Roundtable

The Great Data Reckoning: Why AI Success Starts Long Before the Model

November 5, 2026 10:00 am - 11:30 am GMT
Data-driven.
People first.
Executive Engagement.

For ISVs, the challenge is no longer access to AI capabilities. It's creating trusted, contextualized, governed and accessible data environments that allow AI systems to generate reliable outcomes at scale. As AI becomes commoditized, data quality, semantic understanding, governance and proprietary context may emerge as the true sources of competitive advantage.

The uncomfortable truth is that AI success is increasingly determined by something far less glamorous: data foundations. From unlocking value hidden within unstructured data and "dark data" estates, to establishing semantic layers, knowledge graphs and trusted governance frameworks, join this roundtable to explore what it really takes to build an AI-ready organisation — and whether ISVs are investing enough in the data layer to unlock the next wave of AI value.

Join AWS and a community of your peers to find out, and explore why AI excellence starts with data excellence – and more importantly, how to achieve it.

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Speakers

Roberto Sarracco

Senior Account Executive for Software Vendors
Roberto Sarracco is an Account Executive at Amazon Web Services since 2020, working with Italian B2B software find out more

Discussion Topics

1

Why are so many AI initiatives stalling not at the model, but at the data foundation beneath it? Is governance a compliance cost, or the hidden growth enabler behind trusted AI?

2

What are the biggest data quality, ownership or governance issues that AI initiatives are exposing?

3

How do you draw a direct line between data investments and revenue outcomes?

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