The Path to Effective Data Governance through GenAI

Join us for insights on modern data governance strategies and the role of generative AI in enhancing effectiveness and integration.

Speakers: Seyi Adebajo, Kirit Basu, Desi Bogdanova

Hello, everyone! Thank you for joining our webinar, "The Path to Effective Data Governance Through Gen AI." I'm Desi, Head of Design at Metaphor. Along with Kirit, Jess, and Seyi, we’ve prepared an informative session for you. Let’s dive in.

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Introduction

Before we start, we conducted a survey asking you which data governance problem you'd want AI to solve. The top responses highlighted struggles with organizational cultural shifts in using AI and content generation. We’ll address these issues today and show you how Metaphor can help.

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Agenda

Here’s what we’ll cover:

1. Introduction to Gen AI and its role in data governance

2. Current landscape of data governance

3. How Gen AI can catalyze effective data governance

4. Integrating Gen AI into your strategy

5. Q&A session

We also have a $75 gift card raffle for attendees who stay until the end.

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Objectives

By the end of this webinar, we want you to understand:

1. Challenges in modern data governance

2. How Gen AI democratizes data

3. How to integrate Gen AI into your strategy

4. Insights from our experts on Gen AI and data governance

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Asking Questions

During the webinar, you can ask questions using the Q&A button at the bottom of your Zoom screen. You can submit questions anonymously if you prefer.

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Introducing Our Speakers

First, we have Seyi, co-founder and founding engineer at Metaphor, based in San Francisco. He has built software at companies like Facebook and LinkedIn and co-created DataHub at LinkedIn.

Next is Kirit, Metaphor's Head of Product. With over 20 years of experience, he previously led product and strategy at StreamSets and authored "DataOps: The Authoritative Edition."

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About Metaphor

Metaphor is a modern data catalog powered by social data intelligence and AI. Traditional data catalogs often fail to provide value beyond technical metadata management, leading to data silos. Metaphor addresses these challenges by offering a social platform for data, enabling every team member to find, understand, and trust the data they need, where they need it.

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Landscape of Data Governance

To kick things off, Kirit will discuss the current landscape of data governance.

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Key Challenges in Data Governance

1. Vision: Many organizations lack a clear vision for data governance or struggle to execute their vision.

2. Trust and Data Quality: Building trust in data and ensuring its quality is a significant challenge. Socializing trust signals and quality metrics across the organization is critical.

3. Collaboration: Effective collaboration across various personas is essential but often lacking.

4. Data Silos: Traditional catalogs often become data graveyards, where data goes to die.

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Gen AI as a Catalyst

Seyi will now explain how Gen AI can act as a catalyst for effective data governance.

1. Democratizing Data: Gen AI helps spread data ownership across the organization, enabling both technical and business users to access and utilize data.

2. Enhancing Data Literacy: Gen AI can help users understand data better by providing personalized learning and context-specific answers.

3. Breaking Down Silos: By making data more accessible and understandable, Gen AI fosters a culture of data-driven decision-making across the organization.

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Trust and Security Concerns

A common concern is whether Gen AI can be trusted with sensitive data. We ensure the security and privacy of your data by:

1. Adhering to strict privacy policies and data protection standards.

2. Ensuring transparency in how your data is used.

3. Working with trusted foundational model providers like Azure OpenAI and AWS Bedrock.

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Demo: Gen AI in Action

Kirit will now give a short demo showcasing how Metaphor uses Gen AI to enhance data governance.

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Features Highlighted

1. Slack Integration: Users can ask data-related questions directly in Slack and get answers from the catalog without needing to switch contexts.

2. Glossary Term Creation: AI-generated suggestions help create comprehensive glossary terms quickly.

3. Table Descriptions: AI assists in generating detailed descriptions for database tables.

4. Query Summarization: AI provides business and technical summaries of SQL queries, helping users understand complex queries easily.

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Competitive Advantages of Gen AI

Adopting Gen AI for data governance offers several competitive advantages:

1. Enhanced Decision-Making: Quick access to high-quality data improves decision-making.

2. Operational Efficiency: Automating repetitive tasks frees up time for more strategic work.

3. Increased Workforce Participation: Making data accessible to everyone boosts overall data literacy.

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Q&A and Raffle

We’ll now address a question from our audience about democratizing data for Gen AI with federal government data. Ensuring security and regulatory compliance is crucial. We’re happy to continue this conversation offline for more specific insights.

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About Metaphor

The Metaphor Metadata Platform represents the next evolution of the Data Catalog - it combines best in class Technical Metadata (learnt from building DataHub at LinkedIn) with Behavioral and Social Metadata. It supercharges an organization’s ability to democratize data with state of the art capabilities for Data Governance, Data Literacy and Data Enablement, and provides an extremely intuitive user interface that turns even the most non-technical user into a fan of the catalog. See Metaphor in action today!