TDWI Skill-Up Webinar: Unifying Data and Analytics Governance
Webinar Speaker: Fern Halper, TDWI VP Research, Senior Research Director for Advanced Analytics
Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Time: 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET
In the age of data-driven decision-making and AI, the governance of digital assets has become increasingly important. Unified governance is an important strategy that includes consistent management, security, and compliance across all types of data and AI assets—from structured and unstructured data to AI notebooks and machine learning models.
Join us in this TDWI Skill-Up Webinar as TDWI VP of Research Fern Halper explores the core principles of unified governance and why it's important for maintaining data integrity, ensuring regulatory compliance, and fostering trust in AI applications. Topics include:
- The importance of governing data as well as analytics and AI assets
- Platform features needed to govern digital assets
- The Databricks Unity Catalog solution for data and AI governance
- The Slalom Unity Catalog Accelerator
Guest Speakers
Jim Thorstad
Senior Solutions Architect and Unity Catalog Specialist
Databricks
Jim Thorstad is a detail-oriented technologist with proven experience in use case development and collaborative product/solution development. Jim has deep knowledge on Databricks Unity Catalog planning and deployment. He has been with Databricks for two years.
Phillip Hetzel
Director
Slalom
Phil Hetzel is a data architect and analytics practice leader with eleven years of professional services experience. Phil's main expertise is performing Databricks implementations that aim to lower his client's "cost to innovate." Currently, Phil Hetzel is a Director at Slalom, where he is growing Slalom's Databricks business. When he is not working, Phil plays online chess and teaches introductory analytics courses to Masters in Management students at Georgetown University.
Fern Halper, Ph.D.