WDP Webinar – Women on Boards: The Path to Boardroom Diversity
Currently only 19.7% women globally hold a board seat. This number has only increased by 2.8% since 2018.
This underrepresentation of women and the slow progress are a key focus area for many institutions worldwide. The European Union has agreed this year (2022) that companies will face mandatory quotas to ensure women have at a minimum 40% of seats on corporate boards.
Based on the ‘Deloitte Global Boardroom Program’s Women in the Boardroom’ report (7th edition was published in 2022 in cooperation with The 30% Club), near boardroom parity could be reached in 2045. But what is needed to accelerate this pace of change?
In this session, an expert panel will tackle these pressing questions:
What needs to change in the commitment to boardroom diversity?
Why is the progress so slow?
What are the regional differences and how are mandatory laws helping progress diversity?
How are industries differing in their female board representation?
What are beneficial factors in companies that help women transition to board members?
What are learnings from female board chairs?
What can women in leadership positions do and what needs to be done among the decision-makers?
By now, we are all familiar with Microsoft’s Power Platform, the low code platform that democratizes programming for a new generation of business users, often called ‘makers.’ But with such wide-ranging access to data brings challenges, especially when it comes to governance. You need to ensure your data is safe and that the right people have access to it at the right time and are using the tools appropriately and responsibly.
If your organization uses Power Platform and is concerned about potential security and data implications, this webinar is for you. Presented jointly by the EDM Council and Hitachi Solutions, we’ll take a look at the fundamentals of a governance program, along with the guardrails and supports you can put in place so app makers have a safe place to create and innovate.
Join us to learn about:
Why Data Governance isn’t a bad word
Establishing a Team Strategy
Understanding the Infrastructure and Tenant
Setting Up Data Loss Prevention Policies
Automating Audit Processes
Building a Power Platform Center of Excellence
Modernizing Analytics Architectures with Data Mesh & Semantic Layer
The data mesh is a trending approach to building a decentralized data architecture by leveraging a domain-oriented, self-service design. For this approach to work, the semantic layer emerged as a fundamental concept to support data model sharing, collaboration, and ownership. You will learn how a semantic layer fits into a modern analytics architecture by understanding its relationship to the data mesh.
This session will explain how central data teams can define common models and definitions with a semantic layer, and allows users to browse the mesh of related data products.
Attend this session to learn about:
The role of a data mesh in the modern cloud architecture
A semantic layer as a binding agent for a data mesh
Building modern cloud architecture following modern paradigms
ESG Special Interest Group (SIG) Update
Join us for an update on the EDM Council’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) interest group. John Bottega (President) and Jim Halcomb (Head of Product Management) will discuss recent accomplishments and upcoming plans for the EDM Council’s collaborative work with industry to address current and future ESG challenges. In addition, they will present the Council’s new approach to supporting and expanding group activities.
WDP Group – Accelerate your journey to gender parity
Leading Financial Services organisations have recognised that a fundamental shift will be necessary to move the needle on gender representation. The pandemic has created opportunities and made existing challenges more acute, reshaping how and where we work while increasing the difficulty, especially for women, of balancing home and professional life. Our speaker Nishma Gosrani OBE, partner at Bain & Company co-authored an industry-first blueprint with practical recommendations and a toolkit of ideas on how to accelerate a journey to gender parity. The blueprint is based on interviews with leading FS CEOs, Bain analysis, academic research, cross-industry case studies and a survey of more than 100 signatories.
This webinar will dive into:
Recruitment, retention and promotion
Culture and behaviour
Embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)
The Digitization of ESG Data
At our next EDM Council ESG Working Group on July 6, we are delighted to have David Wray, President of the DFCG International Group, provide us with a sophisticated deep dive on the Digitization of ESG data and the possibilities it presents us with. In addition to the general concepts, David will share a case study around the data collection and digitization process. He will also cover the applicability for Consumer, SaaS, Financial Services, Regulatory Reporting and NGO activities.
Financial Data Transparency Forum
On May 5, 2022, the Open Data Standards Task Force, co-chaired by Bloomberg and Data Foundation, with support from the Data Coalition Initiative jointly hosted a public forum to facilitate a private-public exchange to help provide insights on federal financial regulatory data. Group 2 presenters were from Financial InterGroup Advisors, Bloomberg, Miller/Wenhold Capitol Strategies, EDM Council, and Google.
DCAM Application for the Spanish Market / Aplicación para el Mercado Hispanohablante
We are proud to announce that, in partnership with FIT Strategy, DCAM v2.2 has been translated into Spanish. This is a fantastic opportunity for companies with operations in Spanish-speaking marketing as it allows local offices to undertake DCAM in their native language. Note: Introductory remarks will be in English, and the core presentation will be in Spanish.
About DCAM:
Developed by EDM Council members, DCAM™ – the Data Management Capability Assessment Model – is the industry standard framework for Data Management. DCAM defines the scope of capabilities required to establish, enable and sustain a mature Data Management discipline. It addresses the strategies, organizational structures, technology and operational best practices needed to successfully drive Data Management across your organization, and ensures your data can support digital transformation, advanced analytics such as AI and ML, and data ethics.
The webinar will explore:
The foundations of the DCAM framework and tools
Case studies and applications in Spanish-speaking markets and businesses
Opportunities to initiate the DCAM best practices and assessments in your organization
DCAM Application for the Italian Market
We are proud to announce that, in partnership with FIT Strategy, DCAM v2.2 has been translated into Italian. This is a fantastic opportunity for companies with operations in Italy as it allows local offices to undertake DCAM in their native language. Note: Introductory remarks will be in English, and the core presentation will be in Italian.
About DCAM
Developed by EDM Council members, DCAM™ – the Data Management Capability Assessment Model – is the industry standard framework for Data Management. DCAM defines the scope of capabilities required to establish, enable and sustain a mature Data Management discipline. It addresses the strategies, organizational structures, technology and operational best practices needed to successfully drive Data Management across your organization, and ensures your data can support digital transformation, advanced analytics such as AI and ML, and data ethics.
The webinar will explore:
The foundations of the DCAM framework and tools
Case studies and applications in Italy
Opportunities to initiate the DCAM best practices and assessments in your organization
Regulation Transformation: In Conversation with UN PRI Chair Martin Skancke
WDP Committee member and EDMC ESG Regulatory Committee Lead Beate Born interviews Martin Skancke, the chair of the UN PRI, on ESG reporting standards and biggest areas of focus in the transforming ESG landscape.
Announcing the new EDM Association
EDM Council has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Object Management Group. Bringing together data, software, systems, knowledge engineering and standards capability, and reflecting our global growth, EDM Council is changing its name to EDM Association.
