MDM & Data Governance Summit Chicago

We have found that the MDM & DG Summits hosted by Information Management to be the premier, vendor agnostic annual event for business and IT leaders to discover the Industry Trends and to learn from their peers.

The MDM & Data Governance Summit provides an opportunity for the data management community to engage with like-minded peers and learn from experts at the forefront of our industry.

Many leading-edge corporations and institutions will be making presentations and are available for discussion including St. Jude Children’s Research, Walgreens, The Hartford, United Airlines, and Genomic Health. XTIVIA will be presenting along-side these industry leaders with our topic on “Data Strategy in the HOV Lane: Data Governance Rides Shotgun”.

Organizations are famished for Information and are employing heroic Data Strategies to acquire, organize, publish and assimilate data into their enterprise ecosystem. The emergence of Chief Data Officers, infusion of Big Data, Data Lakes, Machine Learning and the specialty of Data Scientists over this decade are evidence of the IT shift from Systems to Information. Ultimately, the Business drives Data Strategies through the corporate strategy.

The changes from a structured engineering culture to that of the creative and innovative mindset is enticing with the benefits of the data-driven company. However, it has immense peril for those who journey has begun but the momentum hasn’t been realized.

This presentation will cover the steps one makes in embracing a corporate Data Strategy while using Data Governance as the accelerant rather than the throttle.

• Business strategy drives enterprise architecture, which in turn, drives data strategy
• Starting points in the data strategy
• Aligning governance processes to the business strategy and the data strategy
• Enlist champions through the data governance council where they guide the data strategy
• Prioritizing limited resources
• Demonstrating measurable progress