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DATA GOVERNANCE
​Explore the critical role of data governance in risk mitigation and process improvement in this 40-minute talk. Learn how robust frameworks address data breaches, unauthorized access, and integrity issues while ensuring compliance with industry standards. Discover how governance enhances data quality, accelerates projects, and fosters transparency through metadata management. Leave with actionable insights to build sustainable, metrics-driven governance strategies that drive organizational success.
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Slide deck AND video available!
DATA QUALITY
Data Quality Management Best Practices
​This presentation explores essential practices for effective data quality management and provides a practical roadmap for implementation. Learn how to define strategic data quality standards, utilize proactive profiling, and leverage governance frameworks and automated validation to ensure reliability. Discover the importance of real-time monitoring, user training, and metrics-driven evaluation. Gain actionable insights to foster a data quality culture and drive continuous improvement across your organization.
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Slide deck AND video available!
DATA SILOS
​Organizations often struggle with data silos - isolated data repositories that hinder collaboration, insight generation, and decision-making. This presentation explores practical strategies to dismantle data silos, fostering a unified data environment that drives business impact. Attendees will learn about the key challenges associated with data silos and discover actionable solutions to integrate data across departments, enhance data accessibility, and improve overall business performance.
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Slide deck AND video available!
DATA STEWARD
Navigating Data Governance for Risk Management and Process Excellence
​This technical talk equips new data stewards with practical strategies to excel in data governance. Learn to reduce risks, secure data, ensure privacy, and achieve compliance. Discover techniques to boost data quality, streamline development, and enhance transparency through metadata management. Gain insights on extending governance to vendors and tackling real-world challenges. Leave with actionable solutions to make a significant impact as a data steward from day one.
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Slide deck AND video available!
DATA STRATEGY
Maximizing Organizational Potential:
The Essential Role of Data Strategy
This session explores the critical role of a comprehensive data strategy as the foundation for AI, data science, and machine learning initiatives. Gain insights into high-quality data, governance, and value extraction, while mastering reference data, literacy, interoperability, and compliance. Learn how data strategy drives catalogs, metadata, monetization, and big data integration. Discover its dependency on a business strategy to achieve organizational goals and enable transformative leadership.
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Slide deck AND video available!
DATA STRATEGY
Ever wonder what happens when data strategy, quality, and trust meet up for a drink? (Spoiler: It’s not a data disaster!) Join us for a lively fireside chat where we'll dive into how these three friends - data strategy, quality, and trust - join forces to whip your data initiatives into shape. Whether you’re trying to prevent your next AI, ML, data science or advanced analytics project from turning into a horror story or just tired of data surprises, this chat will reveal how this trio can help you avoid a hangover and serve up a formula for success.
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Slide deck and video available!
Human Side of Data
Data is more than just numbers and statistics; it is the lifeblood of informed decision-making and strategic planning. In "The Human Side of Data," panelists will delve into the complex interplay between data and the human factors that shape its collection, interpretation, and utilization. Explore how personal biases, historical contexts, and societal changes influence data quality and integrity. We will discuss real-world examples of how data can be misused or misunderstood, leading to significant consequences. Join us to uncover the essential role of human judgment in ensuring responsible and ethical data use and learn how to navigate the challenges of interpreting data in a rapidly evolving technological landscape.
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Slide deck and video available!
INFORMATION SECURITY
CEO's Guide to Optimal Information Security
This webinar highlights the critical role of CEOs and executives in combating rising cyber threats like ransomware and data loss. It emphasizes the need for a strategic approach to information security, including vulnerability identification, risk assessment, and implementing security standards. Learn how to foster a security-aware culture, guided by leadership, to protect digital assets. Gain practical insights into risk management and decision-making to strengthen your organization’s cyber resilience.
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Slide deck AND video available!
LINKED IN
Linked In Unleashed: Strategies for Building a Personal Brand and Expanding Your Network
This talk explores how to strategically leverage LinkedIn to build a strong professional brand and network. Learn to optimize your profile, create impactful content, and generate meaningful conversations and leads. Discover techniques for branding, networking, and utilizing LinkedIn's features like groups and events to connect with peers and stay industry-savvy. Unlock LinkedIn's free potential to showcase expertise, foster relationships, and drive professional and product growth.
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Slide deck available (video coming soon)!
TEST AUTOMATION
This session highlights the importance of test automation in agile data warehousing (DW) and business intelligence (BI) practices. Learn how automated testing prevents regression bottlenecks as test suites grow, enabling faster, reliable iterations. Agile experts Lynn Winterboer and Cher Fox share foundational testing practices, data-specific automation tools, and a live demo to empower teams in their agile journey, ensuring quality and efficiency in DW/BI development.
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Slide deck and video available (implementation framework coming soon)!
