Learn. Connect.
Lead your
team forward.
For CDOs and leaders of data quality and master data management
In the age of AI, quality data is your competitive
edge. Join us at FWRD 2024, the ultimate data
event where industry leaders gather to share
insights, strategies, and the future of next-gen,
AI-driven data solutions.
Highlights
Witness the unveiling of an AI leap forward.
This new advancement doesn’t just meet industry standards‑it sets them. Empowering you to navigate the most complex data landscapes with ease and precision.
Stay tuned to see how you can accomplish in days what once took weeks.
Elevate your leadership impact
Discover how to amplify your influence as a CDO and lead your team to success. At FWRD 2024, you’ll uncover strategies to deliver successful AI projects, enhance your role’s value, and drive your company forward with confidence.
Unveil the latest data innovations
Stay ahead of the curve by mastering the latest in data management tools and techniques. You will learn about groundbreaking innovations in data quality, lineage, observability, and more, all designed to maximize your business outcomes and future-proof your strategy.
Learn new successful data strategies
Gain insights from top data professionals as they share best practices and real-world examples on aligning data initiatives with business goals. Learn how to quickly build data programs that deliver maximum business value.
Calling all data people!
For data leaders
Attend to stay current with the latest trends, network with people in the same position, and provide your teams with experience, knowledge, and guidance.
For data practitioners
Attend to learn about the latest technologies and how groundbreaking businesses use them to gain an advantage and improve enterprise operations.
For Ataccama users
Attend to hear about the latest updates to the Ataccama platform (including the AI copilot) and how you can begin leveraging them for your business.
Agenda
Embrace the future of data with AI at FWRDSpeakers
Our diverse lineup of speakers includes Ataccama experts, customers, and renowned data leaders.Register> for speaker announcements and more!
Michael McKee
CEO AtaccamaJay Limburn
CPO AtaccamaMarta DeBellis
CMO AtaccamaCelebrating our data community
Join us at the Ataccama Data Visionaries Awards 2024, presented at FWRD. Celebrate the most innovative data management projects and the visionaries transforming industries and shaping the future of data.
Register now to witness the data champions pushing the boundaries! #FWRD24
Mike McKee
CEO
Mike McKee was appointed Chief Executive Officer and President of Ataccama in August 2023. Together with the leadership team, he executes on Ataccama’s mission to empower organizations to maximize the transformative potential of data and AI, enabling them to extract insights that help them make better business decisions.
Mike brings three decades of senior leadership experience and startup expertise, having formerly served as Chief Executive Officer and President at Dotmatics. He also held the role of Chief Executive Office at ObserveIT, and subsequently was appointed EVP & GM, Insider Threat Management, at Proofpoint after its acquisition of ObserveIT. Previously, he was SVP, Services & Customer Success at Rapid7, which completed an IPO on the NASDAQ during his tenure, and SVP, CAD Operations & Strategy at PTC, an organization at which he spent over 11 years and held senior positions in sales, finance, and services.
Mike’s experience also includes business strategy consulting at McKinsey, and his self-founded Onward & Upward Consulting initiative, as well as roles in investment banking with Goldman Sachs and Broadview International. Mike holds a MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in Economics and Politics from Princeton University.
Mike’s heart originally belonged on the ice and he was a professional player for the Canadian National Hockey League. Mike has four children and has coached them all in hockey over the last decade. Mike loves to exercise by trying to keep up with his teenage son playing men’s hockey together, doing Peloton workouts or playing tennis, squash and golf with friends. Fortunately, Mike can enjoy the last three sports with his wife (though she is MUCH better than he is at squash) who is very busy with her own residential architecture business. Mike loves time with family, Taylor Swift (thanks to his youngest daughter), sports, and travel.
Jay Limburn
Chief Product Officer
Jay Limburn is Chief Product Officer at Ataccama, where he leads a worldwide team of product managers to deliver market leading data management software products. Jay has a deep background in data governance, data quality, MDM and AI, and has spent over two decades helping companies align their technology vision, strategy and execution to deliver business outcomes.
Jay holds 17 patents in areas including machine learning, data governance and data generation. His passion is building market-leading, customer-focused products that enable enterprises to embrace AI innovation to augment human intelligence.
Before joining Ataccama, Jay was Vice President of Product Management at IBM, where he led the team responsible for the watsonx AI platform and IBM’s Data Fabric portfolio. In this role, he was focused on delivering cutting-edge generative AI, machine learning, and data and analytics capabilities to address some of the world's most complex problems.
In his spare time, Jay is an ardent follower of Formula 1 and spends his weekends golfing, playing guitar and enjoying time with his family.
Marta DeBellis
Chief Marketing Officer
Marta DeBellis is Chief Marketing Officer at Ataccama and is responsible for aligning company business goals with the innovation roadmap to deliver a robust go-to-market strategy. An experienced CMO and GTM leader with a track record that includes Adobe, Intel and MRM Worldgroup on the Microsoft account, Marta has deep expertise in strategy, marketing, customer engagement, business development and operations, with a focus on B2B Software-as-a-Service companies at all stages of growth.
Marta has held senior leadership positions at several large, global brands across multiple regions and is adept at translating global strategies to local markets to achieve results and scale in new markets. She served as Chief Marketing Officer at Dotmatics, a scientific data platform, where she consolidated the narrative, branding and category positioning of 11 companies. Previously, she held Global Chief Marketing Officer roles at B2B SaaS companies HireVue, and Instructure, at which she led a 120-person strong global marketing team.
Marta serves on the Board of Civis Analytics, which helps nonprofit and public sector organizations to gain better insights into their data for competitive advantage. Passionate about developing teams, she is a Thinking Partner business coach and qualified to help people identify their strengths, and is also a mentor for scholars of the Marketing Academy. Marta has a BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A world traveler, Marta has lived in Germany, Thailand and Australia for work assignments but loves spending time outdoors at home in the US. An always-active person, Marta backpacked around the world for a year in her 20s, and still enjoys hiking and mountain biking, camping and spending time with her three children and dog at their family lake house in Wisconsin, and snow skiing in her hometown of Park City, Utah.
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