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That's not a technology gap, it's a trust gap. When AI moves from advising to acting on your business, data quality, governance, and security become the difference between real value and expensive risk. Data leaders consistently name these as their top barriers to success.
Following the second day of the Data Innovation Summit Dubai, we're bringing together a select group of Data leaders for dinner — no pitches, just honest conversation on:
- Building a data foundation that agents can actually trust
- Avoiding vendor lock-in as your AI stack scales
- Why interoperability, not model choice, separates AI leaders from laggards

Tom Stroud

Zahoor Ahmed
Bridging the Agentic AI Readiness Gap
Exclusive Executive Dinner after Data Innovation Summit Dubai

Nearly 6 in 10 enterprises are investing millions in agentic AI. Only 15% say their data foundation is actually ready to support it in production.
That's not a technology gap, it's a trust gap. When AI moves from advising to acting on your business, data quality, governance, and security become the difference between real value and expensive risk. Data leaders consistently name these as their top barriers to success.
Following the second day of the Data Innovation Summit Dubai, we're bringing together a select group of Data leaders for dinner — no pitches, just honest conversation on:
- Building a data foundation that agents can actually trust
- Avoiding vendor lock-in as your AI stack scales
- Why interoperability, not model choice, separates AI leaders from laggards

Tom Stroud

Zahoor Ahmed

