
Speakers
Global Data Summit speakers are practicing experts in the field and include only those with the highest standard for innovation, knowledge and proven ability to communicate.

PATRICK LAGER
SENIOR CONSULTANT
TOP OF MINDS AB
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Bio coming soon.
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JOHN MYERS
BUSINESS ANALYTICS AND INTELLIGENCE PROFESSIONAL
Machine Learning and Data Management: What we can learn from Moneyball
John has nearly 20 years of experience in areas related to business analytics and business intelligence in professional services, sales consulting, product management, industry analysis and research. He has helped organizations to solve their analytics problems whether they related to operational platforms such as customer care or billing; applied analytical applications, such as revenue assurance or fraud management. Established thought leadership in emerging data management paradigms such as Big Data (combination of multi-structured and relational data sets) applications and NoSQL access data stores.
LEN SILVERSTON
AUTHOR
UNIVERSAL DATA MODELS
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Bio coming soon.
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LEN SILVERSTON
AUTHOR
UNIVERSAL DATA MODELS
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Bio coming soon.
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PAIGE BALTZAN
ASSISTANT TEACHING PROFESSOR
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
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Bio coming soon.
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LESLIE WEED
ARCHITECT
REVGEN PARTNERS
Data Vault and SQL Server: A Beautiful Pairing
Ms. Weed is an architect at RevGen Partners and her focus is on Solutions for Data and Business Intelligence. Prior to her current position she Developed Database solutions across various industries for BI needs with high availability.
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TJAART RIEKERT
LEAD BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE CONSULTANT
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Mr. Tjaart Riekert is a Lead Business Intelligence Consultant with large experience using Industry Reference Models as well as the traditional and more leading edge design methodologies for end to end data warehouse . He has solid technical background and coupled with management experience allows him to effectively address hands-on technical issues as well as business concerns to support organization strategic direction, tactical objectives, and develop real operational solutions. During Mr. Riekert sustained and long career in the field of Data Architecture and Modeling he has made a number or original contributions. He developed the Cognitive Data Modeling approach, which is used by various experts in the field for data modeling projects. Mr. Riekert is also invited on a regular speaker at the Annual Industry Models Lab Forum hosted by IBM, presenting on how consultants can best work with Industry Reference Models on large Data Modeling projects.
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