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Margaret Dawson is Vice President of Product Management for Hubspan. She's responsible for the overall product vision and roadmap and works with key partners, such as IBM, in delivering innovative solutions to the market. She has more than 20 years experience in the IT industry, working with leading companies in the network security, semiconductor, personal computer, software, and e-commerce markets, including Microsoft and Amazon. Dawson has worked and traveled extensively in Asia, Europe and North America, including ten years working in the greater China region, consulting with many of the area's leading IT companies and serving as a BusinessWeek magazine foreign correspondent.

Bill Schmarzo has more than two decades of experience in data warehousing, BI and analytic applications. Bill authored the Business Benefits Analysis methodology that links an organization’s strategic business initiatives with their supporting data and analytic requirements, and co-authored with Ralph Kimball a series of articles on analytic applications. Bill has served on The Data Warehouse Institute’s faculty as the head of the analytic applications curriculum.Previously, Bill was the vice president of Analytics at Yahoo where he was responsible for the development of Yahoo’s Advertiser and Website analytics products, including the delivery of “actionable insights” through a holistic user experience. Before that, Bill oversaw the Analytic Applications business unit at Business Objects, including the development, marketing and sales of their industry-leading analytic applications.Bill holds a masters degree in Business Administration from the University of Iowa and a bachelor of science degree in Mathematics, Computer Science and Business Administration from Coe College.

K. Scott Morrison is the CTO and chief architect for Layer 7 Technologies. He has more than 20 years of experience building secure, high-performance distributed application architectures. Scott is a dynamic and highly sought-after speaker who has published over 50 book chapters, juried papers, and magazine articles. He is the co-author of the book “Cloud Computing, Principles, Systems and Applications,” and is on the editorial board of Springer’s new Journal of Cloud Computing Advances, Systems and Applications.

Rob serves Business Process & Applications professionals. He is a leading expert in how companies manage data and integrate information across the enterprise. His current research focus includes master data management, data quality management, metadata management, data governance, and data integration technologies, including ETL and EII.Rob has more than 14 years of data management experience, working in both business and IT roles to develop solutions that provide better quality, confidence in, and usability of critical enterprise data. Prior to joining Forrester, he managed Intuit's enterprise data quality initiatives and supported the implementation of Intuit's customer master reference system. Prior to Intuit, Rob managed the design and development of customer master and attribute management solutions for Cisco Systems. Earlier, Rob was research manager for the global mergers and acquisitions product group at Thomson Financial Securities Data (now Thomson Financial Investment Banking).Rob holds a B.S. in finance from Ithaca College.

Don Haderle retired from IBM in 2005 after 35 years, and since 2006 has been on the Technical Advisory Board for ANTs Software Inc., a company that helps accelerate migration to leading database vendors.

Joe has worked in the IT field for 30 years, joining RBC in 1989. In his current role as Lead Architect, he is responsible for Master Data Management, CRM, Insurance, ECM, HR and Procurement. Joe is a Professional Engineer, holding a BASc in the faculty of Engineering Science and an MSc in Computer Science (AI Division). He and family live in Aurora, Ontario, along with Toby the Wonder Dog.

Mark Cowan has initiated the data management discussion within many organizations spanning the capital markets, defense, government, insurance, retail and manufacturing. Mr. Cowan, the Managing Partner of Broadstreet Data, is a recognized expert in system design, integration and business enablement. Mr. Cowan has held leading roles in SAP - web enablement and product development, Adobe - global product development, Realm - head of technology and product development, RBC Dexia Investor Services as well is an active member in the private equity and investment sector. He has lectured within several MBA programs and has contributed to the definition of several patents for data management as well as worked on developing standards for XML, SOA and Integration.

Marcel de Grauw MSc. (1970) is a Managing Consultant at Capgemini in Paris. He has been active in Business Intelligence since the early 90s. Before joining Capgemini in 2001, Marcel worked for Philips/Origin in The Netherlands. He is currently working on next generation BI architectures based on Search engines and AI. Marcel holds a Master degree in Business Administration from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. For more information, you can join him at marcel.de-grauw@capgemini.com.

Dr. Jans Aasman is chief executive officer of Franz Inc., a supplier of graph database technology for the Semantic Web. Dr. Aasman's previous experience and educational background include: KPN Research, the research lab of the major Dutch telecommunication company; tenured professor in industrial design at the Technical University of Delft. Title of the chair: Informational Ergonomics of Telematics and Intelligent ProductsCarnegie Mellon University; visiting scientist at the Computer Science Department of Prof. Dr. Allan Newell; rsearcher at the Traffic Research Center of the University of Groningen (The Netherlands); eperimental and cognitive psychology at the University of Groningen, wwith specialization in psychophysiology and cognitive psychology.