Daragh O Brien is an internationally respected trainer and consultant Information Governance, Information Quality, and Data Privacy. Prior to establishing Castlebridge Associates he worked for 12 years with a leading telecommunications company in CRM and Regulatory Operations roles.

Colin White is the founder of BI Research and president of DataBase Associates Inc. As an analyst, educator and writer he is well known for his in-depth knowledge of business intelligence, business analytics, and data management technologies. With many years of IT experience, he has consulted for dozens of companies throughout the world and is a frequent speaker at leading IT events.

A thought leader and practitioner in the rapidly growing field of business intelligence – Claudia Imhoff, Ph.D. is a popular and dynamic speaker on business intelligence and the infrastructure to support these initiatives – the Corporate Information Factory (CIF).

Christoph Balduck has been working in IT since 2001 and as of 2007 in the field of information management. Initially Christoph fulfilled a number of technical and functional roles in SAP, moving over to CRM applications and since 2007 he has focused on information and data management.

Christian Gijsels currently works as an independent consultant and trainer. Before that, Christian was employed at the Cronos Holding, where he, as a co-founder, was responsible for the Consulting Groep The Business Analysts, a group of 85 business analists, functional analists and project managers.

Bart Baesens is a professor at KU Leuven (Belgium), and a lecturer at the University of Southampton (United Kingdom). He has done extensive research on big data & analytics, customer relationship management, fraud detection, and credit risk management. His findings have been published in well-known international journals.

Dr. Barry Devlin is one of the foremost authorities in the field of business insight and he is one of the founders of data warehousing.
With over thirty years’ experience in IT, of which twenty with IBM as “Distinguished Engineer”, he is a valued consultant and teacher all around, plus author of the standard book “Data Warehouse – from Architecture to Implementation”.

Alec Sharp, a senior consultant and acclaimed teacher with Clariteq Systems Consulting, has deep expertise in a rare combination of fields – business analysis and requirements specification, data modelling, strategy development, facilitation, and, of course, business process modelling, analysis and design.

James Archer is a business analyst, consultant, teacher, writer and innovator. James is co-editor and contributing author of Business Analysis and Leadership (Kogan Page, 2014). He identifies the key to great business analysis as an inclusive leadership style, thinking innovatively, working collaboratively, acting strategically and helping people discover their real requirements.