Barbara Eckman is a Principal Data Architect at Comcast. She leads data governance for an innovative, division-wide initiative comprising near-real-time ingesting, streaming, transforming, storing, and analyzing Big Data. Barbara is a recognized technical innovator in Big Data architecture and governance, as well as scientific data and model integration. Her experience includes technical leadership positions at a Human Genome Project Center, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, and IBM. She served on the IBM Academy of Technology, an internal peer-elected organization akin to the National Academy of Sciences.