Sara Nash, Practice Lead for Semantic Engineering and AI at Enterprise Knowledge, will be moderating the keynote session titled “The AI Reality Check: Why Most Data Architectures Aren’t Ready” at Data Architecture Online’s annual event on Wednesday, July 22nd at 2:30 PM EST.

Through this session, attendees will gain valuable insights into what actually breaks when AI moves beyond the pilot phase, the architectural decisions that drive scalable solutions, and practical strategies for moving from reactive fixes to intentional, AI-ready architecture. The panelists will discuss topics such as:

• The architectural gaps organizations consistently overlook, from fragmented control planes and missing metadata to unclear ownership and inconsistent meaning across systems;
• The role of governance in enabling rather than slowing down AI initiatives, and what it takes to build data and models that can actually be trusted; and
• How organizations can align data, context, governance, and execution to build pipelines and architecture that hold up under real-world pressure and scale.

For more information on the conference, check out the schedule and registration here.