Sunday, April 23, 2006

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Level: Intermediate

As data management professionals, we have to align our goals and activities with those of the CIO. So what are some of the goals of a CIO?

• Aligning IT with the business
• Streamlining IT and making it efficient
• Communicating effectively with the business
• Educating the C level executives
• Establishing the right culture
• Hiring and keeping quality teams.

This session addresses an approach for data management that effectively supports each of the above goals of the CIO.

Dan Weller is the Director Of Data Administration at APL, Limited, a large global containerized shipping and supply line logistics company headquartered in Singapore. Dan works in Oakland, CA. Dan has over 15 years experience in the Data Administration / Data Architecture areas. He leads a team of data modeling consultants and has headed up the APL Enterprise Data Architecture team for the past year.