Jer Thorp, Co-Founder, Office for Creative Research

Jer Thorp is a data artist whose work focuses on adding narrative meaning to huge amounts of data. In other words, he makes data more human. Through cutting edge data visualization techniques, Thorp helps people and corporations take control of the information that surrounds them, using technology and data as a new way to tell stories.

Originally from Vancouver, Jer Thorp lives in New York City, where he teaches in NYU’s ITP program. To investigate the results of Big Data, Thorp helped launch The Office for Creative Research with his peers. He has been a vocal advocate around data, ethics, and privacy, and is currently spearheading a new project with The OCR called Floodwatch: a collective ad monitoring tool that empowers individuals to see how advertisers are profiling them, and to share data with privacy researchers in an effort to combat discriminatory practice.

Barbara Latulippe, Chief Data Governance Officer, EMC

Barbara Latulippe, EMC, Chief Data Governance Officer, has worked over two decades across healthcare and high tech industries providing expertise in the areas of Data Management, MDM, Governance, Data Quality, Data Science as a Service and most recently Big Data Governance. Her broad experience in both technology and business organizations helped drive strategic change in optimizing data as an asset resulting in predictive and prescriptive actionable insights.

Barbara is a recognized industry thought leader for her achievements in Data Quality and MDM innovations well as her ability to lead organizations helping them build out their information governance programs based on business value. In 2010 she was named one of Information Management’s Top 25 and Laureate of the coveted Computer World Honors Program for data quality and governance. In her current role at EMC supporting the Total Customer Experience team, she continues her passion to drive quality, innovation and continuous improvement to accelerate the value of business information assets in operations and the big data lake. #TCEDATADIVA

John Bassani, Senior Director, PwC

John Bassani is a senior director within the PwC Ethic & Compliance group focused on implementing strategic solutions in order to manage compliance information across Firm-wide applications. More recently, John reports to the Chief Data Officer leading transformation initiatives within the US and Global network of PwC Firms. John’s experience in both technology and business provides a unique perspective on delivering solutions. John’s responsibilities include establishing the Firm’s data governance program, MDM operational framework, implementing information management strategies and establishing the concept of data as an asset within the culture of the Firm. John is a change agent involved in a global strategy to transform and implement a client acceptance platform for PwC. With over 20 years of experience implementing large scale reporting solutions, enterprise information integration projects, business process re-engineering, operational support teams and more recently, his exposure to architecting MDM solutions, cloud based applications and virtualized data analytical platforms, John strikes a unique balance between the world of theory and implementation.

Justin Donlon, Senior Business Analyst, Carbonite

Justin is in the IT Department at Carbonite - but if you were to speak with him, you might think he was in Sales or Marketing Ops. With extensive programming and data solutions experience he is passionate about exposing valuable information to, and through the business. Partnering with Sales, Marketing, Customer Support, and the Business Analytics team he leverages the strengths of each team, and leads collaborative efforts to adopt relevant technology for cross-functional data-synergies. Originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, Justin moved with his family to Boston in 2012 and has been with Carbonite for 18 months; recently awarded the much-coveted Carbonite 'Jedi Master Award' in recognition of his cross-functional contributions.

Poornima Ramaswamy, Associate Vice President, Enterprise Information Management & Analytics Practice, Cognizant

Poornima Ramaswamy is the Associate Vice President, Enterprise Information Management & Analytics Practice for Cognizant. She has approximately 15 years of Enterprise Information Management experience across various industry segments including Banking and Financial Services, Insurance, and online technology organizations. In her current role, Poornima is responsible for the delivery of all customer engagements in North America in the Finance Services segment. Her experience spans across EIM consulting and Program/Project Management, and she has managed complex EIM implementation programs in a Global Delivery Model. Her selected experience includes: information strategy, data governance, enterprise information architecture definition and roadmap definition for BI programs. Prior to Cognizant, she was a Program Manager for some large online retail and technology organizations providing data warehousing and BI solutions where she led key analytics projects, such as for customer behavior analytics, segmentation analysis etc. Poornima holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration with specialization in Information Technology and Finance.

Kurt Rosenfeld, Vice President and founder of Data Integration and Business Intelligence, CTI

Kurt Rosenfeld is Vice President and founder of Data Integration and Business Intelligence at CTI. He oversees the company’s strategic drive and rapid growth in these markets. He has helped to build a consulting team able to deliver a wide variety of DI and BI solutions across numerous industries. Kurt has a wealth of industry experience spanning strategic, technical and commercial roles.

Anil Chakravarthy, Acting CEO, Informatica

Anil Chakravarthy is responsible for product development, product management and product marketing of the Informatica Product Portfolio. For nearly a decade, Chakravarthy has held leadership roles at Symantec Corporation. Most recently Chakravarthy was the executive vice president of Information Security at Symantec, responsible for overseeing engineering, product management and operations for an extensive product portfolio including Data Loss Prevention, E-Mail and Web Security (on-premise and cloud), Managed Services, Trust Services and Authentication. Previously at Symantec, Chakravarthy led multiple product groups including Endpoint Protection, Mobile Security and Management, Encryption, Storage and High-Availability and India Product Operations as well as Enterprise Global Consulting. Prior to Symantec, Chakravarthy led product management for enterprise security services at VeriSign. Chakravarthy began his career at McKinsey & Company, where he rose to become the co-leader of the E-Business Practice in the Business Technology Office. Chakravarthy received a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the Institute of Technology, Varanasi, India. Additionally, Chakravarthy received his Master of Science and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jakki Geiger, Senior Director of Information Quality Solutions (IQS) Marketing, Informatica

Jakki Geiger is the Senior Director of Information Quality Solutions (IQS) Marketing at Informatica, responsible for the go-to-market strategies of solutions such as: Total Customer Relationship, Total Supplier Relationship, and Financial Hierarchies Management, among others. Over the course of her 15 year career spearheading marketing for companies of all sizes — from 10 employees to 50,000 employees — Jakki has experienced the pain of not having clean, consistent and connected customer information to drive marketing programs and reporting. Of course, this was before joining Informatica. Jakki joined Informatica following the Siperian acquisition, where she was responsible for solutions marketing. Before Informatica, Jakki held marketing leadership positions at several venture-funded startups resulting in exponential growth and successful acquisitions by Oracle, Thomson Reuters and Informatica. She graduated magna cum laude with an M.A. in integrated marketing communications from Emerson College in Boston and earned a B.A. with honors in Psychology from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Jakki is a published author and frequent speaker on the business value that can be gained when people have access to clean, consistent and connected information about the things that matter most to their business. She’s based at Informatica’s headquarters in Redwood City, California.

Clive Bearman, Director Product Marketing, Informatica Cloud

Clive has spent the past six years educating and evangelizing cloud computing to anyone who will listen. For the past three years he's been the resident Informatica expert on cloud integration and data management for Salesforce environments. Clive graduated with a BSc Computer Science from University of Glamorgan and was awarded US patent #7801946 - "Systems and methods for accessing web services via an instant messaging client". Clive currently lives in Boston, MA and loves to take advantage of the multitude of activities that the city has to offer.