Minneapolis CDAO Community
Town Hall
November 12, 2026 | 11:00am CST
November 12, 2026
11:00am CST
The Fatal Flaw Killing Your AI Investment
Participate in an interactive, one-hour virtual discussion with fellow CDAOs. Explore a timely, peer-driven topic focused on emerging priorities and challenges through facilitated, small-group conversations. Share perspectives, exchange real-world experiences and gain practical insights through candid discussions.
Join fellow CDAOs in the Minneapolis community to discuss:
Unlocking Deep Business Context for AI Success
Moving Beyond Surface-Level AI Answers
Architecting AI for Strategic Intelligence
Discussion Leaders
Members of the Minneapolis CDAO community will lead the interactive discussion and share lessons learned.
Ryan Trimberger
4MINDS
CEO
Moderator
Howard Fulks
RDO Equipment
Director of Data Science and AI Strategy
Discussion Leader
Derrick Aldridge
American Equity
VP, Distribution Technology and Analytics
Discussion Leader
John Berg
Johnson Brothers
Director of Enterprise Information Management
Discussion Leader
Ravi Pandey
Unite Here Health
Data/AI Strategy, Engineering & Transformation Leader
Discussion Leader
Agenda
November 12, 2026
11:00am - 12:00pm CST
The Fatal Flaw Killing Your AI Investment
Hosted by 4MINDS
You can't fix AI until you address its fatal flaw: a lack of deep, adaptive context. General AI platforms are starved for the context they need to understand your business, while custom efforts to build it often stall in data-prep purgatory—most never making it to production. The result is undesirable: simple, surface-level answers instead of the strategic intelligence your business actually needs.
Join this session to discuss:
- The different categories and types of context AI needs to understand
- What it means to architect AI systems around deep business context, rather than simply adding context to existing systems
- How to evaluate contextual AI platforms based on the outcomes that actually matter
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