Data Governance 101: Stop Firefighting, Start Engineering

Let’s face it, data debt is real, and it is killing your productivity!

Every hacky pipeline, missing contract, and “we’ll fix it later” adds to your data debt — and like tech debt, the interest is brutal. Broken dashboards, skyrocketing costs, and late-night firefighting are holding your team and data back from scaling and delivering value.

In this session, we’ll dive into real-world governance strategies like data contracts, semantic layers, and treating data as a product, showing how they can help cut costs, boost quality, and get ahead of your data problems.

What you’ll learn:

• How to stop data chaos at the source instead of endlessly cleaning up
• Why data contracts and semantic layers are your best friends
• How small governance tweaks can cut costs and improve data quality
• How to make data governance practical for engineers

Packed with hands-on strategies, this session will help you build smarter — not firefight.