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TDWI Virtual Summit

Modern Data Strategies: The Road to an AI-Driven Enterprise

Dec. 9, 2026

Free Half-Day Event

Build a Modern Data Strategy to Power the AI-Driven Future

AI success begins with data strategy. As enterprises modernize to support AI, next-generation BI, and self-service analytics, strategic alignment is key. This TDWI Virtual Summit explores the critical elements of a modernized data strategy that paves the way for AI-driven solutions with a value-driven implementation roadmap that supports business priorities.

TDWI research analysts, leading experts, and practitioners will share how businesses are reshaping and modernizing their data strategies to enable AI in the enterprise, overcome common challenges, and enable the rapid demonstration of value from AI, BI, and self-service. Presentations will include market briefings and best practices for real-world success.

Topics will include:

  • Business and market drivers for data strategy modernization, including AI solutions, self-service demands, and increasingly sophisticated AI-enabled development tools
  • The importance of a value-driven framework based on measurable outcomes that support business goals for return on AI investment
  • Techniques for building your strategy that factor in business priorities, existing solutions, and the specific pressures and challenges facing your data and analytics teams
  • How to build an effective roadmap that quickly delivers incremental value, maps to key business goals, and accelerates your ability to provide data products and AI solutions across the enterprise
  • Using your data strategy to link data architecture modernization and investment to business priorities

What To Expect

TDWI’s complimentary Virtual Summit will prepare you to explore the latest strategies, frameworks, and best practices.

What Makes a Summit Different?

  • One half day of high-quality content
  • Vendor-neutral sessions from TDWI research fellows and faculty experts
  • Interactive Q&A sessions that may feature your questions
  • Peer networking opportunities
  • Engaging demos on the hottest tools and technologies in the exhibit hall
  • Opportunities to have fun and win prizes along the way

Connect with the Hottest Solutions in Data

Stay tuned for updates on the virtual summit's exclusive Demo Theater, Exhibit Hall, and more!

Summit Agenda

Track Key:
 Virtual Summit Breaks/Lunch
 NonClick
Wednesday, December 09, 2026
TIME EVENT
Wednesday
8:00 am - 8:15 am
 
Demo Theater Opens
Wednesday
8:15 am - 8:50 am
 
Data Strategy and AI Success: A TDWI Research Briefing and Panel Discussion

Evan Levy, CBIP, Partner, Integral Data, LLC and TDWI Fellow

Wednesday
8:55 am - 9:10 am
 
Spotlight Talk
Wednesday
9:15 am - 10:00 am
 
Re-Working Your Data Strategy for the Age of AI (with Audience Q&A)

Richard Hines, Analytics Consultant and Educator

Wednesday
10:05 am - 10:20 am
 
Spotlight Talk
Wednesday
10:25 am - 11:10 am
 
Enterprise Value and Your Data and AI Roadmap (with Audience Q&A)

Mark Peco, CBIP, Managing Partner, Camar Solutions Inc

Wednesday
11:15 am - 11:30 am
 
Spotlight Talk
Wednesday
11:35 am - 11:45 am
 
Key Takeaways

Chris Adamson, CBIP, Director of Education, TDWI

Evan Levy, CBIP, Partner, Integral Data, LLC and TDWI Fellow

Geared To

The TDWI Virtual Summit Series is geared to professionals in AI, BI, and data management with an interest in driving business impact using data.

  • CIOs, CDOs, CAOs, VPs, and directors of IT
  • AI, machine learning, or analytics directors and managers
  • Architecture directors and managers
  • Data governance managers and directors, data stewards
  • Cloud, data integration, and DevOps engineers
  • Business executives and managers

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