The Data Warehousing Institute
Boston Chapter
Ron Wilkinson, CBIP
TDWI Boston Chapter President
Manager of Business Intelligence, Children’s Hospital Boston
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Chapter Officers Introduction
Chapter
President
Ron Wilkinson
Manager of Business Intelligence,
Children's Hospital Boston
Chapter
Vice President
Rick Sherman
Partner, Athena IT Solutions
DM Review, TechTarget, NEU
Chapter
Secretary
Marc Paradis
Director of Strategic Data Services,
Massachusetts General Hospital
Chapter
Coordinator
Gary Bernstein
President,
DataSense Solutions
Chapter
Coordinator
Doug Newton
Manager, Data Architecture
The MathWorks
Chapter
Coordinator
Jens Meyer
Vice President,
First Marblehead
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TDWI Boston Chapter Sponsor
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• Kalido Dynamic Information Warehouse
• Kalido Master Data Management
• Kalido Business Information Modeler
• Kalido Universal Information Director
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Today’s Agenda Part 1
12:30 – 1:00
Networking and Light Lunch
1:00 – 1:15
Meeting Introduction
by Ron Wilkinson, Chapter President
1:15 – 2:00
Raising the Bar on Corporate Information
Quality: $1 Million at a Time
by Dr. Richard Wang, Chief Data Quality Officer,
U.S. Army
2:00 – 2:15
Short Break
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Today’s Agenda Part 2
2:15 – 3:00
Framework for the Analysis of the Adaptability,
Extensibility and Scalability of Semantic Information
Integration to Improve Data Quality in Data Warehouses
by Dr. Stuart Madnick, Professor Sloan School of
Management and Professor M.I.T
3:00 – 3:30
Peer Networking
3:30 – 4:15
Breaking Rules: How do Information Worriers Solve
Problems
by Dr. Yang Lee, Associate Professor Northeastern University
4:15 – 4:30
Chapter Business & Raffles
by Ron Wilkinson, Chapter President
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Today’s First Presentation
Raising the Bar on Corporate Information
Quality:
$1 Million at a Time
by Dr. Richard Wang,
Chief Data Quality Officer,
U.S. Army
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Today’s Second Presentation
Framework for the Analysis
Of the Adaptability, Extensibility and Scalability
of Semantic Information Integration
To Improve Data Quality in Data Warehouses
by
Dr. Stuart Madnick,
Professor, Sloan School of Management
and Professor, M.I.T.
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Networking Break
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Today’s Third Presentation
Breaking Rules:
How do Information Worriers
Solve Problems
By Dr. Yang Lee,
Associate Professor,
Northeastern University
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Upcoming TDWI Events
Autumn TDWI Webinars
What's New in Performance Dashboards?
Sep. 23, 2009
Help—My Operational Systems Are In Data Jail!
Sep. 28, 2009
Next Generation Data Warehouse Platforms
Oct. 7, 2009
Unifying Practices of Data Profiling, Integration, and Quality
Oct. 13, 2009
Pushing SQL-Based Analytics to a New Extreme
Oct. 14, 2009
Implementing Data Quality Control
Oct. 27, 2009
How to Make BI Pervasive
Oct. 28, 2009
Data Integration Architecture: What?, Where?, Why Care?
Nov. 11, 2009
More information at: http://www.tdwi.org/Webinars
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Upcoming TDWI Events
TDWI World Conference
Orlando, Florida 2009
Sunday, November 1 to Friday, November 6, 2009
At the Renaissance Orlando Hotel at SeaWorld
More information at: http://www.tdwi.org/orlando2009
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Upcoming TDWI Events
TDWI BI Essentials Seminar
Monday, Oct. 19 to Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009
At the British Columbia Institute of Technology
Vancouver, BC, Canada
More Information at:
http://www.tdwi.org/education/seminars
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Chapter Business
Proposed 2009 Chapter Meeting Dates
A Weekday of the Selected Month -- 1 PM to 4 PM
MONTH
November
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Chapter Business
Location of Future Meetings
• To reach the greatest number of participants, we intend
to continue alternating between downtown and suburban
locations.
• The locations with directions will be announced when the
meeting dates and topics are announced.
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Chapter Business
Reminder – if you are renewing or initiating your
TDWI membership, please use the code
“boscpt1” to receive a 10% discount
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Chapter Business
Please fill out your
evaluation forms
now!
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Chapter Business
We’d like to thank our sponsors once again
Russell Emerson
Northeast Sales Manager
(978) 988-7778 x 230
remerson@loganbritton.com
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Door Prizes
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Thanks for coming!
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