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Recent research shows that most AI initiatives fail to deliver measurable ROI, not because organizations lack ambition, but because the results are difficult to act on.

 According to the 2026 BARC Trend Monitor, 95% of GenAI projects in Financial Services fail to reach production because they lack live business context. While most firms are trapped in the "270-Day Stall"—the time lost to manual data movement and fragmented silos—a select group of "Best-in-Class" US leaders are finding a "Revenue Path.

This session moves past the "why" of AI failure into the "how" of activating governed data. We will discuss a blueprint for moving from "Copy-and-Move" ETL pipelines to a strategy of Data Currency. Our goal is to define how to deliver AI-ready data that is real-time, semantically unified, and auditable—delivering a measurable outcome in 90 days.

Discussion

Topics

When an AI-driven recommendation appears—an alert, a score, a forecast—where do your teams hesitate instead of act?

What processes are in place today specifically to create confidence or manage risk around these decisions?

When teams wait for more certainty, where does the business actually pay the price?

If one decision could be made confidently without delay, which would most change how your teams operate day-to-day?

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT

Dr. Terry Dorsey

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North America Evangelist at Denodo

Denodo

Dr. Terry Dorsey is the North America Evangelist for Denodo and a veteran data strategy leader with over 30 years of experience aligning enterprise architecture with business outcomes. A former Denodo customer, she previously led enterprise data and AI transformation at McCormick & Company, translating enterprise data strategy into fully implemented and scaled AI, analytics, and enterprise integration. She holds a PhD in Data Science focused on natural language understanding and cognitive semantic modeling, with degrees in applied mathematics, information science, and analytics. A frequent speaker on the Strategic Semantic Intent, Dr. Dorsey focuses on how logical-first semantic architecture improves clarity, consistency, and confidence in enterprise decision-making.

ABOUT

Denodo

Denodo is a leader in data management. The award-winning Denodo Platform is the leading logical data management platform for transforming data into trustworthy insights and outcomes for all data-related initiatives across the enterprise, including AI and self-service. Denodo's customers in all industries all over the world have delivered trusted AI-ready and business-ready data in a third of the time and with 10x better performance than with data lakehouses and other mainstream data platforms alone.