How to Build a $Million System for a $Billion
  Dave McComb   Dave McComb
President
Semantic Arts Inc.
semanticarts.com
 


 

Monday, April 23, 2018
05:15 PM - 06:00 PM

Level:  Introductory


Healthcare.gov was a pretty widely acknowledged fiasco. It was budgeted at $93 million, limped into production at $1/2 billion, and to date has cost the taxpayers over $2 billion. What very few people realize is this project could have been done, and indeed was done far better and for less than $1 million, by a firm called Health Sherpa. This talk will cover the misconceptions and erroneous beliefs that create the environment that allows this type of waste to be perpetuated.


Dave McComb is the President and co-founder of Semantic Arts. Semantic Arts specializes in helping medium to large enterprises adopt Knowledge Graph technology and Data-Centric application development. Dave has been running Semantic Arts for 22 years. He has led major Data-Centric initiatives at Morgan Stanley, Amgen, Verizon, Price Waterhouse, Procter & Gamble, International Monetary Fund, Lexis Nexis, Goldman Sachs, Electronic Arts, Standard & Poors, Dunn & Bradstreet, and several mid-sized companies. He is the author of Semantics in Business Systems, Software Wasteland, and The Data-Centric Revolution