We hear about AI and Data Governance every day, and we hear talk about how AI is going to replace the need for Data Stewards. We continue to hear blogcasts on AI, or see a white paper on AI, or some meme or opinion shared on how AI is changing the world. We also have discussions about the vitality of trusted data to make AI work (AI, AI, AI). There are good ideas here, but we are going to take a moment and look at this differently.

We'll examine how Data Governance helps AI and how AI can help Data Governance. We'll discuss how the marketplace today is failing data stewards with the possibilities of AI and will focus on one question in this session: How can AI lower the lift of data stewards and generate more business value? Join us as we talk about AI in the eyes of Data Governance professionals.

Speaker: James Barker

Dr. James Barker currently leads data governance and strategy initiatives for Wavicle Data Solutions. Dr. Barker has spent the last 35 years innovating and delivering business value for employers and customers. He has been a pioneer in big data and telemetry at Thomson-Reuters, data migration and data quality at Informatica, data-governance/data integration/business transformation at Honeywell, and bringing together agile strategies with Six Sigma and customer success techniques throughout his career. It’s important to note this was all done while generating tangible benefits in a pragmatic way all could understand. Jim wrote a dissertation on data governance entitled “Data Governance: The Missing Approach to Data Quality” a decade ago and continues to push these concepts through TDWI: The House of Data, various white papers, and successful implementations of data programs across industries. Jim's core areas of interest today are AI and Data-Governance, Operationalizing the Data Function, and motivating teams for greater data success.