Agenda At-a-Glance

Wednesday, 11/18/2026

Continental Breakfast

07:00 AM - 08:30 AM Wed, Nov 18

CDMP Study Group

07:30 AM - 08:15 AM Wed, Nov 18

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
SIG: CDMP Study Group	Mark Horseman, DATAVERSITY	All Levels

Conference Sessions

08:30 AM - 09:15 AM Wed, Nov 18

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
From Monitoring to Action: Making Data Quality Deliver Business Results	Aaron Terry, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina	Case Study	Data & Information Quality
When Everyone Can Build: Putting Data Governance in the Driver’s Seat for the Vibe-Coding Era	Meenu Howland, Neuronova Consulting LLC	Business / Non-Technical	Industry and Business Trends
This May Not Sound Like Data Governance…But It Is: Building Culture Through Real-Life Storytelling	Melanie Charbonneau, World Vision International	All Levels	Data Literacy and Culture
From Compliance to Culture: Making Data Governance Stick in Practice	Joe Brandenburg, Pathward	Intermediate	Data Governance
Trials and Tribulations of Metadata Collection	Gary Deffendall, SouthState Bank	All Levels	Metadata
Comprehensive AI Testing for Generative and Agentic AI Systems	Anant Somvanshi, The Vanguard Group	Advanced	AI Governance
SIG: DAMA-DMBOK® 3.0: What’s New, What’s Changing, What’s Ahead	Mathias Vercauteren, Data & AI Governance Partners	All Levels	Industry and Business Trends

Conference Sessions

09:30 AM - 10:15 AM Wed, Nov 18

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
Governing MCP and the Enterprise Tool Ecosystem
Accountability in Multi-Agent AI: The ATTAIN Framework	Ramasamy Seranthaiya, Amazon Web Services	All Levels	AI Governance
Where Are Your Data Products Hiding? A Governance-First Method for Any Industry and Budget	Jason Doerr, Xcel Energy Eric Falthzik, Lovelytics	All Levels	AI for Data Management
AI-Ready Data in the Age of LLMs: Robust Change Management in the Semantic Layer	Ananya Dass, Bloomberg Michael Pool, Bloomberg	All Levels	Data Governance for AI
The 4th "P" is People: Navigating Grassroots Data Stewardship in Urban Education	Nina Bilynsky, The School District of Philadelphia Alovett J. King, The School District of Philadelphia	All Levels	Stewardship
The Data Quality Control Tower: Monitoring Enterprise Data at Scale	Sheetal Nayyar, Philip Morris International	All Levels	Data & Information Quality
SIG: The Intersection of Quantum Computing, Data Governance, and AI Governance	Mark Horseman, DATAVERSITY	All Levels	AI Governance

Coffee Break and Exhibits Open

10:15 AM - 11:30 AM Wed, Nov 18

Exhibits Open

10:15 AM - 01:30 PM Wed, Nov 18

Sponsored Sessions - Products and Solutions

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Wed, Nov 18

CDMP + ADGP Certification Exams (Times to be Confirmed)

11:00 AM - 01:00 PM Wed, Nov 18

Conference Sessions

11:30 AM - 12:15 PM Wed, Nov 18

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
Data Therapy: A Hands-On Session for Data Governance Breakthroughs	Aakriti Agrawal Kim, ANCHOR Your Change	All Levels	Change Management
Beyond the Model: How Context Turned a Quote Automation Pilot Into a Scalable AI Capability	John Moran, Thermo Fisher Scientific	Case Study	AI Readiness
The Agentic Enterprise: Who's in Charge When AI Starts Making Decisions?	Thea Man Chavez, California Office of Data and Innovation Corinna Martinez, 1CSR	Business / Non-Technical	AI Risk Management Data and AI Leadership
From People Search to Enterprise Brain: Building an AI-Powered Knowledge Graph	Eric Ewing, Health Management Associates Evan Terry, Health Management Associates	Case Study	Knowledge Graphs and Ontologies
Data Governance 360: Connecting Governance, AI, and Enablement	Ethan Fiero, Fidelity Investments Olivia Mounce, Fidelity Investments Raghavan Ramadurai, Fidelity Investments	All Levels	Data Governance
SIG: Data Quality Special Interest Group	Danette McGilvray, Granite Falls Tammy Baker, Nexus Data Foundations LLC	All Levels	Data & Information Quality

Lunch and Desserts on the Exhibit Floor

12:15 PM - 01:30 PM Wed, Nov 18

Conference Sessions

01:30 PM - 02:15 PM Wed, Nov 18

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
Operational MDM as an Embedded Semantic Control Plane	Igor Gonchar, EXLservice	All Levels	Master Data Management
Governing AI at Scale: ExxonMobil's 4 Disciplines of Execution for AI Governance	Martin Obiozor, Exxon Mobil	All Levels	Data Governance for AI
From Policy to Practice: Operationalizing AI Governance at a 70,000-Person Health System	Olivia Sanders, Intermountain Health	Case Study	AI Governance
Lineage Is Not Evidence: What AI Governance Requires Beyond Catalog Visibility	Richard Scott Croushore, Big Toe Data	Intermediate	AI Governance
Reviving the Catalog: How We Brought Enterprise Data Back to Life	Lisa Ricciuti, Independent Electricity System Operator Marly Piedrahita, Independent Electricity System Operator	Case Study	Data Strategy
Data Quality for AI/ML Pipelines	Tanya Kujinga, CSAA	Intermediate	Data & Information Quality

Conference Sessions

02:30 PM - 03:15 PM Wed, Nov 18

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
Auditable AI Agents: Governance Patterns for Enterprise Workflows	Siddharth Jain, OpenAI	Case Study	AI Governance
Governance Begins Before Employment: Building Maturity and Value Through Work-Based Learning	Patricia Ciavattone Falto, NewYork-Presbyterian	All Levels	Data Literacy and Culture
One Governance Front Door: Unifying AI Governance, Data Governance, Privacy, and Security	Danielle Plyler, Lowe's Home Improvement	All Levels	Data Strategy
Fake Data, Real Risks: A Guide to Synthetic Data	Karen Lopez, InfoAdvisors	Intermediate	Data Governance
Lessons Learned and Best Practices on How to Build an Efficient Data Stewardship Organization	Marina Neyman, Roche	All Levels	Stewardship
SIG: Change Management	Aakriti Agrawal Kim, ANCHOR Your Change	All Levels	Change Management

Coffee Break

03:15 PM - 03:45 PM Wed, Nov 18

Closing Keynote

03:45 PM - 04:45 PM Wed, Nov 18

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
Data Puppets - SPECIAL Agentic AI with Vibe Coding and Semantic Context Layer Tokenmaxxing EDITION!	Scott Taylor, MetaMeta Consulting	All Levels	Data Strategy
Data Governance AI Transformation: Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks	John Ladley, Sonrai Mark Cooper, The Data Brains	All Levels	Data Governance

CDMP + ADGP Certification Exams (Times to be Confirmed)

04:45 PM - 06:45 PM Wed, Nov 18