Expert Panel: Breaking Data Silos: Enabling Access and Interoperability for AI and Analytics
Webinar Speaker: Deanne Larson, Research Fellow
Date: Monday, March 16, 2026
Time: 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET
As organizations move to utilize and deploy AI, one challenge continues to stand in the way: data silos. In TDWI research, data silos remain one of the most persistent obstacles to effective data management for AI. Fragmented data across clouds, business units, and platforms limits visibility, trust, and scalability. Without consistent unified data access, it is difficult to deliver on the promise of AI. To move forward, organizations must modernize how they access and interconnect data assets, ensuring that data is not only discoverable and sharable but also secure and governed.
In this expert panel webinar, we’ll explore strategies and technologies that enable interoperability across distributed data environments. Experts will discuss how organizations are building connected data ecosystems to derive value from all their data and support emerging AI applications. Topics include:
- Data virtualization and data fabrics
- Metadata-driven integration
- Semantic layers and knowledge graphs
- Data sharing frameworks and emerging interoperability standards
- Architectures for cross-domain and multimodal AI access
Guest Speakers
Dave Mariani
Founder & Chief Technology Officer
AtScale
Dave is the founder of AtScale and is the Chief Technology Officer. Prior to AtScale, he was VP of Engineering at Klout and at Yahoo! where he managed some of the world’s biggest data and analytics challenges. Mariani is a Big Data visionary and serial entrepreneur.
Suda Srinivasan
Group Outbound Product Manager
Google Cloud
Mike Frasca
VP of Product Management
Reltio
Mike is a VP of Product Management at Reltio, responsible for overseeing strategic technical guidance to all customer facing Reltio teams and assisting with long term product strategy and innovation at Reltio. Prior to joining Reltio in 2016, Mike led the technical side of MDM implementation teams at multiple consulting firms and was a principal architect at IBM and Initiate Systems. He has worked on some of the most complex MDM implementations and led data architecture designs used by Fortune 100 companies today.
Date: March 16, 2026
Time: 9:00 am PT
Deanne Larson, Ph.D., DM, CBIP