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title: "Vince Dacany - Data & AI Leader | Context and Chaos"
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description: "Vince Dacany is a Data & AI leader and CTO with 20+ years of experience building data-intensive systems. He writes on the semantic gap in enterprise AI and the context infrastructure organizations need. Follow his work on Context & Chaos."
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Context and Chaos expert profile for **Vince Dacany**, CTO / Independent. Vince Dacany is a Data & AI leader and CTO with over 20 years of experience building data-intensive systems. He writes on the semantic gap in enterprise AI (why AI systems fail to read the room even when they have access to the data) and what organizations need to build to close it. His work focuses on the context infrastructure that separates AI that can process data from AI that can genuinely understand what that data means in practice.

## Profile

- Expertise: Data Architecture, AI Readiness, Semantic Gap, Context Infrastructure, Enterprise AI, Data Engineering, AI Strategy
- Specialty: Data & AI Leader
- Experience: 20+ years building data-intensive systems and AI platforms
- Notable work: CTO with 20+ years in data-intensive system design; author writing on the semantic gap in enterprise AI
- Links: [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vince-dacanay/), [Substack](https://vdacanay.substack.com/)

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## FAQ

**What is the semantic gap Vince Dacany writes about?**
The difference between AI systems that have access to enterprise data and AI systems that understand what that data means in context. Most enterprise AI fails not because of model capability but because the semantic infrastructure (the shared meaning, definitions, and relationships) is missing or fragmented.

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