Webinars
Performance strategy, legacy modernization, cloud cost, database security and SQL Server end of life. No registration, and every session stays published.
Where you can question the team directly
Conferences and tradeshows where the Fortified Data consultants present their own work and take questions on it in a room. If you want something you can watch now instead, the recorded sessions are on the webinars page.
Presented by the consultants who run the engagements.
Where you can meet the Fortified Data team
Fortified Data consultants speak at conferences and industry events on database performance, legacy modernization, cloud cost, database security, SQL Server upgrades and AI data readiness. Sessions are presented by the people who run client engagements, including Frank Gill on SQL Server upgrades and cloud cost, Angela Henry on database security, and Chad Timms on data readiness for AI. Recorded webinars are published separately and are free to watch with no registration.
Next session
Your data does not need to be perfect
Chad Timms, President of Fortified Data, on the Data Preparation Gap: the distance between the data an organization has and the data its AI systems require. Most failed AI initiatives are not model failures, and the session is about what they are instead.
It dismantles two expensive and opposite myths, that data must be perfect before AI can begin and that AI will fix bad data on its own, and it draws on real client outcomes rather than on a maturity model. It closes on the readiness questions every technology leader should be able to answer before funding the next initiative.
Presented at Technology First. Register for the session, or read what the same questions look like as an engagement in the AI readiness assessment.
- Which data would the initiative actually need? Named systems and named tables, not a domain.
- Is it good enough for this use, rather than in general? Fitness is relative to the question being asked of it.
- What is the gap worth closing, in order? Sequenced by what blocks the initiative, not by what is easiest.
- Who owns it once the pilot succeeds? The answer that decides whether anything reaches production.
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Seven recorded sessions, free and published in full
The virtual events that used to be listed on this page now have a section of their own.
Case studies
The same problems as engagements rather than as sessions, with the measured outcome of each one stated.
The blog
Technical guides from the same consultants, on the detail a session has to skip over.
Would rather ask about your own environment?
A session answers the general version of the question. If you have the specific version, a conversation is faster, and an assessment answers it with findings from the environment you actually run rather than from the one in the slides.
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