Alicia Barco

Vice President, Strategic Data Operations
Castlight Health

Alicia Barco has more than 20 years of IT experience, and is currently VP of Enterprise Data Management at Workers Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of CA, leads an IT organization that is responsible for data governance strategy, business intelligence, data warehouse, analytics, metadata management and heavily involved in enterprise architecture and various levels of IT governance.

Alicia’s leadership track record spans across management consulting, non-profit and for-profit companies. Most recently she’s led WCIRB’s multi-year IT transformation that built WCIRB’s enterprise data management organizational structure, developed data management strategy and execution roadmap, implemented a fully virtualized data warehouse and business intelligence architecture and installed an enterprise-wide data governance program. This strategy’s success has enabled business growth, improved customer offerings and capabilities, and empowered operational efficiencies by lowered costs, self-service features and time to market.

Alicia also possesses deep knowledge of workers compensation insurance business and technology strategies, and is currently leading WCIRB’s effort to expand its data analytics offerings to its external customers in CA.

Alicia holds a Master’s Degree in Medical Informatics from Northwestern University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering from Manila.

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Alicia.

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Data Management Operations to Add Value and Meet Regulatory Obligations

Wednesday, August 12th, 2015

11:35 Bringing Value to the Business Through Data Management Activities

The past few years have seen huge increases in the demand for data. Data management heads are now tasked with processing it faster and making it more available to be used strategically in all business decisions. How can you ensure you’re delivering maximum value to your organization through your data management program? How do you link your efforts directly to business strategies to add value?
Gain lessons learned to help you:
• Provide services to make data useable in the day-to-day
• Elevate data management to impact and improve productivity
• Use metrics to show how data quality can improve
• Harness data and get value from it for clients as a value prop

15:20 Roundtable Discussion Hour

Be sure to join these interactive roundtable sessions and take a deep dive into the specific areas you came to discuss. Opportunities to sit and learn from data management and data governance executives like these do not exist elsewhere. Take control of your own event experience. Don’t be shy! Ask questions (or answer them!) of other conference attendees who are dealing with the same challenges as you.
• Network with industry peers with very similar challenges, interests and responsibilities
• Take a deep dive into a niche topic in an intimate and informal setting moderated by a subject matter expert
• Don’t miss out on the discussions you want to participate in—you’ll get to select a new topic after 30 minutes

Roundtable Discussions:

1. Getting Buy-In to Set an Overall Strategy and Drive Value for the Organization
Gopal Subramanian, Senior Vice President, Fidelity Investments

2. The Pod Approach to Accelerate Data Centralization
Cara Dailey, Senior Vice President, Chief Data Officer, Bank of the West

3. Bringing Value to the Business Through Data Management Activities
Alicia Barco, Vice President, Enterprise Data Management, Workers Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California (Inc.)

4. Building Data Management at a Steady Pace
Scott Sovine, Director, Data and Project Management, Parametric

5. Leveraging Metadata to Facilitate Data Governance
Robyn Lussier, Data Governance Senior Manager, Capital Group