Ash Pembroke, Portfolio CTO of Caylent, discusses the critical balance of data accuracy in the era of Gen AI for the benefit of boosting innovation.

Topics Include:

• Ash Pembroke, Portfolio CTO of Caylent, self-identifies as a "recovering data scientist."
• Caylent is an AWS native services company.
• Data quality remains an issue despite Gen AI.
• Contrasts legalism versus mysticism in data quality.
• Legalism: accurate data when applications need it.
• Mysticism: insights that help decision-making.
• Traditional data foundations approach is being challenged weekly.
• Gen AI developments force rethinking of solution architectures.
• Teams share solutions through giant Slack threads.
• Example: Vector databases questioned after model context protocol.
• Still do traditional data assessments, but stay flexible.
• Integration and data processing constantly get abstracted.
• Data strategy equals architecture strategy equals business strategy.
• Traditional approach: standardize data across engineering teams.
• New approach: allow business users to innovate.
• Bring valuable techniques back to the organization.
• Case study: North Sea wind turbine alerts.
• Initially seen as data quality issue, revealed new predictive failure signal.
• Gen AI enables local experimentation by business users.
• Blurring lines between enterprise enablement and software building.
• BrainBox AI case study: energy optimization across buildings.
• Architecture decisions impact ability to scale products.
• Work with business edges rather than looking for patterns.
• Gen AI can process information from these working groups.
• Think about data as a product, not asset.
• Redimensionalize dependencies across your organization.
• Now's a good time to attack data quality.
• New tools help visualize complexity across organizations.

Participants:

· Ash Pembroke – Portfolio CTO, Caylent

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