Organizations are now more ambitious about AI than ever — but many initiatives lose momentum as complexity rises, pilots stall, and agentic systems introduce new layers of risk. To turn AI vision into real business outcomes, leaders need a modern approach to governing both data and AI in a unified, scalable way.

In this session, industry experts from Google Cloud, Collibra, and IDC break down what it truly takes to move from ambition to execution. Drawing on IDC insights and the latest innovations from Google, the conversation provides a prescriptive roadmap for navigating the challenges of expanding agentic systems—while ensuring your data and AI foundation is trustworthy, collaborative, and aligned with business goals.

Key takeaways include:

• The most common reasons AI strategies fail to scale
• Why universal oversight and operational control matter in the agentic era
• How unified governance across data and AI accelerates execution across multiple projects

Speakers:

• Aniket Arora, Senior Principal, Product Strategy Operations, Cloud Data Analytics, Google Cloud
• Teresa Rojas, Senior Director of Product Management, AI Governance, Collibra
• Nancy Gohring, Senior Research Director, IDC

Moderator:

• Patrick Chew, CDO Magazine Global Editorial Board