Data leaders live daily with complexity and chaos and are crushed by potential tasks.  

• The "Modern" Data Stack is full of shiny new boxes of technology.
• New cloud data toolchains are fragmented.
• Data architecture patterns are diverse and complicated.
• Data itself, of course, is diverse, numerous, and forever changing.
• The step-by-step process of ingesting, storing, transforming, predicting, visualizing, and governing data is spread among various people in your organization.
• And your customers are asking for all sorts of new work.

Is there any question about why your day-to-day job is chaotic and stressful? Or that you live in a state of hope and dread that, somewhere in the journey data takes from source to value, suddenly, everything will break, and you will be the last to notice? 

Something is missing from our data systems. We cannot judge the expectations vs. reality in our production data systems. What is the variance between what is happening now and what should be happening? Is it on time? Late? Is it trustworthy? What is happening now? Will my customers find a problem?   

That missing piece that connects data system expectations and reality is a ‘Data Journey.’ It starts with your data and leads to quality, trusted, on-time insight delivery to your customers. Data Observability and Data Quality Validation Testing are the core components that comprise the myriad of Data Journies in Your Organization.

Speaker: Christopher Bergh

CEO, Head Chef, DataKitchen

Christopher Bergh is a Founder and Head Chef at DataKitchen, where he is leading DataKitchen’s Agile Data initiative. Chris has more than 25 years of research, engineering, analytics, and executive management experience. Previously, Chris was Regional Vice President of the Revenue Management Intelligence group in Model N. Before Model N, Chris was COO of LeapFrogRx, a descriptive and predictive analytics software and service provider. Chris led the acquisition of LeapFrogRx by Model N in January 2012. Prior to LeapFrogRx, Chris was CTO and VP of Product Management of MarketSoft (now part of IBM), an innovative Enterprise Marketing Management software vendor.

Prior to that, Chris developed Microsoft Passport, the predecessor to Windows Live ID, a distributed authentication system used by hundreds of millions of users today. He was awarded a U.S. Patent for his work on that project.

Before joining Microsoft, he led the technical architecture and implementation of Firefly Passport, an early leader in Internet Personalization and Privacy. Microsoft subsequently acquired Firefly. In addition, Chris led the development of the first travel-related e-commerce website at NetMarket.

Chris began his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory and NASA Ames Research Center. There, he created software and algorithms that provided aircraft arrival optimization assistance to Air Traffic Controllers at several major airports in the United States.

Chris served as a Peace Corps Volunteer Math Teacher in Botswana, Africa. He has an M.S. from Columbia University and a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin Madison.

Chris is an avid cyclist, hiker, reader, and father of two teenagers. You can find him at linkedin.com/in/chrisbergh.