Speaker: Ferd Scheepers

Ferd Scheepers is the global Chief Information Architect , and Chief Architect Group functions of ING. Ferd has been driving ING’s journey to becoming a data driven company for the last 7 years. He has published on Data Lakes and Information Architectures, and is a frequent speaker on both major vendor conferences, and on open source summits. Currently he is championing the Egeria open metadata initiative, and is leading a joint development between ING and IBM on Data Mesh. Passionate about data, both on the opportunities and the risks, Ferd loves to share his vision and ideas on what data will mean for both companies, and for individuals.