Lunch & Learn: One Step Ahead – From AI Users to AI-Ready Organizations
Think about how you got answers at work ten years ago. You opened a spreadsheet, built a chart, ran a report. Then came dashboards that updated themselves. Then tools that let you ask questions in plain English. Then ChatGPT, and suddenly, the most powerful analytical tools in the world felt like texting a colleague.
Each of those felt like a nice upgrade at the time. Together, they tell a bigger story. The way we interact with software and the way software acts on our behalf are changing faster than most organizations have noticed.
Join Brian Thamm, Founder and Chief Data & AI Officer at the Sophinea Corporation, for a Lunch & Learn exploring what this shift means for organizations. Drawing on more than 15 years of experience delivering analytics solutions across Fortune 200 companies and federal agencies, Brian will discuss why the technology is ready, but whether your organization is depends almost entirely on your data: how it is structured, how it is governed, and whether it can be trusted when an agent is acting on it without you in the loop.
Whether you’re leading digital transformation or just beginning to explore AI, you’ll gain practical insights into what it takes to become AI-ready.
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Please park in the Discovery Parking Lot beside the pond across from Discovery Hall. Overflow parking is in the Occoquan Lot, across the pond. Hourly parking is available - pay via the ParkMobile app or by calling (877) 727-5758.
Hourly Schedule
- 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
- Registration
- 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
- Presentation and Q&A (Lunch Provided)
- 12:50 PM - 1:30 PM
- Networking
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Date
- Oct 14 2026
Time
- 11:45 am - 1:30 pm
Location
- 10930 George Mason Circle, Manassas, VA
Speaker
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Brian ThammFounder and Chief Data & AI Officer, Sophinea CorporationBrian Thamm is a data and AI executive with over 15 years of experience delivering analytics solutions across Fortune 200 firms and federal agencies. As Co-Founder and CDAO of Sophinea Corporation, he leads a team helping organizations across government and industry turn messy, siloed data into actionable intelligence. His work spans large-scale federal programs at the Department of State, NIH, and the U.S. Army, as well as enterprise analytics platforms built for C-Suite decision-makers in the private sector. A published author on AI security and Small Language Models, Brian is a frequent voice in industry conversations about what it actually takes for organizations to become Analytics and AI-ready, including not just technology, but also governance, workforce, and culture. He founded Sophinea on the belief that the organizations that design systems to acquire, govern, and communicate their data well will benefit most when AI shifts to autonomous action.
