Finding the Balance Between Creativity and Security: The AI Governance Question with Gaurav Pathak of Informatica

Rules aren’t always meant to be broken; especially when it comes to AI. In this episode of Bringing Data and AI to Life, host and VP of Data Governance and Data Integration Solution Sales at Informatica, Amy Horowitz, welcomes Gaurav Pathak, VP of Product Management for AI and Metadata at Informatica to explore the critical balance between AI advancement and responsible governance. Together, they open the doors into the 'wild west' of AI model adoption, the importance of establishing clear data policies, and how organizations can navigate the global AI race while maintaining security. If you’re looking for ways to balance governance and innovation for AI-progress, this is the conversation for you. Tune in to part 2 of the conversation to find out why governance isn't about saying 'no,' but about enabling faster, more secure AI innovation across your enterprise.

Responsible governance doesn’t always have to be a death knell for innovation. In fact, if done right, it can be the thing that helps you thrive. In part 2 of the conversation between Gaurav Pathak, VP of Product Management for AI and Metadata at Informatica and host and VP of Data Governance and Data Integration Solution Sales at Informatica, Amy Horowitz, the pair continues the discussion around the future of AI, spotlighting the criticality of governance and security.

Together, they explore:

The fundamentals of AI governance and its role in enterprise innovation
Why governance creates helpful guardrails rather than barriers to progress
The two types of AI data: grounding data (enterprise reality) and training data (new skills)
The significance of China's Deep Seek model and its impact on AI accessibility
Legal teams' concerns about AI data management and access controls
How organizations can balance innovation with responsible AI governance practices

Whether you’re looking to enhance AI governance structures in your organization or set the stage for perfect balance between regulation and innovation around AI, this conversation spotlights the fact that security and creativity do not have to be in conflict with each other.

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Episode Highlights:

00:00 Intro
01:00 The Wild, Wild West of AI & AI Governance

05:14 The Linux Moment for AI

09:11 The Informatica Model & Getting Comfortable with Governance

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Amy: What is AI governance? What are you hearing about it in the industry, and what can our customers and prospects do to prepare for this?

Gaurav: What I'm seeing with the customers are things about the wild, wild west of AI. They are seeing how AI models are being downloaded left and right from sites like Hugging Face; which is a good thing, being able to bring those open source models and then lots of experimentations going on across the enterprise. Now while experimentation is great for innovation, that makes our AI, IT teams, legal teams, and governance teams a little bit more nervous. And I think that is the function of governance. The function of governance is not to thwart innovation. It's not to stop it. It's to establish clear, transparent controls so that the innovation is even faster.

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Salema Rice host of Data Governance and Data Integration Solution Sales, Willem Koenders of ZS Associates, Tanja Ubert of Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, Graeme Thompson of Informatica

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