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title: "DigiKey: Context Readiness"
url: "https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/digikey-context-readiness/"
description: "Sridher Arumugham, CDAO of DigiKey, shows why context readiness comes before AI readiness and how to get there."
keywords: "atlan, data governance, regovern 2025, regovern watch center"
---

> Atlan is hosting Context Conference, bringing together the leaders and builders at the frontier of giving AI the context it needs to understand their business. It runs online on October 28, 2026, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM ET. Atlan co-founder Prukalpa Sankar opens and closes the day. Leaders from AstraZeneca, BNY and Verizon share why they invest in context and what they get from it. Registrants get early access to The AI Context Gap, a new study from MIT Technology Review Insights. Register: https://atlan.com/context-conference/

DigiKey: Context Readiness is a session recording from Re:Govern 2025, published in Atlan's Re:Govern Watch Center. Sridher Arumugham, CDAO of DigiKey, shows why context readiness comes before AI readiness and how to get there.

Watch it at https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/digikey-context-readiness/ (free; the page asks for an email after two minutes of viewing).

## Speakers

- **Sridher Arumugham**, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, DigiKey. A Global CDO 100 honoree, Sridher has built data organizations across finance, software, and consulting. Now he's pioneering AI resilience across supply chains at DigiKey, the world's largest electronic component manufacturer.

## Companies

- **DigiKey**: One of the world's largest electronic component distributors, DigiKey serves 180+ countries with 16.5M+ products and 25,000 daily shipments. DigiKey is pioneering AI resilience for supply chains, in a market projected to grow from $3B to $31B by 2029.

## What's inside

During the pandemic, DigiKey's supply chain generated endless data, but lack of shared context made it impossible to answer urgent questions about at-risk orders. Sridher makes the case for "context readiness" - preparing your data's meaning before crises demand it - and shares how DigiKey is building a Context Operating System with modern ontologies and shared business language.

Key takeaways:

- Context readiness means building shared meaning and ontologies before crises demand them, not after
- Waiting for business cases to justify data foundations guarantees failure when urgent questions arise
- Supply chain disruptions expose the cost of teams using different definitions for basic terms like "order" and "delay"
- Context Operating Systems activate shared business language across domains, turning data into decision-ready intelligence
- AI readiness runs directly through context readiness - meaning must exist before models can use data reliably

## Related

- [How DigiKey uses Atlan as a Context Operating System (highlight)](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/digikey-atlan-context-operating-system/)
- [All Re:Govern 2025 sessions and highlights: the Re:Govern Watch Center](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/)
- [Book a demo of Atlan](https://atlan.com/forms/talk-to-sales-contact/)