Why AI Has to be the Infrastructure, Not the Strategy ft. Elon Salfati
March 12, 2026
Gone are the days where organizations can think of AI as the strategy. At least, they should be. In this episode of Bringing Data and AI to Life, host Amy Horowitz, GVP Solutions Sales and Business Development at Informatica, welcomes Elon Salfati, Founder of the Salfati Group, to explore why you should treat AI as infrastructure rather than a standalone tool, how you can map workflows and pinpoint the right intervention points for AI augmentation and the key strategies to build organizational alignment across technology, people, and governance. Turns out - starting small with something like the right KPI alignment is the secret to transformation.
Gone are the days where organizations can think of AI as the strategy. At least, they should be. In this episode of Bringing Data and AI to Life, host Amy Horowitz, GVP Solutions Sales and Business Development at Informatica, welcomes Elon Salfati, Founder of the Salfati Group, to explore why you should treat AI as infrastructure rather than a standalone tool.
What You’ll Learn
- How to reframe AI from "what can we use it for?" to "what's our operating model when AI orchestrates it?"
- The three-step workflow mapping framework
- Why "AI-ready data" is a myth and what to do instead
- The federated data access strategy to dissolve silos without expensive multi-year migrations
- How to identify your AI accountability gap and best align the team
- The one-sentence test that separates real AI initiatives from board-mandated theater
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