2026 Data Governance & Information Quality (DGIQ) East + AI Governance Conference

Tracks > Data & Information Quality

Monday Afternoon Tutorials

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

Title	Speakers	Audience
Quality Data and Trusted AI: Turning Data Quality Expertise Into an AI Accelerator	Danette McGilvray, Granite Falls Charles Bloche, DataKitchen	All Levels

Keynote Presentation

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

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

Conference Sessions

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

Title	Speakers	Audience
Data Quality Management in the Age of Agentic AI	John R. Talburt, University of Arkansas at Little Rock	All Levels

Conference Sessions

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

Title	Speakers	Audience
Engineering Unstructured Data Quality: The Foundation for AI-Ready Data	Saptaparna Gupta, New York Power Authority	All Levels

Conference Sessions

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

Title	Speakers	Audience
AI Data Quality Challenge: Strategy + Ten Steps to the Rescue	Marilu Lopez, SEGDA Danette McGilvray, Granite Falls	All Levels

Conference Sessions

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

Title	Speakers	Audience
From Monitoring to Action: Making Data Quality Deliver Business Results	Aaron Terry, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina	Case Study

Conference Sessions

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

Title	Speakers	Audience
The Data Quality Control Tower: Monitoring Enterprise Data at Scale	Sheetal Nayyar, Philip Morris International	All Levels

Conference Sessions

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

Title	Speakers	Audience
SIG: Data Quality Special Interest Group	Danette McGilvray, Granite Falls Tammy Baker, Nexus Data Foundations LLC	All Levels

Conference Sessions

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

Title	Speakers	Audience
Data Quality for AI/ML Pipelines	Tanya Kujinga, CSAA	Intermediate