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

11:00 AM 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 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

1:30 PM 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

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

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