Lester Martin

Your CEO has demanded that you leverage Generative AI technologies to lower costs and find even more insights out of your existing data sources. Every webinar you attend and every blog post you read worries you about problems such as hallucinations and gives you nightmares as you think about security, privacy, compliance, and governance. You imagine your entire workforce needs to be reshaped, and all of the time, effort, and money you've spent up until now, has netted you a pile of technical debt. Worse yet, because senior leadership sees Gen AI as a bit of "magic", you don't have clearly-defined and measurable business objectives. You are surely going to fail!! Time to take a deep breath... If there is hope for successfully adopting Gen AI technologies into your enterprise... it is in the data platforms you already have (or at least, are already available). This talk explains the foundational problems of Gen AI applicability for enterprises are focused on data access, collaboration, and governance. Data platforms that tackle these concerns exist today and are likely already deployed, or upgradeable, in your IT arsenal. No need to throw out what you have already built; it is time to architect around your solid foundation as you charge bravely into a new adventure