Speaker Guidelines

Please read the below before you submit your paper

This unique and multidisciplinary conference is for anyone working in Data Governance and Master Data Management. The conference enables people to share ideas and experiences, exploring how organisations turn great ideas into beneficial business outcomes. The conference program will encompass how Data Governance and Master Data Management professionals enable the delivery of effective solutions to the opportunities and challenges that organisations and individuals face, in today’s high-paced world.

Speaker Benefits Include:

• Establish your profile in the Data Governance and Master Data Management Community
• Attend the 2-day conference without charge (17 – 18 March 2025)
• Registration discounts for your colleagues
• Network with peers and build excellent professional relationships
• Share thoughts and experiences with a qualified and motivated audience
• Discover the rewards of sharing your expertise and informing others
• Create new business opportunities for yourself and your organisation

What We’re Looking For:

We require presentations about your experiences in enabling organisational success through Data Governance and Master Data Management.

We are looking for speakers who can share their stories, stimulate the audience’s imagination, and offer practical answers to real-life challenges. Which approaches, techniques and tools have proved to be most useful, or which ones did not deliver?

Experience has shown us that delegates have expressed a preference for how-to topics and case studies rather than theoretical or abstract topics.

We would particularly like practitioners with interesting experiences to share including success stories, lessons learned, challenges that have been overcome, and pitfalls to avoid. If you are from a software company, service provider, or consulting firm, please include a speaker who represents one of your client organisations. We value your industry expertise. However, delegates want to hear about the experiences of those impacted by business changes.

Delegates also like to hear from industry experts who can provide fresh insights, current trends, management advice, and discussions of future directions.

Please submit a description of the talk you would like to present.

We need a title that reflects the content of the presentation, a description in a paragraph or two, and 3-5 bullet points setting out the key messages. Tell us something about yourself, your role, and the enterprise you represent. If you have previous experience as a conference speaker, provide a summary of this experience. If you don’t have previous experience speaking at conferences, then please make this clear. We’re happy either way and just need to know.

Themes and Topics:

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Key Topics:

Foundational Topics:

• Introduction to Master Data Management (MDM)
• Data Governance 101
• The Importance of Data Quality
• Data Architecture and Modelling
• Data Integration Techniques
• Metadata Management
• Data Lineage and Provenance
• Data Security and Compliance
• Data Auditing and Monitoring
• Data Stewardship and Ownership

Advanced Topics:

• AI in Data
• AI & ML Models
• MDM and Big Data
• Data Governance for Cloud Computing
• Data Mesh
• Data Virtualisation Techniques
• Master Data and Business Intelligence
• Data Governance in DevOps
• Data Lakes vs Data Warehouses
• Data Cataloguing
• Data Masking and Anonymisation
• Data Governance for IoT
• Data Monetisation Strategies

Emerging Technologies:

• Blockchain for Data Governance
• AI and Machine Learning in MDM
• Graph Databases in Data Management
• Natural Language Processing for Data Quality
• Quantum Computing and Data Management
• Augmented Data Catalogs
• Automated Metadata Discovery
• Real-time Data Governance
• Ethical AI and Data Governance
• 5G and Edge Computing in Data Management
• Soft Skills and Leadership
• Building a Data-Driven Culture
• Managing Data Teams
• Data Literacy and Training
• Stakeholder Engagement in Data Projects
• Ethics and Responsibility in Data Management

Workshops and Hands-On Sessions:
All the above topics, also:

• Data Governance Framework Workshop
• Data Quality Assessment Hands-On
• Metadata Tagging Exercise
• Case Studies and Real-world Examples

We’ll be choosing keynotes, conference sessions, and workshops that concern the following examples of themes and topics.

If you can offer a presentation on a topic or theme we haven’t covered, and you feel the conference would benefit from this presentation, please submit it for consideration. This conference is for the Data Governance and Master Data Management community – we are always keen to hear your ideas.

Speaker Guidelines

Please read these guidelines carefully before you make your submission, and ensure it reaches us by Friday 27th September 2024

Proposals should be focused, adheres to the conference guidelines, and offers something engaging and useful.

We are looking for:

• 45-minute conference sessions
• Post-conference workshops (3 hours or 6 hours)
• Keynotes (45 minutes – 1 hour)
• Ideas for roundtables/panels and networking sessions
  Please submit your abstract directly on our website using the submission form below. You may submit more than one abstract.

Your abstract should be kept to the 150-word limit, clearly outlining your content plus 3-5 bullet points at the end to summarise your key messages as to what delegates will learn. Copy must be written in 3rd person. Bear in mind that your abstract needs to be sufficiently polished for inclusion on the website and in the conference brochure and must achieve the following objectives:

Provide enough information for us to evaluate your submission relative to others. To aid the evaluation you can include additional relevant information in the ‘Additional Resources’ of the submission form.

Be attractive to conference attendees and help them to select the sessions most valuable to them, given their interests and level of maturity in the subject matter.
Based on previous conference feedback and program assessments, here are some tips to help you maximize your chances of being selected.

DO:

Be specific and concrete about what you will be presenting and how the audience will benefit from it. Use the bullet points to highlight the key ‘takeaways’.
Demonstrate real-world achievements, showing examples of content if possible, and describing outcomes from applying it.
Push the envelope. Aim to stretch the audience with fresh insights and the benefit of your own experience. Or present a topic that would fully engage people at the CIO level.
Ensure that your presentation is relevant to this conference. If your talk majors on a specialised topic, you should position it clearly in the overall conference theme.

AVOID:

‘Pitching’ specific products.
Exceeding the word count limit.
Trying to cover too much ground in the time available.
Putting forward unsubstantiated theories or opinions.
Using vague abstractions and jargon.

If you have presented recently at another conference on a similar subject matter, we suggest that you use the ‘Additional Resources’ of the submission form to indicate how this presentation is different from what you have presented before.

If you are not sure whether your idea is suitable or not, please feel free to contact us to discuss it before making your submission.

Please direct any questions about submissions to Andrew Morris at andrew@irmuk.co.uk