"The Data Governance Horror Story"+"Surviving Corporate Culture for Developers"

"The Data Governance Horror Story" - Adrian Smith

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"Surviving Corporate Culture for Developers" - Jon Baggaley

Tonight, we are delighted to host Adrian Smith and his talk on Data Governance, followed by Jon Baggaley, long time friend of the meet up group presenting his talk on Surviving Corporate Culture as a Developer.

Talk 1:

Getting buy-in for a data management & governance programs can be hard.

This is a candid look at what can wrong when organisations do not take their Data Quality, Master Data Management, Security, Meta, and Ownership and Responsibility seriously.

Tonight Adrian will share a personal collection from over 20 years of experience in data, tales donated from colleagues, and famous cases you might not have made a connection with.

Talk 2:

Fed up with pointless stand-ups, endless refactoring, and micromanagement of your development tasks? Join us to explore clever, developer-friendly tactics for taking back control, cutting through the noise, and adding a bit of rebellion to your daily workflow! Join us for a light-hearted look at sparking change from the inside out!

Bios:

Adrian Smith
Adrian has had a diverse career working for multiple financial institutions over the last two decades in both the private and public sectors. Taking on leadership and individual contributor roles, he has seen a huge amount of change – and a huge amount of failures!

Focusing on a strategic view of short-term delivery, long-term build, Adrian has been successful in designing and implementing multiple data strategies from delivering complex analytics to cloud re-platforming.

Jon Baggaley
Jon has been a Technical Architect for a variety of successful Financial companies over the years, building high-scale Enterprise systems that solve complex business issues. Jon is a big advocate of using innovative tools to improve system architecture and has always been the driving force for technical change and improvement in the companies he has worked with. In his spare time Jon is a passionate Sci-fi fan and Worthing based father of two children.

Doors open at 6:30m and Adrian will start his talk around 7pm

As usual there will be free pizzas and drinks on the night between the first and second talks, so if you are interested to come along, then please sign up so we can keep track of numbers.

I hope to see you there.

Thanks, Gavin