Ep 20 | Should We Kill Off Data Governance? with Kat Holmes, Global Director of Data Governance at Travelex

In Episode 20 of Driven by Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Kat Holmes, Global Director of Data Governance at Travelex, where they discuss whether the end is near for Data Governance.

In this episode, Kat outlines her thoughts around the current landscape surrounding Data Governance, which includes:

• Why organisations often wrongly conflate Governance & Protection
• Why we've seen a resurgence in Data Governance
• How Data Governance doesn’t have an end point
• Why Data Governance should be as invisible as possible
• Why Data Governance doesn’t belong in a Risk function
• Why you need to remove humans as much as possible
• How an AI data catalogue is a fundamental piece for seamless Data Governance
• Why you need to integrate Data Governance into the data integration process
• Why she doesn’t believe in traditional Master Data Management
• Why we need to change the vocabulary
• Why it was the right time to “come out” in relation to an invisible disability she suffers with