Creating an AI-Ready Organization – Results of New TDWI Best Practices Research
Webinar Speaker: Fern Halper, TDWI VP Research, Senior Research Director for Advanced Analytics
Date: Monday, March 31, 2025
Time: 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a driving force behind innovation, capturing the attention of organizations eager to unlock its transformative potential. With advancements in technologies such as generative AI, businesses are prioritizing AI to help with decision-making, improve efficiency, and gain competitive advantages. While AI represents transformative potential, realizing its benefits requires a holistic approach that combines technological capabilities, skilled teams, a supportive organizational culture, and the right leadership.
Organizations need to be thoughtful as they journey to AI and now generative AI. At TDWI, we’ve been tracking AI adoption for more than a decade. If enterprises were able to stick to their plans, close to three-quarters of organizations we survey would be making use of AI technologies already. So, what are those organizations succeeding with AI doing now?
Join TDWI’s VP of Research, Fern Halper, together with experts from Cube, SAP, Snowflake, and ZoomInfo as they explore the results of TDWI’s latest research on succeeding with AI. Topics include:
- The current state of AI adoption
- Challenges with AI
- Organizing to execute
- Considerations for AI success
Guest Speakers
David Jayatillake
VP of AI
Cube
David Jayatillake is currently the VP of AI at Cube. Before Cube, he founded Delphi Labs, an AI company that provides a natural language interface to data while ensuring safe answers and guardrails. David is a data leader with experience in credit, payments, pricing, revenue management, e-commerce, and retail. He is commercially astute, with strong C-level and global stakeholder management, and a collaborator with good presentation skills and an ambition to improve business performance.
Colin Dover
Business Technology Platform, Center of Excellence
SAP
As part of the SAP Business Technology Platform Center of Excellence, Colin represents a breadth of solutions within the SAP portfolio; he is an evangelist for the SAP digital transformation strategy and vision as well as a passionate advocate for the value and best practices of corporate customer data strategy and analytics capability maturity. He has held a variety of technical and strategic consulting roles at a number of market-leading enterprise software vendors gaining extensive experience over a 24-year period, working with many of the world’s leading corporations.
Arun Agarwal
Senior Product Marketing Manager, AI/ML
Snowflake
Arun Agarwal is a seasoned leader in the field of AI product marketing, currently leading initiatives at Snowflake. With prior experience at Salesforce, where he contributed to their product marketing team with a focus on data and integration, Arun brings over 15 years of diverse expertise. His professional journey spans roles in sales, marketing, manufacturing, and R&D within the consumer products industry. Holding a Ph.D. in STEM, Arun has co-authored several patents and international scientific research articles. Passionate about cutting-edge technology, he is committed to driving innovation and shaping the future of the industry.
Millie Beetham
Senior Director of GTM Strategy & ZoomInfo Labs
ZoomInfo
At ZoomInfo, Millie's role as Senior Director of GTM Strategy and ZoomInfo Labs encompasses spearheading innovative go-to-market strategies and overseeing ZoomInfo's groundbreaking initiatives.
Date: March 31, 2025
Time: 9:00 am PT
Fern Halper, Ph.D.