Data Catalog - Holistic Data Governance - Navigating Generative AI

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We will be joined by Mike Pickart (Informatica) and David Kowalski (MIDAS Advisory Services)

The presentation -
Navigating Generative AI: Foundational Strategies for Effective Data Management, Governance and Cataloging
Mike Pickart is a dynamic technology leader with over 20 years of of experience in data management. Currently serving as the Director of Solution Architecture at Informatica, Mike leads a team that partners with customers from various industries to architect innovative data-driven solutions that address diverse business objectives, leveraging the capabilities of Informatica's data management platform spanning master data management, data governance and privacy, data integration, and application integration. Additionally, Mike oversees Informatica's North American Associate Consulting Program, where he works with early-stage professionals in effective data management, architecture, and sales engineering best practices.
Prior to his current role, Mike worked at Linedata, where he worked in the fintech space with alternative asset and hedge fund customers, and at Epic, where he contributed to successful healthcare software implementations. Mike is now based in South Jersey, and as an alumnus of University of Pennsylvania enjoys spending time in Philadelphia and introducing his children to the city.

The presentation -
There’s no one right way to define your Data Governance Guardrails, but David Kowalski has developed a framework for establishing a coherent, integrated approach to building out a set of Guardrail documents that work as a whole…documents that reinforce one another with common themes that focus on achieving what he calls "Holistic Data Governance™." This is an approach
to Data Governance that respects the localized needs of the individual parts of your organization while orchestrating them into a meaningful whole that helps deliver the data that your organization needs at all levels in order to make meaningful decisions about how to succeed in your particular industry. This presentation will give an overview of this approach along with some ways that you can find out more about the details.
David Kowalski, Ph.D., has spent his entire professional life showing organizations how best to manage and govern their data. David is currently President of MIDAS Advisory Services, a data management executive advisory firm based in Princeton, NJ. He has worked with Data Management executives at large and mid-sized corporations around the world to assess their Data Management practices and help devise strategies and policies to improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and reliability while mitigating risk exposure. An industry thought leader, David appears regularly at conferences across the country and is a very active contributing member of the Enterprise Data Management Council. He is the author of "Holistic Data Governance," a series of books on the integration of Data Governance throughout an organization.