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International Association for Information & Data Quality
Data Governance and IDQ

Call for Presentations Deadline Nov. 23, 2009
 

We are pleased to announce that presentation proposals are now being accepted for the Information and Data Quality Conference (IDQ) and the Annual Data Governance Conference scheduled for June 7-10, 2010 at the Catamaran Resort Hotel and Spa in San Diego, California.

 

Next year, IAIDQ's Information and Data Quality Conference will be co-located with the Data Governance Conference produced by DebTech International and Wilshire Conferences, making this joint event the world's largest event dedicated to information quality and data governance.

 

We are interested in proposals that focus on case studies, lessons learned, success stories,  and the "how-tos" related to data and information quality and data governance and stewardship.

 

You do not need to be an experienced presenter to submit a proposal. We encourage novice presenters as well as professional presenters to submit proposals for this event.
 

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Case studies and success stories
  • Best practices and lessons learned
  • Business oriented presentations
  • Building the business case and gaining executive and peer support
  • Data governance or data quality 101
  • How to get started with data governance
  • Developing a data governance or data quality strategy
  • Compliance, risk management, data protection, information security and privacy
  • Post implementation issues. Pitfalls to avoid
  • Data governance in an agile environment
  • Data governance and Master Data Management
  • Effective uses of technology in implementing data governance or data quality
  • Home grown tools of data governance and data quality-templates, checklists, "how-to" resources
  • Roles, responsibilities and accountabilities
  • Data stewardship
  • Leading organizational change for data governance or data quality  Communications strategies.  Process reengineering.
  • Assessing the effectiveness of your data governance or data quality program - maturity models, metrics, scorecards, dashboards
  • Aligning Business and IT
  • Staffing and managing a data governance or data quality function 
  • Successful partnerships with other organizational functions
  • Measuring and reporting data quality (incl. profiling, data quality rules, accuracy measurement, ongoing monitoring)
  • Improving data quality (incl. Lean, Six Sigma applications, process improvement and audits)
  • Data quality standards (ISO 8000, ISO 25012), data quality and governance policies and principles
  • Architectures for data quality
  • Governing unstructured data
  • Impact in relation to other initiatives (e.g. Enterprise Architecture, Business Intelligence, Data Integration, Metadata, SOA, ERP, ITIL, COBIT)
  • Governance and Cloud computing
  • Advanced topics and emerging trends

Presentations may be proposed in the following categories:

  • Conference Sessions (1 hour duration)
  • Special Interest Groups (1 hour duration)
  • Tutorials (half day)

Please take note of all the requirements and follow the presentation guidelines carefully.

 

PLEASE NOTE: We cannot tell you in advance if your proposal will be accepted or not. This would not be fair to the other potential speakers who have also submitted proposals.  We receive many abstracts defining data governance and data quality and why it is important. In order to increase your chances of acceptance  we suggest that additional topics and depth need to be included in your proposal.

 

  1. Presentations from corporate practitioners that reflect real-world experience will receive priority consideration.
  2. Vendor organizations may submit proposals but please understand that vendor presentations are viewed very cautiously, in light of past experience with sales pitches and commercialism. Therefore, very few speaking slots are ultimately offered to vendor organizations (vendors interested in promoting their products may purchase exhibit space or other sponsorships.)
  3. Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are one hour long. The format is a facilitated session.

Speaker Presentation Conditions

  1. All speakers must agree to provide their presentation to Wilshire Conferences and DebTech International in a standard electronic form (PowerPoint is required), no later than April 20, 2010. This is necessary to prepare the event CD and documentation. Speakers who are delinquent in meeting this deadline risk being replaced on the program.
  2. By submitting a proposal, the speaker agrees to the standard copyright and reproduction terms of this event.  These terms provide that copyright in original presentation material remains with the speaker, however Wilshire Conferences, DebTech International and IAIDQ are granted the right to record, reproduce and distribute each presentation in all forms of printed and electronic conference materials, including, but not limited to, the conference CD-ROM, printed attendee notes, the conference web site, and audio and/or video recordings (digital and/or analog), without royalties or fees payable to speaker. Sorry, there are no exceptions to these requirements.
  3. All sessions will be rated by the audience for commercial content.  Any speaker who is judged by the audience to have made an inappropriate sales pitch for his/her own company, book, product or service during a conference session risks having their presentation interrupted and/or halted, and will not be invited to participate at future conferences.
  4. By submitting a proposal, speaker agrees that he/she has permission from his/her company to make the presentation under the terms outlined in this Call for Papers. If you do not have approval at the time you make the proposal, you must indicate this clearly.

 

Sponsorship Opportunities Are Available

Please contact Davida Berger at davida@debtechint.|com or call +1 (973) 379-7212.

 

 

Davida Berger, DebTech International & Tony Shaw, Wilshire Conferences and Lwanga Yonke, IAIDQ