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May 14, 2025

Tiankai Feng on Reimagining Governance with AI

In this episode of The Secret Life of Data, we dive in with Tiankai Feng, data leader by day, musician by night. As Director for Data and AI Strategy at ThoughtWorks, Tiankai—dubbed “The Data Harmonizer”—reveals how he once transformed a skeptical CMO’s mindset when spreadsheets failed.

From his governance leadership at Adidas to consulting across industries, Tiankai delivers unfiltered insights on:

  • The Governance Myth – Why innovation vs. security is a false battle
  • AI’s Blind Spot – The ChatGPT vulnerability your security team is missing
  • Automation Imperative – Manual data access policies will always fail
  • Cross-Functional Alignment – Getting security, IT and business to actually work together

Plus, discover how this data expert who raps about governance is using his “Five C’s” framework to put humans back at the center of data strategy.

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