Expert Panel: Integrating Your Data and AI Platforms
Webinar Speaker: David Stodder, TDWI Research Fellow
Date: Monday, June 16, 2025
Time: 9:00 a.m. PT/ 12:00 p.m. ET
Integrating enterprise data and AI platforms enables organizations to build and deploy more innovative and intelligent applications more rapidly. It lets them build more sophisticated AI applications, such as those that integrate multiple data modalities into generative capabilities such as image synthesis, autocaptioning, and search-by-image. It also enables AI models to uncover patterns, predict trends, and recommend actions based on correlated data that spans multiple application domains.
TDWI research has found that enterprises succeed when they have fully integrated their data platforms with the data science, machine learning operationalization, and other platforms upon which AI deployments depend.
This expert panel will discuss the importance of integrating your data and AI platforms, provide guidance for integrating those enterprise environments, and spell out the challenges that enterprise IT and data professionals face in that regard.
The key topics are:
- The benefits of an integrated platform approach
- Challenges enterprises face when integrating data
- Best practices for overcoming the challenges
Guest Speakers
Kelly Kohlleffel
Senior Global Director, Partner Sales Engineering
Fivetran
Kelly leads the Fivetran Global Partner Sales Engineering organization where he works with a broad ecosystem of technology partners and consulting services partners on modern approaches to data products and solutions. He also hosts the Fivetran Data Drip podcast where some of the brightest minds across the data community talk about their data journey, vision, and challenges.
Kelly previously led the Hashmap (acquired by NTT DATA) Go To Market team providing consulting services and solutions for the modern data stack. He also hosted Hashmap on Tap, a weekly podcast focused on data company founders and industry leaders. Kelly enjoys all aspects of the data industry and before Hashmap helped grow Hortonworks across the energy industry and worked closely with enterprise clients as Key Account Director at Oracle.
He’s also passionate about his family, and when he gets the chance to unplug from tech for a while, you can catch him (usually with a family member) on the tennis court, basketball court, or the lake in a kayak. You can connect with Kelly on LinkedIn or follow him on Twitter.
Asad Mahmood
Vice President, Data & AI
HSO
Asad Mahmood, Vice President of Data & AI at HSO, is a leading figure in the establishment of corporate data strategies and the execution of optimal pathways toward achieving data-driven organizational excellence. With a strong focus on technology-led modernization, Asad specializes in serving large enterprises across diverse sectors such as Non-Profit, Financial Services, Manufacturing, and Retail.
Sami Akbay
Vice President of Product Management
insightsoftware
Sami is the Vice President of Product Management at insightsoftware for the Data & Analytics business unit. Prior to joining insightsoftware, he was a Group Product Manager at Google Cloud focusing on the Data and Analytics portfolio. Before Google, Sami Akbay was a founder of Striim where he led commercial and go-to-market activities. He served as the CEO of Altibase, Inc. – an in-memory RDBMS company with customers in financial services, utilities, and telecommunications.
Sami was the VP of Marketing and Product Management for GoldenGate Software from 2004 through its acquisition by Oracle. Earlier in his career, he served in product marketing and business development roles at Embarcadero and AltoWeb. He started his career in technical and consulting roles working at Rabobank Nederlands, Hearst New Media, American Stock Exchange, MediaMetrix, OneMain.com (Earthlink), and ALK Associates. He is a graduate of Rutgers University.
Date: June 16, 2025
Time: 9:00AM PT
David Stodder