Shirshanka Das

When BlackRock wanted to modernize Aladdin’s data governance capabilities, it needed software that could scale with one of the largest platforms on Wall Street. In this fireside chat, BlackRock's Managing Director for Data Factory & Enterprise Data Platforms joins DataHub's Co-Founder & CTO to share the real story: how they evaluated and selected an enterprise data catalog, integrated it with the Aladdin Data Cloud (powered by the Snowflake Marketplace) and scaled across one of finance's most demanding systems. Whether you're driving a platform decision, architecting a governance solution or building pipelines at scale, you'll leave with concrete lessons from a team that's done it.

Data contracts have been much discussed in the community of late, with a lot of curiosity around how to approach this concept in practice. We believe data contracts need a harmonizing layer to manage data quality in a uniform manner across a fragmented stack.

Data contracts have been much discussed in the community of late, with a lot of curiosity around how to approach this concept in practice and how it might enable shift-left developer-first governance and data quality.

Data Discovery, Data Observability, Data Quality, Data Governance, Data Management are all linked via a common thread: Metadata. Yet we seem content to pursue each of these as separate problems with very minimal linkage across them.

Ever wonder what is the secret behind the productivity of data scientists and engineers at data-driven companies like LinkedIn, Airbnb, and others? The answer lies in metadata!