Expert Panel: Data Contracts & Data Mesh: Operationalizing the Distributed Data Enterprise
Webinar Speaker: TBD
Date: Monday, October 26, 2026
Time: 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET
Most organizations as they grow have data spread across multiple locations, including at remote divisions, subsidiaries, and other business domains. However, it is not just data that is decentralized but also business users, data scientists, developers, and data engineers. To drive analytics and AI, these domain teams need data.
Not satisfied with waiting in enterprise development backlogs, they acquire tools and spin up data stores that can turn into haphazardly governed data silos. Enterprises need strategies for reducing complexity, cost, and risks through a better balance between domain agility and enterprise requirements.
Data contracts and data mesh are emerging as transformative concepts for scaling data and governance across decentralized teams. This Expert Panel explores how these frameworks foster accountability, quality, and agility within distributed architectures. Panelists will discuss how data contracts formalize expectations between data producers and consumers, ensuring trust and interoperability. Topics include:
- Best practices for using data mesh principles to empower decentralized ownership while maintaining global standards for security and compliance
- The roles of automation and metadata management in supporting contract validation and enforcement
- Solutions for assembling a connective layer that improves integration of distributed, governed, and self-service data ecosystems
Date: October 26, 2026
Time: 9:00 am PT