The Meta Grid can solve the weakest point in Data Mesh — Ole Olesen-Bagneux | Data Mesh Live 2026

"I love Data Mesh, but with metadata in particular, there's something that's not working in Data Mesh" Popcorn needed! 🍿 Ole Olesen-Bagneux takes a critical look at the original writings of Data Mesh and explains why metadata is a crucial element in building modern data systems. Recorded at Data Mesh Live 2026 in Antwerp. ABOUT THE TALK Data Mesh has a greenfield problem: By reducing the human creation of metadata to the point in time when a data product owner creates the first data contract. The meta grid is a key to solve this problem. In this talk, Ole Olesen-Bagneux will discuss the intersection of data mesh and meta grid, a decentralised architecture for metadata management. Organisations store metadata in many systems, and decentralisation of data and metadata require careful architecting to happen in this reality. Data Products and contracts cannot be created as in a vacuum, then, they will be semantically dysfunctional, as they ignore the already established enterprise reality. This reality is captured in many different metadata repositories, as e.g. Configuration Management Databases, Business Process Mapping tools, Information Security Management Systems and many other systems, that contains important, already well-defined metadata about the enterprise adopting data products. ABOUT OLE OLESEN-BAGNEUX Ole Olesen-Bagneux holds a BA, MA, and PhD in library and information science from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, where he has also lectured. His award-winning scientific work has been published in prestigious journals such as Philosophy and Literature, Knowledge Organisation, and The Information Society. He is also the author of The Enterprise Data Catalog (O’Reilly) and Fundamentals of Metadata Management (O'Reilly). Ole has substantial industry experience from large, complex organisations, where he has worked with data and information architectures from strategic leadership positions. He has also consulted for numerous organisations via his own company, Searching for Data, particularly on the challenges of metadata management. Throughout all of his professional work, Ole seeks to advance data and ai via the learnings of library and information science. Ole serves as vice president, chief evangelist, in Actian. 🔗   / ole-olesen-bagneux   RESOURCES 📄 Session page: https://2026.datameshlive.com/program... ...