Conference Agenda

Mandy Chessell CBE FREng is a trusted advisor to executives from large organisations, working with them to develop their strategy and architecture relating to the governance, integration and management of information. Mandy worked for IBM for 35 years, the last 15 as an IBM Distinguished Engineer.  She is now one of the founders of Pragmatic Data Research Ltd, dedicated to improving the transparency, security and efficiency of digital operations and data management.  Mandy is also the honorary president of the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED).

Mandy has been developing integration software throughout her career. Her focus has always been on using and supporting open standards to achieve heterogeneous-interoperability.  Today Mandy is the leader and top contributor to the Egeria Open Source project (https://egeria-project.org) which is part of the LF AI & Data Foundation.  Egeria is focused on providing an open metadata and governance technology that is able to exchange, integrate and correlate metadata from different tools, engines and platforms.

Mandy is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2015 she received a CBE for services to software engineering.  In 2000, she was identified as one of MIT Technology Review's hundred young people most likely to make significant 21st Century technical innovation. She is also distinguished as the first woman to win a Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal. Mandy has published numerous titles and has over 50 patents issued worldwide.

We have unfortunately been let down, at very short notice, by our second keynote speaker for the Friday morning.

The organising committee have put their heads together and have decided to make use of this time, by allowing delegates to network.

You might be feeling slightly jaded from the night before, so come and join us in the Design Factory for a leisurely coffee and chat.

If a conversation that you started on the Thursday evening at the dinner, didn’t get finished, then please use this time to allow the conversation to continue.

And don’t feel that you need to rush your start of the day to meet with us from 9:30am, you might benefit from and extra couple of minutes beauty sleep.