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Brian covers emerging technology and its impact on business and IT for Enterprise Architecture Professionals at Forrester Research. His research provides practical advice to architects and IT strategists seeking to leverage new information management tools and techniques while dealing with current-state challenges. In addition, Brian provides insights for enterprise architects in the insurance and defense industries, where he has extensive experience.

Mike serves Application Development & Delivery Professionals at Forrester Research. Mike's research is focused on software technology, platforms, and practices that enable AD&D Professionals deliver faster agility, prescient customer experiences, and breakthrough operational efficiency. His key technology and platform coverage area is smarter systems including: predictive analytics, real-time analytics, complex event processing (CEP), business rules management systems (BRMS), expert systems, and emerging technologies that make software smarter. Mike is also a leading expert on the intersection of business strategy, architecture, design, and creative collaboration.

Rick Aiere is an enterprise data architect for IT IB at Credit Suisse. He has over 20 years of experience in technology most of it in the financial industry providing data management solutions. He has provided a unique perspective and approach to define the architecture for reference data program at Credit Suisse.

Andrew Hurdis is an Information Architect Lead at Pfizer, Inc. With 20 years of experience in enterprise computing and consulting, Mr. Hurdis specializes in defining ROI for master data projects, establishing data governance processes and developing MDM sponsorship within enterprises.

Brad Williams is presently working as the Data Management Lead for Cargill as part of the Data and Business Intelligence team within Cargill's Global IT organization. Data Management encompasses Master Data Standards, Master Data Processes, Data Quality, Data Governance, Enterprise Content Management and SharePoint.� Prior to his current role, Mr. Williams was a member of the Cargill Corporate Controller�s team as a Senior Financial Advisor serving as Cargill's Finance Liaison with The Mosaic Company (Cargill's former publicly traded subsidiary in the Fertilizer industry).� Prior to this, he had been the Business Unit Controller for Cargill Chocolate and Cocoa, located in Lititz, Pennsylvania.� Previous to that he� was a Director and the Controller for Toshoku Limited in Tokyo, Japan supervising all accounting and risk management activities worldwide for Toshoku including China, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia, Brazil, the United States, England and Italy (Toshoku became a 100% owned subsidiary of Cargill in 2000).� Mr. Williams joined Cargill in 1983 and spent five years working in various positions in Cargill�s Internal Audit function covering audit activities in the U.S., Canada and Asia-Pacific.� He lived in Singapore for approximately 7 years prior to his 1995 relocation to Japan as Country Controller and Assistant Vice President for Cargill Japan.� Mr. Williams graduated from St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting.� He is also a Certified Public Accountant (Inactive) and a Certified Internal Auditor (Inactive).� He serves on the Advisory Board to the Herberger College of Business. �

Tim Hannibal is the CEO of VaultLogix.

Mark Uksusman is a Sr. Manager, Data Architecture at eBay, Inc., overseeing eBay Data Architecture and Metadata Management.Mark Uksusman has more than 20 years' of experience in Data Management, Business Intelligence, Data Governance, MDM, Architecture, Big Data, NoSQL, OLTP and Data Warehousing.Before joining eBay, Inc., Mark was a VP of Technology for Loan Performance and First American Corporation.Mark led Information Management for Franklin Templeton Investments and served as a principal consultant at PWC. He has also led Data Management and development teams at e-Forex, IDC, and IBS.

Ramakrishnan is a senior information management architect with the Financial and Insurance Services vertical at Infosys. He has around 13 year of technical consulting experience with financial institutions, assisting with architecture, strategy, roadmap and implementation of large-scale data management initiatives. Ramakrishnan past areas of focus have been metadata management, data governance and integration to big data stores.