Wow ! Team Collibra knows how to put an event together, the Data Citizen Conference was...

Wow ! Team Collibra knows how to put an event together, the Data Citizen Conference was packed with Data Leaders from across the industry. Congratulations to Team Collibra for hosting an amazing #datacitizens22

Data adoption across the organization is the biggest challenge for all Data Leaders. Thank you Laura Sellers for showing us the the future of Collibra. It was great to hear Cox Automotive Inc. has over 300 datasets in the data marketplace which is accessed over 5 million times by users through Snowflake.

I am really excited about Dataplex integration with Collibra to dynamically applying masking and Classification to data. Thanks Evren Eryurek, Paul Ewasuik, ᴍᴍᴀ and the Collibra Google Team.

Kirk Haslbeck introduced us to DQ Rules that adapt as data changes and and DQ pushdown to Snowflake(Tarik Dwiek) with the goal to run entire workflow in Snowflake.

Derek Zanutto brought the investor perspective to the data space
- Did you know there are 230 public companies in the data space with a market cap of over 800 billion dollars?
- 5 pain points faced by data leaders across all verticals which he learnt from his talks with the board and research into companies to buy/invest

Two outstanding sessions which all of you MUST watch in recordings:
1. Barb Wixom who shared a framework to benchmark and measure the outcome/value of your data
2. The unfolding of the COVID-19 story from DJ Patil. When DJ Patil tells a story you cannot stop listening. He broke all rules of powerpoint by embedding entire emails in his presentation and left us all inspired.

Thank you to all the speakers who shaped my perspective - Sanjeev Mohan (Demistifying Observability), James Newland(Stewardship as a Service), Ravi Shankar, Ralf Strichau, Niraj Jobanputra and Wolfgang Mai(Collibra's Experience plane and Data Mesh), Vikram Chopra(Data Lake Journey), Francesco Contin and Simla Sivanandan(Data Ethics), Jay Militscher(Data Leader of the Future), Josh Chartrand(Google Cloud Transformation), Kory Cunningham (Trusted Access to Data), Ryan Galloway(Decentralize DG), Paul Gancz Rebecca Lentz and Marissa Schultz(ExxonMobil with Collibra/Snowflake), Lacey Murrah and David Mitchell(Collibra and Data Mesh) - I could not meet all of you but loved your sessions and hope to meet you all at the next conference.

It was great to meet so many brilliant minds and industry connections - Stijn (Stan) Christiaens, Paul Mendes, Paul Ewasuik, ᴍᴍᴀ, Andrea Ball , John Policaro, Ravi Nemani, Aanandkumar Neethirajan, Shantanu Raje, Francis Tam, Indira Polavarapu, Valeria Baskatova, Jason Callough (He/Him/His) #thankyou. I am sure I have not covered everyone :)

I have come back inspired and ready to learn more. I would recommend everyone to get the recording and listen to these speakers, you will be surprised what you can learn in a few days.