Developing Your Data Strategy and Foundation for Modern Data Management – Insights from a New TDWI Best Practices Report
Webinar Speaker: David Stodder, TDWI Research Fellow
Date: Monday, June 23, 2025
Time: 9:00 a.m. PT/ 12:00 p.m. ET
Are you confident that your data strategy can support growing data volumes and new AI models and AI-augmented business applications?
TDWI’s newly published Q2 2025 Best Practices Report focuses on making sure your data strategy provides a road map for solving challenges and future-proofing your data foundation to achieve data-driven objectives. We will discuss how to overcome legacy systems barriers and ensure an AI-ready future for data management.
Join this webinar to hear insights drawn from the latest TDWI research into data management, data governance, data catalogs, AI-infused tool automation, and more. We will discuss key trends going forward and provide recommendations for accelerating AI and data-rich applications and maximizing the value of all data.
Topics will include:
- Taking advantage of progress toward more unified data platforms, including use of open table and file formats
- The critical role of semantic layers, data catalogs, and other data intelligence for AI, BI, and data-driven applications
- The impact of growth in natural language querying, powerful search capabilities, and new integration of AI-powered analytics and SQL on data strategies
- Observability and the need for end-to-end visibility into data journeys, workload performance, and overall ROI from data management
Guest Speaker
Josh Klahr
Head of Data Warehousing, Snowflake
Snowflake
Josh Klahr is the head of data warehousing at Snowflake, where he is responsible for driving the core database product road map and strategy. Josh has over 25 years of experience working with data and analytics. Prior to joining Snowflake, Josh was VP of product management for Splunk, where he was responsible for the Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud product lines. He has also spent time in product management roles at Yahoo!, Pivotal Software, Greenplum, and AtScale.
Date: June 23, 2025
Time: 9:00AM PT
David Stodder