Overview of University of Illinois System Data Strategy with a Privacy Lens

Get an overview of the University of Illinois System Data Strategy including achievements and focus for this fiscal year, and the privacy aspects of the strategy. We will close by asking for your feedback and ideas so we can continue to be effective in helping you be successful. 

Dimuthu Tilakaratne is chief data officer for the University of Illinois System and leads the implementation of data strategy across our three universities and the system offices. His focus is on delivering key goals in data services, literacy, governance, privacy, and data capabilities. As a key advocate for data management and analytics, he works to enhance our data-informed culture by fostering cross-functional relationships, facilitating appropriate data access, and building confidence and trust in the quality, integrity, and privacy of our data. Dimuthu is a value-centric leader with over 15 years of experience delivering data and analytics capabilities for universities. He has contributed to ERP modernization efforts and delivered enterprise level data and analytics services for multiple universities. 

Stephen Collette manages the Privacy Operations team within the Office of the CIO at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His focus is enabling data usage at the university while encouraging a privacy principle-based method of doing so, centered around the individual and potential impacts to them. Prior to joining University of Illinois, Stephen worked at a large, international corporation where he led both its Records and Information Management program and their multinational privacy program for its headquarters organization and the nine distinct institutions it owned.