For years the Platform Engineering movement has gained momentum demonstrating organizational gains in availability, security, and developer productivity. Platform strategies often naturally encourage movements in other strategic areas of a technology roadmap such as API and data strategies. The consistent interface and accessibility to your data that platform strategies have built are proving to be an accelerator for AI initiatives that benefit from predictable and consistent interfaces to your proprietary data. We will see many of the organizations with effective and scalable cloud and platform strategies be the first to deliver meaningful AI wins to their employees and customers.