Brett Knapp

Bloomberg PolarLake Buy-Side Solutions
Bloomberg PolarLake Buy-Side Solutions

With almost 20 years of buy-side technology experience Brent has helped deliver leading solutions and services to some of the world’s largest asset managers. His experience with data management, accounting, compliance and performance measurement provides a unique perspective on the evolving market and the need for asset managers to adopt better technology to enhance automation and efficiency. Prior to Bloomberg PolarLake, Brent worked for SunGard, Thomson Reuters and Advent Software in various client facing roles.

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Mastering Data Strategy and Data Quality to Remain Competitive

Saturday, October 7th, 2017

16:05 Interactive Roundtable Discussions

Since the earlier part of the day was jam-packed with detailed presentations and thought-provoking panel discussions, here’s your opportunity to be part of the discussion! Sit with many of the day’s speakers to ask questions about their presentations, share your thoughts, and dive deeper into your challenges. Additional roundtable topics not yet discussed in the earlier sessions are available too. You pick which roundtables to partake in – choose the ones relevant to your most pressing initiatives and send your team mates to others to cover full ground. Each Roundtable discussion lasts 30 minutes – choose 2!

1. Impact On Risk Management and Regulatory Compliance From New Cloud Investments
Mike Pickart, Senior Manager, Financial Services Solution Architecture, Informatica, LLC.
2. Fighting Governance Fatigue by Keeping Metrics Meaningful
Seth Earley, Chief Executive Officer, Earley Information Science
3. Driving and Implementing Workflow Tools to Improve Data Quality
Susan McIvor, Vice President, Nomura Securities
4. Big Data and Analytics: Overcoming Challenges in the Institutions
Luis Estrada, Global Chief Executive Officer, BI Geek
5. Overcoming the Innovation Challenge of Driving Advanced Analytics
Geoff Finnie, Director, Strategic Analytics, BMO Financial Group
6. Delivering Data Quality Across the Investment Process
Brent Knapp, Director, Bloomberg PolarLake Buy-Side Solutions, Bloomberg PolarLake
7. Legacy Meets Regulation and Digital
Preetham Kamesh, Vice President, Global Head of IDMS, Capgemini

8. Governance, Security, and Deployment Best Practices in Successful FinServ Data Lakes

Paul Barth, Chief Executive Officer, Podium Data

9. Fast Tracking the Migration to Cloud Infrastructure Within a Financial Institution

George Marootian, Executive Vice President, Head of Technology, Natixis Global Asset Management