January 2020

Sebastian Daschner

He is a Java Developer Advocate at IBM, a consultant, author, and trainer. He is the author of the book Architecting Modern Java EE Applications. Mr. Dashner is participating in the JCP, helping forming the future standards of Java EE, serving in the JAX-RS, JSON-P and Config Expert Groups and collaborating on various open source […]

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Sander Hoogendorn

Sander Hoogendoorn

He is a dad, an independent consultant, software craftsman, architect, programmer, coach, speaker, trainer, and writer. He is seasoned in Agile, Scrum, Kanban, continuous delivery, (no) software estimation, agile requirements, design patterns, domain driven design, UML, software architecture, microservices, and writing beautiful code. Sander changes organizations and teams and coaches them to optimize their processes,

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Russell Jurney

Russell Jurney works at the intersection of Big Data, large networks – Property Graphs or knowledge graphs, representation learning with Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Understanding (NLU), model explainability using network visualization and vector search for information retrieval and Large Language Models (LLMs). He has a consulting firm called Graphlet AI

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Rick van der Lans

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, and database technology. 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

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Mike Ferguson

Mike Ferguson is Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies Limited.  As an analyst and consultant he specialises in Business Intelligence and Enterprise Business Integration.  With over 40 years of IT experience, he has consulted for dozens of companies on Business Intelligence Strategy, technology selection, enterprise architecture, and data management. He has spoken at events all

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Jesse Anderson

Jesse Anderson

With 30 years of experience delivering value through data strategy, architectures, and analytics John has a unique perspective that comes from key roles as a practitioner, consultant, and vendor CTO in the data analytics industry. As a recognized thought leader, he has been publishing articles, teaching, and presenting at conferences in North America and Europe

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James Robertson

He is a consultant, teacher, author, project leader whose area of concern is the requirements for products, and the contribution that good requirements make to successful projects. His work in the area of Business Analysis and requirements gathering is valued by clients in many parts of the world. He is co-author of “Mastering the Requirements

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Derek Strauss

Founder, CEO and Principal Consultant of Gavroshe. Former Chief Data Officer at TD Ameritrade for approximately 5 years; was responsible for Data Governance, Data Science & Advanced Analytics, Data Architecture & Management, and Development and Maintenance of Enterprise-class Data Assets. A career of over 3 decades, mainly in the Data Management and Information Resource Management

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Christopher Bradley

He 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 & a recognised thought leader. He advises clients including, Alinma Bank, American Express,

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Barry Devlin

He is Founder and Principal, 9sight Consulting . Dr. Barry Devlin is among the foremost authorities on Business Insight and one of the founders of Data Warehousing, having published the first architectural paper in 1988. With almost 40 years of IT experience, including 20 years with IBM as a Distinguished Engineer, he is a widely

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