PyData Virginia 2025

AI Ready Data
04-18, 16:05–16:40 (US/Eastern), Auditorium 4

In today’s AI first era, customers expect data products to be deeply interconnected, consumable with minimal effort and widely available. The need for ‘AI Ready Data’, suitable for consumption directly by AI agents has never been clearer.


Customers have been clear that receiving ‘just’ data is no longer sufficient. They expect data to be immediately accessible, usable and understandable to both human and AI consumers with “zero ETL” (Extract Transform Load). We will discuss the direction that S&P is taking explicitly aimed at serving this need, greatly increasing the insight available to customers. This includes the concept of providing machine readable metadata at the column level for datasets. This metadata permits AI and ETL tools to automatically ingest and connect delivered data to a customer’s own data as well as automatically import that data into a customer’s data catalog.


Prior Knowledge Expected

No previous knowledge expected

Hamish Brookeman – VP – Enterprise Data Architecture, S&P Global Enterprise Data Organization, S&P Global

Hamish is responsible for Enterprise Data Architecture, which is responsible for the overall design of managed data structures including strategies for data implementation, acquisition and maintenance and evaluating data sources for adherence to quality standards and ease of integration. The specific role is to capture data requirements clearly, completely and correctly, and represent them in a formal and visual way through the data models. In addition, making sure that data integration is based on a common metadata framework and that the integrated data is presented to the business as valid information.

Hamish previously served in a similar role for S&P Global Market Intelligence. Hamish joined S&P Global in 2015 via the SNL Financial acquisition where he had served as Head of Data Architecture since 2006.

Hamish has 25+ years of experience in technology leadership, large abstract datasets and highly engineered information systems. He has extensive knowledge of Structured, Semi-Structured and Unstructured data strategies. Hamish attended Princeton University where he studied Economics and Politics.

Alec is a Senior Director of Data Science at S&P Global Market Intelligence leading Ai efforts toward internal productivity.