The world's foremost Masters of BI & DW are coming to Australia...

29-30 March - Doltone House, Sydney (Australia)

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COLIN WHITE President & Founder

BI RESEARCH (USA)

He is well known for his in-depth knowledge of leading-edge business intelligence and business collaboration technologies, and how they can be integrated into an IT infrastructure for supporting the smart and agile business. With over 35 years of IT experience, he has consulted for dozens of companies throughout the world and is a frequent speaker at leading IT events. Colin has written numerous articles and papers on business intelligence and data management and writes for the Business Intelligence Network and leading industry journals. 



BI Research is a leading research, education and consulting firm helping companies understand and benefit from evolving and leading edge technologies in the areas of business intelligence and data management. It has a worldwide reputation for its in-depth technical expertise and for helping its clients exploit modern information technologies to optimize and improve the efficiency of their business operations.


CLAUDIA IMHOFF Founder & President

INTELLIGENT SOLUTIONS, INC. (USA)

BOULDER BI BRAINS TRUST (USA)

A thought leader and practitioner in the rapidly growing field of business intelligence – Claudia Imhoff, Ph.D. is a popular and dynamic speaker on business intelligence and the infrastructure to support these initiatives – the Corporate Information Factory (CIF). She is the President and Founder of Intelligent Solutions, Inc., a data warehousing and BI consultancy. She has co-authored five books on these topics and the architectures supporting them and writes articles and research papers (totaling more than 100) for technical and business magazines.



She has served as an expert on DW and BI for the B-EYE-Network.com for over 5 years. She has also served on the Board of Advisors for DAMA International and was chosen by the DAMA organisations to receive the 1999 and 2005 Individual Achievement Awards. She is an advisor for and was bestowed the title of Fellow of the Data Warehousing Institute and she is the Founder of the Boulder BI Brain Trust (BBBT), a membership-only consortium of leading BI consultants and independent analysts.


MIKE FERGUSON Managing Director

INTELLIGENT BUSINESS STRATEGIES LTD (UK)

As an analyst and consultant he specialises in business intelligence, data management and enterprise business integration. With over 30 years of IT experience, Mike has consulted for dozens of companies on business intelligence/corporate performance management strategy, technology selection, enterprise architecture, business integration, MDM and data integration. 

He has spoken at events all over the world and written numerous articles.

Mike is a resident expert on the B-EYE-Network, providing articles, blogs and his insights on the industry. Formerly he was a principal and co-founder of Codd and Date Europe Limited – the inventors of the Relational Model, a Chief Architect at NCR on the Teradata DBMS and European Managing Director of Database Associates. He teaches popular master classes in New Technologies for Data Warehousing and BI, Operational BI, Enterprise Data Governance, Master Data Management, Data Integration and Enterprise Architecture. 


JIMMY LEE Enterprise Business Intelligence Architect

NIKE INC.

As an experienced data architect, Jimmy Lee has been in the trenches implementing data warehousing and BI solutions since 1997. His has been working in Information Technology since 1994, and his experience spans “Big 6” consulting, independent consulting for both small and large companies, and working for a number of large corporations where he has served as both a technical leader and resource manager.



He is passionate about data modeling and has served on the board of his local DAMA chapter for the past 10 years. He also serves on the CIS Advisory Committee for the Portland Community College, helping to align that institution’s curriculum with the needs of industry. James is an engaging speaker and has presented at numerous vendor conferences and DAMA chapter meetings.

MICHAEL WHITEHEAD Founder & CEO

WHERESCAPE (NZ)

A data warehousing industry veteran, Michael has spent more than a decade designing and building commercial data warehouses for customers in a wide variety of industries.

Prior to founding WhereScape, Michael had Asia Pacific responsibilities for data warehousing for Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.