DAMA Chicago

June 20, 2012 will be a big day for Data Management. Two organizations, IDMA and DAMA will be co-hosing an event starting at 9 a.m. in the Allstate West Auditorium, 3100 Sanders Road, Northbrook, Illinois.

The morning speaker will be Tracy Spadola from Teradata who will be speaking about “Managing Data Effectively”. This session will highlight some of the advanced data management topics from the Insurance Data Management Association (IDMA) One Day Workshop “Tools for Effective Data Management” such as Content and Document Management, Metadata Management, Data Standards and Architecture, Business Intelligence and Analytics (including Big Data), and Information Governance and Security. Tracy will provide some examples on how these concepts are successfully applied within the insurance industry.

Our afternoon speaker will be Susan Earley speaking about the second edition of the DMBOK (Data Management Body of Knowledge) and how you can contribute your expertise to enhancing the latest edition. A revised framework document is available for commentary and the result will be used to structure the DAMA DMBOK2. The first edition was written by over 120 data management practitioners, and is the most impressive compilation of data management principles and best practices ever assembled. DAMA (Data Management Association) is an International, not-for-profit, vendor-independent association of technical and business professionals dedicated to advancing information management principles that support business strategies.

Our Speakers

Tracy Spadola, CPCU, CIDM, FIDM, AAM, is a Practice Lead, Insurance – Industry Consulting with Teradata, who is responsible for developing data warehousing business strategy for clients. In addition to data warehouse strategy, she provides consulting services in the area of logical data modeling, data quality, stewardship, data governance, data integration and business value. Tracy has more than twenty years experience in the insurance industry, working at such companies as Continental Insurance Company, CNA and Allstate. She is a frequent speaker at various industry conferences and has authored several articles on the topics of data management, data governance and stewardship in the insurance industry. Tracy is a past president of the Insurance Data Management Association (IDMA) and currently serves on the IDMA board of directors as vice president of business development. Tracy holds a Bachelors degree in Management Information Systems from the State University of New York – Excelsior College and a Masters of Science degree in Organizational Leadership from Quinnipiac University.

Susan Earley has spent the last 20 years working in data management in various ways, starting with application development, data warehouse development and management, data modeling, and into data architecture. She was the Assistant Editor for the DAMA-DMBOK released in 2009, the editor for the 2011 edition of the DAMA Dictionary of Data Management, and is the production editor for DAMA DMBOK2.