Details
Introducing the EDM Association’s AI Optimization Workshop. This session is part of a suite of professional courses and workshops offered by EDM Association and designed specifically to help organizations build data and AI capability for business success. Like all of our professional learning programs, this workshop is vendor-independent, product-neutral, and built by business leaders with input from our membership community of cross-industry professionals.
This workshop is ideal for data and AI practitioners, plus business managers and stakeholders developing AI use cases and implementing AI models.
“Gold in, gold out”
Join our practical, two-day session to advance your data and AI capability. This workshop is a valuable part of your trusted roadmap towards accurate and explainable AI for tangible outcomes.
Why this matters now
Most enterprise AI does not fail due to AI technology. It fails because it is missing the data and architecture connecting the technology to the AI. Few leadership teams can diagnose where these data and architecture gaps are and importantly how to close them towards AI success.
Inside the AI Optimization workshop
- Live, instructor-led feedback on the participant’s own AI use cases, roadmap and challenges… not a generic AI workshop
- Practical insights and lessons learned from successful organizations leading the way in AI foundations and EDM Association best practices
- Instructor-led roadmap of what are the foundation layers and how they need to connect for “end-to-end” AI integration to ensure scalability, avoid expensive vendor/ technology lock-in, and drive cost efficiency through re-usability.
What participants leave with
- A four-layer AI architecture framework for explaining where AI model accuracy, cost, explainability and trust break down
- Practical lessons and accelerators to increase model output accuracy and reduce hallucinations by grounding answers in high quality, well governed, semantically described data. “Gold in – Gold out!”
- Understanding how model and graph optimization strategies balance accuracy, speed to value and technology costs around data and its architecture patterns, rather than chasing poorly designed agentic AI models with no value metrics
- An AI optimization roadmap for their own organization, built on EDM Association’s trusted, global, industry frameworks and standards, including DCAM and CDMC
- A repeatable scorecard for assessing any AI use case before it is funded and to drive AI ROI
“Overall, I found the [AI Optimization workshop] to be well-structured and insightful. The strongest aspect of the course is its clear positioning that AI success is fundamentally driven by data readiness, governance, and architecture, rather than models alone…The holistic coverage across data, technology, and organizational change also provided a balanced perspective suitable for both executive and practitioner audiences.”
– Srinivas Varanasi, Senior Manager – Data Trust & AI Governance, Capgemini Australia
Course format and expert instructor
- 2-day open, virtual course
- 6 hours each day across two consecutive days
- Interactive format with case study discussions and Q&A.
- This workshop is also available as a dedicated in-person or virtual session for your organization – contact our Member Services team to discuss
- Certified Trainers
- EDM Association certified AI industry trainers with practical experience of over 10 years on each of the AI topics covered
Agenda
Day 1
- 1. Introduction – What is AI and the specific AI types, applications and truths that organizations need to understand to create value.
- 2. What Is “AI Optimization”?
- 2.1 Stay the course – the AI bubble
- 2.2 “Gold in, Gold Out”
- 2.3 Human in the loop – AI safety, guardrails
- 2.4 Data products
- 2.5 Data economy
- 2.6 Key success factors, accuracy and speed
Day 2
- 3. Al connected layers for execution – end-to-end
- 3.1. AI-ready leaders and change – people skills
- 3.2. AI data foundation layer
- 3.3. AI semantic layer
- 3.4 AI graph layer
- 3.5 AI end user and agentic layer
Workshop pricing
- Member Rate: USD $1,950
- Non-Member Rate: USD $2,450
Course Discounts Available!
- 1-10 students: 5% discount for MEMBERS ONLY – Register with code DCAMQ4 – Expires December 31, 2026!
- 11-20 students: 15% discount*
- 21-40 students: 25% discount*
- 41+ students: 30% discount*
* For 11 or more students, contact Member Services to register your team and get the discount for our virtual classes. Or, are you interested in a dedicated training session just for your team? Contact us to learn why numerous firms, including major global banks, have held training in-person or virtual sessions exclusively for their organization.
- Previous EDM Association training is not required.
- Places for all training courses are limited and will be sold on a first-come basis.
- A minimum of 10 students is required for this class to be held. (If it is canceled, a full refund will be offered or the seat can be transferred to a session on another date or a different course.)
- If a session is over-subscribed, EDM Association members will be given priority and other registrants will be offered a future date.
Cancellations received 2 weeks or more before the start of the course will be entitled to a full refund. Cancellations received under two weeks before the start of the course will be given a credit for the next occurrence of the course. The credit may be transferred within the company. The EDM Association reserves the right to cancel any class due to unforeseen circumstances. In this event, a full refund will be offered or the seat can be transferred to another course.
