Would you like to become an official DGIQ + EDW speaker?
Our Call for Presentations has officially closed, but you're welcome to submit to be considered if we need a replacement session! All speaker notifications will go out by early January.
Start by reviewing the process, topics, deadlines, and submission best practices outlined below. Next, prepare and submit your proposal for the 2026 Data Governance & Information Quality (DGIQ) West + Enterprise Data World (EDW) Conference.
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Topics
- Generative AI governance
- AI model risk management
- Responsible AI & explainability
- AI regulatory compliance (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF)
- AI ethics & algorithmic accountability
- Legal frameworks for AI-generated decisions and outputs
- AI in regulated industries (BFSI, healthcare, public sector)
- Trusted context for agentic AI
- Bringing agents and context into data governance
- AI-powered data lineage & provenance
- Data quality for AI/ML pipelines
- Making AI-ready data
- Synthetic data & privacy-preserving AI
- Quantifying data and AI risk
- Data governance fundamentals & culture
- Data literacy & governance culture
- Data privacy & PII governance
- Data access control & entitlement governance
- Master data management & entity resolution
- Data products and data contracts
- Data product management
- Semantic layer & governed self-service BI
- Cloud data platform governance
- DataOps & governance automation
- Data observability & pipeline health
- and more!
Key Dates
| Proposal submission deadline | November 21, 2025 |
| Speaker invitations begin on | December 2, 2025 |
| Presentation files submission deadline | April 3, 2026 |
The DGIQ agenda will focus on all areas of Data Governance and Information Quality while Enterprise Data World will focus on Data Management business solutions — from organizations that are just starting out to advanced practitioners.
We typically receive a large number of presentations to review, so it is not possible for us to accept all proposals. Please also understand that we endeavor to give as many speakers as possible an opportunity to present their stories at the conference, so if you have spoken at DGIQ or EDW previously, then it is unlikely we will be able to accept the same presentation again.
Speaking proposals from vendors for the educational agenda must be product-neutral and free from commercial bias. If vendors wish to talk about their products, they must contract an appropriate sponsored presentation timeslot.
Positive weighting is given to presentations that:
- Write a concise abstract outlining what attendees will learn and why/how it will be useful to them.
- Devote the majority of your presentation to solutions, not overviews of common problems.
- Offer new subjects targeted to a specific audience: Management, Steward, Analyst, or Enterprise Architect.
- Provide a first-hand, detailed case study from personal experience with lessons learned.
- Discuss a detailed management analysis and efficient cost/time-saving measures.
- Provide guidelines and road maps for organizations considering new solutions.
For questions about speaking, please contact Kat Parker, Conference Manager, and Tony Shaw, Program Chair, at speakers@dataversity.net.
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