Intelligent Analytics: A Practical Guide
Ten parts on what to keep, what to replace and what to build. Analytical maturity, the honest limits of LLMs, text-to-SQL, proportionate governance, and why waiting for better AI is a strategic error.
Our CEO Huw Ringer joins the panel on what it actually takes to move AI out of the pilot stage and into something an enterprise can run. Everything he references on stage is on this page, free, with no form to fill in.
Scaling AI Starts Here: The Enterprise Strategy for Lasting Success

Three pieces of material built over the past year, covering the same ground the panel does. All of it is free and none of it is a product pitch.
Ten parts on what to keep, what to replace and what to build. Analytical maturity, the honest limits of LLMs, text-to-SQL, proportionate governance, and why waiting for better AI is a strategic error.
What happened when a small database engineering company used AI to build five commercial products in weeks rather than years. Why thirty years of domain expertise was the real force multiplier, and why the engineering turned out to be the easy part.
Score your data environment across six dimensions and get a report back: a board-ready executive summary with a radar chart, findings and risks per dimension, and a prioritised 90 day action plan.
If you only take three things away from the session, make it these.
Smart Associates has spent over twenty years on the platforms most people will not touch. That grounding is what makes our view on AI a practical one rather than a hopeful one.
If the session prompts a question about any of these, the detail is here.
Database automation and management, built from thirty-eight thousand lines of encoded operational experience.
Explore SMF →Data movement and transformation that treats every step as a composable, orchestratable endpoint.
Explore SDF →Machine learning feature engineering in the database, so the data never has to leave to become useful.
Explore Feature Factory →If the session raises something you want to talk through properly, get in touch and we will sort out a time during the two days or straight afterwards.
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