Our 2005-2006 Programme

Monday, September 26, 9 a.m.- Season Opener

David Hay, Enterprise Architecture: Data Model Patterns: A Metadata Map

Wednesday, October 19, 9 a.m.

Dave McComb, The Semantic Web: What Is It and Why Should You Care?

Thursday, November 3, 6 p.m. - Business Intelligence/ Data Warehousing SIG Event

Promote Yourself - through Tuning into Your BI Clients' Needs!

Wednesday, November 16, 9 a.m.

Critical Issues of Information Management in Financial Services - a panel discussion

Monday, December 5, 6 p.m. - Business Intelligence/ Data Warehousing SIG Event

Michael Pickering, Data Warehouse Architecture: An Interactive Survey of Best Practices

Wednesday, December 7, 9 a.m. (note date change)

Roger Burlton on 'Business Process Architecture: The Eye of the Hurricane'

Monday, January 9, 4 p.m.- Meta Data Special Interest Group Event

Panel on 'Marketing and Value of Metadata'

Wednesday, January 18, 9 a.m.

Kjeel Wittmaack, Information Management Methodology - a holistic approach to manage and exploit information as a corporate asset

Wednesday, February 22, 9 a.m. (note date change)

Alonso Perez and Patrick Sue, Information Technology Strategies

Monday, February 27, 6 p.m. Business Intelligence/ Data Warehousing SIG

Dave Xie, Best Practices in ETL Process Control

Wednesday, March 8, 9 a.m.

Karen Lopez, How to Win Friends and Influence People with Painless Data Model Reviews and Presentations

Monday, April 3, 6 p.m. Business Intelligence/ Data Warehousing SIG

Gary Saarenvirta, Best Practices in Fraud Detection

Wednesday, April 5, 4:30 p.m.- Meta Data Special Interest Group Event

Lowell Fryman, Wikipedia with an Attitude: Collecting and Using Business Semantics

Wednesday, April 19, 9 a.m. Special Presentation

Bill Inmon, Bringing The Structured And Unstructured Worlds Together

Thursday, May 5, 6:30 p.m. Business Intelligence/ Data Warehousing SIG

Questions & Answers with Claudia Imhoff

Wednesday, May 17, 9 a.m. Annual General Meeting

Michael Gorman, Data Interoperability Strategy Seminar

Monday, June 19 - Larry English seminar

INFORMATION QUALITY PRINCIPLES & PROCESSES (IQ 101): Foundations for Sustainable IQ

Tuesday, June 20 - Larry English seminar

ASSESSING INFORMATION QUALITY: Quality Measurement and Control for Information Products

Wednesday, June 21 - Annual Lunch

Larry English - Details to follow

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 .