As artificial intelligence continues to dominate corporate boardrooms and technology strategies, a persistent operational hurdle threatens to stall progress across industries: the underlying data infrastructure is simply failing to keep pace. While enterprise leaders eagerly deploy sophisticated large language models and machine learning applications, many are discovering that their foundational data remains fragmented, poorly governed, and inherently untrustworthy.
To confront this critical challenge head-on, data integrity leader Precisely has announced a major virtual event titled Precisely Now: Where Data Meets AI, scheduled for October 8. Designed specifically for data, analytics, and artificial intelligence leaders, the upcoming event aims to move beyond theoretical best-practice frameworks and offer a pragmatic, real-world vision for bridging the gap between enterprise AI aspirations and actual data capabilities.
Why the Data-AI Gap Matters to Enterprise Leaders
The tension between advanced AI technology and lagging data readiness has become the defining corporate technology challenge of the decade. According to recent findings from the IDC 2026 Data Intelligence MarketScape, 86% of organizations have deliberately increased their strategic focus on data management specifically because of the demands of artificial intelligence. Yet, despite these increased investments, enterprise AI proofs of concept continue to stall or fail before reaching full production at alarming rates. Consistently, data quality issues are cited as the primary culprit behind these aborted initiatives.
This stark disconnect serves as the central backdrop for the upcoming Precisely Now broadcast. Rather than recycling conventional webinars, the event organizers have structured the program to deliver a combination of high-level product strategy, expert market perspectives, and unfiltered peer conversations detailing how complex organizations are navigating these obstacles in practice.
A Comprehensive Agenda Highlighting Strategy and Innovation
The one-hour program has been meticulously designed to provide attendees with a comprehensive, 360-degree view of the current market landscape, upcoming technological innovations, and practical enterprise execution.
The event opens with a keynote address by Precisely CEO Walid Abu-Hadba. Having witnessed multiple major technology shifts throughout his distinguished career building software solutions at industry giants such as Microsoft, Oracle, and Sage, Abu-Hadba brings a unique vantage point to the current artificial intelligence boom. During his session, he will articulate why this technological moment fundamentally differs from past trends and outline the strategic imperatives enterprises must adopt regarding data as they transition AI initiatives from experimental pilots into robust production environments.
Following the CEO’s address, Abu-Hadba will be joined in an exclusive conversation by Stewart Bond, IDC Research Vice President and author of the 2026 Data Intelligence MarketScape. Bond, who has spent months evaluating market vendors and researching overarching industry trajectories, will engage in a candid discussion examining what corporate buyers are getting right—and wrong—in their technology investments. The conversation will focus heavily on why data intelligence has rapidly evolved from a back-office utility into a first-order infrastructure decision for any serious artificial intelligence strategy.
The core of the event will feature major product announcements delivered by Precisely Chief Product Officer Matt Waxman. Waxman’s session directly targets the most pressing grievances heard from customers and the broader market: the proliferation of fragmented point solutions, governance frameworks that fail to scale across sprawling enterprise environments, and autonomous AI agents attempting to execute workflows using data they fundamentally cannot trust. This product unveiling represents a centerpiece of the virtual gathering, offering attendees a first look at newly engineered capabilities designed to solve these systemic enterprise issues.
Rounding out the agenda is a candid customer panel featuring senior enterprise leaders actively managing these transformations. Kevin Guyot, Vice President of Data Analytics at Lake Michigan Credit Union, and Jeannine Roberts, Vice President of Customer Operations at Charter Communications—both active members of the Precisely Customer Advisory Board—will join David Woods, Senior Vice President of Global Services at Precisely. Together, the panel will dissect their respective organizational AI journeys, detailing the roadblocks encountered, the methods used to overcome them, and the hard-earned lessons they would apply differently in hindsight.
Who Should Attend and What to Expect
The event is tailored specifically for executives, directors, and managers holding direct responsibility for data strategy, enterprise analytics, and artificial intelligence execution within their respective organizations. According to event organizers, the enterprises winning the current AI race are not necessarily those boasting the largest budgets or the highest number of deployed models. Instead, they are the organizations that recognized early on that the true barrier to artificial intelligence adoption was never the algorithm itself, but the integrity of the underlying data foundation.
Attendees can expect to walk away with genuine market perspective derived from rigorous independent analyst evaluations, authentic case studies from enterprise leaders managing complex operational realities, and an exclusive preview of next-generation product innovations engineered to accelerate trustworthy AI initiatives. For organizations striving to reconcile their forward-looking artificial intelligence goals with their current data realities, Precisely Now offers an intensive look at building a reliable, scalable path forward.
