Agenda At-a-Glance

Tuesday, 5/5/2026

Continental Breakfast

07:00 AM - 08:30 AM Tue, May 5

Conference Welcome and DAMA Awards

08:30 AM - 08:45 AM Tue, May 5

Keynote Presentation

08:45 AM - 09:25 AM Tue, May 5

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
The Human Operating System: Rewriting Organizations for the AI-First Future Through Story-Driven Enablement	Ajay Mathur, Jupiter Asset Management	All Levels	Data Strategy

Fireside Chat

09:25 AM - 09:35 AM Tue, May 5

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
What Global Leaders Think of AI Governance - A Fireside Chat	Donna Burbank, Global Data Strategy, Ltd.	Business / Non-Technical	AI Governance Getting Business Buy-In Risk Management

What To Look For...

09:35 AM - 09:45 AM Tue, May 5

DGPO Data Governance Best Practice Award

09:45 AM - 09:50 AM Tue, May 5

Coffee Break - Sponsored by SC&H

09:50 AM - 10:15 AM Tue, May 5

Conference Sessions

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM Tue, May 5

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
Your AI Still Doesn’t Know Who It’s Talking About	Gurpinder Singh Dhillon, Senzing	All Levels	AI Governance
The Governance Shift: Flexible Frameworks for Real-World Impact	Beth Jones, Humana	Case Study	Data Governance
Dashboards Don't Fix Data: Six Practices That Do, For Teams and AI Agents Alike	Christopher Bergh, DataKitchen	All Levels	AI for Data Management
Panel: Make Your Data AI-Ready: A Comprehensive Framework	Anita M Lotlikar, Vanguard Kristy Tomcykoski, Vanguard Matthew DiNatale, Vanguard	All Levels	Data Strategy
Data Governance as an AI Enablement Strategy	Jason Doerr, Xcel Energy Eric Falthzik, Lovelytics	All Levels	Data Governance
The Automation Path: KPIs and Quality Metrics for Real-World Municipal Data Governance	Anthony Nunez, City of Ontario	Introductory	Data & Information Quality

Conference Sessions

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM Tue, May 5

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
When Data Governance Becomes Prime Time News – Reframing Governance as a Business Risk Executives Can’t Ignore	Samuel Spencer, Aristotle Metadata	All Levels	Data Governance
Why AI Agents Fail Without Real-Time, Trusted Context	Mark Brooks, IBM	All Levels	AI Governance
Governance by Design: Embedding Data Governance Into Architecture at PayPal	Brandy O'Shields, PayPal	Advanced	Data Governance
Critical Data Management: Driving Compliance, Integrity, and Business Value	Syed M Ali, USAA Michael C Noriega, USAA	All Levels	Data Governance
Data Literacy at Vanderbilt: It’s Not a Class…It’s a Culture!	Jeannette Wolff, Vanderbilt University	All Levels	Data Literacy and Culture
SIG: Fear x Data Quality	Aakriti Agrawal Kim, ANCHOR Your Change Tammy Baker, Nexus Data Foundations LLC	Business / Non-Technical	Change Management Data & Information Quality

Exhibits Open

12:00 PM - 07:30 PM Tue, May 5

Lunch and Desserts on the Exhibit Floor

12:00 PM - 01:45 PM Tue, May 5

Sponsored Sessions - Products and Solutions

01:00 PM - 01:30 PM Tue, May 5

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
Fueling AI Agents with Trusted, Governed Context	Robert Jackson-Jones, IBM	All Levels	AI Governance
The Semantic Layer Is Now Critical Infrastructure - Here's How to Build It Right the First Time	Betty Wang, Actian	All Levels	Data Governance
Get a Free Spoon: Open Source Data Quality and Observability in Action — A Live Demo	Christopher Bergh, DataKitchen	Business / Non-Technical	Data & Information Quality

Conference Sessions

01:45 PM - 02:30 PM Tue, May 5

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
AI-Ready Data	Hamish Brookeman, S&P Global Enterprise Data Organization	All Levels	Data Strategy
Built-In, Not Bolted On: Embedding Data Governance in Core Enterprise Workflows	Martin Nash, CPS Energy Stephen Garcia, CPS Energy	Case Study	Getting Business Buy-In
Gen AI-Based Data Stewardship	Nakul Bijoor, ZS Associates	All Levels	AI Governance
Declutter Your Data: Do You Really, Really Need it?	Laurel Shifrin, American Express Krystal Hughes, American Express	All Levels	Data Governance
From Fragmentation to Foundation: Building Enterprise-Ready Data Contracts That Scale	Alon Nafta, Foundational Collin Marsden, Senior Manager of Data Engineering and Architecture	All Levels	Data Governance
Rounding in a Digital World: Rebuilding Trust and Policy Adherence Through Human-Centered Data Governance	Will Train, The University of Kansas Health System	Case Study	Stewardship
SIG: Mastering Data and AI Governance with Limited Resources	Mathias Vercauteren, Data & AI Governance Partners	All Levels	Data Governance

Sponsored Sessions - Products and Solutions

02:45 PM - 03:15 PM Tue, May 5

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
Scaling Data Governance Organization-Wide: How the Aristotle Metadata Registry Supports Dynamic Data Governance	Samuel Spencer, Aristotle Metadata	All Levels	Data Governance
Data Governance Goes Agentic: Bringing Agents and Context into Data Governance	Alon Nafta, Foundational	All Levels	AI for Data Management
Best of Both Worlds: Optionality and Governance in the AI Era	Adam Blalock, Starburst Data	All Levels	Generative AI
Don't Let Vendors Own Your Context: Interoperable, AI-Ready Data Foundations for Regulated Enterprises	Nimit Mehta, TopQuadrant	All Levels	AI Governance
Validation at Scale: How Governed Agentic AI Unlocks Data Trust Through Testing, Monitoring, and Reconciliation	Matt Agee, Validatar Jonathan Agee, Validatar	All Levels	AI for Data Management

Ice Cream Break & Exhibits

03:15 PM - 03:45 PM Tue, May 5

Conference Sessions

03:45 PM - 04:30 PM Tue, May 5

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
Why AI Fails Without Data Products and Data Contracts	Jean-Georges Perrin, Actian	All Levels	Data Governance
Supercharging Data Governance: How Can AI Give Back?	Noah Yao, SC&H Group Lani Chun, SC&H Group	Intermediate	AI for Data Management Data Governance
Thriving in Constant Change: Modern Data Strategy	Becca Bates, Toyota Material Handling, North America	All Levels	Data Strategy
Quantifying Data Quality Risk	Gautam Tamhane, Truist Bank Andrew Bonniwell, Truist Bank	All Levels	Metrics
Panel: Next-Generation Data Quality and Semantics for Agentic AI Systems	James Short, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego James Cooper, California Western School of Law James Massa, JPMorganChase Suresh Mani, Solix Technologies	All Levels	Data & Information Quality
AI Governance: Findings and Lessons From Across Industry (presented in Spanish)	Gustavo Mesa, DAMA Uruguay Cecilia Poittevin, DAMA Uruguay	All Levels	AI Governance

Conference Sessions

04:45 PM - 05:30 PM Tue, May 5

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
Get That "Good Jeans" Fit: Tailoring Data Governance Training to Fit Any Role - Perfectly	Kari Albers, RTX (Raytheon, Pratt & Whitney, Collins)	Case Study	Data Literacy and Culture
Panel: AI Governance Strategy: LLM vs. Human-in-the-Loop	Priya Sarathy, Wheel Data Strategies Lakshmi Devulapalli, Limoneira Company Peter Vennel, Finastra	Case Study	AI Governance
Data Reconciliation: The Nerve Center of Trust for Data Quality and AI Governance	Steven Zagoudis, MetaGovernance	Advanced	AI Governance
Public Sector AI: Lessons From the Frontlines of Federal Government	Dia Adams, Datafolx AI	All Levels	AI Governance
Managing Difficult Co-Workers on Data Governance Projects	Gregory Serapiglia, NEPC, LLC	Introductory	Stewardship
Building Data Readiness for AI: A Practical Framework Connecting Business Processes, Data, and Governance (presented in Spanish)	Jessica Zuñiga, BlueYeti	Case Study	AI Governance AI Readiness
CANCELLED - SIG: Spatial Data	Lauri Young, Esri	Business / Non-Technical	New Ideas and Technologies

Exhibit Reception

05:30 PM - 07:30 PM Tue, May 5