Sonja Galkin

Head of Data Excellence & AI Transformation Länsförsäkringar

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.

Conference Day 1: Tuesday 13th October 2026

1:30 PM Panel Discussion: What Makes Data Products Truly Scalable and Worth the Investment

For many data leaders, the challenge is no longer building data products but ensuring they deliver consistent value at scale. As definitions vary and demand grows, questions remain around ownership, reuse, and how to avoid creating more complexity instead of less. This panel brings together senior data leaders to define what truly differentiates highperforming data products, focusing on the decisions, trade-offs, and structures that enable scale, trust, and long-term impact.

• Defining the characteristics that make data products scalable, usable, and trusted across the enterprise

• Aligning ownership and product thinking across data, platform, and business teams

• Connecting platform, governance, and ownership decisions to measurable business value

Conference Day 2: Wednesday 14th October 2026

8:45 AM Chair's Opening Remarks

1:30 PM Fireside Chat: What Breaks at Scale: Lessons from Growing Data Product Portfolios

Scaling data products exposes issues that rarely appear early on, from ownership gaps and governance strain to cost visibility and cultural resistance. This intimate fireside chat brings together enterprise leaders to share practical lessons from scaling data products and platforms, focusing on what breaks first, what requires redesign, and how organisations adapt operating models as scale increases.

 Identifying early warning signs that limit scalability

 Adapting ownership and governance models as portfolios grow

 Learning what successful organisations change as scale increases

3:00 PM Decentralized Ownership, Centralized Trust: Scaling Data Product Management Across a Federation

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 customchannels 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

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Sonja.

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