South Florida Chapter
Chris Stewart
April 2018
Chris Stewart is Director of Services for Wherescape and has been designing and implementing data warehouses for the last 20 years. Before joining Wherescape, Chris lead data warehouse architecture for several large clinical quality improvement and supply chain companies. During the last decade he has leveraged the massive parallel computing power of Oracle, Netezza and Teradata to build large data warehouses without the use of traditional ETL tools. Chris is experienced in data warehouse automation both as a Wherescape customer and leader.
Mickey Itchon is a Director of Business Intelligence and Innovation who is passionate about enabling better decision making and collaborative working. Mickey works to enhance analytics, business intelligence, collaboration and balance within an organization. The adoption and application of technology has never been as challenging as enabling user and leadership communities to define atheir vision of success through common goals and then putting in place the communication tools by which they can thrive and create.
David Loshin
August 2018
David Loshin, president of Knowledge Integrity, Inc, is a recognized thought leader and expert consultant in the areas of data quality, master data management, and business intelligence. avid is a prolific author regarding business intelligence best practices, as the author of numerous books and papers on data management, David is a frequent invited speaker at conferences, web seminars, and sponsored web sites and channels including www.b-eye-network.com. Hisbest-selling book, “Master Data Management,” has been endorsed by data management industry leaders.
Dan Linstedt is the creator of the Data Vault 2.0 Model and Methodolology and the Data Vault 2.0 Architecture. He is also the author of the Amazon #1 best sellers "Supercharge Your Data Warehouse" and "Building a Scalable Data Warehouse Using Data Vault 2.0". The Data Vault 2.0 system of business intelligence is geared to be repeatable, automatable, consistent and well-defined (mature). The Data Vault 2.0 solution outlines the necessary components for the team to follow in their methods of working so that they can achieve more.
Becky McNeeley was the Director of the Data Warehousing team at Ultimate Software when Data Vault 2.0 and Kanban were used to build a Near-Real Time Data Warehouse in the cloud for over 2,000 clients. The presentation is a brief overview of the benefits realized by using an agile approach to build and maintain a data warehouse using Data Vault 2.0 and Kanban.