Agenda At-a-Glance

Wednesday, 12/6/2023

Continental Breakfast

07:00 AM - 08:30 AM Wed, Dec 6

Zen with Len

07:30 AM - 08:00 AM Wed, Dec 6

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
Zen with Len: What Does Zen Have To Do with Data Governance? The Answer is "Everything." Find Out Why	Len Silverston, Universal Mindful, LLC	All Levels	Human Factors

Conference Sessions

08:30 AM - 09:15 AM Wed, Dec 6

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
How Data Governance and AI Impact Each Other	Ron Zurawski, Prolifics	All Levels	AI and Analytics Governance
The Art of Data Valuation	Sean Hewitt, Succeed Data Governance Services Josh Reid, Succeed Data Governance Services	All Levels	Data Governance
Case Study: Applications of Data Governance in the Enterprise	Thomas Mitrevski, Enterprise Knowledge Lulit Tesfaye, Enterprise Knowledge, LLC.	All Levels	Data Governance
What's in Your Policy?	David Kowalski, MIDAS Advisory Services	All Levels	Industry and Business Trends
Data Governance Communication: Making it CLEAR	Valerie Calvo, CBRE Investment Management	All Levels	Data Governance
Patient Identification: The Core of Data Governance in Health Care	Howard M Sragow, Evernorth, Inc.	All Levels	Data & Information Quality

Keynote Presentation

09:30 AM - 10:10 AM Wed, Dec 6

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
Entrepreneurial Skills for Data Governance and Information Quality Professionals	Danette McGilvray, Granite Falls Aakriti Agrawal, Manager, Data Governance	Business	Data Strategy Human Factors

Keynote Panel

10:10 AM - 10:45 AM Wed, Dec 6

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
Forks in the Road - Career Journeys of Data Governance Professionals	Danette McGilvray, Granite Falls Aakriti Agrawal, Manager, Data Governance Diane E Schmidt, Government Accountability Office (GAO) Mark Horseman, DATAVERSITY Monika Kapoor, Thermo Fisher Scientific Valerie Calvo, CBRE Investment Management	All Levels	Human Factors Organizational Structure and Roles

Coffee Break and Exhibits Open

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM Wed, Dec 6

Sponsored Sessions - Data Governance and Data Quality Solutions

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Wed, Dec 6

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
Expanding Data Lineage Insights with the IBM Manta-Prolifics Connector	Ron Zurawski, Prolifics	Intermediate	Products and Services
Why Fortune 500 Companies Use Lightup to Solve Data Quality	Bryan Feuling, Lightup Data	All Levels	Data & Information Quality
Improving Regulatory Compliance with Data Lineage	Joe Chmielewski, Manta, an IBM Company	All Levels	Data Governance
CANCELED: Datactics DQaaS: Leveraging Automation and an Insights Driven Approach to DQ Monitoring and Remediation for Your Data Management Initiative	Luca Rovesti, Datactics	All Levels	Data & Information Quality

Exhibits Open

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Wed, Dec 6

CDMP Exams - Hampton Room

11:30 AM - 01:30 PM Wed, Dec 6

Conference Sessions

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Wed, Dec 6

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
The Origins of Data Observability at Uber, Netflix, and AirBnB	Kyle Kirwan, Bigeye	All Levels	Data & Information Quality
Collaborative Synergy: Leveraging the Three Lines of Defense to Safeguard Against Data Risks and Foster Organizational Data Maturity	Chandra Donelson, United States Space Force Cindy Tu, Discover Financial Services Peggy Tsai, BigID Kshitij Grover, Capital One	All Levels	Getting Business Buy-In
Why Successful Data Governance Is Ever More Crucial as Automation and AI/ML Gets a Foothold	Sarah Rasmussen, First San Francisco Partners	Advanced	AI and Analytics Governance
On Using a Metamodel for Metadata Governance	Robin B Rappaport, IRS – RAAS - DMD Elainie Abebe, Analytica	Advanced	Metadata
The Long and Winding Road: Establishing Data Governance in a County Agency	Elena Tindall, Santa Clara County- Social Services Ag Ely Turkenitz, County of Santa Clara Sandy Stier, Santa Clara County- Social Services Ag	Introductory	Data Governance
SIG: Automating DG and DQ with AI	Malcolm Hawker, Profisee	All Levels	AI and Analytics Governance

Lunch, Desserts on the Exhibit Floor

12:45 PM - 02:00 PM Wed, Dec 6

Conference Sessions

02:00 PM - 02:45 PM Wed, Dec 6

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
Realizing Value Through Data Maturity Throughout Your Data Governance Journey	Earin Persson, D3Clarity, Inc.	Introductory	Data Governance
You Can't Do It All! Strategies to Federate Metadata Management	Adam Milward, MetadataWorks	All Levels	Metadata
Preparing for Change: How Can AI Governance on LLMs Equip Us for the Upcoming EU and US AI Act?	Alexandre t'Kint, Collibra	Intermediate	Data Governance
The Data Journey That Leads to Quality and Observability At Scale	Christopher Bergh, DataKitchen	All Levels	Data & Information Quality
Built to Last: Implementing a Sustainable Data Governance Model	Alice Fleck, UNC Greensboro Chase Goode, BerryDunn Joe Traino, BerryDunn	All Levels	Data Governance
SIG: Change Management	Aakriti Agrawal, Manager, Data Governance	All Levels	Data Governance

Conference Sessions

03:00 PM - 03:45 PM Wed, Dec 6

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
Adapting to Increasing Data Regulations and Readying Compliance with AI Regulations: Lessons from the Trenches	Kimberly Zink, Finnigan Law James Denvil, Hogan Lovells	Intermediate	Legal and Regulatory Issues
Data Strategy SOS: Signs Your Data Governance Program Needs CPR	David Woods, Precisely Shannon Kelly, Ascensus	Intermediate	Data Governance
Welcome to the Team!	Gwen Thomas, The Data Governance Institute Daniel Osae, World Bank - IFC John Ladley, Sonrai Monika Kapoor, Thermo Fisher Scientific	All Levels	Organizational Structure and Roles
CANCELED: A Synergistic Approach to Data Governance Work Streams	Bridget M Miller, Arcadia University	Intermediate	Data Governance
Aligning Your Data Governance Program in a Product-Centric Environment	Nitesh Mohanlal, Elevance Sejal Patel, Elevance	All Levels	Data Governance
The Power of Soft Skills in Data Governance and Information Quality	Brianna Vandre, Prudent Arrow, LLC	All Levels	Data Governance
SIG: Organizing Your Data Governance Office	Becky Lyons, First San Francisco Partners Gretchen Burnham, First San Francisco Partners	All Levels	Data Governance

Coffee Break

03:45 PM - 04:00 PM Wed, Dec 6

Closing Keynote Panel

04:00 PM - 04:45 PM Wed, Dec 6

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
The Practitioners Panel: What We're Doing Now, and What We'll be Doing Next	Adrianna Steele, Federal Emergency Management Agency Brianna Vandre, Prudent Arrow, LLC Jimm Johnson, HireRight Nate Lee, K Hovnanian	Business	Data & Information Quality Data Governance

CDMP Exams - Hampton Room

05:00 PM - 07:00 PM Wed, Dec 6