Conference speakers are many of the industry’s top experts.

Bill Inmon
Founder
Forest Rim Technology


Universally recognized as the father of data warehousing, Bill is a popular speaker and internationally recognized expert, providing advice to many corporations, universities and leading high-tech companies. He has published more than 40 books and 1,000 articles on data management and data warehousing, and his books have been translated into nine languages.

Krish Krishnan
President
Sixth Sense Advisors Inc.


Mr. Krishnan is a recognized expert worldwide in the strategy, architecture and implementation of high performance data warehousing solutions. He is a visionary data warehouse thought leader, ranked as one of the top 25 data warehouse consultants in the world, and an independent analyst, writing and speaking at industry leading conferences, user groups and trade publications. He has authored three eBooks, over 75 plus articles, viewpoints and case studies in Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Data Warehouse Appliances and Architectures.

A recognized authority on Unstructured data integration, text mining and text analytics. Along with Bill Inmon, he is promoting the next generation of data warehousing, primarily on DW 2.0 platform with unstructured data integration and social intelligence as key areas.

Krish is a recognized for his work in high performance data warehouse architectures and is an acknowledged expert in performance tuning of complex database and data warehouse platforms. In his 19 plus years of professional experience he has been solving complex solution architecture problems spanning all aspects of data warehousing and business intelligence for fortune 1000 clients. He has designed and tuned some of the world’s largest data warehouses and business intelligence platforms.

Krish is the president of Sixth Sense Advisors Inc, a Chicago based company providing Independent Analyst consulting services in Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence. Krish has been invited as a technology advisor to many startup companies and is consulted by Venture Capital firms on their technology portfolio of investments. He is sought after to assess startup companies in the data management and its associated technology areas.

Krish presents and speaks at TDWI, DAMA, IRM UK, MIT Symposium and other industry conferences. He publishes with http://www.b-eye-network.com/blogs/krishnan/. Krish leads the Data Warehouse Appliance and Architectures Expert Channel at BEyeNetwork.com and is helping drive and mature the data warehouse appliance market.

Krish also serves as Associate Vice President of Programs, DAMA Chicago.

Bill Bird
Enterprise Architecture Advisor
Shell Oil


Bill Bird started his career in 1985 with Shell Oil Company, located in Bakersfield, California, as a cartographer (a maker of maps). Shortly after, Bill realized the art of drafting with pen and ink was being replaced with Geographic Information Systems (GIS). He decided that if he was going to be successful in his chosen profession, he would have to get good at the “IS” part of “GIS”…so the transition to the “dark side” was put into motion.

Fast forward ten years, Shell Oil Company forms an LLC out of the California operations. Within a year, this LLC is merged with Mobil Oil’s California operations and becomes Aera Energy LLC. Shortly after this merger, Exxon merges with Mobil to become ExxonMobil. Aera is now co-owned by two of the world’s largest energy companies, Shell and ExxonMobil. As you can imagine, this merger resulted in a multitude of duplicate processes and data/information systems.

Bill had numerous roles on the team that implemented Enterprise Architecture (EA) within Aera. “The Aera Way” is now a new term used in the Shell and ExxonMobil vocabulary. With one successful Enterprise Architecture implementation “under his belt,” Bill is taking his Aera learnings back to Shell Oil, specifically to the Upstream America Onshore Gas operations, to implement EA…“The Onshore Gas Way”.

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Thomas Groh
Co-Founder and CTO
Bi3 Solutions, Inc.


Thomas Groh has 20 years of experience in the IT professional services industry, both in the United States and Europe. He is a recognized expert in the areas of methodology and Business Intelligence that has educated large audiences and analysts through his writing and speaking for organizations including DM Review, CFO Enterprises and Vista Research of Standards & Poor's. He has authored several books in the areas of information management and Business Intelligence for IBM. In his role as a senior solution architect and data management expert working at systems integrators such as Siemens and IBM, he has designed large-scale and mission-critical business solutions and has gained experience across multiple industries including finance, retail and distribution, telecommunication, and high-tech manufacturing. During his tenure with IBM, he was instrumental in defining and rolling out several of IBM's advanced business intelligence service offerings on an international scale. Before founding Bi3 Solutions, Inc in 2001, Groh has held senior positions at several national consulting firms in the U.S. including IBM, Whittman-Hart and One, Inc. He holds a Master’s of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Technology in Vienna, Austria.

Bob Seiner
President and Principal
KIK Consulting & Educational Services


Robert (Bob) S. Seiner is the President and Principal of KIK Consulting & Educational Services and the Publisher of The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com). In 2010, TDAN.com will celebrate its 13th anniversary and attracts more than 100K visitors every month. This same year, KIK Consulting will celebrate its 8th anniversary and focuses on knowledge transfer and consultative mentoring. Bob was recently awarded the DAMA Professional Award for significant and demonstrable contributions to the data management industry and chaired the 2010 Data Governance Best Practice Award. Bob specializes in "Non-Invasive Data Governance"™, data stewardship, and meta-data management solutions and has successfully assisted and mentored many notable organizations.

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Tim Leonard
CTO, VP of Information Management
Usxpress Inc.


Timothy Leonard CTO, VP of Information Management at Usxpress Inc, has over 22 years experience in configuration management planning for Information Management System, Operational data stores and Order Entry Systems. His expertise includes delivering of the mechanism used to identify, control, and track the changes to each project rollout across-Functional Team. He has written procedures on the effectives for an organized and formal method for managing change requests to baseline documents and associated projects. A “patent holder” for Internet Order Entry System, Mr. Leonard a publisher of several articles on effective collaborations, he understands and implements all phases of a project life cycle by identify and track all actions and changes resulting from a Configuration Management plan from initiation through to release for enterprise solutions. Effectively bring together the business needs and delivering IT solutions that enable the business.

Mike Lampa
Practice Lead
Dell Services


Mike Lampa is a Practice Lead for Dell Services Global Business Intelligence practice. Prior to joining Dell in 2008, Mike owned and operated a Data Warehouse consulting practice for 14 years, providing end-end DW program planning and Solution Delivery. Mike is a sought after speaker and educator. He is actively involved with TDWI and has been published in DM Review.

Ross Leher
Chairman and CEO
WAND, Inc.


Ross Leher is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of WAND, Inc. Mr. Leher, whose background includes international commerce, trade, and retailing, has a proven record of growing innovative businesses in highly competitive markets. WAND has developed structured multi-lingual vocabularies with related tools and services to power precision search and classification applications. Simply put, we make search work better. WAND Taxonomies are used in online yellow pages and local search, ad-matching engines, B2B directories, product search, and within enterprise search engines. WAND’s Taxonomy Library contains more than 40 domain specific taxonomies including 33 different industry vertical packages, jobs, travel, retail, medical, financial services, records retention, and general enterprise search topics with more domains being added on a regular basis. WAND data can be integrated into a wide variety of search applications to improve the relevance of search results. WAND’s taxonomies are available in 13 global languages. Mr. Leher is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Economics.

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