
Understand & govern your data with Slalom & Microsoft
As organizations go through their cloud journey, having a more robust data governance strategy is becoming increasingly crucial when using data to drive business growth, make improved decisions, and ensure successful outcomes in a competitive market. But how do organizations go beyond this strategy and make data governance a part of their day-to-day processes?
Join Slalom and Microsoft to learn more about our perspectives around data governance, and how your teams can manage and secure data resources across your entire data estate.
We will see how Microsoft Purview provides a unified data governance solution to help manage and govern your on-premises, multi-cloud, and SaaS data. When combined with Slalom’s Data Governance Framework, we'll show you how it can serve as an effective enabler for your organization’s data governance capability and operating model.
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Meet your experts!

Franck Mercier | Senior Cloud Solution Architect, Data Platform | Microsoft
Franck is the Senior Cloud Solution Architect on Data Platform at Microsoft Canada with a special focus on Data Analysis and Data Governance. As a Microsoft veteran who joined the company in 1999, he acts in several roles ranging from Support Engineer, Technical Evangelist, and Cloud Solution Architect to accelerate customer success with their digital transformation journey. Franck has been working on Power BI and Microsoft Purview Data Catalog since the early beginning and has a strong knowledge with these solutions.

Ian Cheng | Director, Data & Analytics | Slalom
Ian leads the data management practice at Slalom Canada. He is experienced in helping clients with data management, data governance advisory and implementation. Ian has worked on the implementation of Microsoft Purview for various organizations in a variety of industries.

Francis Tam | Principal, Data & Analytics | Slalom
Francis leads the Purview and overall Data Governance capability at Slalom Canada. He is an experienced Product Owner in rolling out data governance capability in financial institution. Francis is an expert in helping clients realize the benefits of metadata management best practices.

Kevin Poulton | Cloud Solution Architect | Microsoft
Kevin is a Cloud Solution Architect Manager at Microsoft Canada where he is responsible for a team of Data and Advanced Analytics Cloud Solution Architects. His teams’ mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more by helping them modernize their data estate. Before joining Microsoft, Kevin held positions at Gartner, where he was an Associate Director within their Data and Analytics practice focusing on the Federal Government, as well as IBM Canada where he held various data leadership roles.

Mandeep Flora | Director of Data Strategy and Platforms | Ministry of Children, Community and Social Service
Mandeep is the Director of Data Strategy & Platforms, in MCCSS' Business Intelligence & Practice Division. Since 2015, he has led work across the Ontario government as the academic and research community to rethink and better deliver user-centric, data and analytics services. Over the last few years, his team has successfully deployed various, new self-service, digital business intelligence tools to better measure and understand human and social services and supports. He has worked with the OPS for 15 years, leading multi-disciplinary teams in strategic policy design, planning and implementation, additionally he has led privacy legislation modernization efforts in Ontario for cross-government data access & integration.
Agenda
8:30AM-9:15AM 9:15AM-9:45AM 9:45AM-10:15AM 10:15AM-10:45AM 10:45AM-11:00AM 11:00AM-11:45AM 11:45AM-12:00PM 12:00PM-1:00PM |
Breakfast & Networking
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