Sonja Galkin serves as Head of Data Excellence & AI Transformation at Länsförsäkringar AB, bringing 15+ years of international experience building high-performing digital and data organizations. Throughout her career, she has operated as a trusted partner and leader across both fast-paced consumer industries and complex, regulated enterprise landscapes. By empowering over 40 cross-functional product teams, Sonja has successfully championed large-scale data platform transformations and modern product-led data practices that deliver measurable business impact. Believing that sustainable value sits entirely at the intersection of people and technology, she focuses her leadership on connecting the two - fostering collaborative, data-driven cultures where teams are empowered to thrive and innovate.
Shifting a decentralised, federated enterprise towards cohesive data platform practices is as much a cultural and organisational challenge as it is a technical one. To empower business domains without creating new data silos, organisations must balance global alignment with local autonomy. True transformation depends on trust. When data consumers trust the assets available to them, adoption grows; when they do not, teams revert to building isolated and redundant solutions. Drawing on leadership experience across dynamic customer channels and highly regulated industries, Sonja explores the realities of scaling data platforms, establishing trust, and driving data excellence across the organisation.
• Architecting federated governance frameworks that preserve local domain independence while enforcing global interoperability standards
• Designing for trust: utilizing data catalogues and structured information modelling to build an intuitive internal data marketplace
• Navigating the human side of scale: transforming privacy, risk, and regulatory compliance guardrails into proactive, automated platform enablers
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