Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Joseph Blank is a senior IT leader with 25+ years of leading large-scale, global initiatives in Financial Services, Financial Technology Analytics, Trading and Brokerage Services, Accounting, and Consumer Products industries.� Mr. Blank has strong expertise in implementing Corporate Systems (Financial, Human Resources, Marketing and Sales) and has an extensive background in Corporate Reporting.�He is recognized as a strategic thought leader with diverse skills to recommend emerging technologies to transform company-wide data into quality cross-functional business analytic information and realizing cost savings and improving organizational efficiency.Mr. Blank has developed strategies to strengthen the S&P Global Corporate information management, analytics and data environment. This has included the building of advanced analytics platforms and planning for a digital platform, facilitating a collaborative business intelligence environment, and driving cross-functional data integration and analytics among different operating companies at S&P Global.Some of Joe’s most recent initiatives include:Promoting a culture for enabling S&P Global data scientists to bring new insights to light through quantitative methodologies and analysis.Enriching the data quality and consistency of core S&P Global business data through a Master Data Management program for Customer and Product entities.Creating a Corporate Data Warehouse used as a central gateway to a common set of standardized data and used as a foundation for producing cross-functional reporting and analysis.�������� Accelerating timely access to business data with self-service visualization tools for dynamic decision making.

Sudha Manda is a senior manager with over 14 years of experience in Data Governance, MDM, Data Quality, Data Analysis, and Data Warehousing in Financial Services and Pharmaceutical industries.Ms. Manda has experience in creating data governance frameworks for organizations, defining and implementing data governance tools and metadata standards, creating data policies, and establishing data quality rules and metrics to support a data governance office. In her current role at S&P Global, she has established a data governance culture and data enrichment in the quality of S&P Global Ratings data.� She has been integral to leading an Enterprise Corporate data governance program and data quality initiatives in partnership with the Chief Data Officer and Master Data Stewards.� Ms. Manda has also contributed to the strategic execution of creating a roadmap to build out the Human Resource business glossary and MDM Employee domain.

Amy DeMartine is a principal analyst with Forrester Research. She helps security and risk professionals transform their current software and application security practices to support continuous delivery and improvement, focusing on strong partnerships with application development, operations, and business teams. Her research covers topics such as proactive security design, security testing in the software delivery life cycle, protection of applications in production environments, and remediation of hardware and software flaws.Previous Work ExperienceIn her previous role at Forrester, Amy served Infrastructure & Operations Professionals, covering the strategy, design, organization, and implementation of modern service delivery, including continuous delivery, DevOps, and SecureOps. She has more than 20 years of experience in product management, product and technical marketing, development, and operations roles. Her previous experience includes positions at BMC and HP, where she was responsible for driving IT management software products from conception through the product life cycle, all with the purpose of enabling technology professionals to solve their most pressing issues.EducationAmy holds a master's degree in telecommunications and a bachelor's degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Colorado.

Peter Ku is vice president and chief industry strategist - financial services, at Informatica.

Aaron Werman leads data strategy at First Data, and was previously the lead for big data and creator of the corporate data lake. He has over thirty years experience in all areas in the data domain and has a strong Kimball bias in data presentation. He is based in the New York City area.