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IDQ Webinars: World Quality Day Special

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Data and Information Quality:  Are We Advancing Fast Enough?

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Celebrate World Quality Day with IAIDQ by joining a special "virtual" panel discussion featuring our co-founder Dr Tom Redman and a few other prominent Data Quality practitioners discussing the pace of advancement in the information and data quality domain.

At this Webinar, the Data Doc will be joined by Melody Penning, President of the IAIDQ Chapter at University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Piyush Malik from IAIDQ Board of Directors, and Peter Benson Executive Director ECCMA.

The session will conclude with an opportunity for the audience to ask questions and share in the dialogue. We would  would like to hear about your interests, concerns, and challenges ahead of time, so share your provocative questions while registering for the event .

Please join us to celebrate World Quality Day!

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About the Author

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Dr. Thomas C. Redman, “the Data Doc,” is President of Navesink Consulting Group, based on the Jersey Shore. He advises companies and leaders on their data and data quality programs.

His fourth book, Data Driven: Profiting from Your Most Important Business Asset (Harvard Business Press) is a Library Journal Best Business Book of 2008. 

Prior to forming Navesink, in 1996, Tom started and led the Data Quality Lab at Bell Labs. 

He is an IAIDQ co-founder and winner of its 2011 Distinguished Member award. 

 

About the Author

Melody Penning

Melody L. Penning is a graduate student in the Information Quality program at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR). She completed her Master’s Degree in Information Quality in 2012 and received honors for Outstanding Academic Achievement and Best MSIQ Project 2011-12. 

She is an employee of the University, working in the Information Technology Department on data analysis and visualization. Ms. Penning is also a member of the OYSTER Entity Resolution research team at the Center for Advanced Research in Entity Resolution and Information Quality (ERIQ). Most recently she has received certification in the Level I ISO 8000-110:2009 Data Quality Standard for Master Data Management and is the current president of the UALR Chapter of the IAIDQ.

 

About the Author

Christian Walenta

Piyush Malik focuses on strategic initiatives and emerging technologies as part of IBM’s Global Business Analytics & Optimization (BAO) consulting practice. Currently he leads their Big Data Services Center of Excellence. Specializing in Information management strategy and architecture, information quality and governance, business intelligence, master data and advanced analytics, he has over twenty years of international consulting, practice building, sales and delivery experience with Fortune 500 clients across industries. Piyush has served on the Board of Directors of IAIDQ since 2008 and has been a charter member since its inception. 

 He has served as the founding director of IBM’s Global BAO Center of Competency and previously led the Information Integrity consulting practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers Management Consulting Services prior to its acquisition by IBM in 2002.

 

About the Author

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Mr. Peter Richard Benson is the Founding and Executive Director of the Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA). Peter is also the project leader for ISO 8000 (data quality) and ISO 22745 (open technical dictionaries) Peter is a member of IAIDQ and  proponent of open standards for data portability and long term data preservation. Peter works to focus international attention on open metadata and how its use in software applications protects an organization’s rights to their own data as well as on the importance of data provenance, the ability to track the origin of data.

 

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About the Author

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Robin Rappaport is the Data Quality Team Leader responsible for delivery of the Data Quality Initiative for Research Databases at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Her work and that of her team contributed to the IRS being awarded a Computerworld Honor and a Government Computer News (GCN) Gala Award. She has over 25 years of experience as a Data Quality practitioner. Her undergraduate degree was in Economics with Computer Science. Her graduate work was in Operations Research with a concentration in Mathematical Modeling in Information Systems. She has worked in both private (6 years) and public sectors (since June 1990). Her positions include Computer Programmer, Systems Analyst, and Operations Research Analyst.

In addition to the International Association for Information & Data Quality (IAIDQ), she is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS). She was Chairman, Individual Membership for the Washington, D.C. chapter from 1987- 1990. She was elected Secretary and served from 1990 - 1991.

She lives in Baltimore, Maryland USA with her husband and their four children. She is also a Girl Scout Leader.

Contact Robin by email at robin [dot] rappaport [AT] iaidq [dot] org