The Summit brings data and AI leaders, architects and engineers from the world’s largest enterprises together to discuss the path to enterprise AI success
New York, NY, March 24, 2026 – lakeFS, the control plane for AI-ready data, today announced its inaugural AI-Ready Data Summit: a premier virtual event focused on sharing insights from the lived experiences of IT leaders tasked with future-proofing data infrastructures for scalability, resilience, and compliance. Scheduled for March 31 from 10:00 AM–2:00 PM EST, the summit will bring together distinguished engineers, AI and data leaders from Lockheed Martin, Dell Technologies, Red Hat, CNH, and more to share their real-world frameworks and lessons learned for driving greater enterprise AI success.
The four-hour virtual experience features 10 sessions designed for data engineers, ML architects, and technical leaders. Sample sessions include:
- AI-Ready Data Demystified: How to Unblock Enterprise AI Initiatives
- Lessons Learned Building an AI Factory
- Laying the Data Foundation for AI Success
- From the AI Trenches: Lessons Learned Building Infrastructure for AI-Ready Data
- Scaling ML Data Without Breaking Compliance
“Research shows a sobering reality: the vast majority of AI projects fail to reach production, with data-related issues cited as the primary cause,” explained Dr. Einat Orr, co-founder and CEO of lakeFS. “Companies are at an inflection point, so we organized this summit as a call to action before the window for building a foundational data strategy in the age of AI closes. Organizations that start solving the AI-ready data challenge today will be at a distinct competitive advantage moving forward.”
The imperative to develop in-house AI applications and systems is obvious, but a clear, compliant, and efficient path to doing so remains elusive for many IT leaders. The AI-Ready Summit aims to help AI, ML and data leaders and architects identify the gaps in their own infrastructure strategies and learn from experts and peers how they’ve solved similar challenges to meet the AI imperative within their own organizations.
The AI-Ready Data Summit is a free, live virtual event. View the full agenda and reserve your spot at AI-Ready-Data-Summit.com.
About lakeFS
lakeFS is the control plane for AI-ready data, bridging the infrastructure gap that slows down enterprise AI initiatives. Built on a highly scalable data version control architecture, lakeFS manages the data lifecycle, governance, and unified access to AI-ready data. This approach accelerates AI delivery, ensures reproducibility, reduces data friction, and supports compliance across data silos. lakeFS is trusted by AI/MLOps teams, data engineers, and data scientists at thousands of organizations, including Arm, Bosch, Lockheed Martin, NASA, Volvo, and the U.S. Department of Energy. Learn more at lakefs.io.
