Braeden Kurchina is the Director of Data & Analytics at Secure Waste Infrastructure, a $1.5B infrastructure company operating more than 80 facilities across North America. He leads the company’s enterprise data strategy, analytics transformation, and AI adoption, helping Secure treat data as a strategic asset. During his time at SECURE, he has helped build and scale the company’s analytics function from a small divisional reporting team into an enterprise data organization spanning the full data lifecycle, from data acquisition and platforms to advanced analytics and AI. His work focuses on enabling better operational decisions by helping teams navigate the rapidly evolving analytics and AI landscape, with a strong emphasis on fostering a data- and AI-ready culture across the organization.