Agenda At-a-Glance

Monday, 11/16/2026

Continental Breakfast

07:00 AM - 08:30 AM Mon, Nov 16

Monday Morning Tutorials

08:30 AM - 11:45 AM Mon, Nov 16

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
AI Governance 101: A Starter’s Guide	Mathias Vercauteren, Data & AI Governance Partners	Introductory	AI Governance
Engineering Governance: Integrating DDLC, SDLC, Agile Delivery, and AI Governance	Cindy Lou Vogel, Right Triangle Consulting Mindy Becker, Right Triangle Consulting	All Levels	AI Governance
From Automation to Autonomy: Governing Agentic AI with Process Driven Intelligence	Abhi Ahuja, IGM Financial	Intermediate	AI Governance
Taming the Wild: How to Govern Unstructured Data for Trusted AI and Business Outcomes	C. Lwanga Yonke, Padouk Consulting, LLC	All Levels	Data Governance for AI
Meaning Matters: Semantic Layers for AI Governance, Grounding, and Contextualization	Dave Wells, Infocentric	Intermediate	Semantic Layers
The Data Domain Trilogy: Discover, Define, and Assign Accountability for Your Data Domains	Ellen Mildred Brown, Slack Consulting Inc	All Levels	Data Governance Stewardship
Using AI to Start a Data Governance Program	John Ladley, Sonrai Mark Cooper, The Data Brains	All Levels	Data Governance

Coffee Break

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM Mon, Nov 16

Conference Sessions

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Mon, Nov 16

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
Building a Data Governance Program: Ten Steps to Success	Ryan Doupe, DataFit Consulting	Introductory	Data Governance
AI Governance - Context Is Key! Let’s Understand What It Takes to Make Data “AI READY”	Martha Dember, Datavail	All Levels	AI Governance
AI Risks and Risk Mitigation Strategies	Nicole J Bills, Data Strategy Professionals	All Levels	AI Risk Management
Data Governance "Chopped" Edition: Building a Practice with Spaghetti, Mixed Nuts, and Clams	Yolanda Eyre, Breakthrough T1D	All Levels	Data Governance

Lunch & Social Roundtables

12:45 PM - 01:45 PM Mon, Nov 16

Monday Afternoon Tutorials

01:45 PM - 05:00 PM Mon, Nov 16

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
Adapting Your Data Strategy for AI	Donna Burbank, Global Data Strategy, Ltd.	All Levels	Data Strategy Data and AI Leadership
Not Everything Deserves Governance: Triaging Your AI Inventory	Mathias Vercauteren, Data & AI Governance Partners	Intermediate	AI Governance
AI Governing AI - A Pragmatic Approach	Nate Lee, K. Hovnanian Enterprises	All Levels	AI Governance
Quality Data and Trusted AI: Turning Data Quality Expertise Into an AI Accelerator	Danette McGilvray, Granite Falls Charles Bloche, DataKitchen	All Levels	Artificial Intelligence Data & Information Quality
How to Build an Aligned DG and AI Governance Decision Framework	Becky Lyons, First San Francisco Partners	Intermediate	Data and AI Leadership
Data Products: Delivering the Foundation for AI and Analytics	Mark Cooper, The Data Brains	All Levels	Data Governance

Coffee Break

03:15 PM - 03:30 PM Mon, Nov 16

Data Hour (Speed Networking Event)

05:15 PM - 06:15 PM Mon, Nov 16

CDMP + ADGP Certification Exams (Times to be Confirmed)

05:15 PM - 07:15 PM Mon, Nov 16

Affinity Groups

05:15 PM - 06:00 PM Mon, Nov 16

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

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

Thursday, 11/19/2026

Continental Breakfast

07:00 AM - 08:30 AM Thu, Nov 19

Thursday Full-Day Tutorials

08:30 AM - 04:00 PM Thu, Nov 19

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
Operationalizing Responsible AI: Making Governance Work in the Real World	Leigh Felton, AI for Job Security Foundation	Intermediate	Responsible AI
Preventing AI Governance Orphans: From Policy Documentation to Portable Proof	Richard Scott Croushore, Big Toe Data	Intermediate	AI Governance
AI Data Quality Lab	Mark Horseman, DATAVERSITY Karen Lopez, InfoAdvisors	All Levels	Artificial Intelligence
How to Demonstrate the Value of Your Data Governance Program	Gwen Thomas, The Data Governance Institute	All Levels	Professional Development

Coffee Break

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM Thu, Nov 19

Lunch

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM Thu, Nov 19

Coffee Break

02:15 PM - 02:30 PM Thu, Nov 19