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Data to AI value
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You can't scale an Agentic Enterprise without data trust.
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From pilot to production: Making AI work
Your AI outcomes are only as strong as your data foundation. AI agents promise incredible autonomy, but it quickly creates chaos without a solid data architecture.
The numbers back this up: roughly eight in ten data teams are currently struggling with orchestration, complexity, and scale. Because of poor data readiness, over 40% of AI initiatives stall out before they ever deliver value.
This hub is designed to help you bypass the fluff, clear the hurdles, and deliver confident decisions with real-world results. We are focusing heavily on how to manage the entire data lifecycle to fuel responsible, robust AI that empowers your people and successfully moves from pilot to production.
Key themes and topics:
- Scaling data trust: Unpacking the reality that enterprises simply cannot build an Agentic Enterprise without first scaling data trust.
- Pilot to production: Navigating the technical and strategic shifts required to safely transition your AI initiatives into the wild.
- Operationalisation and leadership: Practical steps to advance your organisation past basic experimentation and into true market leadership.
The leadership accountability gap: Who owns AI readiness?
Virtual
12 Aug 2026
The decision advantage: What happens when organisations see more?
Virtual
18 Aug 2026
Security’s existential threat: Pragmatic defence through frontier and zero-day risk
Virtual
10 Sep 2026
When AI rewrites the organisation, who owns the software?
Virtual
16 Sep 2026
See, predict, respond: Building resilient supply chains in an era of constant disruption
London
29 Sep 2026
Agents and behavioural risk: You don’t know what you can’t see
Virtual
13 Oct 2026
HotTopics Studio Nashville
Country Music Hall of Fame, Nashville
26 Oct 2026
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Johan Cruijff Arena, Amsterdam
19 Nov 2026
HotTopics Studio New York
Carnegie Hall, New York
3 Mar 2027
HotTopics Studio London
Abbey Road Studios, London
28 Apr 2027
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Forte Village, Sardinia
22 Jun 2027
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CDO Insights 2026
AI has transitioned from experimental technology to a strategic, transformational imperative.
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AI-powered data management
Surging data volumes are overwhelming traditional manual governance models. Transitioning to AI agents establishes "controlled autonomy," where automated virtual workers continuously monitor, classify, and remediate data within human-defined boundaries. This augments data stewards to focus on strategic outcomes while highlighting critical needs for system auditability and explainability.
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Building the semantic data layer for agentic AI
Agentic AI requires semantically explicit, machine-interpretable data to reason and act responsibly. Building a unified semantic layer provides critical business context, drastically boosting model accuracy while eliminating contextual blindness. Open frameworks like the Model Context Protocol (MCP) operationalise this metadata, translating rich organisational context directly for autonomous systems.
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