Designing Data Governance for Data Mesh Architecture
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Intermediate
Organizations own more data than ever before, but it’s of no value if you don’t know how to use it. Most teams lack the strategy to clean, collect, organize, and automate data for production-ready projects.
The good news is that data governance -- the people, processes, and strategy needed for deploying data projects to production –- offers new opportunities to improve service delivery.
This session shares how data leaders can embed data governance into data mesh cloud architecture. Attendees will learn how to unite cross-functional teams of data stewards to automate unified standards into data mesh, which emphasizes data domain ownership through self-service architecture.
Whether you’re a chief data officer or individual contributor, this talk will show you how to manage up, get the buy-in you need to build data governance, find the right colleagues to co-create governance, and build cloud architecture that better serves the public.
Prior to her civil service career, Lauren was a senior service designer at Steampunk, where she designed end-to-end experiences to make federal government systems more accessible. She most recently supported the U.S. Coast Guard's first Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO), where she led design activities to align data mesh, governance, AI, and analytics with the Coast Guard's key priorities. Lauren was also an associate principal analyst at Gartner, where she covered the impact of emerging tech like AI and blockchain.
Lauren is a founding editor of Springer’s AI and Ethics journal and a former area editor for Data and Policy, an open-access journal with Cambridge University Press. She has presented at venues/with partners including Princeton and Columbia Universities, the U.S. State Department, and Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters.
Lauren has written for Harvard Data Science Review, Financial Times, and The Guardian, among other publications. She is a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, where she helps judge the Webby Awards. She also serves on 2 nonprofit boards and volunteers with The Linux Foundation.