Richmond Events – Data & AI Forum Switzerland October 26 2027
The AI-Ready Organisation: Why Your Data Strategy Is Your Most Valuable Asset
There is no shortage of AI ambition in European enterprise right now. There is, however, a profound shortage of AI-ready data, and that gap is the single biggest reason why so many well-funded, well-intentioned AI programmes are quietly underdelivering. In this keynote for Richmond Events’ inaugural Data & AI Forum in Switzerland, Andrew Grill makes the argument that will reshape how every delegate in the room thinks about their priorities: data strategy is not the precursor to your AI strategy. For any organisation that is serious about AI, it is the strategy.
AI’s transformative potential depends almost entirely on the quality and structure of your organisation’s data, yet most businesses are building AI programmes on foundations that simply are not fit for purpose.
Before selecting tools, scaling pilots, or setting AI budgets, the data foundation must be right, and Andrew shows delegates exactly what getting that foundation right actually requires in practice.
Drawing on examples from banking, manufacturing and professional services, Andrew reveals how Europe’s leading organisations are building AI-ready data foundations that compound their advantage over time, while those that skip this step fall further behind with every quarter that passes.
AI agents and the next wave of automation will reward organisations that get data right now and expose those that do not, because agents do not just generate text: they act, retrieve, decide and trigger workflows at a speed that amplifies both good data and bad.
Attendees leave with Andrew’s Data Readiness Framework and the confidence to make better, faster AI investment decisions, backed by a clear picture of exactly where their organisation stands today.
