Data Mesh 101 for Data Governance/Management Professionals - Kat Holmes 

Everyone’s talking about Data Mesh.  But what is it, really?  And what does it mean for my data governance and management strategy and roadmap? 

Are they just more buzzwords, or is there something new here that can help my organisation’s data needs?

Kat will present an introduction to the Data Mesh Framework and then open up the session for attendees to ask questions.

She will also provide a further reading list to attendees who are interested in knowing more. 

Kat has been transforming organisations through technology and data leadership for the past 19 years – most recently as a data director specialising in strategy and governance. A moderately successful filmmaker for 12 years, Kat is passionate about the potential of data to tell meaningful stories to customers and internal business teams alike, and has spent the last few years helping Fortune 500 organisations such as Travelex and ITV pivot their data strategies to more closely align to business value creation, to be cloud and AI tech driven, but to still keep people at the heart of the storytelling.
Kat has also recently been able to integrate her lifelong commitment to ESG into her data career, founding a data-for-good start-up: MenopauseX – a joint initiative between Women in Data®, the Balance app and the Newson Health Menopause Society.