Closing Practitioner Panel: Applying the Week's Lessons in your Workplace

Donald E. Carlson
SVP, Compliance Program Manager
Bank of America
IAIDQ Charter Member

Elizabeth Davis
Sr. Operations Officer
INternational Finance Corporation (IFC) - A Member of the World Bank Group IAIDQ Charter Member

Mehmet Orun
Principal Data Architect, Enterprise Architect
Genentech, Inc.



Ken Karacsony
Data Architect
Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc.

Thursday 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Closing Conference Panel and Discussion

You might think that after nearly four days of intense education and conversation that there wouldn't be much else to say about Information and Data Quality. But don't leave us too soon, because before you head home we'll give you plenty of new and different perspectives to take along with you.

Our Panelists for this session are all "practitioners" like you (as opposed to the gurus and consultants) so this session will be true peer-to-peer collaborations at work. Let's take a look back at the insights, themes and discussions of the previous days, and then, looking ahead to the issues and challenges that you'll face when you get back to the office, and lets put the two together in some more effective and creative ways.

-What new ways have we discovered to make IDQ work?
-How do we make our own efforts more productive?
-What are the business and technical skills we need to develop and enhance?
-What new issues and challenges are below the horizon?
-How can you make the quality more fun? And then share the joy.

Mr. Carlson leads a team focused on business process improvements using Six Sigma methods for the customer information program He has an engineering education and twenty-five years of experience in improving processes with the last seven years focused on improving business, data and information processes.

Elizabeth Davis is a founding member and Unit Leader of the four-person Information Quality Group ("IQ Group") within the International Finance Corporation (IFC). IFC is a multilateral finance institution of 2,700 global staff with a mission to "promote sustainable private sector in developing countries."

Mehmet Orun is responsible for data and metadata solution strategies and has designed and implemented a number of data integration, business intelligence, and business application solutions. Mehmet Orun was the original proposer and designer of the tool used to assess the externally acquired data as a consultant and now leads, among a number of other areas, Genentech’s corporate data quality services initiative.

Ken Karacsony is a Data Architect working at Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. He is a noted author with cover stories featured in DM Review and ComputerWorld magazines dealing with data quality, architecture, and IT management and governance.