[Online] Workshops as Strategy: Driving Data & AI Alignment

​Continuing our DPM webinar series aimed at upskilling & knowledge-sharing, we're joined by David Cohen - founder of Superposition, a data strategist who runs workshops, not a workshop facilitator who talks about data!

​Most data and AI projects don't fail on the technical work. They fail much earlier — when nobody can agree on what's actually worth building, and the people who hold the answers never get the chance to say so.

​David has built his entire consulting practice on fixing exactly that. As he puts it, he's "a data person who runs workshops, not a workshop person who talks about data." His core method is the live, facilitated session: get the technical team and the business in one room, get them hands-on with the problem, and let the real priorities surface. The workshop isn't the gimmick — it's the strategy.

​David Cohen will break down how he uses workshops to turn vague stakeholder asks into clear use cases, agreed priorities, and a roadmap everyone has bought into — and why "show, don't tell" beats any requirements document.

​What we'll unpack

• ​Why alignment — not technology — is the real bottleneck on most data & AI work

• ​The anatomy of a workshop that actually drives decisions (structure up front, flexibility in the room)

• ​"Show, don't tell": getting people hands-on so they tell you what they need

• ​How to turn workshop output into use cases, priorities, and a roadmap stakeholders own

• ​Using workshops as a sales and discovery tool — the 90-minute session that does the scoping for you

​What you'll walk away with

• ​A repeatable structure for running alignment workshops with mixed technical/business groups

• ​Techniques for surfacing what stakeholders actually need (not what they first say)

• ​A clearer way to move from "everyone wants something different" to an agreed roadmap

• ​Honest lessons from someone who has made facilitation the core of a consulting business

​Perfect for: data product managers, data leaders, consultants, and anyone who has to get a room of competing stakeholders to agree on what to build.

​About our speaker

​David is the founder of Superposition, a consulting firm for boutique Data & AI consultancies. He builds collaborative workshops and advisory programmes that help the leaders of those firms scope and sell client work, sharpen their go-to-market strategies, and tackle the messy internal challenges that come with scaling a boutique consultancy in growth mode.

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