John Ladley is an internationally known information management practitioner and a popular speaker on information and knowledge management. John is widely published and has several regular columns. Until recently, John was a Director with Navigant Consulting. Prior to Navigant, John founded KI Solutions, and John was Senior Program Director of Data Warehouse strategies and a Research Fellow at Meta Group. Mr. Ladley is an authority on information architectures, business performance measurement architectures, knowledge management, collaborative applications, and information resource management. John is currently President of IMCue Solutions, a new firm focused on data governance and information management.

Len Silverston is a best-selling author, consultant, and speaker with over 25 years of experience helping organizations integrate their information and systems. Mr. Silverston is a thought leader in the fields of data modeling, data management and in the human dynamics of integrating data. He has been a pioneer in the field, most notably by developing an extensive library of "Universal Data Models", or in other words, re-usable models, which he has used to help a great deal of organizations to develop data models in much less time with much greater quality. He is the author of The Data Model Resource Book, series, which describe over 230 reusable, holistic data models and which was rated #12 on the Computer Literacy Best Seller List. Mr. Silverston has published numerous articles and has been a frequently invited speaker at many international conferences talking on subject ranging from re-usable models to politics, power, and culture in data management. Mr. Silverston's company, Universal Data Models, provides consulting, training, publications and software regarding re-usable data models and data management strategies to help integrate information, systems and people.

Lowell Fryman is the VP of Professional Services for the Genesee Academy and RapidACE. He is recognized as a thought leader in metadata, enterprise systems consolidation/ integration and business intelligence applications, having hands-on experience with over 80 business intelligence implementations. He has also been recognized by W. H. (Bill) Inmon, and is a contributor to six of his books. Lowell is a co-author of the book “Business Metadata: Capturing Enterprise Knowledge”. Lowell currently heads the Metadata channel on the Business Intelligence Network™ (b-eye-network.com) and is a member of the Curriculum Advisory Board for Data Warehousing, Daniels College of Business, Denver University. Additionally, he is the current President of DAMA-Rocky Mountain Chapter (RMC) and an active speaker at international conferences. Lowell has developed technology best practice courses and trained thousands of professionals in data warehousing, data architecture and data quality, as well as enterprise application integration. Recently he has lead teams in the implementation of enterprise Metadata repositories, business intelligence applications, MDM/CDI integration, and data governance for major international corporations.