Event

Webinar: Data strategy for the AI era

Mika Aho
CEO, Data Design
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When
October 2, 2026, 10:00–10:45 (Helsinki time)
Format
Free online webinar, 45 min, in Finnish
Hosted with
Professio

AI is already part of everyday work in every organization: generative AI is within reach of every employee, and agentic solutions handle entire workflows. Yet in most organizations AI work is scattered across individual pilots and enthusiastic experiments that nobody connects back to business goals.

Strategy work too often produces a list of technologies, or a document with no owner and no effect on daily work.

This webinar turns the perspective around: a good data and AI strategy is above all about making choices. It says where the organization points its skills, its time and its investments — what gets done first, what comes later, and what is not done yet.

AI creates business value only once individual use cases are prioritized, connected to core processes, and steered as a portfolio within normal decision-making.

Participants get a clear overall picture of what machine learning, generative AI and agentic AI mean from a business point of view, why so many data strategies end up without impact, and what an operating model looks like when AI ideas are collected, prioritized and delivered in a managed way. The session includes a concrete customer example of how dozens of needs and opportunities were turned into a prioritized portfolio and a data governance model.

Agenda

  • Where we stand: what AI is today — machine learning, generative AI and agentic AI through a business lens
  • Why so many data and AI strategies fail to land — the most common pitfalls
  • Strategy as choices: from use cases to a prioritized AI portfolio and value paths
  • The governance model in brief: roles, responsibilities and the decision rhythm that connect strategy to management
  • Customer example: how dozens of needs became a prioritized portfolio
  • First steps in your own organization
  • Q&A: questions from participants
  • Closing: an introduction to the Datastrategia tekoälyaikaan training day for those who want to go deeper

Who it is for

The webinar is aimed at people who lead — or are about to lead — the direction of data and AI work in their organization:

  • CIOs and Chief Data Officers
  • Development, digitalization and business directors
  • Data and analytics managers, and development managers
  • Architects and business development specialists

It suits any industry that generates data and wants to move AI from experiments to systematic management.

A note on language

This webinar is hosted with Professio and held in Finnish. Registration opens on Professio's site.

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Mika Aho
CEO, Data Design

Founder and CEO of Data Design, PhD in information and knowledge management, and one of Finland's most experienced data and AI strategists. Over a career of more than 20 years, Mika has helped hundreds of organizations from Finland to New Zealand use data and AI to develop their business: creating new services, streamlining processes and building AI-ready organizations. He bridges business and technology, turning strategic goals into work that delivers real business value.

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Webinar: Data strategy for the AI era