Julia Bardmesser

Fuel your morning with a stimulating exercise designed to engage, enlighten, and evolve. We’re not just setting the tone but pioneering conversations that matter, creating a dynamic platform in which brainstorming meets expertise. In deep-dive conversations led by our distinguished advisory board, get ready to reimagine your data strategies by unveiling the transformative ✅’s and ❌’s pivotal for driving unparalleled success. Once you’ve exchanged best practices and benchmarked with your fellow data leaders, our distinguished advisors will share their group’s findings with the entire audience from the main stage.

What happens when AI is deployed on unstable data? In high-uncertainty regions, unstable data can distort decisions with geopolitical consequences. In financial services, it can misprice risk, undermine regulatory defensibility, and erode executive trust. Different environments, but the same type of failure.

In this focused fireside conversation, Jillian Foster and Julia Bardmesser examine two contrasting case studies — one operating at the edge of geopolitical risk, the other inside complex financial institutions integrating legacy, structured, and rapidly expanding use of unstructured data. Gain a practical lens for:

• Assessing AI readiness
• Evolving governance from oversight to observability; and
• Ensuring data rights, metadata, and stewardship support scalable business value