DATE: May 13, 2025

TIME: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Eastern / 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Pacific

PRICE: Free to all attendees

About the Webinar

Ninety percent or more of organizational data challenges stem from people and processes, not technology. Strengthening our focus on the non-technology aspects of data governance is crucial. A conscious effort to spend as much time on ethics as on technology is a good starting point. Just like ubiquitous “safety minutes,” periodic ethics discussions can help prevent surprises, introduce important vocabulary, and most importantly, ensure that the first discussion of organizational ethics doesn’t occur in the middle of a data crisis. 

This program will provide information that you can use to initiate ethical discussions as part of your data program. Much of the information is conveyed through a series of workshop discussions describing “incidents.” These discussions cover how the incidents were discovered and handled, as well as the lessons learned, leading to specific operational changes and improvements. The material focuses on the people and process issues encountered with each incident, illustrating aspects of data governance that are rarely documented, much less presented. 

About the Speaker

Peter Aiken, PhD

Professor of Information Systems, VCU and Founder, Anything Awesome

Peter Aiken, Ph.D. is an acknowledged Data Management authority, an associate professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, president of DAMA International, and associate director of the MIT International Society of Chief Data Officers. For more than 40 years, Peter has learned from working with hundreds of Data Management practices in more than 30 countries. Among his 13 books are the first on making the case for data leadership (CDOs), the first focusing on data monetization and modern strategic data thinking, and the first to objectively specify what it means to be data-literate. International recognition has resulted from these and a (pre-Covid-19) intensive worldwide events schedule. Peter also hosts the longest-running Data Management webinar series on dataversity.net. Before Google, before data was big, and before Data Science, Peter founded several organizations that have helped more than 200 businesses leverage data – specific savings have been measured at more than $1.5 billion. His latest venture is Anything Awesome. 

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