IMFD brought together professionals from the R&D ecosystem at the first workshop “Know your data: an essential step for AI”
The session, held at the Hub Metropolitano de Santiago, provided concrete tools for diagnosing and organizing organizations’ data before incorporating artificial intelligence into their processes. The workshop will be repeated in Viña del Mar, Concepción, and Santiago.
More than 30 professionals took part in the first session of “Know Your Data: An Essential Step for AI,” held on Thursday, August 20, by the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) at the Hub Metropolitano de Santiago.
The activity is part of the External Outreach Project (PME) funded by ANID, through which the IMFD seeks to provide knowledge and tools so that people can diagnose, understand, and organize their organizations’ data before developing artificial intelligence projects. This makes it possible to identify gaps and opportunities for improvement before incorporating these technologies into their processes, and foster dialogue about data management.
The institutional welcome was given by Camila Díaz Foxon, Executive Director of the IMFD, and the moderation was led by Antonia Fonck, coordinator of the institute’s Research and Academic Training Division. The talk, use cases, and workshop were led by Nicolás Estévez, with support from Juan Pablo Sánchez during the hands-on activity.
A day of diagnosis, fundamentals, and applied work
The program combined conceptual content with hands-on work. The session began with an initial self-assessment, allowing each participant to identify the state of their organization’s data.
Next came the main talk, “Know Your Data,” which covered fundamental data concepts: from data structure and lifecycle to the criteria for ensuring data quality, along with four methods for connecting data with large language models such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.
On the practical side, the workshop “The Data Lifecycle of My Organization” was held, in which each attendee mapped out the path data follows within their institution: from the questions they seek to answer and how the data is captured, to how it is processed, stored, analyzed, and used for decision-making.
The day closed with a presentation of use cases developed by the IMFD, showing how these concepts operate in real projects, followed by a closing self-assessment to measure participants’ own progress during the activity.
Upcoming dates and podcast announcement
The same workshop will be repeated three more times: on Friday, September 4, in Viña del Mar, on Thursday, October 1, in Concepción, and on Friday, October 23, once again in Santiago, this time as a hybrid session (in-person and online). Registration is now open.
The project also includes a three-episode podcast miniseries, aimed at the general public, in order to extend the reach of the workshop’s content to those unable to attend the in-person sessions, in an accessible format that will remain permanently available.
