AI Exchange Friday: The Data Horror Story, Why Nobody Is Paid to Fix Bad Data with Tony Baptista

AI Exchange Friday

Made with Restream. Livestream on 30+ platforms at once via https://restream.io Welcome to AI Exchange Friday (AIEX), the weekly community where business leaders, builders and curious minds connect, learn and innovate with AI. This week’s featured session: The Data Horror Story: Why Nobody Is Paid to Fix Bad Data Tony Baptista, Founder of Force Twelve Consulting, unpacks how messy data, siloed systems and bad incentives quietly kill AI projects, and what to do about it. What we’ll cover: Siloed and messy data: duplicate records, “Status: 4” mystery fields and hidden rot The AI amplifier: models don’t ask questions, they guess and multiply bad data The hidden cost: cleanup has no line on the P&L, so problems grow unseen The realignment: making data quality a visible KPI with clear, rewarded ownership Agenda: 01 Member check-in 02 Featured presentation with Tony Baptista 03 Open discussion and Q&A Bring your worst bad-data horror story. We want to hear it! Smarter Tools. Bigger Conversations. Hosted by Robin Ayoub, N49Networks #AI #DataQuality #DataGovernance #AIStrategy #AIExchange

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