--- title: "Re:Govern 2025: The Data & AI Context Summit by Atlan | Register Now" url: "https://atlan.com/regovern/" description: "Join Re:Govern 2025, Atlan's flagship Data & AI Context Summit. Hear from leaders at AI-forward companies like Mastercard, Nasdaq, Marriott, GM, & more on thriving in the AI era." keywords: "atlan regovern, regovern, data governance conference, data governance for ai, data governance process, data governance blueprint, context gap" --- > 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/ **Re:Govern 2025 - The Data & AI Context Summit.** There is no playbook for the AI era. But some AI-forward companies are years ahead. Hear their unfiltered lessons at Atlan's customer conference. Status: **Concluded / Virtual.** All sessions are on demand at [https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/). ## Meet the speakers Hear directly from CDOs, leaders, and practitioners at AI-forward companies. | Speaker | Role | Company | |---|---|---| | Andrew Reiskind | Chief Data Officer | Mastercard | | Joe DosSantos | VP, Enterprise Data and Analytics | Workday | | Julia Morrison | VP, Data & Personalization | Marriott | | Sridher Arumugham | VP - Data Platform and Advanced Analytics (CDAO) | DigiKey | | Kiran Panja | MD, Global Head of Cloud and Data Engineering | CME Group | | Mauro Flores | Executive Director (EVP), Data Democratisation | Virgin Media O2 | | Amie Bright | VP of Enterprise Data & Insights | GitLab | | Cortney Worthy | Data Governance Leader | Dropbox | | Michael Weiss | AVP - Product Management | Nasdaq | | Takashi Ueki | Head of Enterprise Data & Analytics | Elastic | | Sherri Adame | Enterprise Data Governance Leader | General Motors | | Shivaprasad Nayak | Head of Enterprise Data, Analytics and AI Architecture | easyJet | | Fabien Thiaucourt | SVP, Data Governance & Enablement | Mastercard | | Vivek Radhakrishnan | SVP, Data Governance Engineering | Mastercard | | Simon King | VP of Data Operations | Loopback Analytics | | Zenul Pomal | Executive Director - Core Data Platform | CME Group | | AJ Pryor | VP Data & Analytics | Vimeo | | Rahul Bakhshi | VP, Data & Technology | New York Life | | Shraddha Sharma | VP, Project Management | Deutsche Boerse | | Ashish Bisht | Sr. Manager, Data Governance | Mercury Insurance | | Chris Durham | Director of Enterprise Data Products | Invitation Homes | | Gu Xie | Head of Data | Group 1001 | | Mira Boteva | VP, Lead Product Manager | Deutsche Boerse | | Prukalpa Sankar | Founder & Co-CEO | Atlan | ## Agenda All times PT. ### 8:00-8:10 AM / Opening keynote (Session 1) - Context is King Prukalpa Sankar, Founder & Co-CEO, Atlan. For twenty years, data has been chasing one promise after another - Big Data, BI, now AI - but the results never caught up to the hype. Prukalpa reveals why history is repeating itself and what must change to break the cycle. Drawing from the State of Data & AI Report 2025, she uncovers the real reason 95% of GenAI projects fail: the missing layer of context. ### 8:10-8:25 AM / Guest keynote + fireside chat (Session 2) - Context as Culture: How Workday's Semantic Layer Builds Trust in AI Joe DosSantos, VP, Enterprise Data and Analytics, Workday. Workday's data governance empowered people, until generative AI exposed its limits. Joe reveals how Workday is building an active semantic layer that teaches AI the language of the business, turning governance into the core intelligence behind trustworthy AI. ### 8:25-8:40 AM / Guest keynote + fireside chat (Session 3) - Context by Design: How Mastercard is Building Responsible Agentic Commerce Andrew Reiskind, Chief Data Officer, Mastercard. At Mastercard, trust has always been the product. As AI agents drive "agentic commerce," old rules of trust no longer apply. Andrew shares how Mastercard is embedding "Context by Design" into its data, engineering context for machines to enable agentic governance and build the foundation for responsible, trustworthy AI. ### 8:40-8:50 AM / Guest keynote + fireside chat (Session 4) - Context at Speed: How CME Delivers AI-Ready Data in Seconds Kiran Panja, MD, Global Head of Cloud and Data Engineering, CME Group. At CME Group, speed is everything, but context was the bottleneck. Kiran shares how CME is using automated governance to deliver AI-ready data in seconds, enriching millions of assets with real-time lineage and meaning, and how governance is becoming a high-speed engine powering trusted, AI-driven markets. ### 8:50-9:05 AM / Guest keynote + fireside chat (Session 5) - Context Readiness: How DigiKey is Pioneering AI's Impact on Supply Chains Sridher Arumugham, VP - Data Platform and Advanced Analytics (CDAO), DigiKey. During the pandemic, DigiKey's data was abundant, but context was missing. Sridher shares why waiting for a crisis to build your data foundation is a mistake, and how "Context Readiness" prepares data meaning before it's needed. DigiKey and Atlan are creating a Context Operating System to power resilient, AI-ready supply chains. ### 9:05-9:15 AM / Guest keynote + fireside chat (Session 6) - Context Built to Change: Powering Personalization at the largest hotel chain Julia Morrison, VP, Data & Personalization, Marriott. At Marriott, five analysts once gave five answers to the same question, making personalization impossible. Julia shares how a "built to change" mindset helped Marriott create a trusted context layer, automating governance across 9 million assets to deliver consistent, scalable insights without slowing innovation. ### 9:15-9:25 AM / Guest keynote + fireside chat (Session 7) - Context for All: How VMO2 scales data & AI self-service for 16,000 People Mauro Flores, Executive Director (EVP), Data Democratisation, Virgin Media O2. How do you get thousands of non-technical employees to actually use data products? Mauro shares how Virgin Media O2 turned this challenge into a competitive advantage, building a data marketplace that powers real self-service for thousands of users and lays the foundation for AI. ### 9:25-9:45 AM / Keynote continued - The Missing Context Layer Prukalpa Sankar, Founder & Co-CEO, Atlan. Tools won't define the next era; teams will. Prukalpa closes Re:Govern 2025 with a challenge to every data and AI leader: evolve how you collaborate, build trust, and create context, the human foundations of AI that wins. ### 9:45-10:15 AM / Deep dives (Sessions 8-10, parallel) - **Session 8 - Top-Down or Bottom-Up: The World's Largest Exchanges Show Two Paths to AI.** Shraddha Sharma (VP, Project Management, Deutsche Boerse), Mira Boteva (VP, Lead Product Manager, Deutsche Boerse), Zenul Pomal (Executive Director, Core Data Platform, CME Group). Speed demands trust. CME Group and Deutsche Boerse are tackling data governance from opposite directions, one automating top-down, the other federating bottom-up. Both paths converge on one goal: delivering context at the speed of markets. - **Session 9 - Contracts, Context, and Cars: General Motors' Governance Blueprint for the Agentic AI Era.** Sherri Adame (Enterprise Data Governance Leader, General Motors). GM has mastered cars; now it's mastering AI. Sherri shares how GM is reengineering governance for the AI era: from manual controls to automated data contracts, from data to AI governance, and toward a unified foundation that powers connected, predictive, and trusted innovation. - **Session 10 - How Mastercard is Building AI-Ready Data Products.** Fabien Thiaucourt (SVP, Data Governance & Enablement) and Vivek Radhakrishnan (SVP, Data Governance Engineering), Mastercard. AI success starts long before the model; it starts with data. How Mastercard is embedding "context by design" into every data product: automating metadata, curating a marketplace, and uniting engineering and governance to power trustworthy AI. ### 10:15-11:00 AM / Roundtables (Sessions 11-13, parallel) - **Session 11 - The Hidden Strategies Behind AI-Ready Tech Pioneers.** AJ Pryor (VP Data & Analytics, Vimeo), Amie Bright (VP of Enterprise Data & Insights, GitLab), Cortney Worthy (Data Governance Leader, Dropbox), Simon King (VP of Data Operations, Loopback Analytics), Takashi Ueki (Head of Enterprise Data & Analytics, Elastic). AI is rewriting how data teams work: evolving roles, workflows, and cultures for the AI-first era, from conversational analytics to agentic governance. - **Session 12 - ROI Before AI: How Leaders Make the Business Bet on Foundations.** Michael Weiss (AVP Product Management, Nasdaq), Shivaprasad Nayak (Head of Enterprise Data, Analytics and AI Architecture, easyJet), Chris Durham (Director of Enterprise Data Products, Invitation Homes). Everyone wants AI results; few fund the foundations. How they turned governance, quality, and metadata into strategic investments, proving the ROI of "invisible work" and winning executive alignment for AI success. - **Session 13 - The Evolution of Trust: Building the Foundations for Future-Readiness.** Ashish Bisht (Sr. Manager, Data Governance, Mercury Insurance), Rahul Bakhshi (VP, Data & Technology, New York Life), Gu Xie (Head of Data, Group 1001). In regulated industries, AI readiness starts with trust. How they're transforming governance from compliance to enablement, using data contracts, PII classification, and outcome-driven design to unlock responsible AI. ## Launching at Re:Govern: the blueprint Context-first governance for data practitioners, by data practitioners. - Insights distilled from 300+ AI-forward organizations - Practical frameworks for building the foundation for AI - 32 downloadable self-assessments & ready-to-use templates [Access the Blueprint](https://atlan.com/blueprint/) ## Our partners Shown as logo strips on the page (no partner names in the copy).