| Eric Riz | eMark Consulting | Keynote | Digital Debt: The Hidden Cost of Data in the Workplace | — |
| John Ladley | Sonrai | Keynote | Data Governance AI Transformation: Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks | — |
| Leigh Felton | AI for Job Security Foundation | Keynote | Conscious Participation: The Leadership Imperative in an AI-Shaped World | — |
| Mark Cooper | The Data Brains | Keynote | Data Governance AI Transformation: Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks | — |
| Scott Taylor | MetaMeta Consulting | Keynote | Data Puppets - SPECIAL Agentic AI with Vibe Coding and Semantic Context Layer Tokenmaxxing EDITION! | — |
| Aakriti Agrawal Kim | ANCHOR Your Change | Speaker | SIG: Change Management | — |
| Aakriti Agrawal Kim | ANCHOR Your Change | Speaker | Data Therapy: A Hands-On Session for Data Governance Breakthroughs | — |
| Aaron Terry | Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina | Speaker | From Monitoring to Action: Making Data Quality Deliver Business Results | — |
| Abhi Ahuja | IGM Financial | Tutorial | T3: From Automation to Autonomy: Governing Agentic AI with Process Driven Intelligence | — |
| Ajay Kumar | Google | Speaker | The Data Lifecycle Control Plane: Governing Agentic AI at Machine Speed | — |
| Ajay Mathur | Jupiter Asset Management | Speaker | Governance at the Speed of AI: Closing the Gap Between Runaway Models and Stuck Humans | — |
| Alex Kangoun | Athena Solutions | Speaker | AI Doesn't Understand Your Business Context. The Semantic Layer Does. | — |
| Alon Nafta | Foundational | Speaker | From Data Products to AI Products: Building AI-Ready Data Foundations | — |
| Alovett J. King | The School District of Philadelphia | Speaker | The 4th "P" Is People: Navigating Grassroots Data Stewardship in Urban Education | — |
| Anant Somvanshi | Vanguard | Speaker | Building Trust at Scale: In the Era of Responsible AI | — |
| Ananya Dass | Bloomberg | Speaker | AI-Ready Data in the Age of LLMs: Robust Change Management in the Semantic Layer | — |
| Andrew Bonniwell | Truist | Speaker | Your Data Quality Metrics Are Lying to You: Designing Metrics That Actually Drive Action | — |
| Andrew Clark | Monitaur | Speaker | AI Validation and Ongoing Monitoring: A Practical Blueprint | — |
| Antwoney Terrell | Christian Healthcare Ministries | Speaker | What Does the Fox Know: Two Years of Smarter Data at CHM | — |
| Ayush Dwivedi | Walmart | Speaker | Who Governs the Agents? Extending Data Governance Frameworks to Agentic AI Systems | — |
| Becky Lyons | First San Francisco Partners | Tutorial | T12: How to Build an Aligned DG and AI Governance Decision Framework | — |
| C. Lwanga Yonke | Padouk Consulting, LLC | Tutorial | T4: Taming the Wild: How to Govern Unstructured Data for Trusted AI and Business Outcomes | — |
| Charles Bloche | DataKitchen | Tutorial | T11: Quality Data and Trusted AI: Turning Data Quality Expertise Into an AI Accelerator | — |
| Cindy Lou Vogel | Right Triangle Consulting | Tutorial | T2: Embedding Data Governance into the Development Lifecycle: People, Process, and Integration | — |
| Corinna Martinez | 1CSR | Speaker | The Agentic Enterprise: Who's in Charge When AI Starts Making Decisions? | — |
| Cynthia Cain Fitzgerald | Moody's Analytics | Speaker | Mind the Culture Gap: Why Good Data Starts with Hard Questions | — |
| Danette McGilvray | Granite Falls | Tutorial | T11: Quality Data and Trusted AI: Turning Data Quality Expertise Into an AI Accelerator | — |
| Danette McGilvray | Granite Falls | Speaker | SIG: Data Quality Special Interest Group | — |
| Danette McGilvray | Granite Falls | Speaker | AI Data Quality Challenge: Strategy + Ten Steps to the Rescue | — |
| Danielle Plyler | Lowe's | Speaker | One Governance Front Door: Unifying AI Governance, Data Governance, Privacy, and Security | — |
| Dave Wells | Infocentric | Tutorial | T5: Meaning Matters: Semantic Layers for AI Governance, Grounding, and Contextualization | — |
| Donna Burbank | Global Data Strategy, Ltd | Tutorial | T8: Adapting Your Data Strategy for AI | — |
| Dora Boussias | DoraB Global | Speaker | Leadership Trust in 2026: Executive Judgment When AI Is Everywhere | — |
| Dora Boussias | DoraB Global | Speaker | Beyond Frameworks: Why Data and AI Governance Breaks at Scale | — |
| Duncan Lamb | Regions Financial | Speaker | How Existing Governed Assets Can Be Leveraged for Domain-Specific RAG Agents | — |
| Ellen Mildred Brown | Slack | Tutorial | T6: The Data Domain Trilogy: Discover, Define, and Assign Accountability for Your Data Domains | — |
| Eric Falthzik | Lovelytics | Speaker | Where Are Your Data Products Hiding? A Governance-First Method for Any Industry and Budget | — |
| Ethan Fiero | Fidelity Investments | Speaker | Data Governance 360: Connecting Governance, AI, and Enablement | — |
| Gautam Tamhane | Truist | Speaker | Your Data Quality Metrics Are Lying to You: Designing Metrics That Actually Drive Action | — |
| George Yuhasz | Incyte | Speaker | A Product-First Approach to AI Governance | — |
| Gerard Koster | Rabobank | Speaker | From AI Assistants to AI Agents: Rethinking AI Risk Oversight for the Next Wave of Autonomy | — |
| Gretchen Burnham | First San Francisco Partners | Speaker | A Practical Look at Controls-as-Code | — |
| Gurpinder S Dhillon | Senzing | Speaker | One Customer, Seventeen Identities: How a Global Bank's AI Got Confident and Wrong | — |
| Gwen Thomas | The Data Governance Institute (DGI) | Speaker | Panel: The Data Governance Reputation Problem | — |
| Gwen Thomas | The Data Governance Institute (DGI) | Tutorial | W4: How to Demonstrate the Value of Your Data Governance Program | — |
| Jason Doerr | Xcel Energy | Speaker | Where Are Your Data Products Hiding? A Governance-First Method for Any Industry and Budget | — |
| Jessica Zuñiga | BlueYeti | Speaker | Designing and Sustaining an Effective AI Governance Program | — |
| Jimm Johnson | County of Santa Barbara | Speaker | If You Can’t Document It, Can You Trust It? AI Model Cards Explained | — |
| Joe Brandenburg | Pathward | Speaker | From Compliance to Culture: Making Data Governance Stick in Practice | — |
| John Ladley | Sonrai | Tutorial | T7: Using AI to Start a Data Governance Program | — |
| John Ladley | Sonrai | Speaker | Readiness, Value and Sustainability: Lessons from the 2026 Data Management Maturity Model Assessment | — |
| John Ladley | Sonrai | Speaker | Panel: The Data Governance Reputation Problem | — |
| John R. Talburt | University of Arkansas at Little Rock | Speaker | Data Quality Management in the Age of Agentic AI | — |
| Jonathan Agee | Validatar | Sponsored | The Last Mile of AI Governance Is a Reconciliation Problem | — |
| Karen Lopez | InfoAdvisors | Tutorial | W3: AI Data Quality Lab | — |
| Karen Lopez | InfoAdvisors | Speaker | Fake Data, Real Risks: A Guide to Synthetic Data | — |
| Lani Chun | SC&H Group | Speaker | SIG: Not-for-Profit Special Interest Group | — |
| Laura Gonzalez Lysaght | City of Austin - Austin Public Health | Speaker | SIG: AI Governance in the Public Sector | — |
| Leigh Felton | AI for Job Security Foundation | Tutorial | W1: Operationalizing Responsible AI: Making Governance Work in the Real World | — |
| Lisa Ricciuti | Independent Electricity System Operator | Speaker | Reviving the Catalog: How We Brought Enterprise Data Back to Life | — |
| Malcolm Hawker | Profisee | Speaker | Panel: The Data Governance Reputation Problem | — |
| Malcolm Hawker | Profisee | Speaker | Career-Proofing Yourself in the Age of AI: A Data Professional's Guide to Self-Disruption | — |
| Maria Alejandra Restrepo | DataLink Global | Speaker | Designing and Sustaining an Effective AI Governance Program | — |
| Marilu Lopez | SEGDA | Speaker | AI Data Quality Challenge: Strategy + Ten Steps to the Rescue | — |
| Marina Neyman | Roche | Speaker | Lessons Learned and Best Practices on How to Build an Efficient Data Stewardship Organization | — |
| Mark Cooper | The Data Brains | Tutorial | T7: Using AI to Start a Data Governance Program | — |
| Mark Cooper | The Data Brains | Tutorial | T13: Data Products: Delivering the Foundation for AI and Analytics | — |
| Mark Cooper | The Data Brains | Speaker | Data Accountability: Why Information Management Exists | — |
| Mark Horseman | DATAVERSITY | Speaker | ADGP Study Group | — |
| Mark Horseman | DATAVERSITY | Speaker | SIG: The Impact and Management of Shadow AI | — |
| Mark Horseman | DATAVERSITY | Speaker | SIG: CDMP Study Group | — |
| Mark Horseman | DATAVERSITY | Speaker | SIG: The Intersection of Quantum Computing, Data Governance, and AI Governance | — |
| Mark Horseman | DATAVERSITY | Tutorial | W3: AI Data Quality Lab | — |
| Marly Piedrahita | Independent Electricity System Operator | Speaker | Reviving the Catalog: How We Brought Enterprise Data Back to Life | — |
| Martha Dember | Datavail | Speaker | AI Governance - Context Is Key! Let’s Understand What It Takes to Make Data “AI READY” | — |
| Martin Obiozor | ExxonMobil | Speaker | Governing AI at Scale: ExxonMobil's 4 Disciplines of Execution for AI Governance | — |
| Mathias Vercauteren | Data & AI Governance Partners | Speaker | SIG: DAMA-DMBOK® 3.0: What’s New, What’s Changing, What’s Ahead | — |
| Mathias Vercauteren | Data & AI Governance Partners | Tutorial | T9: Not Everything Deserves Governance: Triaging Your AI Inventory | — |
| Mathias Vercauteren | Data & AI Governance Partners | Tutorial | T1: AI Governance 101: A Starter’s Guide | — |
| Matt Agee | Validatar | Sponsored | The Last Mile of AI Governance Is a Reconciliation Problem | — |
| Meenu Howland | Neuronova Consulting LLC | Speaker | When Everyone Can Build: Putting Data Governance in the Driver’s Seat for the Vibe-Coding Era | — |
| Melanie Charbonneau | World Vision International | Speaker | This May Not Sound Like Data Governance…But It Is: Building Culture Through Real-Life Storytelling | — |
| Merrill Albert | Merrill Albert Data Consulting | Speaker | AI Governance – Let’s Stop the Governance Mistakes of the Past | — |
| Michael Ivie | Eclipse Consulting Group | Speaker | Data Management 3.0: Evolving Governance, Quality, and Certification to Build Trusted Data | — |
| Michael Pool | Bloomberg | Speaker | AI-Ready Data in the Age of LLMs: Robust Change Management in the Semantic Layer | — |
| Mindy Becker | Right Triangle Consulting | Tutorial | T2: Embedding Data Governance into the Development Lifecycle: People, Process, and Integration | — |
| Monk P Inyang | 1st Street Partnerships | Speaker | Teaching Judgment: Evaluating the Work AI Produces | — |
| Nate Kujawski | Fidelity Investments | Speaker | Data Governance 360: Connecting Governance, AI, and Enablement | — |
| Nate Lee | K Hovnanian | Tutorial | T10: AI Governing AI - A Pragmatic Approach | — |
| Nicole J Bills | Data Strategy Professionals | Speaker | AI Risks and Risk Mitigation Strategies | — |
| Nina Bilynsky | The School District of Philadelphia | Speaker | The 4th "P" Is People: Navigating Grassroots Data Stewardship in Urban Education | — |
| Noah Yao | SC&H Group | Speaker | SIG: Not-for-Profit Special Interest Group | — |
| Olivia Sanders | Intermountain Healthcare | Speaker | From Policy to Practice: Operationalizing AI Governance at a 70,000-Person Health System | — |
| Patricia Ciavattone Falto | NewYork-Presbyterian | Speaker | Governance Begins Before Employment: Building Maturity and Value Through Work-Based Learning | — |
| Raghavan Ramadurai | Fidelity Investments | Speaker | Data Governance 360: Connecting Governance, AI, and Enablement | — |
| Rajan Chandras | Daiichi Sankyo Europe | Speaker | Game Changer: How Data Democratization Accelerates Innovation | — |
| Ramasamy Seranthaiya | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Accountability in Multi-Agent AI: The ATTAIN Framework | — |
| Ramprasad Polana | The Cadmus Group | Speaker | Regulatory Readiness: A Practitioner's Guide and Framework | — |
| Rashid Yaghi | Tamayouz Business Solutions | Speaker | Building Measurable AI Trust: From Principles to Controls, Evidence, and Certification | — |
| Richard Scott Croushore | Big Toe Data | Speaker | Lineage Is Not Evidence: What AI Governance Requires Beyond Catalog Visibility | — |
| Richard Scott Croushore | Big Toe Data | Tutorial | SESSION FULL- W2: Proving AI Governance Across Boundaries: From Documentation to Verifiable Evidence | — |
| Ronaldo Dy-Liacco | Salas O'Brien | Speaker | Eliminating the Data Governance Tax Through Business Incentives | — |
| Rose Hansen | Christian Healthcare Ministries | Speaker | What Does the Fox Know: Two Years of Smarter Data at CHM | — |
| Ryan Doupe | DataFit Consulting | Speaker | Building a Data Governance Program: Ten Steps to Success | — |
| Sanjay Pattni | Eclipse Consulting Group | Speaker | Data Management 3.0: Evolving Governance, Quality, and Certification to Build Trusted Data | — |
| Sara Nash | Enterprise Knowledge | Speaker | Semantic Layers in Action: Case Studies in Bridging Silos and Grounding AI | — |
| Satyaki Adusumally | Daiichi Sankyo Europe | Speaker | Game Changer: How Data Democratization Accelerates Innovation | — |
| Slade Armstrong | Fidelity Investments | Speaker | Data Governance 360: Connecting Governance, AI, and Enablement | — |
| Stephanie Paradis | First San Francisco Partners | Tutorial | T12: How to Build an Aligned DG and AI Governance Decision Framework | — |
| Subasini Periyakaruppan | The Cadmus Group | Speaker | Regulatory Readiness: A Practitioner's Guide and Framework | — |
| Subu Desaraju | iceDQ | Sponsored | Ensure Reliable Data for Trusted AI | — |
| Suchitra Veera | Snayu | Speaker | Using Explainable AI (XAI) so Humans Can Understand Algorithmic Decisions | — |
| Sumita De | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals | Speaker | Data Governance and Integration: From Single Source of Truth to Smart Pipelines Enabling AI | — |
| Tammy Baker | Nexus Data Foundations LLC | Speaker | SIG: Data Quality Special Interest Group | — |
| Tanya Kujinga | CSAA Insurance Group | Speaker | Data Quality for AI/ML Pipelines | — |
| Thea Man Chavez | California Office of Data and Innovation | Speaker | The Agentic Enterprise: Who's in Charge When AI Starts Making Decisions? | — |
| Tomo Lazovich | Brown University | Speaker | From Principles to Practice: Making AI Governance Real | — |
| Trajce Alcinov | Environment and Climate Change Canada | Speaker | Building the Trust Engine: AI-Accelerated, Expert-Verified Data Governance for Regulatory Reporting | — |
| Vincent Tran | IMT | Speaker | Operational MDM in the AI Era: A Real-Time Blueprint for Trusted Golden Records | — |
| Vishal Gaurav Garg | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals | Speaker | Data Governance and Integration: From Single Source of Truth to Smart Pipelines Enabling AI | — |
| William A Tanenbaum | Moses & Singer LLP | Speaker | Data Governance as a Revenue Driver: Lessons from AI Shopping Agents | — |
| Yolanda Eyre | Breakthrough T1D | Speaker | Data Governance "Chopped" Edition: Building a Practice with Spaghetti, Mixed Nuts, and Clams | — |