Going beyond AI - The importance of data governance

Why strong data governance is an essential part of business success

 

High quality data management is essential for business and for the efficient operation of almost all business processes, not just because AI tools are entering the mainstream of business use.

 

However, ensuring that data is of sufficient quality is a huge challenge for organisations — the sheer volume of data companies are inundated with makes quality control a huge challenge. On top of that, leadership struggles to access critical data; it is frequently stored in different silos and in different formats, or completely unstructured. 

 

A further problem for business is that there is so much that can go wrong with data. Meanwhile, they must increasingly comply with a rigorous regulatory framework around data management. At the same time, many leaders doubt that anyone at their company has a full understanding of all the data they collect — or knows how to access it.

Businesses need strong governance processes in place to ensure data quality, accessibility, and ROI. The lack of that governance leads them to make decisions based on gut feel, instead of with strong data-driven backing. 

 

How will business leaders overcome this distrust? This briefing will go to the heart of this issue and explore how businesses can get their data houses in order and why it is not just the data used in AI systems that has to be maintained at the highest quality.

 

Join us to network with your peers and gain practical insights into the importance of robust data governance. This is an exclusive event and seat numbers are very limited, so apply for your place now.

 

The questions we will explore

 

During the meeting we will focus on topics such as:

 

• What are the problems that can occur with data? Why is poor quality data such an issue for businesses? 
• What is data governance, why is it important for success, and how does it impact business processes and culture?
• How should organisations use data to make decisions? Should data lead decisions or support them? 
• Is the experience and knowledge that people have more or less important than data? When making decisions, how should experience be balanced against a process of just “following the data”? 
• Does the use of AI in a business change the rules for data governance? For example, does AI mean that new parameters for the responsible and ethical use of data need to be established?
• What skills are needed to support the democratisation and decentralisation of data governance? How can a culture of good data governance be built across an organisation?

 

Who is invited?

 

This dinner event is designed for senior decision makers across the private sector who wish to discuss data governance. Delegates will be employed as technology and data decision makers in large organisations across industry.

 

Be one of 12 senior technology and data professionals (such as CIOs, CTOs and Heads of Data Governance) attending this event at the House of Lords in central London. For any enquiries, please contact Mergim Begolli on 020 8349 6458 or email m.begolli@business-reporter.co.uk.

 

The dinner and discussion are brought to you by SoftServe and are only for senior executives as mentioned above. Registrations of junior professionals, consultants, solution providers or other sellers to this market won’t be accepted. To be eligible you must be employed by a corporate legal entity such as a private company: if you are a sole trader or in a partnership other than a legally incorporated partnership, we will be unable to offer you a place.

 

This event is free of charge to attend.

 

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