Modernizing the Data Foundation for AI Without Losing Control

VIP Dinner - Dallas, TX

Oct 20, 2026 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM CDT

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Event Description

Join us for a conversation on building a modern data foundation designed for today’s workloads and the next generation of AI. We’ll explore how organizations can simplify infrastructure, activate enterprise data, accelerate AI initiatives, and strengthen resilience while maintaining greater control over performance, cost, and scale.

BWG Connect, Insight Enterprises & Dell invite you to join us for an interactive discussion over drinks and dinner with your peers! We'll explore the latest trends in the space and get your questions answered.

As always, there will be no sales pitches and dinner is complimentary.

Seating is limited, and RSVP is required.

Discussion Topics

  • Building resilience into the data foundation from the start
    • How security, governance, data protection, and cyber resilience need to evolve as organizations make more enterprise data available to AI workloads.
  • Making fragmented enterprise data usable for AI
    • Approaches to connecting and activating data spread across applications, data centers, edge environments, and the cloud without introducing another isolated infrastructure layer.
  • Keeping infrastructure economics and complexity under control
    • Where modernization can improve utilization of existing investments, manage the rising cost of AI infrastructure, and use automation and AIOps to simplify increasingly complex environments.
  • Moving AI from pilot environments into production
    • How the demands on enterprise data and infrastructure change once AI moves beyond experimentation, and where existing environments begin to create performance, scalability, and operational constraints.
  • Supporting AI without compromising existing enterprise workloads
    • How IT leaders are balancing traditional workloads with newer AI demands, including decisions around storage architecture, workload placement, and a more cloud-smart approach to where data resides.

Event Partners

Insight Enterprises

Insight Enterprises, Inc. is a Fortune 500 solutions integrator helping organizations accelerate their digital journey to modernize their business and maximize the value of technology. Insight’s technical expertise spans cloud and edge-based transformation solutions, with global scale and optimization built on 33+ years of deep partnerships with the world’s leading and emerging technology providers.

Dell Technologies

Dell Technologies Inc is a provider of desktop personal computers, software, and peripherals. The company designs, develops, manufactures, markets, sells, and supports information technology infrastructure such as laptops, desktops, mobiles, workstations, storage devices, software, cloud solutions and notebooks.

Guest Speaker

Chris Neas LinkedIn

Partner Development Manager, Primary Data Storage at Dell

BWG Connect

Enterprise IT Subject Matter Expert

Our moderator brings decades of experience leading infrastructure, cloud transformation, and enterprise technology strategy across finance, media, publishing, and healthcare sectors. They have overseen IT infrastructure, large-scale digital transformation, and DevOps initiatives for some of the world’s most complex enterprise organizations, bridging strategy and execution to deliver measurable business impact. Their deep expertise ensures every discussion is grounded in real-world insight and informed by a career at the forefront of technological change.

Event Moderator

Chris Neas LinkedIn

Partner Development Manager, Primary Data Storage at Dell

BWG Connect

Enterprise IT Subject Matter Expert

Our moderator brings decades of experience leading infrastructure, cloud transformation, and enterprise technology strategy across finance, media, publishing, and healthcare sectors. They have overseen IT infrastructure, large-scale digital transformation, and DevOps initiatives for some of the world’s most complex enterprise organizations, bridging strategy and execution to deliver measurable business impact. Their deep expertise ensures every discussion is grounded in real-world insight and informed by a career at the forefront of technological change.

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