Ep 1: Romit Mehta – Head of Data Platform Product, Disney

Disney’s Head of Data Platform Product shares how his team built platform-level guardrails, cost attribution, and lineage systems to scale data democratization without losing control. This episode explores enterprise data platforms, AI use cases, and governance strategies that keep efficiency high and costs in check.

Romit Mehta and Roy Daniel dive into Disney’s enterprise data platform team’s approach to navigating its top priorities – from supporting new AI use cases, to standardizing semantics, simplifying complexity, and driving efficiency. They also discuss the robust techniques the team is using – such as automated watermarking, data-agnostic attribution, and endpoint lineage tagging – to increase developer velocity and avoid the quarterly "executive blame game."

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