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DGIQ-E22: What Data Is Critical - CDEs - and to Who? - Panel

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What Data Is Critical - CDEs - and to Who? - Panel

What are the advantages of starting with critical data?

What is the appropriate amount of data to specify as critical?

What should people do if everybody in the organization considers their data to be critical?

Is it important to differentiate critical data from the other data?

Define what is meant by critical data or critical data elements (CDEs)?

PANELISTS: Robert S. Seiner, Carol Kim, John Moran, Kathy Rondon, and Stephen Gatchell

Robert S. Seiner

KIK Consulting/TDAN.com

Robert (Bob) S. Seiner is the President and Principal of KIK Consulting & Educational Services and the Publisher of The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com). In 2022, TDAN.com is celebrating its 25th year, and KIK Consulting is celebrating its 20th year of focusing on knowledge transfer and consultative mentoring in the areas of Data Governance, Metadata, and Information Quality.

Bob has been awarded the DAMA Professional Award for significant and demonstrable contributions to the data management industry. Bob specializes in Non-Invasive Data Governance™, data stewardship, and metadata management solutions and has successfully assisted and mentored many notable organizations. Bob is Adjunct Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) Heinz College CDataO and Data-Driven Leadership programs.

Carol Kim

IBM Corporation

Carol Kim is an Executive Director at IBM, a world leader in information technology headquartered in Armonk, New York, with more than 250,000 employees operating in over 170 countries. The Global Chief Data Office’s mission is to deliver a trusted enterprise-wide data and AI backbone for transforming IBM into an AI enterprise. Carol leads a team of subject matter and domain experts to deliver new users to the Enterprise Data & AI Platform, determines capabilities that need to be developed, and transforms data into business value across all IBM processes and business units. She also leads 3rd Party Marketplace and ingestion to provide centralized acquisition, governance, management, and oversight of external data assets across the enterprise. In addition, Carol manages the Global Chief Data Office finances, business operations, and business controls.

Carol brings more than 18 years of experience in IBM leadership roles that span many different Finance & Operations disciplines (Chief Data Office, Finance & Planning, Pricing, Treasury), geographies (USA, Asia Pacific), and business models (Services, Hardware, Software). A highly-experienced collaborator, she has led dozens of global, multi-functional teams to the successful delivery of key business objectives–data discovery and value creation, strategic business model development, financial solutions for strategic outsourcing deals, pricing process transformation, delegation, and tools.

Carol Kim is a board member of the IBM Asian Business Resource Group, a member of the IBM CorporateService Corp, and an active volunteer at Girls and Boys GoTech Know camps. Carol is a US Certified Public Accountant, a Harvard Business School alumna, and is based in Westchester, New York. In 2022, Carol was selected to join the prestigious Global Data Power Women List by CDO Magazine.

John Moran

Thermo Fisher Scientific

John Moran leads the Data Governance Enablement team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, with more than 145,000 employees operating in over 150 countries. The Data Governance Enablement team is a center of excellence that provides tools and methodologies that enable the business to drive improvements to their data and processes so that they can protect and trust their data, improve their productivity, and make better decisions to deliver on the expectations of both internal and external customers.

Prior to his role as DGE Leader, John spent over 10 years at Thermo Fisher Scientific leading a 70+ member global Product Data Management organization that was responsible for maintaining the data on close to one million products and supported over 20 acquisitions and product portfolio integrations.

Kathy Rondon

Independent

Kathy Rondon is a data governance thought leader and educator who has worked as a government employee and contractor in information management and data governance for nearly 30 years. Most of her career has focused on the proper handling, classifications, controls, and clearance of national security data, and she has recently applied this expertise to designing and delivering enterprise-level training on the governance of public sector data assets. Her current areas of focus are data ethics and data curation. She is the author of We The People: A Playbook for Data Ethics in a Democratic Society.

Stephen Gatchell

BigID

Stephen joined BigID in May of 2022 as the Director of Data Advisory. In his role he specializes in on helping customers with data strategy and execution, developing and delivering thought leadership around data, and influencing product development. BigID enables organizations to know their enterprise data and take action for privacy, protection, and perspective. Prior to BigID, Stephen developed and executed data strategies for EMC, Dell and Bose.