Enterprise Data World (EDW) 2018 | DATAVERSITY | 22 April 2018 | Sheraton Hotel and Marina, 1380 Harbor Island Dr, San Diego, CA 92101, USA

The 22nd Annual Enterprise Data World (EDW) Conference hosted by DATAVERSITY® is recognized as the most comprehensive educational conference on data management in the world. Join hundreds of data professionals from around the globe to attend this unique conference. Your transformation to data-driven business starts here!

What to Expect at EDW 2018:

This six-day conference kicks off each year with in-depth tutorials, then continues throughout the week presenting hundreds of hours of educational content driven by leading industry experts, finally closing with our signature two-day workshops.

The distinguished speakers for these presentations share their case studies, experiences, and knowledge about various topics including Data Governance and Stewardship, Data Architecture, Modeling, Metadata Management, NoSql and database technologies, Data and Information Quality, Business Intelligence, Analytics, Data Science, Big Data and Enterprise Information Management, and much more.

E.D.W. Topics:
• Data Strategy
• D.M.B.O.K.
• Data Architecture
• NoSql
• Data Development
• Business Intelligence & Analytics
• Big Data
• Hadoop
• Agile Data
• Dama
• Data Science
• Metadata
• Modeling
• Governance & Sterwardship
• Data & Information Management
• Semantic Technology Master Data Management
• Unstructured Data
• Data & Application Integration
• New Data Management Technologies
• Management & Methods

2018 Speakers

Scott Berkun
Author, Scottberkun.com

Amy Gershkoff
Former Chief Data Officer, Ancestry

Claudia Imhoff
President, Intelligent Solutions Inc., Founder, Boulder Bl Brain Trust

Mike Ferguson
Managing Director, Intelligent Business Strategies Ltd

Donna Burbank
Managing Director, Global Data Strategy, Ltd.

Michael Davis
Data Governance Leader, Voya Financial

Arun Baharani
Founder, Arun Baharani Consulting, LLC

Terry Lynn Moon
Enterprise Information Architect, McCormick & Company, Inc.

Steve Hoberman
Data Modeler, Steve Hoberman & Associates

Ed Kelly
Chief Data Officer, State of Texas

John O'Brien
Principal Advisor and CEO, Radiant Advisors

Zeena Wright
Senior Manager, Enterprise Data Operations and Strategic Projects, First American Financial Corporation

Richard Sherman
Managing Partner, Athena IT Solutions

Stacy Sawin
Consultant, Deloitte

Peter Haynes Aiken
Founding Director, Data Blueprint

Jans Aasman
CEO, Franz Inc.

Robert J Abate
Managing Principal, Global IDs

Jacob Ablowitz
Co-Founder & CEO, dmi.io

Jonathan Adams
Research Director, DATUM LLC

Anthony J Algmin
Chief Data Officer, Uturn Data Solutions

Dean Allemang
Principal Consultant, Working Ontologist, LLC

Eyal Almog
IT Director, MetLife

Christopher Anderson
Data Architect, California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office, blog.realworldis.com

Sherine Anis
Global Master Data Manager, QuintilesIMS

Dmitry Anoshin
Business Intelligence Engineer, AbeBooks (Subsidiary of Amazon)

Steve Ardire
Advisor to AI Startups

Michael Atkin
Managing Director, EDM Council

Marc-Antoine Auger
Master Product Owner, National Bank of Canada

Tim Baker
Global Head of Innovation, Finance & Risk, Thomson Reuters

Neil Barton
Chief Technology Officer, WhereScape USA, Inc.

Wes Beaton
Senior Data Analyst, London Life Insurance Company

Gil Benghiat
Founder, VP of Product, DataKitchen

Mike Bennett
Head of Semantics and Standards, EDM Council Inc.

Christopher Bergh
CEO, Head Chef, DataKitchen

Gene Boomer
Enterprise Data Architect, Protective Insurance

Joshua Bowers
Developer, AutoLiv

Mike Bowers
Principal Architect, LDS Church

Adrian Bowles
Industry Analyst, STORM Insights, Inc.

Christopher M Bradley
Information Strategist, Data Management Advisors

William Brooks
Solution Engineer, Hortonworks

Oliver Browne
Academic Researcher, University College Cork

Dan Carey
Ontologist, Semantic Arts

Brian Carothers
Manager- Data Scientist, MorganFranklin Consulting

Cory B Casanave
CEO, Model Driven Solutions

Amanda Casari
Senior Product Manager and Data Scientist, SAP Concur

Joe Caserta
President and Founder, Caserta

Frank Cerwin
Managing Principal, Data Mastery Inc.

Nelson Chieh
Data Governance Manager, Banco Itau-Unibanco

Stan Christiaens
Co-Founder & Operational Director, Collibra

Mick Collins
VP Global Pre-Sales, BackOffice Associates

Mindy Connor
Sr Lead Data Analyst, TIAA

A.J. Cook
North American Sales, Stardog Union

Sean Coombs
Head of Market Research, Experian

JG Cowper
Chief Data Officer, Healthbridge

Pascal Desmarets
CEO, Hackolade

Howard Diesel
CEO, Modelware Systems

Jason Dolatshahi
Manager, Data Science, Bonobos

Wen Dombrowski MD MBA
Chief Convergence Officer, Catalaize

Barry Doyle
Data Architect, National General

Amnon Drori
CEO and Co-Founder, Octopai

Tom Dybala
President, Exprentis, Inc.

Susan Earley
Enterprise Data Architect, Sears Holdings

Håkan Edvinsson
CTO, Informed Decisions Consulting AB

Cassie Elder
Co-founder, Principal, Data Strategist, Data Scientist, DataCraft Partners

Liju Fan
Senior Standards Specialist, OFR

Carrie Fawcett
F&A Data Governance, TIAA

Mike Ferguson
Managing Director, Intelligent Business Strategies Ltd

Sue Geuens
President, DAMA International

Kevin Fleet
Vice President, Informatica Professional Services

Andrea T Gibbons
EIM Practice Lead, Insignia Technology

Andrea T Gibbons
EIM Practice Lead, Insignia Technology

Abhishek Goel
SVP, Strategic Data Solution Team, Citigroup

Kent Graziano
Chief Technical Evangelist, Snowflake Computing

Steven M Green
Data Visualization Lead, IT WORKS Inc.

Stephanie L. Grimes
Shared Info Support, Manager, Freddie Mac

Ritika Gunnar
VP Watson Data & AI IBM Hybrid Cloud, IBM

Elaine Hanley
Senior Offering Manager, Industry Models, IBM

Sean Hanlon
Data Scientist, Dataiku

Geoff Harkness
Managing Director - Information Management and Technology, MorganFranklin Consulting

Lisa Harrison
Manager, Data Governance, JLL

Jan Henderyckx
Information Strategist, Inpuls

William Hickson
President and Chief Data Officer, dmi.io

Theodore S Hills
Data Management Evangelist, Concepts and Objects LLC

Geoffrey Horrell
Director of Innovation, Thomson Reuters

Mark R Horseman
Enterprise Information Management Coordinator, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT)

Keli A Hosaka
Info Systems Eng, Lead, MITRE

Rick Hudson
Vice President of Data Management, Jones Lang LaSalle

Chris Huff
Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP

Ron Huizenga
Senior Product Manager, IDERA

Lori Hurley
Information Architect, Allstate

Bryon K Jacob
CTO / Co-Founder, Data.world

Denise Janci
Metadata Lead Consultant, Allstate

Harvey Johnson
Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Salah Kamel
CEO and Founder, Semarchy

Gary B Jordan
Senior Principal Business Systems Analyst, Red Hat

Paul Kautza
Founding Partner, StarSoft Solutions, Inc.

Denise Janci
Metadata Lead Consultant, Allstate

Arthur Keen
Managing Director, Cambridge Semantics

Mani Keeran
Manager of Information Architecture, Franklin Templeton Investments

Elisa Kendall
Partner, Thematix Partners LLC

Gi Ryoong Kim
Information Architect, Franklin Templeton Investments

Patricia A Klauer
General Manager, Fathym

Ron Klein
Global Data Governance Leader, Klein Admonition

Narasimha Kodihalli
Founder and CEO, OpenRisk Technologies

Christoph Kögler
Head of Innovation, T-Systems Multimedia Solutions GmbH

Karl Kolk
Information Management Engineer, JGC Corporation

Ken Kring
Principal, PGTIT

Jeffrey Kriseman
CDIO, State of Tennessee

Peter Ku
Vice President, Informatica

John Ladley
President, First San Francisco Partners

Barbara Latulippe
Executive VP, Enterprise Data Managementm, CoreLogic

Tommie L Lawrence
Manager, Sharp Healthcare

Michael Leahy
CIO, State of Maryland

Mary Levins
Data Governance Principal, Sierra Creek Consulting LLC

Van Lin
Shared Info Support, Director, Freddie Mac

Nardo Manaloto
CEO, Catalaize

Kristin M. Love
Manager, Information and Process Modeling, GSK

David Loshin
President, Knowledge Integrity

Jim Logan
Director of Semantic Technologies and Interoperability, No Magic

Bill Lobig
Vice President of Development, IBM Watson Data Platform, IBM

Lena Lindroth
Business Information Architect, Volvo Penta

Chris Mann
Chief Commercial Officer, Decision Science

David Marco
President, EWSolutions

Dave McComb
President, Semantic Arts Inc.

George McGeachie
Information Management Consultant, Metadata Matters

Danette McGilvray
President and Principal, Granite Falls

Mike W. McKee
Senior Software Engineer, Software AG

Molly McMorrow
Data Management and Architect Specialist, DAMA-National Capital Region

Stephanie McReynolds
Vice President of Marketing, Alation

Susan M. Meyer
Data Strategy Lead, Monsanto

Dawn M Michels
Enterprise Data Architect, Old Republic Title Insurance Company

Lori Moore
Director of Data Governance, Sharp Healthcare

Jeff Morris
Head of Product Marketing, Neo4j

Thadi Murali
Principal Consultant, Capco

Dan Myers
Principal Information Quality Educator, DQMatters

CJ NAKAMURA
EIM Leader, IBM

David S. Newman
SVP, Strategic Planning Manager Enterprise Architecture, Wells Fargo

Michael Nicosia
VP, F&A Strategy, Data Governance and Continuous Improvement, TIAA

Cathy S Normand
Enterprise Data Enablement Manager, ExxonMobil

Daragh O Brien
Managing Director, Castlebridge

Katherine O'Keefe
Data Governance and Privacy Consultant, Castlebridge Associates

Michael M. Ott
Senior Vice President, Innovative Systems, Inc.

Mark Ouska
Ontologist, Semantic Arts

Avinash Patil
Consulting Partner, Tata Consultancy Services

Mike Pickart
Senior Manager, Sales Consulting - Financial Services, Informatica

Jon Pilkington
Chief Product Officer, Datawatch

Jeroen O Ploeg
Independent Consultant, Independent

David N Plotkin
Director of Metadata Services, MUFG

Irene Polikoff
CEO, TopQuadrant

Doug Pontious
BI and Analytics Executive, Amerisure

Michael Pool
Director, BNY Mellon

Brent Preator
Sr. Manager, JLL, Corporate Solutions Data Governance

Thomas Redman
Founder and President, Data Quality Solutions

Eric Pugh
Principal, OpenSource Connections

Lakshmi Randall
Director of Product Marketing, Denodo

Tom Reamy
Chief Knowledge Architect, KAPS Group

Thomas Redman
Founder and President, Data Quality Solutions

April Reeve
Director, Enterprise Information Strategy and Architecture, Celgene

Pete Rivett
CTO, Adaptive

Bradley A. Rhine
Lead Data Architect, Fulton Financial Corporation

Joe Rohner
Chief Technologist, Data Solutions and Machine Intelligence, Booz Allen Hamilton

Kathy Rondon
Chief Operating Officer, R2C

Ronald G. Ross
Co-Founder and Principal, Business Rule Solutions, LLC

Ian Rowlands
Director of Product Marketing, ASG Technologies

Danny Sandwell
Product Marketing Director, erwin, Inc.

Rishi Sanghavi
Consultant, Capco

Tony Sarris
Founder and Principal, N2Semantics

Michael Scofield
Assistant Professor, Loma Linda University

Jenny Schultz
Enterprise Data Strategy and Governance Director, Freddie Mac

Laura Sebastian-Coleman
Data Quality Lead, Aetna

Robert S. Seiner
President/Publisher, KIK Consulting/TDAN.com

Ronak Shah
Business Intelligence Manager, Coursera

Preeti Sharma
Information Architect, Franklin Templeton Investments

Richard Sherman
Managing Partner, Athena IT Solutions

Steven Shissler
Director of Sales Engineering, Syncsort

James Short
Lead Scientist, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego

Len Silverston
President, Universal Data Models, LLC

Sunil Soares
Founder and Managing Partner, Information Asset

William Stallings
Data Architect, CNO Financial Group

Pete Stiglich
Senior Lead Data Architect, CenturyLink

Anandhi J Sutti
Informations Systems, Lead, MITRE

Susan Swanson
Information Management Professional, HCSC

William Tanenbaum
Vice Chair Health Care Technology & Innovative Security, Polsinelli Law Firm

Gwen Thomas
Corporate Data Advocate, International Finance Corporation, Part of the World Bank Group

Ashton M Thorogood
Senior Engineer/Data Architect, AlphaPoint Corp.

Jenna Throne
Analyst, California Department of Education

Terri-Lynn Torrez
Lead Data Analyst, FINRA

Michael F. Uschold
Senior Ontology Consultant, Semantic Arts

Shiboo Varughese
Enterprise Architect and Practice Lead, Daugherty Business Solutions

Jennifer Trotsko
Head, Data Access and Control Office, International Finance Corporation

Charlie Vollmer
Principal Engineer, ML Engineering

Allen Wang
CEO, Datablau

Tyler Warden
VP Product Management, BackOffice Associates

Nathan Weisz
Product Owner, FINRA

Robert Welborn
Head of Data Sciences and Advanced Analytics, USAA

Devin Weller
Manager, Analytics + Information Management, Deloitte

Greg Werner
Founder and CEO, 3Blades

Sara Willovit
Senior Manager, Product Data Operations and Governance, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Elizabeth L Wisnia
Education Programs Consultant, California Department of Education

Dennis Wisnosky
Senior Consultant, EDM Council

Missy Wittmann
VP Conference Services, DAMA International

Aaron Wolf
Senior Data Scientist, General Motors

Jeff Wolkove
State Data Management Architect, Arizona Department of Administration

Jason Wright
Manager of Data Quality, Enterprise Data Systems and Organizational Assets, T-Mobile US, Inc.

Will Wright
Founder and CEO, Synaptik

Taisei Yoshimura
Principal Engineer, JGC Corporation

George Yuhasz
US Director, Business Intelligence and Data Services, Keystone Foods

Mico Yuk
CEO/Founder, BI Brainz

Jinbao Zhu
Manager, Webank

Jurgen Ziemer
Ontologist, Jayzed Data Models Inc.

2018 Sponsors

PLATINUM
• IBM

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Alation
• Data Advantage Group
• Data Iku
• Denodo
• Erwin
• Experian
• Idera
• Innovative Systems
• Neo4j
• Octopai
• Syncsort

SILVER SPONSORS:
• A.D.M.R. Software
• Analyti Ds
• Ataccama
• BackOffice Associates
• Collibra
• Data Blueprint
• Expert System
• FairCom
• Io-Tahoe
• Melissa
• Repoerts & Requirements Company
• TopQuadrant
• WhereScape

ADDITIONAL SPONSORS:
• CloverEtl
• Data Kitchen
• D.G.P.O. Data Governance
• Graphgrid
• Havkolade
• Insurance Data Management Assoication
• Information Asset
• Intelligence Tag
• Orchestra Networks
• P.S.S.C. Labs
• The Data Administration Newsletter
• Analytics Texas A&M University