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Kiran Panja
Managing Director
Kiran architects data infrastructure for the world's largest derivatives exchange. From regulated banking at Citi to enterprise cloud at IBM, he's mastered the trade-off between agility and governance—now he's solving it at market scale at CME Group.
CME Group operates the world's largest derivatives marketplace, processing 30.2M contracts on average every day. A decade-long Google Cloud journey powers AI-ready, governed infrastructure at the speed and scale global markets demand.
At CME Group, markets operate at nanosecond speed, but business context took weeks to apply — creating a dangerous drag where speed is everything. Kiran shares CME's strategy for delivering AI-ready data in seconds by automating governance to enrich millions of assets with lineage and business meaning in near real-time.
Key takeaways:
Context bottlenecks persist even after cloud migration if enrichment processes remain manual and slow
Automated governance transforms from a manual chore into a high-speed enrichment engine operating at market speed
Millions of data assets need lineage and business context applied in seconds, not weeks, for AI readiness
Cloud-first governance requires partner-led operating models that scale at enterprise velocity
Trusted data foundations for AI-powered markets demand context that moves as fast as the transactions themselves
