Agenda At-a-Glance

Wednesday, 5/7/2025

Continental Breakfast

07:00 AM - 08:30 AM Wed, May 7

Zen with Len

07:45 AM - 08:15 AM Wed, May 7

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
Zen with Len: What Does Zen Have to Do with Data Governance? Everything! Find Out Why	Len Silverston, Universal Mindful, LLC	All Levels	Human Factors

Conference Sessions

08:30 AM - 09:15 AM Wed, May 7

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
Data Maturity - Driving Data Literacy, Raising Awareness, and Winning Over Stakeholders	John Lieto, CT Corporation, Wolters Kluwer	All Levels	Data Literacy and Culture
The Role They Were Born to Play: Engaging the Data Stewards You Already Have	Aundrea Price, Bryan Health	Intermediate	Stewardship
Integrating DMBOK2® and DCAM for Enhanced Data Management in AI Projects	Andrew Andrews, Enterprise Data Management Council Howard Diesel, DAMA Southern Africa	All Levels	Data Strategy
Architecting Intelligent Data Products: From Data Silos to Generative AI	Lakshmi Isukapally, American Express Amol Salunkhe, American Express Shoma Samir Chakravarty, American Express	Intermediate	Data Architecture
How T-Mobile Excelled at Executing Large-Scale Data and AI Initiatives	Ugandhar Dasi, T-Mobile US Chaitanya Laxminarayana, T-Mobile USA	Case Study	Data Strategy
Unlocking Business Value Through Data Quality: A Practical Case Study	Junio Cezar Souza Almeida, Minerva Foods	All Levels	Data & Information Quality

DAMA Awards

09:30 AM - 09:40 AM Wed, May 7

Keynote Presentation

09:40 AM - 10:10 AM Wed, May 7

Keynote Presentation

10:10 AM - 10:40 AM Wed, May 7

Exhibits Open

10:45 AM - 02:00 PM Wed, May 7

Coffee Break & Exhibits Open

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM Wed, May 7

Sponsored Sessions - Data Governance, AI Governance and Data Quality Solutions

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Wed, May 7

CDMP Exams

11:30 AM - 01:30 PM Wed, May 7

Conference Sessions

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Wed, May 7

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
Managing Gen AI Risks: Leveraging AI to Validate AI	Robert Bagley, Perficient	All Levels	AI Governance
Global Consumer Engagement and Insight – A Technology Implementation Success Story	John O'Donovan, Data Strategy Professionals	All Levels	New Ideas and Technologies
Fake = Fail? Impostor Syndrome in the Workplace	Adrian Porter, SeekWell	All Levels	Professional Development
Data-licious: Unlocking the Sweet Language of Data Literacy	Rose Hansen, Christian Healthcare Ministries Colette Leung, NAIT	All Levels	Data Literacy and Culture
Building "Anti-Monolith"	Elliott Cordo, Datafutures.io	Intermediate	Data Architecture
Management of Metadata Quality	Anil Bastanoglu, Garanti BBVA Banking Company Yusuf Emre Sernikli, Garanti BBVA Technology	Intermediate	Metadata
Establishing Enterprise Knowledge, Metadata, and Semantic Business Modeling for Data Usage and Sharing	Geir Myrind, The Norwegian Tax Administration	Intermediate	Enterprise Semantics

Lunch, Desserts on the Exhibit Floor

12:45 PM - 02:00 PM Wed, May 7

Conference Sessions

02:00 PM - 02:45 PM Wed, May 7

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
Applying Ted Lasso's Total Football Principles to Enterprise Data and AI Literacy	Ram Kumar Nimmakayala, Western Governors University Narendra Pandya, Western Governors University	All Levels	Data Literacy and Culture
The Future of Data Management: Exploring Data Fabric, Data Mesh, and Beyond	Karen Lopez, InfoAdvisors	Intermediate	Data Architecture
Selling AI, Analytics, and Data Management to Business Stakeholders	Dan Everett, Insightful Research LLC	All Levels	Getting Business Buy-In
Conducting a Data Risk Assessment Using the DAMA DMBOK2 as a Standard	Jimm Johnson, HireRight	Introductory	Risk Management
Catching Up with Glorbo: Combatting AI Data Poisoning with RAG Frameworks	Sherrard Glaittli, Factor	Business / Non-Technical	AI Governance
Breaking Down Silos: How TASB Transformed Its Organization with Data Governance	Chris Knauf, Texas Association of School Boards	All Levels	Data Governance
Negotiating Raises, Promotions, and Bonuses - Things My Mother Taught Me	April Reeve, Reeve Consulting	All Levels	Human Factors

Coffee Break & Networking

02:45 PM - 03:00 PM Wed, May 7

Conference Sessions

03:00 PM - 03:45 PM Wed, May 7

Title	Speakers	Audience	Track
Understanding Key Stakeholder Personas and their Motivations to Enhance Your Ability to Communicate	Norman Hussey, CruxWise	All Levels	Data Literacy and Culture
Laying the Foundations for AI Governance: A Strategic Approach	Riham Elhabyan, Fisheries and Oceans Canada David Collister, Fisheries and Oceans Canada	Intermediate	AI Governance
Building Data Quality Metrics: How We Built In-House Data Quality with SQL and Power BI	Richard Ernst, Oregon Department of Human Services, Child Welfare Julie Gibson, Oregon Department of Human Services, Child Welfare	All Levels	Data & Information Quality
Implementing a Defensible Data Retention Program	Kalu Kalu, Cox Communications	All Levels	Data Governance
Developing a Data Strategy? Learn From My Practical Experiences	Anup Singh, Environment Canterbury (ECAN)	All Levels	Data Strategy
Empowering Everyone with Data Skills	Jason Preston, Eli Lilly and Company	Business / Non-Technical	Data Literacy and Culture

Coffee Break & Networking

03:45 PM - 04:00 PM Wed, May 7

Women in Data Management and Governance

04:00 PM - 05:30 PM Wed, May 7

Women in Data Management and Governance: Reception

05:30 PM - 06:30 PM Wed, May 7