Prepare Your Data for the AI Frontier
Webinar Speaker: Fern Halper, TDWI VP Research, Senior Research Director for Advanced Analytics
Date: Thursday, October 16, 2025
Time: 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET
AI value starts with ready data. In this session, experts from Neudesic, Microsoft, and AMD share a pragmatic blueprint to make your data AI-ready—fast. We’ll cover data quality and governance, secure access patterns, vectorization for RAG/agents, and how to right size infrastructure for performance and cost. You’ll also hear a customer’s journey—what worked, what didn’t, and what to do in your first 90 days.
You’ll learn:
- A step-by-step approach to data readiness for GenAI and agentic use cases
- How to implement governance, lineage, and access controls without slowing teams
- Patterns for vector databases, embeddings, and retrieval quality
- How AMD-optimized infrastructure on Azure can reduce time and cost
- A real-world case: roadmap, KPIs, and pitfalls
Guest Speakers
Andrew Ruffin
Senior Product Manager
AMD
Naren Narendra
Principal Group Program Manager
Microsoft
Nathan Lasnoski
Senior VP, Technology
Neudesic
Fern Halper, Ph.D.