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 decentralized architecture for metadata management. Organizations store metadata in many systems, and decentralization 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.