As AI adoption accelerates across industries, the success of enterprise-scale initiatives increasingly hinges on a robust, future-proof data infrastructure. In 2025, CIOs and technology leaders face mounting pressure to align data strategy with AI-driven transformation—balancing agility, governance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
Join us for AI-Ready Data: What CIOs Need to Know in 2025, to unpack the emerging trends, architectural shifts, and operational imperatives required to support advanced AI workloads—from real-time pipelines and hybrid cloud ecosystems to modern data governance and AI observability.
In this session, you’ll:
- Learn how to evaluate and evolve your data architecture to support generative AI and real-time analytics at enterprise scale.
- Understand best practices for unifying governance, lineage, and observability across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
- Discover organizational strategies to bridge the gap between data engineering, MLOps, and business value realization.
Speakers

Kiyu Gabriel
GM, Search and AI
DataStax