2007 Metatopia Conference | November 5-7, 2007 | Holiday Inn on the Hill | Washington, DC

Agenda at a Glance

Monday, November 5, 2007
8:00 am   Continental Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:15 pm  

Coffee Break
10:30 am - 10:45 am 
T1: "Flavors" of Data Governance: A Framework-Based Approach to Choosing the Right Program Structure

Gwen Thomas, The Data Governance Institute
T2: Power and Politics In Data Integration Efforts

Len Silverston, Universal Data Models, LLC
T3: Service Oriented Architectures

Dave McComb, Semantic Arts, Inc.
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm   Lunch
1:15 pm - 4:30 pm  

Coffee Break
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm 
T4: Developing the Business Requirements for Data Governance

Anne Marie Smith, EWSolutions, Inc.
T5: Principal MDM Components and Capabilities

David Loshin, Knowledge Integrity, Inc.
T6: Data Modeling Contentious Issues

Karen Lopez, InfoAdvisors, Inc.
 
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
7:00 am   Continental Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:30 am   The Next Wave of Technology Advancement: Driving a Sustainable Citizen Centric Approach to Services

Kim Nelson, Microsoft
9:30 am - 9:45 am   Coffee Break
9:30 am - 3:30 pm   Exhibits Open
9:45 am - 10:45 am   Cross-Boundary Data Sharing in the United States Military

Deborah Hawley, The MITRE Corporation

Cheryl Connors, The MITRE Corporation
Managing Data as a National Asset

Suzanne Acar, US Department of the Interior
Semantic Applications with the Federal Government

Brand Niemann, US EPA

Mills Davis, Project10x
11:00 am - 12:00 pm   Data Quality: Prerequisite for Data Sharing

Bonnie O'Neil, Project Performance Corporation

Yazmin Rowe, Technology In Motion, Inc.
Common Force Structure Data: Global Force Management Data Initiative (GFM DI)

Ilean Keltz, US Army
Applying Semantic Web Technologies toward a Net-Centric Data Strategy

Matthew Fisher, BBN Technologies
12:10 pm - 12:40 pm   Vendor Sponsored Session Vendor Sponsored Session Vendor Sponsored Session
12:40 pm - 1:30 pm   Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm   Vendor Sponsored Session Vendor Sponsored Session Vendor Sponsored Session
2:15 pm - 3:15 pm   A New Enterprise Data Management Strategy for the US EPA

Brand Niemann, EPA
Semantic Web Technologies: A Revolution in Geospatial Intelligence

Robert Sichler, BBN Technologies
From Data Models to Ontologies: A Tutorial

David Hay, Essential Strategies
3:15 pm - 3:30 pm   Coffee Break
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm   Federal Data Quality Profile: A Framework for Better Information Sharing

Suzanne Acar, US Department of the Interior
Advancing Geospatial Data Standard with Patterns

Christine Hawkinson, BLM

Tom Chatfield, BLM
Facilitating Cross-boundary Data Sharing Via Persistent Identifiers

David Wood, Zepheira, LLC.
4:40 pm - 5:40 pm  

Special Interest Groups 
Data Structure: Data Modeling or XML?

David Hay, Essential Strategies
Designing and Building Knowledge Collaboration Systems using a Semantic Wiki

Neil Davies, Monitor Group

Yaron Koren, Freelance Programmer
Information Stewardship SIG

Loretta Smith, T. Rowe Price
 
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
7:00 am   Continental Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:30 am   Metadata Management is a Business Issue

Jonathan Geiger, Intelligent Solutions
9:30 am - 9:45 am   Coffee Break
9:45 am - 10:45 am   Operationalizing NIEM: Jump Starting Cross-Agency Data Sharing While Enabling NIEM Conformance

Moses Kamai, Battelle Memorial Institute

James Paat, Sypherlink
Healthcare Interoperability: Creating the Data Bridges

Michael Meier, Olmsted Medical Center
Regulatory Compliance through Metadata Mining

Joshua Fox, IBM
11:00 am - 12:00 pm   Model Driven Metadata Management for the Service Oriented Enterprise

Sridhar Iyengar, IBM
The United States Health Information Knowledgebase: A Tool for Health Data Harmonization

Noah Stromer, Data Consulting Group

Laura Reece, Knowledge Solutions, LLC
Master Data Management: Government's Next Technology Weapon

Scott Schumacher, Initiate Systems, Inc.
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm   Lunch
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm   Integrating Metadata Standards Covering Systems Data Exchange

Mark Riggle, Causal Aspects
Semantic Integration++: Combining Multiple Semantic Technology Capabilities to Improve Public Health Surveillance

Robert Coyne, TopQuadrant, Inc.

Parsa Mirhaji, University of Texas Health Science Center
A Break-through Approach to Improve Quality of Master Reference Data

Young Paik, US Department of State

Daniel Varghese, US Department of State/CITI
2:00 pm - 2:15 pm   Coffee Break
2:15 pm - 3:15 pm   SOA Data Integration - The Unsolved, Unspoken Problem

David Webber, XML eBusiness
Using Metadata for Semantic Interoperability and Data Sharing: caCORE and the NCI Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid caBIG™)

Tommie Curtis, SAIC

Dianne Reeves, NCICBIIT

George Komatsoulis, NCICBIIT
Geospatial Data and the National Information Exchange Model

Donna Roy, Enterprise Data Management Office, DHS

Anthony Hoang, DHS
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm   Panel

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DAMA NCR Chapter

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