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NEWSLETTER

Highlights

Wed, April 27th 2016 PRE-REGISTER for April Meeting by

Monday April 25th, 2016

Go to

http://www.damachicago.org/

and enter your information in the right

hand column entitled

“MEETING PRE-REGISTRATION”

DAMA Members!!! Renew Your DAMA Membership for the 2016 year Corporate Memberships — Provides Unlimited attendees for your company — $200, Individual Memberships — $50 Students — $10. Membership is yearly. Please renew by going to our website at DAMAChicago.org and clicking on 'Pay Your Dues'. Prospective members, now would be a great time to join DAMA. Just follow the above instructions. If you have any questions about membership please contact John Grage at vpmembership@damachicago.org

From the Desk of Latha Nair, President, DAMA Chicago Chapter

Upcoming Meetings

Back in college I took a course on AI. By the end of the first week, it was clear that my natural intelli-gence did not care much for its artificial counter-part. I dropped the course and never gave it another thought. As they say, one can run but one can’t hide! Prodigious quantities of data, it turns out, naturally leads to the creation of “smarter” machines and onwards to machines that can learn. If we think that we are still far from encountering AI in our daily lives, we are a befuddled, data-addled, ignorant lot! A robotic butler may still be science fiction, but we have already made contact with AI.

Airbnb has Aerosolve – gives pricing tips. Amazon has Amazon Machine Learning – analytics with massive data sets. Expert Personal Shopper (XPS) provides personalized shopping experience. IPSoft has Amelia – a “virtual service-desk employee” deployed from the cloud. Google is catching up with Cloud Machine Learning promising “deep learn-ing techniques” The “AI-as-a-service” cloud makes the technology accessible to small busi-nesses in a cost effective, efficient manner. Viola, a rejuvenated Business Intelligence! Then there are the predictions: AI is touted as the key to unlocking big data. By 2045 half the jobs in the world will go to AI. Terminator movies are on the verge of becoming reality. Personally, I am excited about the AI-driven autonomous car that will squire me around town when I age into a crusty old crone. By my side, will be the handsome, sensitive AI personal assistant who can fold the laundry just so. Day dreams aside, EDW is coming up in the third week of April. Very intelli-gently and presciently, the April DAMA meeting has been moved to the fourth week; April 27th to be precise.

DATE LOCATION SPEAKERS

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Peter Aiken - “The Importance of MDM Charles Lorenz, - “Why Do Data Warehouses Take So Long

April’s DAMA Chicago meeting is one week later in April, due to EDW Conference.

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The Confluence of Artificial

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Meeting Presentations.

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AGENDA 9 :00 a.m. DAMA Business Meeting

9:45 a.m. Anthony Algmin – Cloud Technologies &

Governance

11:15a.m David Blackfield – Turning Technologists into

Turkeys

12 noon Lunch

1:30 p.m. David Marco – Big Data Management Demystified

3:00 p.m. Prize Drawing & Adjournment

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DAMA Chicago Meeting—April 27th, 2016 Agenda & Speakers

Morning Presentation

Afternoon Presentation

TOPIC: Cloud Technologies & Governance The cloud is not the future of enterprise computing: it’s the NOW of enterprise computing. We are in the midst of a data awareness renaissance, and our organizations are demanding that we build analytics capabilities to drive future success. Cloud technologies are part of the answer, but to fully re-spond to these challenges we need to bring new mindsets and techniques to data management. It’s up to us data professionals to bring these capabilities to our businesses. If your business is not already there, it needs to be. We will cover data terms such as Internet of Things; Why the cloud makes some new things possible, many things easier, and a few things much harder – and how we need to adapt our data management practices in response ; Why business impact is the only thing that really matters; What all this means for business as usual, and how to build a high-performance organization driven by data in the cloud Speaker Bio: Anthony Algmin Anthony J. Algmin helps businesses use data to get better at what

they do. He is currently the Chief Data Architect at Uturn Data Solu-

tions, a company specializing in helping businesses move to the

cloud.

Previously, Anthony was the Chicago Transit Authority's first Chief

Data Officer, developing data analytics capabilities to help the CTA

improve transit services for millions of Chicagoans.

His early career was in the capital markets industry, performing

technical and management roles to improve business performance

with data and analytics. Anthony frequently speaks at national and local events, and contributes

to the data governance and data management communities. He has

MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern Universi-

ty.

TOPIC: Turning Technologists into Turkeys

A light hearted look at thought and communication processes

using the power of silly analogies and psychology. This

presentation combines aspects of leadership principles from

W. Edwards Deming, process management from Alec Sharp

and more to create a practical guide at re-examining your

thoughts and relationships in the workplace.

Speaker Bio: David Blackfield David Blackfield has been a developer, systems analyst and data modeler for Allstate Insurance’s Data Warehouse for 8 years. In addition to his degree in Information Technology he has a minor in Psychology focusing on relationship dynamics.

TOPIC: Big Data Management Demystified Big Data is everywhere! There isn’t an IT publica-tion, blog or online newsletter that doesn’t have Big Data as its most talked about item. More im-portantly all of our C-Level executives are talking about it and demanding that we do it. The problem we face is that these same executives do not even know what Big Data is or the astro-nomically high failure rates that these massive pro-jects are experiencing. This keynote address will provide the statistics on Big Data failures and a top 10 list of what all Big Data project need to avoid if they are going to be successful.

Discussions include - Introduction – an Overview of Big Data Fundamental Big Data Definitions Is Big Data Successful? Actual Big Data Failure Rates Big Data Top 10 List of what NOT to do

Speaker Bio: David Marco Best known as the world’s foremost authority on meta data management and the father of the Managed Meta Data Environment, David is an internationally recog-nized expert in the fields of master data management, data governance, big data, data warehousing and enter-prise information management (EIM). He is president of EWSolutions (EWSolutions.com. ) In 2008 David Marco was enshrined into the very select DAMA Data Management Hall of Fame (Professional Achievement Award) which is the highest honor a data management professional can attain. David Marco has taught at the University of Chicago and DePaul University, and is on the Advisory Council for DePaul University’s College of Commerce.

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DAMA Chicago Meeting—April 27th, 2016 Location

PRE-REGISTER for April Meeting by Monday April 25th, 2016 Go to http://www.damachicago.org/

Enter your information in the right hand column entitled “MEETING PRE-REGISTRATION”

Enter the property via the Lake Cook Road

Entrance.

Enter the building via the Building 1 Front

Entrance and check in at the Front Desk.

Your name tags/badges will be ready here.

Please wait and the escorts will take you to the

Auditorium.

It is important that you PRE-REGISTER for this

meeting. Thanks

2500 Lake Cook Rd. Riverwoods, IL 60015 Building 1, Auditorium

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ABOUT DAMA CHICAGO

•Bi-monthly meetings •Member Newsletter •Information Exchange Forums and

Special Interest Groups •Heavily discounted training

targeted to the DM Professional •Lending Library of top DRM books •Corporate discount on dues

MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS

Chapter President Latha Nair

Treasurer Susan Earley

Secretary Alan D. Arico

VP Membership John Grage

VP Programs Cathy Nolan

Asst. VP Programs Diane Voyles

VP Marketing Emmanuel Kuenyefu

Librarian Michael Ryan

VP Info. Services Michael Miller

VP Online Services Dan Murphy

Past President Ray Coffman

DAMA Int. Liaison Cathy Nolan

VP Education Services Diane Voyles

OFFICERS

DAMA Chicago was founded in the Fall of 1986 with the first meeting in December of

that year. DAMA Chicago holds six bimonthly meetings annually on topics pursuant

to DAMA’s goals. These meetings include informal round-table discussions, featured

presenters, invaluable sharing through association with professionals in our field, two

Special Interest Groups, and much more. The Chicago Chapter has attained broad

appeal in the Midwest as a resource for Information Resource Management.

(DAMA), Chicago is a non-profit, vendor independent professional organization dedi-

cated to the advancement of data asset management concepts. DAMA Chicago's

mission is to engage in activities that

promote data management concepts and to broaden the skills of professionals who

work in this field.

GOALS

- To promote and develop data management concepts and practices.

- To be a focal point for issues relating to data management practices.

- To further the professional development of data management professionals.

DAMA Chicago on LinkedIn Join our LinkedIn Group. Keep up-to-date with DAMA happenings between pub-lished newsletters by joining our group. You can start or join in a discussion, make announcements of interest to other DAMA Chicago members, post jobs, let other members know of other professional meetings or classes in the area, or just keep informed. Give Us Your Feedback Please forward any questions, comments, or ideas regarding this newsletter to vpmarketing@damachicago.org.

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