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James provides insights into and best-practice use of cloud computing and next-generation, collaborative business intelligence: adaptive intelligence. As the content lead for Forrester's cloud computing playbook, he advises IT leaders on public cloud platforms, CIO-level�cloud investment strategies, cloud economics, hybrid cloud and cloud outsourcing (strategic rightsourcing), IT cloud readiness, and business and developer engagement on cloud.�

Fred Henein brings more than 20 years of business experience within supply chain, data management and operations to his position as Manager, MRO Data Management Solutions. In his current role, Fred provides project management and data consulting for content services, vendor masters, service masters, inventory optimization and spend analytics. Fred helps clients understand the impact of these areas on demand-driven supply networks. Before joining Ariba (Quadrem) Fred spend 15 years in electrical and automotive operations, and 3 years in data cleansing operations. As head of operations for a global power electronics provider, Fred was responsible for design, purchasing, manufacturing, inventory, logistics and quality. During his last 2 years Fred took on the role of organization lead for a Canadian wide SAP implementation. Fred joined the data management world in 2000, managing a content cleansing factory producing millions of sku’s per year. Over the course of his career, Fred has managed over 200 projects across multiple industries including Mining, Aerospace, CPG and automotive.

Mr. Wilts is currently the Associate Vice President of Information Management in a central role supporting Business Intelligence, Analytics and Information Processing for Canadian Tire.  Jeff is instrumental in the modernization of the analytics capabilities  (people, process, platform) to support the evolving needs of the business. Mr. Wilts currently manages a team of 60 people who work in multiple domains around Information Management (ETL, MDM, BI-Cognos, Data Modelling, Data Governance)  Mr. Wilts has spent the last 21 years focused on data centric applications for a variety of large complex environments.  (Loblaw, Teradata, Royal Bank of Canada, Purolator, Canada Post, Maple Leaf Foods)  Mr. Wilts has a BSc. In Physics / Computing and an MBA.

Ali is currently the CMO at Workshare. Prior to joining Workshare, he served as CMO at SkyDox where he oversaw the company's expansion into North America. He brings with him more than 15 years of experience in supporting high growth companies. Prior to joining SkyDox, Ali was the Director of Marketing at Interxion, Director of Marketing EMEA for SPL WorldGroup (now a part of Oracle), and Marketing Manager EMEA and Asia-Pacific at Kana.

Hannah Smalltree is director of product marketing at ParAccel.

With more than 20 years of experience, Sham Kashikar is a senior IT leader leading BI,  MDM and Enterprise Architecture functions within large companies including Cisco and Sun Microsystems as well as high-growth  medium-sized companies such as VMware and McAfee.  Mr. Kashikar is very passionate about MDM and BI and believes they are key business strategy enablers.  He thinks MDM will evolve from current focus on Customer, Product and Item master to mastering the enterprise data assets where this data is consumed.  Mr. Kashikar has led multiple enterprise wide BI and MDM programs  from concept through implementation. He has championed the MDM and BI  initiatives including establishing business case, strategy, ROI,  cross-functional governance and collaboration across business functions. Mr. Kashikar has also partnered  with leading  MDM vendors on their product roadmaps.  He received his engineering degree from Government College of Engineering, Aurangabad (GECA).

Shenoy Karkala has more than 20 years of experience in Information Management with a focus on MDM and BI for large global organizations such as Cisco Systems.   Currently, Mr. Karkala is Principal Data and BI Architect at McAfee where he is  leading MDM solutions. His key interests include business agility through business process improvement and integration.  He thinks of poor data quality as a symptom rather than the problem itself  and believes in business process integration as a primary solution to overcome the challenges in the organization.  Mr. Karkala has led successful implementation of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) services in MDM and business process integration in multiple high-tech organizations.  His design philosophy includes continuous performance improvement alongside pro-active service management in large scale solutions.  Mr. Karkala received his M. Tech in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and his BS in Computer Engineering from Mysore University.

Michael A. Tomasura is a systems analyst with 14 years of experience in information systems with 7 years of experience in data warehousing and business intelligence. He is a doctoral student in the Doctor of Science in Information Systems program at Dakota State University. 

Frank Smietana is director of product marketing for supply chain and manufacturing at Dimensional Insight. He has spent the last 23 years applying predictive analytics and business intelligence tools to solve real world problems at Eli Lilly & Company, UBS and Parametric Technology Corp. Frank can be reached at frank@dimins.com and @DI_tweet.