CTO Craft Bytes: Your AI Strategy Is Only as Good as Your Data

​AI ambitions are growing quickly, but for many organisations, the data foundations needed to deliver them are struggling to keep pace.

​In this CTO Craft Bytes session, Edward Fowler, Global Chief Technology & Delivery Officer at Nortal, and Richard Wiles from News UK will explore what it really takes to move AI beyond isolated experiments and into reliable, scalable production.

​They’ll discuss:

• ​How to tell whether your data is genuinely ready for AI
• ​Why so many organisations struggle to move from experimentation to production
• ​The balance between data quality and data availability
• ​The role governance plays in enabling — rather than slowing — AI adoption
• ​How to overcome fragmented data estates and disconnected systems
• ​What a data platform capable of supporting AI for the next 5–10 years should look like
• ​How much of their existing data infrastructure CTOs really need to rebuild​

Join us for a practical conversation about building the data foundations that turn AI ambition into lasting business value.