The AI Assumption: When AI Outgrows Its Underlying Data

AI is accelerating faster than most organizations’ ability to support it. While leaders race to deploy generative AI, copilots, and intelligent applications, a critical assumption often goes unchallenged: that the underlying data is ready.

It isn’t.

Join Starburst and Dell in Sydney Australia on the 12th of May for this interactive lunch. We’ll explore the widening gap between AI ambition and data reality – and what happens when powerful models are layered on fragmented, siloed, and poorly governed data ecosystems. From hallucinations and unreliable outputs to stalled initiatives and lost trust, the consequences are already showing up across enterprises.

Led by local leaders in Data and AI:

• Your AI Knows Nothing: Why Context Is the Real Bottleneck. Chris Harrop, ANZ Lead at Starburst
• From Silos to Insight: Data Lakes Feeding AI Workflows at Scale. Michael Cole, Head of Presales, ANZ at Dell
• Turn Off Your AI. What Breaks? Grant Case, Field CDO and creator of the AI Criticality Index

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Details:
Date: 12 May 2026
Location: Eleven Barrack | Seafood and Steak Grill Sydney CBD Bentley | 11 Barrack St, Sydney NSW 2000
Time: 12 noon – 2:30pm AEST