Your Path to Modern Data Architecture & Engineering Excellence

TDWI equips data architects and engineers with the strategies, tools, and skills to design scalable data environments, manage complexity, and enable AI-driven innovation.

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The TDWI Pathfinder

The AI-Powered Enterprise Needs More Data Heroes

Data & AI Leaders

Data Analysts / BI Pros

Data Governance Pros & Stewards

Data Architects & Engineers

Data Scientists / ML Engineers

Citizen Data & AI Pros

Data Architects & Engineers

Builders of the modern data backbone, these professionals orchestrate pipelines, modernize platforms, and ensure data environments can meet the demands of analytics, AI, and real-time operations.

Key Focus:

Design and scale modern data architectures
Build and orchestrate pipelines for reliable, real-time data delivery
Manage integration, lineage, and quality across diverse data ecosystems
Optimize for cloud efficiency, scalability, and cost management
Support AI and analytics readiness through data observability and governance

Key Challenges:

Balancing scale and flexibility while reducing technical debt
Managing evolving toolchains, integration, and tool sprawl
Addressing data lineage, observability, and quality challenges
Controlling cloud costs and complexity
Meeting real-time and AI-driven workload demands

Gain Access to the Data Architect & Engineer’s Toolkit

Build the strong data foundation your enterprise needs to succeed with AI and analytics. This toolkit delivers vendor-neutral research and practical guidance to help you modernize architectures, overcome engineering challenges, and enable scalable, flexible data environments.

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Included in toolkit:
- Data Strategies and Foundations for Modern Data Management (Best Practices Report)
- The Data Foundation for AI (Data Points Report)
- Solving Data Engineering Challenges to Deliver Success with AI and Analytics (Checklist Report)
What you’ll gain:
- Strategies for modernizing data environments to support AI and analytics
- Insights into how enterprises are building unified, scalable data foundations
- Practical guidance for solving data engineering challenges
- Best practices to improve agility, scalability, and quality in data delivery

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Featured Webinars

Free virtual events on the latest in data architecture, engineering, and modernization.

Sponsored by

Snowflake

Intelligence Efficiency: Routing Each AI Task to the Best Model to Maximize Value
Join experts from TDWI and Snowflake to learn about the latest trends in intelligent model routing, the methods behind the process, and how to rethink how AI is being applied in your organization. October 27, 2026 Find Out More
- ARCH Data Ingestion
- ARCH Real Time Data Warehousing
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Datadog

Expert Panel: Operational AI: Monitoring, Governing, and Scaling Production AI Systems
In this TDWI Expert Panel, industry experts examine how today’s leading organizations monitor AI performance, governing models, and agents to ensure reliability, manage operational risk, and scale AI systems across the enterprise. October 30, 2026 Find Out More
- ARCH Data Ingestion
- ARCH Real Time Data Warehousing
Sponsored by

Cognizant Technology Solutions, Informatica Corporation

Data Modernization in the Agentic World
Drawing on real-world supply chain scenarios, from anticipating OEM orders to pricing thousands of product variants to servicing connected products, the panel explores what separates initiatives that reach production from those that remain pilots. November 4, 2026 Find Out More
- ARCH Data Fabric and Data Mesh
- ARCH Data Virtualization

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Strong Data Foundations Are Critical for AI and Analytics Success

40%

of data engineers spend 26–50% of their time maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines (2025 DataPoints Survey).

Close to 35%

of organizations lack DataOps/DevOps teams, slowing automation and innovation.

75%+

want AI-driven tools for profiling, transforming, and processing data.

Upcoming Events

Gain strategic frameworks, hear from pioneers, network with peers, and discover real-world use cases.

Upcoming Data & AI Events

RAG Bootcamp for AI Engineering

Virtual Live Workshop | Oct 21-22, 2026

Through two half-days of lectures, demos, and hands-on exercises, you’ll learn how to build and optimize retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems.
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Data Analysis with Claude Bootcamp

Virtual Live Workshop| Nov. 12-13, 2026

Led by data science expert Deanne Larson, Ph.D., this hands-on workshop teaches you how to frame problems clearly with Claude, direct its approach, and evaluate its output critically.
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Claude 101 for Chat and Cowork

Virtual Live Workshop| Dec. 4, 2026

In this half-day session, Donald Farmer walks through real work in Claude: drafting, research, data analysis, and a reusable workflow.
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Hands-On: Generative BI with PowerBI

Virtual Live Workshop| Dec. 10 & 11, 2026

In this intensive, hands-on workshop, you'll learn how to turn an existing Power BI semantic model into a reliable foundation for generative BI.
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On-Demand Training for Data Architects & Engineers

Learn at Your Pace. Curated for Maximum Impact.

Strengthen your skills in modern data architecture, cloud engineering, pipelines, observability, and data ecosystem modernization to support scalable AI and analytics.

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The TDWI Pathfinder: Data Architects & Engineers Learning Path gives you access to on-demand training:

TDWI Data Governance Fundamentals
TDWI Data Quality Management
TDWI Data Privacy and Protection
Data Catalogs – Finally a Mechanism to Tame Chaos!
Governance and Compliance in the Age of AI & Self-Service
Modernizing Master Data Management

Make Data Architecture Your Strategic Advantage

Access the full suite of research, events, and learning paths to future-proof your data ecosystems. TDWI helps you design and modernize architectures with scale, trust, and innovation.

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