#InteropITX – Data Analytics Panel

Today is day one of regular sessions at InteropITX 2018. I’m honoured to be the chair for the Data and Analytics track at this year’s event.

We are starting with a panel of data professionals:

Harmonizing Business and IT: Data as the Driver

Speakers: Donald Farmer (CEO, Treehive Strategy), Danielle Funston (VP, Blueprint), Romi Mahajan (Director, Blueprint), Erick Watson (Chief Product Officer, Quantarium)

Some of the best topics they chatted about.

• Does our lack of common vocabulary or taxonomy in our organizations hurt us? Is it the reason for the ongoing challenges of Business/IT collaboration?
• How do we get the business to understand data governance, security and privacy requirements.
• Do all these compliance and governance requirements mean that small and medium-sized businesses should outsource more of their IT resources?  Should this mean moving to the cloud?
• GDPR will test whether or not businesses and IT are working together.

Our moderator, Romi Majaran had a question that got right to heart of the “IT/Business Singularity”: When will we solve this problem so that we can stop having to have these panels?

A great question.