An evening roundtable hosted by Nephos Technologies and BigID
When: 23 Sept 2026, 6:00 pm
Where: Wolves of Tokyo, London, W14 8FJ
For years, the instinct in data teams has been to lock everything down. But AI only pays off when you trust your data enough to put it to work at pace, and that trust doesn’t build itself. That’s why we’re bringing together a group of data leaders for an evening built around exactly that shift, from data security to data confidence.
We’ll gather over dinner and drinks, straight after Big Data LDN wraps for the day. Here’s what we’ll be getting into:
- What moving from data security to data confidence actually means in practice, and the biggest misconceptions boards still hold about governing AI
- How to design guardrails that let teams move quickly without waiting on central approval, and where governance has already sped up an AI initiative rather than slowed it down
- Why generative AI amplifies existing data quality and security problems rather than absorbing them, and where the real risk hotspots now sit, whether that’s prompts, training data, or the outputs themselves
- How to stay ahead of the EU AI Act, GDPR, and the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 without stalling delivery, and whether compliance can ever work in your favour rather than against it
- Why culture and accountability, not just controls and tooling, decide whether governance actually holds, and the skills data and security teams need to build next
- What data confidence will look like three years from now, and who’s already closest to it
By the end of it, you’ll walk away with a clearer, shared sense of how to keep pace with AI without governance getting in the way.
Leading the conversation:
Ben Clinch is a sought after speaker and thought leader in data and AI, with a passion for helping organisations thrive with their data. That passion is built on 26 years of practitioner experience in architecture and business at some of the world’s largest financial and telecommunications institutions. He’s an active member of the data community too, leading the AI Forum among other working groups at the EDM Association, and serving as a Board member of DAMA UK, where he champions data management best practice.
