Expert Panel: Best Practices for Modernizing Your Data Environment
Webinar Speaker: Fern Halper, TDWI VP Research, Senior Research Director for Advanced Analytics
Date: Monday, July 14, 2025
Time: 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET
Modern data platforms are central to business intelligence, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and other strategic enterprise applications such as operational reporting, decision support, and online analytical processing. Over the past decade, enterprises everywhere have been migrating their data assets from on-premises environments to modern cloud-based platforms that offer greater scalability, performance, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness.
TDWI research has found that data modernization is an ongoing process under which enterprises evolve their data platforms, pipelines, and practices in order to unlock the full value of their data assets.
This expert panel will examine the following topics:
- Why enterprises should be modernizing their data environments
- What best practices they should adopt
- What strategies they can use to utilize legacy assets and investments in modern data environments
Guest Speakers
Catalina Herrera
Field CDO
Dataiku
Catalina Herrera is a data and AI leader driving enterprise transformation at scale. As field CDO at Dataiku, she partners with Fortune 100 companies and global tech leaders to operationalize AI and analytics. With 15+ years of experience spanning data science, SaaS, and advanced analytics, she has a deep track record of turning cutting-edge tech into real business impact. Recognized among the Top 30 Women in AI Advancements in Texas, Catalina is also a passionate advocate for responsible AI and women in STEM.
Sriraj Rajaram
Principal Product Manager
Reltio
Sriraj Rajaram is a principal product manager at Reltio with over 20 years of expertise developing solutions and advising customers in the areas of master data management, Customer 360, data integration, and data governance. He has authored several white papers on data management practices and is a well known speaker at industry conferences. He is passionate about advancing the role of data governance in the build out of AI capabilities and language models.
Jordan Stein
Senior Product Manager
Sigma
Jordan has been working in data for 10 years, first as a data scientist and most recently as a product manager building products for data practitioners. He's worked at DoorDash, dbt, and, most recently, Sigma Computing, where he leads product for data modeling and performance. His favorite part of working in data is getting into a flow state when diving deep into an analysis.
Fern Halper, Ph.D.