From Data Portability to Governance Portability: The Future of Cross-Platform Governance

Enterprises run on multiple data platforms — Unity Catalog, Snowflake, Lake Formation, BigQuery, and many others. PII may be tagged in one catalog, masked in another, and ignored in a third. Open table formats solved data portability, but governance metadata remains siloed inside each data platform.

This talk explores how enterprises can unify governance across platforms using labels exchange: carrying governance tags, classifications, and business metadata across catalogs through Apache Iceberg REST Catalog APIs. We'll cover why cross-platform governance is becoming the next federated data pain point, what's emerging in the Apache Iceberg ecosystem, and how teams can operate multi-platform architectures.