Expert Panel: The Future of Data Architecture: Building for Scale, Speed, and AI
Webinar Speaker: Donald Farmer, Research Fellow
Date: Monday, September 22, 2025
Time: 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET
As data volumes grow and AI adoption accelerates, organizations must modernize their data architectures to support greater scale, faster access, and more complex workloads. Traditional, siloed architectures are no longer sufficient. Instead, enterprises are embracing modern approaches such as the data lakehouse and data fabric to unify storage, streamline access, and optimize performance across diverse environments. These architectures are designed to be cloud-native, flexible, and AI-ready, capable of supporting real-time pipelines, multimodal data, and complex analytics.
In this expert panel webinar, we’ll explore how forward-looking organizations are designing data architectures that support not only operational efficiency but also collaboration, data sharing, and governed self-service. We'll examine the role semantic layers, active metadata, and other modern approaches play in building out these architectures.
Guest Speaker
David Millman
Lead Partner Sales Engineer, System Integrators and GSIs
Fivetran
As a partner sales engineer at Fivetran, David works with the largest to the smallest systems integrators tasked with changing their customer’s business with data. He brings 20+ years of practical experience to the discussion, developing everything from large-scale real-time transactional systems to big data solutions—and now enabling AI implementations. He holds a degree in information management systems from Royal Military College of Science, Cranfield.
Date: September 22, 2025
Time: 9:00 am PT
Donald Farmer