Expert Panel: Identifying Success Factors for Building AI Applications
Webinar Speaker: Donald Farmer, Research Fellow
Date: Monday, October 6, 2025
Time: 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET
Building high-performance AI applications is essential for competitive differentiation, operational efficiency, and innovation in modern business. Building agent apps, for instance, is becoming a popular trend.
If implemented using best practices in data science, data engineering, and other key disciplines, AI applications can automate repetitive tasks and improve efficiency, thereby freeing up knowledge workers for more sophisticated tasks.
TDWI research has found that success factors for building AI applications include investing in the right people, processes, and platforms. This expert panel will discuss the following key topics:
- Identifying AI applications with the greatest potential impact
- Democratizing AI use across the organization
- Building a scalable, high-performance MLOps infrastructure to support AI initiatives
- Creating a collaborative infrastructure for building, training, deployment, and governance of high-performance AI
Guest Speaker
Conor Jensen
Field CDO
Dataiku
Conor Jensen is a technology, AI, and strategy executive currently leading the field CDO team at Dataiku. His path to here meandered along a circuitous route through the worlds of barista, archery and climbing instructor, mathematics student, Air Force weather forecaster, insurance actuary, and consultant.
When not working with customers, you can find him at home on the outskirts of Chicago, trying to read a book or spending time with his wife, their seven children, a small flock of ducks, and one very fancy goose.
Donald Farmer