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TDWI Virtual Summit

AI in Action: Transforming Enterprise Workflows & Operations

Oct. 14, 2026

Free Half-Day Event

Modernize Your Integration Architecture to Meet Rising Data Demands

AI adoption is soaring—but many organizations struggle to move from pilots to production. This TDWI Virtual Summit explores how to put AI into action across your enterprise by transforming workflows, development processes, and business operations.

You’ll learn how to achieve success in delivering AI solutions that maximize efficiency, drive value, and allow their businesses to stay ahead of the competition. TDWI research analysts, leading experts, and practitioners will share trends and opportunities in the use of AI to transform business operations, frameworks and practices that enable leaders to take advantage of these opportunities, and case studies from the field.

Topics will include:

  • Diverse AI solution profiles, from the deployment of consumer AI tools to the development of customized business applications, and how to link them to your business goal
  • Strategies and practices for identifying, developing, and delivering AI solutions that provide measurable value and don’t get stalled in pilot stages
  • How agent-enabled tooling is transforming the solution development process itself, enabling streamlined data and analytics workflows and ensuring production readiness
  • The role of key standards and open frameworks such as model context protocol that shape modern AI-ready architectures
  • Operationalizing governance and oversight to manage risks like bias and hallucination, ensure regulatory compliance, and stimulate confidence and adoption by your workforce

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 analysts, faculty expert speakers, and case studies
  • 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, October 14, 2026
TIME EVENT
Wednesday
8:00 am - 8:15 am
 
Demo Theater Opens
Wednesday
8:15 am - 8:50 am
 
AI in Action: What High-Performing Organizations Are Doing Differently - A TDWI Research Briefing and Panel Discussion

Fern Halper, Ph.D., VP and Sr. Research Director, TDWI

Wednesday
8:55 am - 9:10 am
 
Spotlight Talk
Wednesday
9:15 am - 10:00 am
 
Agentic AI in the Real World: How Leaders Move from Experiment to Enterprise (with Audience Q&A)

Pradeep Karpur, Partner, Technology Consulting - Data and Analytics (EY)

Wednesday
10:05 am - 10:20 am
 
Spotlight Talk
Wednesday
10:25 am - 11:10 am
 
What Agentic AI Changes About How Organizations Work (with Audience Q&A)

Leigh Felton, President and Chair, AI for Job Security Foundation

Wednesday
11:15 am - 11:30 am
 
Spotlight Talk
Wednesday
11:35 am - 12:05 pm
 
To Be Announced
Wednesday
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm
 
Spotlight Talk
Wednesday
12:30 pm - 12:40 pm
 
Key Takeaways

Chris Adamson, CBIP, Director of Education, TDWI

Fern Halper, Ph.D., VP and Sr. Research Director, TDWI


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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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