--- title: "How protocols and tools are evolving for agentic governance" url: "https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/protocols-agentic-governance/" description: "Andrew Reiskind, CDO of Mastercard, shares why the future of agentic governance hasn't been invented yet - and why being part of the group inventing it is the opportunity of a career." 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/ **How Protocols and Tools are Evolving for Agentic Governance** is a Re:Govern 2025 session video in the Atlan Re:Govern watch center. Andrew Reiskind, CDO of Mastercard, shares why the future of agentic governance hasn't been invented yet - and why being part of the group inventing it is the opportunity of a career. Watch it at https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/protocols-agentic-governance/ (email required to keep watching). All sessions: https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/ ## Speakers - **Andrew Reiskind**, Chief Data Officer, Mastercard. Andrew spent 16+ years embedding privacy by design at Mastercard. Now he secures 160B+ AI-scanned transactions annually, proving governance accelerates innovation. He's building "Context by Design" for agentic commerce at Mastercard. ## Companies - **Mastercard**: Mastercard processes billions of transactions globally, with AI now powering 1/3 of its products. 160B+ transactions scanned annually by AI-driven fraud detection. 2,000+ specialists advance data & AI innovation under Data Responsibility Principles. ## What's inside MCP servers are emerging as the standard for how agents talk to each other, but the protocols are still "loosey goosey" because no one knows exactly what information needs to be shared or how to create guardrails around these conversations. This uncertainty isn't a problem - it's an invitation to help shape the standards alongside governments and industry partners. ### Key takeaways - Agentic governance is still being invented - no one has figured out the standards yet - MCP servers enable agent-to-agent communication, but guardrails around these conversations remain undefined - Start with what exists: APIs already have security and data sharing controls you can leverage today - The evolution from "loosey goosey" to substantive standards requires collaboration across industry and government - Early days mean early movers get to shape protocols, tokenization approaches, and contextual data protection frameworks ## More from Re:Govern 2025 - [CME Group: Context at Speed](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/cme-group-context-at-speed/) (session recording) - [Mastercard: Context by Design](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/mastercard-context-by-design/) (session recording) - [Workday: Context as Culture](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/workday-context-as-culture/) (session recording) - [Why Workday is Building a Semantic Layer](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/workday-building-semantic-layer/) (highlight) - [Workday's Learnings From its First Talk to Data experiment](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/workday-talk-to-data-learnings/) (highlight) - [How Workday Connects Context Across Business Tools](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/how-workday-connects-context/) (highlight) - [How Mastercard Designs Context at Scale](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/how-mastercard-designs-context/) (highlight) - [Mastercard's Federated Architecture for Agentic Commerce](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/mastercard-federated-architecture/) (highlight) - [How Data Roles are Evolving: From Modelers to Context Engineers](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/data-modelers-to-context-engineers/) (highlight) - [The Evolution of Trust: Building the Foundations for Future-Readiness](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/evolution-of-trust/) (session recording) - [How Mercury Insurance is creating PII-free workspaces for AI use cases](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/pii-free-workspaces/) (highlight) - [GitLab's Strategies for Building Reliable Conversational Analytics](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/gitlab-conversational-analytics-strategies/) (highlight) - [AI-Ready Tech Pioneers Share their Single Most Effective AI Readiness Strategies](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/ai-readiness-strategies-pioneers/) (highlight) - [GitLab's Learnings from its First Experiment with Conversational AI](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/gitlab-conversational-ai-learnings/) (highlight) - [Vimeo's Approach to Data Governance in the Era of Conversational Analytics](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/Vimeo-approach-to-data-governance/) (highlight) - [Inside General Motors Metadata Lakehouse](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/gm-metadata-lakehouse/) (highlight) - [Workday's Semantic Layer Strategy](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/workday-semantic-layer-strategy/) (highlight) - [Modern Data & AI Governance Blueprint](https://atlan.com/blueprint) (resource)