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Recorded Webinar: Are you ready for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)?

11 May 2017

The data management challenges of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are significant and must be tackled soon to ensure compliance in just over a year on 25 May 2018. The regulation makes many extensions to existing European data privacy rules, adds new obligations and pitches fines for non-compliance at up to 4% of turnover.

Listen to the webinar to find out about:

  • GDPR requirements
  • How they affect financial firms
  • Data management challenges
  • Best practice implementation
  • Advice on meeting the deadline

Speakers:

Michael Dimopoulos GDPR Practitioner currently assigned to a tier 1 European bank
Christy Haragan Principal Sales Engineer
MarkLogic
Tudor Borlea Collibra Product Specialist, CIPP/E
Collibra
Michael Angle CTO
Opus

More about our speakers:

Michael Dimopoulos

GDPR Practitioner currently assigned to a tier 1 European bank

Michael is an accomplished executive with 20+years’ business and data strategy and transformation experience around regulatory compliance, cost optimisation and business steering within banking and capital markets.

Michael’s international career includes Director-level roles at CGI, Capgemini, Grant Thornton and Kentavros Technology Partners providing advisory and consulting services to global financial institutions including: State Street, BNP Paribas, St James’s Place, HSBC, RBS, RBC Capital Markets, Schroders, Euroclear, Euronext, Amsterdam Exchanges, KPN Telecoms, Citibank.

Christy Haragan

Principal Sales Engineer

MarkLogic

Christy joined MarkLogic in December 2014. She started her career as a Software Engineer, having a completed a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of York. Her career has spanned several other roles, including Account Management and, of course, Sales Engineering.

She has a deep background in various data-centric topics, including master data management, data governance, and data modeling.

Whilst she has professionally coded in several languages (including C++, Java, Scala, Lisp, and Haskell), she believes JavaScript is the best positioned to realise the promise of one language to rule them all, thanks to MarkLogic’s native support of the language.

Tudor Borlea

Collibra Product Specialist, CIPP/E

Collibra

udor has spent the past 12 years gradually moving from IT focused roles like software implementation and integration towards more Business focused roles like business analysis and management consulting. The one constant throughout was that he enjoyed helping institutions bridge the understanding gap between Business and IT. As a Management Consultant, Tudor was fortunate to work in several large Business Transformation programmes, across various industries, experiencing first hand the change management challenges around process, organisation, data, applications and technology. When done right, Data Governance can be the answer to most of these challenges.

Since joining Collibra, Tudor has focused on the GDPR and other regulatory applications of Data Governance, becoming a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E) in the process.

Michael Angle

CTO

Opus

Mike was Co-founder, President and Chief Operating Officer of Alacra before the company’s Opus acquisition. Prior to Alacra, Mike was Vice President of Technology at Technimetrics, Inc., a $20 million financial information company. His responsibilities included managing all aspects of technical development and operations.

Previously, Mike spent three years as a Product Development Manager for EJV Partners, where his responsibilities included product definition, technical implementation and support of Communications and Real-Time Products.

He holds a BS in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He resides in Warwick, NY.

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