Inside LSEG's Context Factory: Terry Hedin on Metadata in the Age of AI

How do you make data AI-ready for 44,000 customers whose AI systems you never see? Terry Hedin, Data and Metadata Platform Director at LSEG, joins Bobsled CEO Jake Graham to talk about why context now matters as much as the data itself. They get into how LSEG turned metadata from a defensive governance asset into a driver of innovation, why customers want context inside their own four walls, whether standards can keep up with AI, and how LSEG uses a single-session context factory to ship each data product with a semantic model and a dictionary. Chapters 0:00 Welcoming Terry Hedin, data & metadata platform director at LSEG 1:01 Metadata before it was cool 2:26 What makes a data product AI-ready 6:11 Context is now an innovation driver at LSEG 9:29 What LSEG customers want from context 11:15 Why you can’t fight “context gravity” 12:10 Is it the right time for context standards? 13:42 Can standards keep up with AI? 17:43 The data provider’s context problem 20:36 Inside LSEG’s context factory 25:23 Creating a system of record for context 27:53 Is context intellectual property? 29:47 The case against insights as a service 32:28 The rise of AI metadata Terry Hedin on LinkedIn:   / terrence-hedin   About Bobsled Bobsled is the agentic OS for your data products. Build context-rich, AI-ready data products and make them accessible anywhere. Learn more at https://bobsled.com. Subscribe for more conversations with data leaders on context, metadata, and AI-ready data products. #DataProducts #SemanticLayer #Metadata #AI #DataGovernance