Building Agentic and Generative AI: Enterprise Data Foundations and Applications - Insights from TDWI's Q1 Blueprint Report
Webinar Speaker: Fern Halper, TDWI VP Research, Senior Research Director for Advanced Analytics
Date: Monday, March 23, 2026
Time: 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET
Generative and agentic AI are no longer emerging technologies; they are active priorities across enterprises. Yet despite widespread experimentation, many organizations struggle to translate AI initiatives into consistent, measurable business value. While some organizations remain focused on off-the-shelf, consumerized AI tools or basic chatbot implementations, others are cautiously exploring more advanced approaches such as agentic and autonomous AI. This uneven progress reflects a broader challenge: moving beyond experimentation to scalable, production-ready AI that is grounded in company data and integrated into real business workflows.
In this webinar, Fern Halper, Ph.D., VP of research at TDWI, will share findings from TDWI’s new Blueprint Report: Building Agentic and Generative AI: Enterprise Data Foundations & Applications. Drawing on survey data and in-depth interviews with data and AI leaders, Fern will explore how implementation choices, enterprise data usage, and deployment maturity combine to form a repeatable path from experimentation to business impact, and why organizations that treat company data as foundational are far more likely to realize value.
Topics include:
- The transition from consumerized AI to agentic applications and what’s involved
- How company data provides value for generative and agentic applications, and the kinds of value it delivers
- The blueprint components required for generative and agentic AI success
- Common barriers that prevent organizations from scaling AI, and how leading organizations are overcoming them
Guest Speaker
Derek Osgood
Senior Director, Product Management (Agentic AI)
ZoomInfo
Derek Osgood is senior director of product management at ZoomInfo. He leads the development and commercialization of the agentic orchestration platform at Zoominfo, helping orchestrate complex GTM work across interdependent systems using context-rich AI agents. As the previous founder of DoubleO.ai (one of the first agentic orchestration platforms to crack reliable agentic execution) and a product executive who's built and scaled products driving billions in revenue across early-stage start-ups, hypergrowth scale-ups, and major global brands, Derek brings a unique perspective on translating cutting-edge AI capabilities into practical, revenue-generating solutions.
At ZoomInfo, Derek focuses on helping organizations overcome the critical challenges of implementing generative and agentic AI, from data readiness and multi-agent orchestration to organizational rollout and production scaling. His founder mindset and expertise spanning product strategy, architecture, and go-to-market execution enable companies to build AI applications that leverage their proprietary data and deliver measurable business outcomes.
Date: March 23, 2026
Time: 9:00 am PT
Fern Halper, Ph.D.