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title: "AI Starts with Your Data: Building an AI-Ready Foundation on AWS"
description: Join Softchoice and AWS to learn how leading organizations are modernizing their data foundation to unlock AI innovation, improve decision-making, and accelerate business outcomes. We'll explore the critical connection between data modernization and successful AI adoption, including how to break down data silos, establish governance, and create a scalable architecture that supports analytics, machine learning, and generative AI.
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AI Starts with Your Data:  
Building an AI-Ready Foundation on AWS

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##### Thursday, October 8th

1:00 pm ET

Every organization wants to leverage AI, but most discover the same challenge: their data isn't ready.

Join Softchoice and AWS to learn how leading organizations are modernizing their data foundation to unlock AI innovation, improve decision-making, and accelerate business outcomes. We'll explore the critical connection between data modernization and successful AI adoption, including how to break down data silos, establish governance, and create a scalable architecture that supports analytics, machine learning, and generative AI.

Whether you're just beginning your AI journey or looking to scale existing initiatives, you'll leave with a practical roadmap for becoming AI-ready on AWS.

Key Takeaways:

- Why data modernization is the foundation for AI success
- Common data challenges preventing AI adoption
- How AWS helps create a scalable, governed data platform
- Real-world examples of AI and analytics outcomes
- A practical roadmap to move from data strategy to AI execution

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### Rashid Sajjad

###### Lead Technical Solutions Architect (ex-AWS) – World Wide Technology/Softchoice

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### Dan Kenshalo

###### GenAI & Analytics Partner Specialist Leader - AWS

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### Alastair Cooke

###### Research Director, Cloud and Data Center - The Futurum Group

Alastair has made a twenty-year career out of helping people understand complex IT infrastructure and how to build solutions that fulfill business needs. Much of his career has included teaching official training courses for vendors, including HPE, VMware, and AWS.  
Alastair has written hundreds of analyst articles and papers exploring products and topics around on-premises infrastructure and virtualization and getting the most out of public cloud and hybrid infrastructure. Alastair has also been involved in community-driven, practitioner-led education through the vBrownBag podcast and the vBrownBag TechTalks.

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