Webinar: How Canadian fashion businesses can build an AI-ready foundation with data

Aug. 26th, 2025


Virtual
National


Description

Canadian fashion businesses are exploring the power of AI, but to unlock real value, it all starts with data.

In this exclusive session hosted by the CAF, we’ll spotlight how global fashion manufacturing leader Brandix, supplier to brands like Victoria’s Secret, Calvin Klein, Lululemon, Amazon and Carhartt, transformed their complex, 15-year-old enterprise architecture into a modern, unified, and AI-ready data platform.

From building a centralized analytics team to consolidating their data stack under Microsoft Fabric, Brandix’s transformation, led by Fortude, enabled faster insights, improved efficiency, and positioned them for the future of AI.

What We’ll Cover:

  • What it means to be “AI-ready” from a data perspective
  • Common data and integration challenges in apparel supply chains
  • How Brandix reimagined its data strategy to improve speed, visibility, and efficiency
  • Key steps to build a unified analytics foundation using tools like Microsoft Fabric
  • Practical insights Canadian fashion brands can apply to future-proof their business

This session will offer valuable takeaways for Canadian apparel businesses looking to modernize their data foundation and drive real business impact through analytics.

 


Featured Speakers

Speaker: Gogula Aryalingam
Speaker Gogula Aryalingam
Associate Vice President - Data & AI, Fortude Gogula is a data and analytics professional of 20 years, with a focus on providing cloud-based data & analytics solutions to his customers. He is a former Microsoft MVP and a former Microsoft-certified Trainer, while also being Microsoft-certified across solution architecture, data …

Associate Vice President - Data & AI, Fortude


Gogula is a data and analytics professional of 20 years, with a focus on providing cloud-based data & analytics solutions to his customers. He is a former Microsoft MVP and a former Microsoft-certified Trainer, while also being Microsoft-certified across solution architecture, data analytics, data engineering, and AI. Gogula has contributed to the development of numerous Microsoft certifications in SQL Server, business intelligence, data engineering, and Power BI; has contributed to Microsoft Learn on Dataverse and Fabric; and has contributed as an author on three Power BI books.

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Organizer

Canadian Apparel Federation



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