Len Silverston is a best-selling author, consultant, and speaker with over 35 years of experience in helping organizations around the world integrate data. He is an internationally recognized thought leader in the fields of data management as well as in the human dynamics that lie at the core of synthesizing and effectively using information. He is the author of the best-selling "The Data Model Resource Book" series (Volumes 1, 2, and 3), which provides hundreds of reusable data models and has been translated into multiple languages. Mr. Silverston's company, Universal Mindful, LLC (www.universalmindful.com), focuses on the cultural, political, and human side of data management.

Len is also a fully ordained Zen priest and life coach. He provides training, coaching, corporate mindfulness workshops, and retreats through his organization, "Zen With Len" (www.zenwithlen.com).

Dr. Ron Klein plays a leading role in enabling organizations to leverage the value of information assets by providing governance, data quality, and the facilities to determine what information is available, its meaning, where it is, how it got there, and how to use the information asset.

Currently, he is advising a Health Industry start-up and is a member of the DAMAI board and Chief Data Officer. As the Global Data Governance Leader at the Royal Bank of Canada, he was responsible for Data Strategies and Data Governance, working with agile labs and with personnel globally. As Global Metadata Leader for KPMG, he provided guidelines and standards for all participant firms, functions, and markets. He has taught data modeling and data management courses through Ryerson University. He speaks regularly at international industry events, DAMA functions, and metadata conferences.

Laura Sebastian-Coleman, Ph.D., VP of Data Management & Governance at Prudential, has worked in Data Quality Management since 2003. She has implemented Data Quality metrics and reporting, launched and facilitated Data Quality working groups, contributed to data consumer training programs, and led efforts to establish data standards and manage metadata in support of Data Governance goals. Author of Navigating the Labyrinth (2018) and Measuring Data Quality for Ongoing Improvement (2013), her latest book, Meeting the Challenges of Data Quality Management, was published in February 2022. Laura was the production editor for the DAMA-DMBOK2, for which she received DAMA’s award for Contributions to the Data Management Profession (2018).

Dr. Katherine O’Keefe is the Director of Training at Castlebridge. Katherine has worked on a range of projects for clients in sectors as diverse as the nonprofit sector, airlines, telecommunications, transport, and education. She has worked extensively with public and private sector organizations in Ireland and elsewhere, including providing data protection support for a number of charities and providing training and advisory support in the retail electrical supply sector and in the leading water/gas supply utility in Ireland.

Katherine is on the teaching faculty of the Law Society of Ireland’s Diploma Centre and lectures on Data Protection and Governance at University College Dublin. She also leads practical workshops on Data Governance, Data Ethics, and conducting Data Protection Impact Assessments internationally. She is a contributor to Information Ethics Research at the ADAPT Centre at Trinity College Dublin, and is on the steering committee for the ADAPT Centre’s ELITE-S fellowship at Dublin City University. She has designed and developed international professional accreditation schemes for Information Management and was a contributing editor to the DAMA Data Management Book of Knowledge's second edition.

Katherine is the co-author of "Ethical Information Management: Concepts, Tools, and Methods" with Daragh O Brien. In 2016, one of her essays received a “highly commended” distinction in the IRMS Alison North New Professionals Awards, and she was awarded the DAMA International Professional Achievement Award in 2017. In 2019, she was recognized as one of the DPO 200 by the Data Protection World Forum for significant contributions to the privacy and security sectors.

Thomas C. Redman, “the Data Doc,” is President of Data Quality Solutions. He helps companies and leaders chart their courses to data-driven futures with special emphasis on quality, organizational structure, and analytics. His latest book, People and Data: Uniting to Transform Your Organization (Kogan Page 2023), urges companies to increase the power of their data programs by getting everyone. Tom has a Ph.D. in Statistics and two patents.