Dr. Irina Steenbeek is a data management practitioner with more than 11 years of experience. The key areas of her professional expertise are the data management maturity assessment, implementation of data management frameworks, and data lineage. Irina has practical experience in software implementation such as ERP and DWH/BI, management consultation, financial and business controls, and data science.

Through the years, she has worked for global institutions as well as large- and medium-sized organizations in different sectors, including but not limited to financial institutions, professional services, and IT companies.

In 2016, she founded Data Crossroads – a training and coaching services enterprise in data management. Data Crossroads focuses on assisting companies in improving their decision-making by setting up an effective data management framework that fits-for-purpose the company business goals and resources.

Irina is a strong believer that the success of data management initiatives is based on the combination of a pragmatic approach and clear and transparent methodology. She has shared her approach and implementation experience by publishing The “Orange” Data Management Framework, The Data Management Toolkit, The Data Management Cookbook, and Data Lineage from a Business Perspective. She is also the author of various white papers and articles on the topic of data management.

Data quality manager reporting to the CDO of the data governance team that supports stewardship, lineage, data provisioning (glossary), data quality and issue management Responsible for a comprehensive data quality programme that includes leveraging lineage to target data quality opportunities and a data quality issue management system and process.

Giles is Chief Technology Officer for Financial Services at MarkLogic where he’s responsible for MarkLogic’s technology go-to-market in financial services worldwide.

Giles has had 20 years of experience in the software and financial services industry. He was previously at Software AG where he had global responsibility for its Big Data and Streaming Analytics business. Previous to that he was at Progress Software where he was instrumental in taking its innovative financial services products global. Giles joined Progress when it acquired the event processing and Streaming Analytics vendor Apama, a company he co-founded, which acquired over 150 clients in financial services.

Daniel has worked with major investment banks, mutual funds, and online brokerages for over 20 years. He has helped clients design and build high performance and cutting edge database systems and provided guidance on issues including data integration, performance, optimal schema design, security, failover, messaging, and master data management.