Jan. 26, 2011: Full Day Data Quality Workshop with Dr. Peter Aiken
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Data Quality in Government: How to implement and sustain a successful Data Quality Program in the Government - What Government Executives, Managers and Staff need to know
Presented by a team of the most experienced Government Data Quality Professionals:
Dr. Peter Aiken (Data Blueprint, Virginia Commonwealth University),
Alan Perkins (SRA International),
Federal Government Industry Expert
This one-day educational program is designed to inform Government Executives, Managers and Staff. It will provide practical guidance in a focused interactive classroom format presented by a team of the most experienced Government Data Quality Professionals!
Date:
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Time:
8:30 AM until 5:00 PM
Location:
Willard InterContinental Hotel, Washington D.C.
Registration details:
This workshop is presented by the Potomac Forum. Please refer to their website for further event information and registration details:
www.potomacforum.org
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Registration is now open!
Topics Include
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Implementing Data Quality Initiatives in Government
- Building the business case for Data Quality
- Identifying the key role played by data quality in technology initiatives
- Updated data lifecycle models and approaches are required to accurately address today's challenge
- And more...
- Data Quality Tools, Technologies and Techniques
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Developing a Roadmap to Implement your IDQ Initiative
- Realize there is no one best plan
- Top down vs. bottom up
- Information marketing plans
- And more...
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Practical examples of data quality implemented in support of SOA: What are the requirements?
- What does SOA mean from a data quality perspective?
- SOA conceptually, aesthetically, technically
- And more...
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Data Quality as a pre-requisite to benefitting from the "Cloud First" Initative: What do you have to know before converting to the cloud?
- What additional quality requirements does the cloud impose?
- Benefitting from the Cloud
- Eliminating data ROT (redundant, obsolete, trivial)
What You Will Learn
- Recognize when data quality challenges are really the root cause of underlying business and IT problems
- Build business cases to obtain requisite funding for these initiatives
- Understand the role of various data quality tools and techniques and
- Rapidly achieve tangible, recognizable results ensuring futher investment
Why You Should Attend
- Data quality challenges are embedded in virtually all governmental initiatives – representing a very real "IT Achilles heel"
- Very little time and attention is focused on data quality engineering in either college/university education or practical training
- Understanding the value of standing up a data quality engineering team is much more effective than attempting to address data quality challenges piecemeal
- Traditional approaches while fine in theory do not reflect the realities of today's regulatory and budget constrained environments
Who Should Attend
- Government officials embarking on either IT or business related initiatives
- Consultants working with government clients
- CIOs, Deputy CIOs and Staff, as well as CFOs, Deputy CFOs and Staff
- Program Managers who report data internally or externally to public, Congress, the press, and other organizations
- IGs and Auditors
- Government Executives, Managers and Staff who review or use data or oversee the use or dissemination of data to the public
- Open Government Managers and Staff
- Web Managers and Staff
- Industry partners who assist the government or report government or industry data internally or to the public
Format
- Engaging, entertaining, fact-filled lecture with expert panel discussion
