Building Society and the leader of their Data and...

SREERAM POTUKUCH, Republic Services

Sreeram Potukuchi is a results-oriented executive with 25 years of progressive experience in data leadership roles across various industries. He...

St-John Williamson, Ardhi Consulting

St-John is Co Founder of Ardhi Digital Consulting, a business providing an ecosystem of sustainability solutions, meeting business ESG performance...

Steve Orrin, Intel

Steve Orrin is Intel’s Federal CTO and a Senior Principal Engineer. He leads Public Sector Solution Architecture, Strategy, and Technology...

Stewart Bond, IDC

Stewart Bond is Vice President of IDC’s Data Intelligence and Integration Software research service. Mr. Bond’s core research coverage includes...

Sunil Soares, YDC

Sunil Soares is the Founder and CEO of YDC, the industry's first Data Economics Platform. Prior to this role, Sunil was...

Theresa Ancick, Accura Business Services

Theresa is a leader in data governance with 20 years of experience building high-performance data governance, business intelligence, and data...

Thomas Redman, Data Quality Solutions

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Tom Davenport, Babson College

Tom Davenport is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, a Visiting Professor at Oxford...

Tony Ayaz, Scuba Analytics

Tony Ayaz is the CEO and Board Member at Scuba Analytics. Tony has over twenty years of experience as a...

Trent Lezer, Greystar Real Estate Partners

Trent Lezer is the Chief Data Officer of Greystar Real Estate Partners. Trent has 25+ years of Information Technology and Product...

Uma Sridharan, Becton Dickinson

Uma Sridharan serves as the Senior Director of Data Analytics as part of the technology and Global Services team at...

Valerie Logan, The Data Lodge

Founding The Data Lodge in 2019, Valerie is as committed to data literacy as it gets. With advisory services, train-the-trainer...

Vikas Lodha, SAP

Vikas is a global technology leader advising teams to design, develop, and deliver customer-centric products. He is presently working with...

William J. Parker, PhD, Defense Acquisition University

Dr. Parker joined the Defense Acquisition University faculty after serving 23 years in the U.S. Marine Corps and working in...

Mike Ferguson, Intelligent Business Strategies

Mike Ferguson is Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies Limited. As an independent IT industry analyst and consultant, he specialises...

Rebecca Friedman, Koru Strategies

Rebecca is driven to improve the business of government through innovation, enhanced communication, and collaboration. Rebecca has more than 15...

Peter Aiken, VCU/Anything Awesome

Peter Aiken, PhD is an acknowledged Data Management authority, an Associate Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, President of DAMA International,...

Amit Shivpuja, Walmart

BI & Analytics leader looking to leverage experiences enable enterprises to grow, build, and mature data, data sci, Business Intelligence(BI),...

Cal Rosen, SGI Canada

Cal Rosen, Chief Data Officer SGI Canada began his data and analytics journey more than 25 years ago. Starting with...

Diana Schildhouse, Colgate-Palmolive

Diana Schildhouse is the Chief Analytics & Insights Officer at Colgate-Palmolive, where she is leading Colgate’s data & analytics transformation,...

Dr. Adi Hod, University of Haifa

Dr. Adi Hod is an entrepreneur and leader with over 15 years of experience developing, strategizing, and innovating Enterprise Software...

Dr. Jeremy Welland, Gusto

Dr. Welland is the Chief Data Officer of Gusto, a leading payroll and HR software firm. Prior to Gusto, Dr....

Dr. Sebastian Klapdor, VistaPrint

Dr. Sebastian Klapdor joined Vista in 2019 after 12 years at McKinsey & Co, where he was a partner serving...

Karam Rai, Wiz

Karam Rai is a Director for Go-To-Market Analytics for Wiz, a cyber security company founded in Tel Aviv. Karam has...

Katia Walsh, Levi Strauss & Co

Dr. Katia Walsh is an award-winning business technologist who helps global organizations launch and scale Digital, Data, and Artificial intelligence...

Randy Bean, Wavestone; NewVantage Partners

Randy Bean is a business founder, CEO, industry thought leader, author, senior advisor, board director, and speaker in the field...

Russ McRee, Google

Russ McRee, Ph.D. is Director, GCP Enterprise Protection, for Google's Trust & Safety. He writes toolsmith via holisticinfosec.io, a column...

Sadie St Lawrence, Women in Data

Sadie St Lawrence is the Founder and CEO of Women in Data, an international non-profit organization with representation in 55...

Sutowo Wong, Ministry of Health Singapore

Sutowo is the Director, Data Analytics Division at Ministry of Health (MOH) Singapore. He leads a team of data scientists,...

Dr. Sebastian Wernicke, OneData

Dr Sebastian Wernicke is the Chief Data Scientist at OneData, a leading AI company in Germany. Together with his team...

Salomon de Jager, PiLog Group

Dr Salomon de Jager completed his Hons. B-Eng. degree (Mech. Ind.) in 1978 at the University of Stellenbosch South Africa....

Dr. Stuart Madnick, MIT SLOAN

Dr. Stuart E. Madnick is the John Norris Maguire (1960) Professor of Information Technology, Emeritus, in the Sloan School of...

Chris Zettler, Citizant

Chris Zettler is Citizant Data Practice Lead. As a 30-year veteran of enterprise data and IT management projects with companies...

Dan Everett, Insightful Research

Dan Everett has more than 25 years of experience in data and analytics spanning strategy, governance, management, and ethics. His...

Deep Lidder, Cervello

Deep Lidder is a Data Governance specialist at Cervello, a Data and Digital Consultancy. He has worked with organisations across...

Jill Marlowe, NASA

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Joe McCarthy, SciBite

Joe oversees the company’s presence and growth within the US market, leading the sales and operations within our North American...

Nicole Radziwill, Ultranauts, Inc.

Nicole Radziwill is SVP & Chief Data Scientist at Ultranauts and a recognized expert in digital transformation and next generation...

Paula Runciman, Farmacias Peruanas SAC

Hi, I am Paula Runciman! With a track record as a highly analytical professional, I have extensive experience in leading...

Reuven Shnaps, Earnix

As Earnix Chief Analytics Officer, Reuven Shnaps leads Earnix Analytics organization and directs the company strategy and research around Analytics...

Tomas Kvedaravicius, GSK

I’m regarded as a visionary, accomplished Data, Analytics & AI Solutions leader with vast experience in Business Strategy & Management,...

Tracy Jones, Guidehouse

Tracy Jones is an Associate Director with Guidehouse and brings over 15 years of experience with public sector agencies in...

Sara Jones, SAIC

Sara has been employed as a technology professional for over 22 year entering the industry as a Quality Assurance Engineer....

Baz Khuti, Modak USA

Technology and business executive, Baz has held senior leadership positions at GE (CTO Cloud), Emerson Electric (EVP, Emerson Network Power;...

Prof. Yang Lee, Northeastern University

Prof. Lee is an internationally-renowned leader in the data and information quality field. She investigates the role of differentiated quality...

Kayvaun Rowshankish, McKinsey & Company

Kayvaun is a leader in McKinsey’s Digital Practice, and serves as a global coleader of the firm’s data transformation work,...

Prashanth Southekal, DBP-Institute

Dr. Prashanth H Southekal is the Managing Principal of DBP-Institute, a Data Analytics Consulting and Education company. He brings over...

Dr. Michael Stonebraker, MIT CSAIL

Michael Stonebraker is an adjunct professor at MIT CSAIL and a database pioneer who specializes in database management systems and...

Derek Strauss, Gavroshe

Founder, CEO and Principal Consultant of Gavroshe. Former Chief Data Officer at TD Ameritrade for approximately 5 years; was responsible for Data Governance,...

Maria Villar, SAP

Maria C Villar has over 25 years of experience as a Chief Data Officer responsible for building enterprise data management...

Chandana Gopal, IDC

Chandana Gopal is Research Director for IDC's Future of Intelligence market research and advisory practice. Her core research coverage includes...

Richard Y. Wang, CDOIQ Symposium

Richard Y. Wang is Director of the Chief Data Officer and Information Quality (CDOIQ) Program. He is a pioneer and...