The secret to elevating data governance and AI success? It's all about mindset. Gaurav Patole, Principal Data Strategist, Data & AI Governance Specialist at ThoughtWorks, reveals how the principles of physics can revolutionize how organizations handle data quality. In a world flooded with unstructured chaos—PDFs, videos, emails—how do you ensure AI models trust what they see? Gaurav’s innovative 'Newton's laws' for data quality offer a surprisingly simple, yet profoundly powerful framework to align technical practices with business value. You'll discover:
- Why pushing technical jargon in business conversations causes resistance—and how to flip that dynamic
- The real meaning of a data product: the smallest unit of business impact and how to identify it
- How organizations tend to fragment data governance—and what steps can unify data at scale
- The evolving role of data marketplaces and AI in simplifying access, ownership and quality controls
- Insights from a decade of data mesh experience, including the culture shift needed to make data as a product a reality
Topic: Data quality




