How do you get all the cowfolk to giddy-up in the same direction? Smart people are notorious for having opinions; combine intelligence with the independent streak in North Dakota folks and it makes for a lot of work in driving change. Kim Weis has some insightful tips in lessons learned in trying change, failing, learning, and trying again.

Do you want some AI with that? It's everywhere, though thankfully not IN our coffee (yet). So if AI conversations are ubiquitous, how do we sort value from folly? Keatra Nesbitt is a practiced strategy leader and data scientist, listen in as she shares her thoughts on how she navigates these complex conversations with her clients.

Utilizing Gen AI towards your organization's specific needs presents both an opportunity and a challenge. Opportunity to take advantage of massive investments by large tech firms; challenges in that it can be difficult to know what is correct and usable at scale out of these projects. Sabre's Laura Palomino discusses novel approaches they've used towards that have helped her team, and others at Sabre, pursue innovation and change, and be more efficient in testing, and more proactive in resolving potential issues before users find them.

What does it mean to have AI ready data? And once I know that, what do I do about it? Ian Stahl is Director of Product Management @ Informatica and has seen many data centric applications come and go. He provides insights into what's happening in the market today and how we all may work better together to make data highly useable and fit for purpose.

We have come a long way since the publication of "Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems" was published almost a decade ago. ML Ops has transformed how data science work is delivered, managed, and monitored. Great?

Maybe. In this discussion we cover what is still one of the most glaring gaps in the AI/ML field. Disagreement is accepted and encouraged.

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Organizational structure, team, and culture are critical components to repeatedly and consistently delivering innovation, business results, and absorbing innovative techniques from outside the org walls. AI is rightfully getting the lion’s share of attention, but to make purposed and impactful use, and to have it generate value, many teams across many people and many business units need to align on a baseline operating model. Without this, work efforts, collaboration, and implementations will continue to have marginal gains, if any.And the future will be left to the companies that have or will figure out operating models for innovation and AI.

Engineers are famous for building the amazing, and for wasting time on pet projects, dead ends, and losing track of the customer and real problems. How do you balance creativity and solving real problems? Jodi Blomberg, VP of Data Science at Cox Automotive, has sound, entertaining, and insightful advice!

Digital transformation has been around for a while, but have we succeeded at it? AI, for better and worse, is pushing change in organizations. One of the positives is that AI is creating urgency for organizations to do the things they have deprioritized for a long time: data management, governance, or in this case, digital transformation. Now that this is come back into focus, what are the foundations of effective change?