Steve Wooledge

Technology executive @CollateData, dad, husband, cyclist, and head banger.

[CollateData @CollateData]

Collate Summit '26 is one week away.

Join us on June 10 for practical conversations on AI in production, governed data, trusted metadata, and modern data platforms.

Register: https://t.co/TmsWusKWrn

#CollateSummit #DataAI #DataGovernance

[CollateData @CollateData]

ChatGPT on database schemas: 10% accuracy.
Same model + Collate semantic context: 77%.

Context tells AI where data lives. Semantics tells AI what data means. Both layers matter.

Collate named to the DBTA 100 — Companies That Matter Most in Data, 2026.

https://t.co/yrs3m3jgot

#SemanticContext #ContextLayer #AIforData #DBTA100

[CollateData @CollateData]

Your AI is missing context that lives in Confluence pages, shared drives, documents, and the institutional knowledge your teammates carry but never wrote down.

Live demo June 18, 9 am PDT: Collate Context Center. 30 minutes.

Register Now: https://t.co/K8dxOhJAQn

#Collate #OpenContextLayer #DataGovernance #OpenMetadata #DataEngineering

[CollateData @CollateData]

Check out the latest episode of the Collate Product Demo Series. This shows many of the powerful data quality capabilities in Collate that eliminate the errors that cost your business money. Also see how to get an analytics head start with Collate AI Analytics.

🎥👉Watch here: https://t.co/Ttqhsrw8fg

#DataQuality #OpenMetadata #DataEngineering #Collate #AiAnalytics

[CollateData @CollateData]

@Rakuten runs data at global e-commerce scale.

Muqtafi Akhmad will share how their @open_metadata deployment became an AI context layer — not just a catalog.

Collate Summit | June 10 | Free
https://t.co/CGepKjHPZb

#CollateSummit #DataEngineering #AIAgents #ContextLayer

[CollateData @CollateData]

Tomorrow at 9 AM PT. Bad data gets published because tests run too late. We are showing a better approach, plus an overview of Collate AI Analytics. May 28.

👉 Register Now: https://t.co/5l9QQntBTk

#DataQuality #OpenMetadata #DataEngineering #Collate

[CollateData @CollateData]

Data quality owned only by engineering is a data quality problem. This Thursday, we are showing how Collate makes it a shared one and how AI scales coverage automatically. May 28 at 9 AM PT.

👉 Register Now: https://t.co/ZzhVhi8ipz

#DataQuality #OpenMetadata #DataEngineering #Collate

[CollateData @CollateData]

Regulated banks don't get to choose whether they govern data. They govern or they fail audits.

@unionbankph: 12.5M customers, 38K+ assets, lineage across @Snowflake + SageMaker + QuickSight.

Started with Excel. Moved to @CollateData.

Cirene Simbahan at #CollateSummit. June 10. Free.

https://t.co/6usRIsUZR2

#DataGovernance #DataLineage

[Steve Wooledge @swooledge]

So sad but true. Wish I never would have given my kids screens until they were 16. We held out well until COVID.

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

So true☹️

📹 vetoshkin.evgeniy

[CollateData @CollateData]

Most teams test data after it is loaded into production tables. By then, the damage is done. Join us on May 28 to see how Collate prevents bad data from being published, along with an overview of Collate AI Analytics.

👉 Register Now: https://t.co/ZzhVhi8ipz

#DataQuality #OpenMetadata #DataEngineering #Collate

[CollateData @CollateData]

Pipeline breaks. Incident channel fires in Slack.

@unity built a bot that's already there when it does.

Their Data Platform team wired @CollateData MCP to Slack: compliance reviews on demand today, auto-joining incident channels with upstream/downstream context and direct pipeline links next.

Context layer as infrastructure. Blast radius as a query.

Jeppe Johansen shares how at #CollateSummit. June 10. Free.

https://t.co/6usRIsUZR2

#DataGovernance #DataEngineering #AIAgents #AIinProduction #MCP

[CollateData @CollateData]

Jo Perez and Aydin Geering teamed up for this latest episode of Data 30, "From Metadata to Meaning: RDF & Ontologies". This session shows how Collate uses semantic technologies to transform raw metadata into a unified knowledge graph, capturing the meaning, relationships, and business context behind your data. This semantic foundation enables AI agents to move beyond surface-level answers and instead reason over your data with accuracy and context.

You'll learn how ontologies define the structure and meaning of your data, while the semantic layer bridges technical systems and business concepts, creating a consistent, governed view that AI and users can rely on.

Whether you're enabling AI copilots, improving data discovery, or strengthening governance, this session will highlight how Collate becomes the intelligence layer that connects your data to real-world understanding, powering more reliable insights and smarter decision-making.

👉🎥Watch here: https://t.co/ehefTjQYtc

#Data30 #OpenMetadata #SemanticIntelligence #Ontology #KnowledgeGraph #AIAgents #datagovernance

[CollateData @CollateData]

Data30 - Session 6 is live in 1 hour!

From Metadata to Meaning: RDF & Ontologies

Today, Wed May 20 | 9:00–9:30 AM PT

The challenge for AI isn't access to data anymore, it's understanding it. Today we're showing how @CollateData turns metadata into a semantic knowledge graph that AI agents can reason over with accuracy and context.

Join live 👇

🔗 https://t.co/s0h67FSjC1

#Data30 #OpenMetadata #SemanticIntelligence #Ontology #KnowledgeGraph #AIAgents #DataGovernance

[CollateData @CollateData]

"Data catalog" became a bad word at @Scout24 after their legacy catalog failed.

After modernizing with @CollateData, Head of Data Infrastructure and Governance, Angelita Frozza Sanches implemented their "context catalog"

The goal: give AI agents and people shared meaning, ownership, and trust signals for every data interaction.

She presents the full build at Collate Summit, June 10.

Free: https://t.co/rrP7aQaVDb

#DataGovernance #ContextLayer #AIAgents

[CollateData @CollateData]

Lukas Patzke, Analytics Architect @Airbus is sharing his knowledge on an expert panel at Collate Summit on June 10.

"Governance in an AI-First World"

Experts will discuss trends in data and AI governance as self-service analytics and self-service AI scales at organizations.

June 10. Free.
🔗 https://t.co/wKFETzHpfc

#DataEngineering #DataGovernance #AIGovernance #AIAnalytics #CollateSummit

[CollateData @CollateData]

Most governance failures mean audit findings.
In clinical genetics, the stakes are higher.

Dan Kostecki from @AmbryGenetics at Collate Summit '26: governed data product lifecycle, PHI-free production environment, CAP/CLIA + HIPAA + FDA Part 11 compliant.

June 10 | Virtual | Free
https://t.co/ZjguEWTQRE

#CollateSummit #DataGovernance #DataQuality #DataEngineering #AIinProduction

[Steve Wooledge @swooledge]

This will be a great session by Yelp talking about how they build context for LLMs and replaced a legacy data catalog to do so.

[CollateData @CollateData]

Amy Forest, Software Engineer on @Yelp's Core Data Platform, is speaking at @CollateData Summit.

At Yelp's scale, data trust isn't a nice-to-have. It's infrastructure.

Amy's sharing what building that foundation actually looks like, from inside one of the most data-intensive consumer platforms in the world.

June 10. Free.
🔗 https://t.co/rrP7aQaVDb

[OpenMetadata @open_metadata]

Amy Forest, Software Engineer on @Yelp's Core Data Platform, is speaking at Collate Summit.

At Yelp's scale, data trust isn't a nice-to-have. It's infrastructure.

Amy's sharing what building that foundation actually looks like, from inside one of the most data-intensive consumer platforms in the world.

June 10. Free.
🔗 https://t.co/tjDOwqkspP

#CollateSummit #SemanticIntelligence #ContextLayer #AIinProduction

[CollateData @CollateData]

In this month's Product Demo, Dale Kim and James Nguyen showed how Collate, the enterprise platform built on OpenMetadata, takes you from "I need data" to "here's the data I need, who owns it, and why I can trust it."

Your data teams can spend hours hunting for the right datasets, and even longer figuring out if they can trust what they find. You can't succeed with your data initiatives if you're constantly afraid of garbage-in-garbage-out.

They covered:
* A brief demo of data discovery and trust signals in Collate
* Why discovery is only the start, and what else you need to make data usable
* A quick walkthrough and discussion of Data Contracts in Collate

👉🎥Watch here: https://t.co/9IivJZlfPw

#AI #datadiscovery #dataquality #datalineage #datagovernance #dataengineering #datastewards #dateacontracts

[CollateData @CollateData]

At 50 users and 5,000 tables, metadata management saves $2M+ annually.

That's just the productivity floor.

It doesn't include the cost of bad decisions made on wrong data. Or regulatory exposure. Or customer churn from data quality failures. Forrester found 25% of companies lose $5M+ annually from poor data quality. 7% lose $25M or more.
MIT puts the cost of bad data at 15–25% of revenue.

The ROI case for metadata has always been proven. AI just made it urgent - because unlike your analysts, AI agents don't pause when a number looks suspicious. They confidently return wrong answers at scale.

We built the framework to help you make the case internally. 6 levers. Sized at 25, 50, and 250 users. Conservative assumptions.

Download the whitepaper 👇 🔗 https://t.co/DzYYViDlCW

#MetadataROI #DataGovernance #DataQuality #SemanticIntelligence #AI #OpenMetadata #DataStrategy #CDO #DataLeaders