It’s no secret that AI is reliant on ‘rock solid’ data. However given the vast amounts of data that companies now have spread across a distributed SaaS, on-premises and multi-cloud data estate, many companies they are a million miles away from this. We are also well past the point where people can govern data on their own. They need help and a total rethink is now needed to conquer data complexity and create a high quality, compliant data foundation for AI Success.

In this watershed keynote, conference char Mike Ferguson details what needs to be done to govern data in the era of AI, how companies can conquer the complexity they face, by implementing an always on, active and unified approach to data governance to continuously detect, automate and consistently enforce multiple types of policies across a distributed data estate. The session will cover:

• Current problems with data governance today and why old approaches are broken

• Requirements to dramatically improve data governance using AI and AI automation

• The need for an integrated and unified data governance platform

• Why a data catalog, data intelligence, data observability, AI Agents and orchestration all need to be integrated for AI-Assisted active data governance

• Understanding the AI-assisted data governance services and AI-Agents you need

• Establishing health metrics to measure effectiveness of your data governance program

• Creating a Data Governance Action Framework for your enterprise

• Monitoring the health and security of your data using data governance observability

• Enabling continuous reporting and AI-Assisted data governance action automation

• Implementing data governance AI Agents for different data governance disciplines

In this, the 10th year of Big Data LDN, in its flagship Great Dat Debate keynote panel, conference chair and leading industry analyst Mike Ferguson welcomes executives from leading software vendors to discuss key topics in data management and analytics. Panellists will debate the challenges and success factors in building an agentic enterprise, the importance of unified data and AI governance, the implications of key industry trends in data management, how best to deal with real-world customer challenges, how to build a modern data and analytics (D&A) architecture, and issues on-the-horizon that companies should be planning for today.

Attendees will learn best practices for data and analytics implementation in a modern data and AI -driven enterprise from seasoned executives and an experienced industry analyst in a packed, unscripted, candid discussion.

In this short presentation, Big Data LDN Conference Chairman and Europe’s leading IT Industry Analyst in Data Management and Analytics, Mike Ferguson, will welcome everyone to Big Data LDN 2025. He will also summarise where companies are in data, analytics and AI in 2025, what the key challenges and trends are, how are these trends impacting on how companies build a data-driven enterprise and where you can find out more about these at the show.