Charlene was introduced to Data Management principals and processes 8 years ago whilst working as an IT Disaster Recovery Analyst for a United Utilities. This was the start of her data journey, where she has been working in the Data Governance and Management field since 2017. In October 2021, Charlene joined The Very Group, a multi-brand online retailer and financial services provider across the UK and Ireland, where she manages the company’s data governance and management activities. Since joining TVG, Charlene has established a Data Governance Framework and is championing the culture change to support their data strategy in being data driven. In the last 12 months, Charlene and her team have successfully established a permanent Data Stewardship community across the organisation, something which had been a challenge for The Very Group and hadn’t fully taken hold prior to this. In addition to this, Charlene takes a lead on understanding The Very Groups regulations and works heavily with their Data Protection Office to ensure the company maintains compliance when it stores and processes personal data.

Valentina Niklasson is the Business Information Architect and Data Governance Lead at Volvo Penta and representing Volvo Penta within Volvo Group. She has worked at Volvo Penta for 24 years in many different positions and roles within quality development and structuring of operations. That have given her experiences in driving the development of processes and lean implementations.

Deep Lidder is a Data Governance specialist at Cervello, a Data and Digital Consultancy. He has worked with organisations across industries and internationally to successfully deliver Data Governance programs that focus on people and business value. Deep has worked closely with data throughout his career. He studied Physics and Maths at Cambridge and Harvard, before joining the Finance and Risk practice at Oliver Wyman. He trained as an Actor at Second City, and enjoys performing improv theatre, writing sketch comedy and teaching high-school Physics. He lives in London, UK.

Supporting the delivery of a key strategic Bank of England and FCA programme transforming data collection (TDC). Leading the external engagement on behalf of the Bank across the UK financial sector and industry - firms, central banks and regulators, trade bodies, technology partners and vendors etc. All about the programme - check our website https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/prudential-regulation/transforming-data-collection

Sophie has over 15 years of experience in data quality and data governance. She gained this experience in companies such as Dun&Bradstreet (now Altares) and Bisnode Belgium (now Black Tiger). QuaData was her next challenge. She founded the consultancy in 2014. As Managing Partner, Sophie works with QuaData consultants to help clients become champions in data quality, master data management and data compliance by implementing Agile Data Governance. Agile Data Governance is a methodology developed by QuaData that combines the best of both worlds: data governance and the principles of lean and agile data management. It makes data governance more value driven and easier to manage the change that always comes with such programs.