Business Value from Data Panel
Moderator:
Dana Gardner is president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, an enterprise IT analysis, market research, and consulting firm. Gardner, a leading identifier of software and cloud productivity trends and new IT business growth opportunities, honed his skills and refined his insights as an industry analyst, pundit, and news editor covering the emerging software development and enterprise infrastructure arenas for the last 19 years.
Panelists:
Don Brancato With 25 years of experience as an enterprise architect, including domain experience in advanced aerospace and security applications, Mr Brancato is a standards contributor (Open Platform 3.0, Business Data Lake, IoT, and Data Element Framework) and insightful consultant – contributing to numerous smart city projects globally. Don is the Chief Strategy Architect, The Boeing Company
Florian Mayer works as a project manager for BMW mobility technologies, and is assigned to projects concerning on-demand mobility. He represents BMW in the consortium of bIoTope - a project funded by the European Union as part of the initiative Horizon 2020.
Ron Schuldt has been involved with The Open Group’s Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF) standard since its inception. The UDEF is the forerunner to the new O-DEF standard. He has over twenty-eight years experience as a systems engineer for Lockheed Martin working systems design and integration. He has been involved in multiple data interchange standards activities and is recognized as an expert on data standards. He is Chairman of The Open Group Semantic Interoperability Work Group. Currently, he is Manager of Data-Harmonizing, LLC, providing data integration training and consulting services.