Agenda At-a-Glance

Tuesday, 11/17/2026

Continental Breakfast

07:00 AM - 08:30 AM Tue, Nov 17

Welcome

08:30 AM - 08:40 AM Tue, Nov 17

Keynote Presentation

08:40 AM - 09:10 AM Tue, Nov 17

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
Conscious Participation: The Leadership Imperative in an AI-Shaped World	Leigh Felton, AI for Job Security Foundation	Business / Non-Technical	Data and AI Leadership

Keynote Presentation

09:10 AM - 09:40 AM Tue, Nov 17

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
Digital Debt: The Hidden Cost of Data in the Workplace	Eric Riz, eMark Consulting	All Levels	Data & Information Quality

Coffee Break

09:40 AM - 10:00 AM Tue, Nov 17

Conference Sessions

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM Tue, Nov 17

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
The Data Behind the Decision	AD Edwards, Center for AI & Cyber Excellence	Intermediate	AI Readiness
Designing and Sustaining an Effective AI Governance Program	Maria Alejandra Restrepo, DataLink Global Jessica Zuñiga, BlueYeti	All Levels	AI Governance
Governance at the Speed of AI: Closing the Gap Between Runaway Models and Stuck Humans	Ajay Mathur, Jupiter Asset Management	All Levels	AI Governance
AI Governance – Let’s Stop the Governance Mistakes of the Past	Merrill Albert, Merrill Albert Data Consulting	All Levels	Data Literacy and Culture
Data Quality Management in the Age of Agentic AI	John R. Talburt, University of Arkansas at Little Rock	All Levels	Artificial Intelligence Data & Information Quality

Conference Sessions

11:00 AM - 11:45 PM Tue, Nov 17

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
Regulatory Readiness: A Practitioner's Guide and Framework	Subasini Periyakaruppan, The Cadmus Group Ramprasad Polana, Cadmus Group	All Levels	AI Governance
From AI Assistants to AI Agents: Rethinking AI Risk Oversight for the Next Wave of Autonomy	Gerard Koster, Rabobank	All Levels	AI Governance
Beyond Frameworks: Why Data and AI Governance Breaks at Scale	Dora Boussias, DoraB Global	All Levels	Data Governance for AI
AI Doesn't Understand Your Business Context. The Semantic Layer Does.	Alex Kangoun, Athena Solutions	Intermediate	Semantic Layers
Eliminating the Data Governance Tax Through Business Incentives	Ronaldo Dy-Liacco, USAA Deanie Peebles, USAA	All Levels	Data Governance
Your Data Quality Metrics Are Lying to You: Designing Metrics That Actually Drive Action	Gautam Tamhane, Truist Bank Andrew Bonniwell, Truist Bank	All Levels	Metrics

Conference Sessions

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Tue, Nov 17

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
One Customer, Seventeen Identities: How a Global Bank's AI Got Confident and Wrong	Gurpinder S Dhillon, Senzing Inc	All Levels	AI Governance
Data Management 3.0: Evolving Governance, Quality, and Certification to Build Trusted Data	Michael Ivie, Eclipse Consulting Group Sanjay Pattni, Eclipse Consulting Group	All Levels	Data Strategy
Operational MDM in the AI Era: A Real-Time Blueprint for Trusted Golden Records	Vincent Tran, IMT	Intermediate	AI for Data Management
What Does the Fox Know: Two Years of Smarter Data at CHM	Rose Hansen, Christian Healthcare Ministries Antwoney Terrell, Christian Healthcare Ministries	Case Study	Data Governance
The Data Lifecycle Control Plane: Governing Agentic AI at Machine Speed	Ajay Kumar, Google Cloud	All Levels	Data Governance for AI
Engineering Unstructured Data Quality: The Foundation for AI-Ready Data	Saptaparna Gupta, New York Power Authority	All Levels	Data & Information Quality
SIG: AI Governance in the Public Sector	Laura Gonzalez Lysaght, City of Austin - Austin Public Health	All Levels	AI Governance

Lunch and Desserts on the Exhibit Floor

12:45 PM - 01:45 PM Tue, Nov 17

Exhibits Open

12:45 PM - 06:30 PM Tue, Nov 17

Conference Sessions

01:45 PM - 02:30 PM Tue, Nov 17

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
From Data Products to AI Products: Building AI-Ready Data Foundations	Alon Nafta, Foundational Collin Marsden, Senior Manager of Data Engineering and Architecture	All Levels	Data Governance for AI
If You Can’t Document It, Can You Trust It? AI Model Cards Explained	Jimm Johnson, County of Santa Barbara	All Levels	AI Governance AI Risk Management
A Product First Approach to AI Governance	George Yuhasz, Incyte	All Levels	AI Governance
Mind the Culture Gap: Why Good Data Starts with Hard Questions	Cynthia Cain Fitzgerald, Moody's Corporation	All Levels	Data Literacy and Culture
Game Changer: How Data Democratization Accelerates Innovation	Rajan Chandras, Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	All Levels	Data Governance
Advancing Data Sharing and Security Simultaneously - Lessons Learned, Challenges, and Opportunities	Jonathan Lawson, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard	All Levels	Data Governance
SIG: The Impact and Management of Shadow AI	Mark Horseman, DATAVERSITY	All Levels	AI Governance

Sponsored Sessions - Products and Solutions

02:45 PM - 03:15 PM Tue, Nov 17

Ice Cream Break & Exhibits Open

03:15 PM - 03:45 PM Tue, Nov 17

Conference Sessions

03:45 PM - 04:30 PM Tue, Nov 17

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
Who Governs the Agents? Extending Data Governance Frameworks to Agentic AI Systems	Ayush Dwivedi, Walmart Inc.	Case Study	AI Governance
Data Governance and Integration: From Single Source of Truth to Smart Pipelines Enabling AI	Sumita De, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Vishal Gaurav Garg, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals	All Levels	Data Strategy
Using Explainable AI (XAI) so Humans Can Understand Algorithmic Decisions	Suchitra Veera, Snayu	Intermediate	Governing AI Agents
A Practical Look at Controls-as-Code	Gretchen Burnham, First San Francisco Partners	All Levels	Data Protection and Security
Panel: The Data Governance Reputation Problem	Gwen Thomas, The Data Governance Institute	All Levels	Data Governance
The Federal Privacy Blueprint: Maturing Governance Across the Enterprise	Laura Kahn, US Department of Transportation	All Levels	Privacy
SIG: Leadership Trust in 2026: Executive Judgment When AI Is Everywhere	Dora Boussias, DoraB Global	All Levels	AI Readiness

Conference Sessions

04:45 PM - 05:30 PM Tue, Nov 17

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
How Existing Governed Assets Can Be Leveraged for Domain-Specific RAG Agents	Duncan Lamb, Regions Financial	Intermediate	Data Governance for AI
AI Data Quality Challenge: Strategy + Ten Steps to the Rescue	Marilu Lopez, SEGDA Danette McGilvray, Granite Falls	All Levels	Data & Information Quality
Building Measurable AI Trust: From Principles to Controls, Evidence, and Certification	Rashid Yaghi, Tamayouz Business Solutions	Advanced	AI Governance
Building the Trust Engine: AI-Accelerated, Expert-Verified Data Governance for Regulatory Reporting	Trajce Alcinov, Environment and Climate Change Canada	Case Study	AI for Data Management
Beyond the Monolith: The Composite Semantic Layer Pattern for Enterprise Scale	Sayeeram Gundu, Wells Fargo	Intermediate	Data Governance for AI
Career-Proofing Yourself in the Age of AI: A Data Professional's Guide to Self-Disruption	Malcolm Hawker, Profisee	All Levels	Human Factors

Exhibits and Reception

05:30 PM - 06:30 PM Tue, Nov 17