As technology platforms evolve and artificial intelligence gets interwoven into every aspect of our professional lives, one need remains constant: data governance. A sound data governance practice is essential to achieving all of your analytic objectives. Hear firsthand about one team's experience starting with the simple goal of empowering self-service and evolving into a mature companywide supported data governance offering.

This presentation will overview a ten-year effort to initiate and mature the data governance capabilities at a public company - a review of the charter, attempted methods to gain the needed support, and the creation and nurturing of a data stewardship service.

This presentation will also give an overview of some of the specific deliverables that a data governance team can offer to their company.

Lastly, we will discuss some of the architectural principles that can both support governed and empowered self-service without creating a bottleneck for all answers to come through a single data warehouse.

• Data Governance Charter and Initiation
• Data Stewardship Program Creation
• Data Stewardship Program Evolution
• Example Deliverable from Data Governance Team
• Architectural Approaches to Agile Governance

Speaker: Brett Starr

Brett has 20 years combined of IT Leadership and Consulting experience. Brett leads a department dedicated to all things data. Business Intelligence and Data Management encompasses the entire data value chain. Like Lion King with the Circle of Life, Brett leads a team that is part of the complete journey of data. Brett’s team has modernized the legacy architecture for analytics, introducing technologies in Big Data and Machine Learning. Brett has led efforts in traditional data warehousing, leveraging COBOL-based solutions for predictive modeling, to NoSQL-powered fraud models and Big Data Warehouses. Brett enjoys the challenge of finding new methods to solve old problems. Brett has Chartered Property & Casualty Underwriter (CPCU), Associate in Insurance Accounting & Finance (AIAF), and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA Inactive) designations, as well as an MBA and master’s degree in Information Systems.