Dr. Irina Steenbeek is a data management practitioner with over 13 years of experience. The key areas of her professional expertise are setting up data management and/or governance frameworks, establishing a business case for data lineage, and measuring maturity and performance. Through the years, she has worked for global institutions and large- and medium-sized organizations in different sectors. In 2017, she founded Data Crossroads - a training and coaching services enterprise in data management. Data Crossroads assists companies in improving their decision-making by setting up a data management framework and documenting data lineage. Irina is a celebrated international speaker and author of several books, multiple white papers, and blogs. She strongly believes that the success of data management initiatives depends on combining a pragmatic approach with a clear and transparent methodology. She has shared her experience in the following books: The "Orange" Data Management Framework, The Data Management Toolkit, The Data Management Cookbook, and Data Lineage from a Business Perspective.

John founded EA Fellows in 2005. He has worked as a university researcher, a civil servant (in two countries), an independent consultant, an entrepreneur, and a director of research in a software company. Specialities: enterprise architecture, education and certification, strategic planning, communities of practice, digital government

John Grisby is an industry consultant and academic Professor of Practice (Leadership). He is based in London and works internationally across multiple sectors. John has a track record of helping business leaders and corporate executives transform their roles, teams and organisations. He specialises in building capacity and accelerating practice to achieve sustainable results, reducing failure to cope with business/industry '4.0' environments. John uses a range of Systems Leadership and Business Systems Improvement methodologies to help clients understand complexity, lead/manage through change and solve problems.

Felicity Cowie is a double Royal Television Society Award-winning former BBC journalist and author of Exposure: Insider Secrets to Make Your Business a Go-To Authority for Journalists. She helps leading businesses across the world prepare for, and communicate through, crises. She also creates time-pressured training exercises for the development of leadership skills and high-performing teams. Her Speed Storytelling ® process, based on her experiences of relaying breaking news as a journalist, was devised to help businesses communicate more efficiently during change.

Katie McConochie is the founder of Learn Change, a training consultancy which focuses on the People Side of Change. She has over 25 years experience in the field of Business Improvement & Change Management with a strong focus on putting the customer first. Her passionate belief that is that organisations that create a strong change management capability give themselves a huge competitive advantage. As a trainer and facilitator she has delivered engaging culture change and continuous improvement workshops across the globe.

David Beckham has spent his career working in Financial Services, initially at Norwich Union then subsequently with Aviva. His career began in policy administration then moved into IT and he has been a Business Analyst in different guises since 1995. A founding member of the Business Analysis Practice he later had two terms as the Practice Lead. He worked on numerous large change programmes and was heavily involved in building the capability of Business Analysis within the organisation over the last decade. He has regularly presented at the European BA Conference and has had several articles published on Business Analysis topics. Despite being diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in 2010 at the age of 43 David continues to be a passionate advocate of the profession and the benefits it gives to organisations everywhere. Since 2015 David has regularly spoken on the positive power of change both on a professional and personal basis. David left Aviva in 2019 after 33 years to start his own consultancy.

Danette McGilvray is an experienced trainer, consultant and author of Executing Data Quality Projects: Ten Steps to Quality Data and Trusted Information™ 2nd Ed. (Elsevier/Academic Press, 2021). An internationally respected expert, her Ten Steps™ approach to information quality has been embraced as a proven method for creating, improving, and managing the quality of all types of data for any kind of organization. Her book is used as a textbook in university graduate programs.

Rick van der Lans is a highly-respected independent analyst, consultant, author, and internationally acclaimed lecturer specializing in data architectures, data warehousing, business intelligence, big data, data virtualization, and database technology. He works for R20/Consultancy, which he founded in 1987. In 2018 he was selected the sixth most influential BI analyst worldwide by onalytica.com. He has presented countless seminars, webinars, and keynotes at industry-leading conferences. For many years, he served as the chairman of the annual European Enterprise Data and Business Intelligence Conference in London and the annual Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Summit in The Netherlands. He presents seminars, keynotes, and inhouse sessions on the following topics: Modern data architectures Big data and analytics Data virtualization The logical data warehouse Data warehousing and business intelligence Rick helps clients worldwide to design their data warehouse, big data, business intelligence, and streaming architectures and solutions and assists them with selecting the right products. He is ambassador of Axians Business Analytics Laren (formerly Kadenza), an international consultancy company specializing in business intelligence, data management, big data, data warehousing, data virtualization, and analytics. He is the author of several books on computing. Some of these books are available in different languages. Books such as the popular "Introduction to SQL" is available in English, Dutch, Italian, Chinese, and German and is sold worldwide. He was the author of the first available book on SQL, entitled including Introduction to SQL, which has been translated into several languages with more than 100,000 copies sold. More recently, he published two books on Data Virtualization: Selected Writings and Data Virtualization for Business Intelligence Systems.

Dr. Barry Devlin is a founder of the data warehousing industry, defining its first architecture in 1985. A foremost authority on business intelligence (BI), big data and beyond, he is respected worldwide as a visionary and thought-leader in the evolving industry. Barry has authored two ground-breaking books: the classic "Data Warehouse--from Architecture to Implementation" and “Business unIntelligence--Insight and Innovation Beyond Analytics and Big Data” in 2013 (http://bit.ly/BunI-TP2). Barry has over 30 years of experience in the IT industry, previously with IBM, as a consultant, manager and distinguished engineer. As founder and principal of 9sight Consulting (http://www.9sight.com) in 2008, Barry provides strategic consulting and thought-leadership to buyers and vendors of BI and Big Data solutions. Customer offerings include Readiness Assessments for Digital Transformation and all information-driven undertakings, Evaluations of Data Warehouse and Data Lake implementations, strategic and architectural recommendations. Vendor offerings run from webinars and keynotes to blogs and white papers. He is an associate editor of TDWI's Journal of Business Intelligence, and a regular keynote speaker, teacher and writer on all aspects of information creation and use. Barry operates worldwide from St Ives, Cornwall, UK. Specialties: Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing / Data Lakes, Data architecture, IT Strategy, Data management products, Consulting

Christopher Bradley has spent 39 years in the forefront of the Information Management field, working for International organisations in Information Management Strategy, Data Governance, Data Quality, Information Assurance, Master Data Management, Metadata Management, Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence. Chris is an Information Strategist and a recognised thought leader. He advises clients including, Alinma Bank, American Express, ANZ, British Gas, Bank of England, BP, Celgene, Cigna Insurance, EDP, Emirates NBD, Enterprise Oil, ExxonMobil, GSK, HSBC, NAB, National Grid, Riyad Bank, SABB, SAMA, Saudi NIC, Saudi Aramco, Shell, Statoil, and TOTAL. He is VP of Professional Development for DAMA-International, the inaugural Fellow of DAMA CDMP, past president of DAMA UK. He is an author of the DMBoK 2 and author and examiner for professional certifications. In 2016 Chris received the lifetime achievement award from DAMA International for exceptional services to furthering Data Management education & to the International Data Management community. Chris guides Global organizations on Information Strategy, Data Governance, Information Management best practice and how organisations can genuinely manage Information as a critical corporate asset. Frequently he is engaged to evangelise the Information Management and Data Governance message to Executive management, introduce data governance and new business processes for Information Management and to deliver training and mentoring. Chris is Director of the E&P standards committee “DMBoard”, sits on several International Data Standards committees, teaches at several Master’s Degree University Classes Internationally. He authored “Data Modelling for the Business”, is a primary author of DMBoK 2.0, a member of the Meta Data Professionals Organisation (MPO) and a holder at “Fellow” level of CDMP and examiner for several professional certifications. Chris is an acknowledged thought leader in Data Governance, author of several papers and books, and an expert judge on the annual Data Governance best practice awards.