Our 2004-2005 Programme

Wednesday, September 15 - 9:00 a.m.- Season Opener

Bill Chadwick, Explore Ways of Strengthening Your Information Resource Career Value: A Workshop

Tuesday, September 21 - 6:00 p.m. Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse Special Interest Group

Keith Davidson & Allan Morhart, Improving Customer Service with Real-time data delivery

Wednesday, October 20 - 9:00 a.m.

Andrew Toller, Applying XML Based Technologies to Communities of Interest

Tuesday, October 26 - 6:00 p.m. Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse Special Interest Group

Simon Miller, Ten proven steps to High Value BI Applications

Wednesday, November 17 - 9:00 a.m. Special Presentation

Michael Blechar, Service Oriented Models and Meta Data Management

Wednesday, November 24 - 6:00 p.m. Joint IRMAC SIG Event

Lois Raats & Debra Bannister, Coaching Assessment: An Interactive Seminar

Wednesday, December 15 9:00 a.m.

Jim Love, Business Value of Information

Tuesday, January 11 4:30 p.m. Meta Data SIG

Ingrid Bredin, Look Who's Asking for Metadata These Days: The New Business & Regulatory Drivers

Wednesday, January 19 - 9:00 a.m.

Phil D'Eon & Natalia N. Modjeska, The Symbiotic Cycle of Knowledge Capture and Knowledge Delivery

Monday, January 31 - 6:00 p.m.

Diane Johnson, State of the Union Address: "May You Live in Interesting Times"

Wednesday February 16 - 9:00 a.m. SOA Part II - Back by Popular Demand

Lars Laakes, Data on the Outside vs. Data on the Inside: An Examination of the Impact of Service Oriented Architectures on Data

Thursday, February 24 - 6 p.m. Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse Special Interest Group

Round Table Discussion with David Londry, Vanitha Devarajan and Bill Chadwick "Optimizing your BI/DW evolution plans"

Wednesday, March 16 - 9:00 a.m.

Karen Lopez, Defining a Profession with the Zachman Framework
Paul Bassett, Professionalism Issues in IT

Thursday, March 24 - 6:00 p.m. Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse Special Interest Group

Darren Edery, ETL from Good to Great

Tuesday, April 19 - 9:00 a.m. Visiting Speaker

Stu Carty, MetaData Management 2005

Monday April 25 - 6:00 p.m. Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse Special Interest Group

Ed Bernier, Case Studies and Lessons Learned on the Netezza High Performance DW Appliance

Wednesday, May 18 - 9:00 a.m.

Peter Szirmak, Application Portfolio Management: Concept and Evolution

Tuesday May 24 - 6:00 p.m. Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse Special Interest Group

Stephen Herskovits,`Resolving Data Issues with Grid Computing

Tuesday, May 31 4:30 p.m. Meta Data SIG

Todd Moore & panel, Your Metadata - What's Happening With It Today

Tuesday, June 7 One Day Seminar - Registration required

Len Silverston on "How to Jump-Start and Develop Quality Data Designs Using Universal Data Models"

Wednesday, June 8 Annual Lunch

Len Silverston on "How to Effectively Deal with Politics In Data Management"

In putting together the programme we are heavily indebted to association members who put forward ideas or who offer themselves or others as speakers. If you have suggestions for forthcoming presentations, please contact our .