Organizations own more data than ever before, but it’s of no value if you don’t know how to use it. Most teams lack the strategy to clean, collect, organize, and automate data for production-ready projects.

The good news is that data governance -- the people, processes, and strategy needed for deploying data projects to production –- offers new opportunities to improve service delivery.

This session shares how data leaders can embed data governance into data mesh cloud architecture. Attendees will learn how to unite cross-functional teams of data stewards to automate unified standards into data mesh, which emphasizes data domain ownership through self-service architecture.

Whether you’re a chief data officer or individual contributor, this talk will show you how to manage up, get the buy-in you need to build data governance, find the right colleagues to co-create governance, and build cloud architecture that better serves the public.

Speaker: Lauren Maffeo

Lauren Maffeo is an award-winning designer and analyst who currently works as a senior service designer at Steampunk, a human-centered design firm serving the federal government. She is also a founding editor of Springer's AI and Ethics journal and a former area editor for Data and Policy, an open-access journal with Cambridge University Press. Lauren has written for Harvard Data Science Review, Financial Times, and The Guardian, among other publications. Lauren is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a former member of the Association for Computing Machinery's Distinguished Speakers Program, and a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, where she helps judge the Webby Awards. Her first book, "Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up", was published by The Pragmatic Programmers and has been adapted into a LinkedIn Learning course.