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title: "The Evolution of Trust: Building the Foundations for Future-Readiness"
url: "https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/evolution-of-trust/"
description: "Leaders from New York Life, Mercury Insurance, and Group 1001 share how they're navigating AI readiness in regulated industries."
keywords: "atlan, data governance, regovern 2025, regovern watch center"
---

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The Evolution of Trust: Building the Foundations for Future-Readiness is a session recording (panel) from Re:Govern 2025, published in Atlan's Re:Govern Watch Center. Leaders from New York Life, Mercury Insurance, and Group 1001 share how they're navigating AI readiness in regulated industries.

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

## Speakers

- **Gu Xie**, Head of Data, Group1001. Gu leads data strategy at Group1001 with a dual mandate: protect customer data while enabling AI-driven productivity. In a company founded in 2013, he's building governance frameworks from the ground up that prove compliance and innovation aren't opposing forces in modern insurance operations.
- **Rahul Bakhshi**, VP, Data & Technology, New York Life. Rahul governs data for New York Life, a 180-year-old institution built on trust. He's modernizing that foundation with AI-powered classification, automated quality checks, and governance designed to enable 12,000+ agents. His mandate: protect what matters while accelerating business value through responsible AI.
- **Ashish Bisht**, Sr. Manager, Data Governance, Mercury Insurance. Leading data governance initiatives at Mercury Insurance, Ashish is creating PII-free, high-quality workspaces that make AI governance automatic rather than manual. Through AI-enabled classification and quality tools, he's proving that the fastest path to responsible AI is intelligent automation.

## Companies

- **Group1001**: Founded 2013, Group1001 scaled to $72.9B through a data & AI stack built on Snowflake, Fivetran, and Atlan, enabling them to launch innovative annuity products and deploying enterprise-scale gen AI across life, annuity, and property-casualty lines.
- **Mercury Insurance**: With 4,300 employees and 63 years serving California, Mercury Insurance ($5.5B revenue) is rebuilding data foundations for AI. Their approach: use AI to classify sensitive data and build high-quality AI workspaces.
- **New York Life**: With $1.2T in life insurance and $808B in assets under management, New York Life isn't just America's largest mutual insurer - they're building cloud-first AI infrastructure that transforms 180 years of data into customer experiences that drive revenue.

## What's inside

For teams in highly regulated industries, AI readiness starts with trust. This panel reveals how insurance and financial services leaders use PII classification, data contracts, and outcome-driven design to protect what matters while unlocking innovation - proving that governance can deliver value beyond regulation by transforming into the foundation for AI that works responsibly at scale.

Key takeaways:

- Proactive governance enables innovation in regulated industries rather than just preventing compliance violations
- PII classification and data contracts automate protection while reducing manual review burdens
- Outcome-driven design focuses governance on business value delivery, not just regulatory checkbox completion
- Responsible AI in insurance and financial services requires ethical frameworks embedded in data practices from the start
- Governance evolution means balancing innovation speed with compliance rigor through automated, scalable processes

## Related

- [How Mercury Insurance is creating PII-free workspaces for AI use cases (highlight)](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/pii-free-workspaces/)
- [How Regulated Business are Moving Governance Beyond Compliance (highlight)](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/regulated-industries-beyond-compliance/)
- [All Re:Govern 2025 sessions and highlights: the Re:Govern Watch Center](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/)
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