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

Board Member and Vice President – Digital at Fortude Shiraz leads data, analytics and AI programs that help global fashion and consumer‑goods brands accelerate digital transformation and scale sustainable growth.

Earlier, he served as Country Head – USA for Brandix, Sri Lanka’s largest apparel exporter, giving him over a decade of end‑to‑end manufacturing expertise across design, sourcing and advanced production. Shiraz advises C‑suite leaders on deploying vertical‑AI solutions that connect “shop floor to top floor.”

A frequent commentator on emerging tech, Shiraz was recently featured in Fortude’s “CxO Insights” series discussing practical pathways for AI adoption and data‑driven decision‑making in fashion supply chains.