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The Ask the Expert is a moderated Conference Call designed to serve as discussion platform for the data and information quality community. The conference calls are supported and organized by the International Association for Information and Data Quality. IAIDQ seeks to engage experts with experience and expertise in the field of data and information quality. The calls are for all members of the IAIDQ interested in exchanging comments, ask questions and share thoughts related to information and data quality.
Moderator
Piyush Malik
Piyush Malik is an Associate Partner with IBM Global Business Services and serves as the Global Delivery Leader for Business Intelligence & Business Performance Management solutions in Americas He additionally serves as the Competency Leader for Information Integrity. As a founding member and thought leader, Piyush was instrumental in establishing the Information Integrity practice area for PricewaterhouseCoopers and subsequently at IBM Business Consulting Services.
Specializing in CRM and Business Intelligence, he has around nineteen years of international consulting experience with Fortune 500 clients spanning a variety of industries providing analytics, data warehousing and BI solutions and information integration services He played leadership roles in tool and technology selection, design, development, quality assurance and implementation of enterprise databases, data integration architecture and processes, data modeling, metadata architecture, data governance and information quality. He has experience in Retail, Energy and Utility as well as Electronics and Telecommunication industries amongst others.
As a strategic management consultant focusing on emerging information technologies, Piyush has had extensive leadership as well as hands on experience in designing, architecting and implementing complex solutions. He works with clients on value net optimization, Information value chains, Data quality and governance, Sales and Marketing transformation, and business value realization, using advanced business models, analytics and cutting edge technologies.
A resident of California, United States, Piyush is a charter member of IAIDQ, has published many white papers and articles and has been invited to speak at conferences in North America, Europe and Asia. He holds a Bachelors in Electronics Engineering from Delhi University and Masters in Management of Technology from IIT, Delhi.
Tony O'Brien
Tony O'Brien is a Finance Manager within Remploy, the largest provider of employment opportunities with the UK. He has over thirty-five years experience within the fields of Finance and IS and has been involved in the implementation and development of a number of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. He is currently in the final year of a Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) degree at Nottingham Trent University, focussing upon data quality within planning and information systems, with particular regard to organisations employing disabled people.
Participating in Ask The Expert Sessions
The sessions are normally held every 4-6 weeks and is organized as one-hour phone conferences. Join the conference at no cost by phone or by VOIP. The sessions will be communicated through our monthly e-mail update as well as on the IAIDQ calendar.
Ground Rules
- When speaking, always state your name first before your comments.
- It is OK to disagree and have different opinions — All should share their viewpoints with respect.
- The purpose of the discussion is not to convince others, but to learn by using inquiry to develop greater insights.
- Comments should typically be limited to 1-2 minutes.
- Participants should mute their phone unless they are talking.
- The sessions will start and end on time. We will not review what has already been said for people who come in late.
- Ask the Expert participants are encouraged to continue the conversation via the Ask-the-expert Yahoo Group.
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