Pruning Your Digital Data to be AI Ready | Presented By Kyle Morton & Jim Halcomb

3.30pm – 3.55pm AEDT, 29 October 2025 ‐ 25 mins

Stream 1 | The Palladium Stage

Data, Records and Information Managers are doing their best figuring out what data and information assets need to be protected from ingestion by LLMs. They are operating without an effective Enterprise Data Strategy. Founded on Global Best Practices, this session is to provide insights for the case for the Enterprise Data Strategy and provide actionable insights for Information Management Practitioners.

Speakers

Kyle Morton

Chief Operating Officer, Enterprise Data Management Association

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Jim Halcomb

Chief Research and Development Officer, Enterprise Data Management Association

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Kyle Morton

Chief Operating Officer, Enterprise Data Management Association

Passionate data evangelist, senior executive and speaker for the last 15 years tasked with developing business strategies and driving revenue in the emerging data management marketplace. Over this time my data experience expanded into areas including "managing data as an asset", analytics, AI, IoT, semantics, ontologies, knowledge graph, GDPR, Basel, Dodd-Frank, and CCPA. My data journey began as an original team member that built and launched the Data Management Maturity Model with Carnegie Mellon/SEI and has continued through the CMMI Institute, ISACA and now Enterprise Data Management Association.

Certifications/Key Skill Sets: CMMI Certified Enterprise Data Management Associate (EDMA) * Data Management Maturity Model (DMM) * CMMI 2.0, DoD Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) * Medical Device (MDDAP) * Maturity Models * Staffing * Recruiting.

: linkedin.com/in/kylemorton2021

Jim Halcomb

Chief Research and Development Officer, Enterprise Data Management Association

im Halcomb is Chief Research & Development Officer for the Enterprise Data Management Association. He is an industry leader with deep and diverse global data management and analytics experience with proven success enabling organizations to modernize their approach to managing and leveraging data as a corporate asset.

Jim has served as a data management executive for Fortune 100 companies in Financial Services, Healthcare, and Cybersecurity. He was primary author of the CMMI’s Data Management Maturity Model and is an expert in integrating data management capabilities for data protection and risk management.

: linkedin.com/in/jimhalcomb