Aug 27, 2026

Rethinking Legacy Data Infrastructure with Eon Co-Founders Ofir Ehrlich and Gonen Stein

Eon co-founders Ofir Ehrlich and Gonen Stein discuss the critical role of data as a protective moat in the AI era, exemplified by Google's purchase of Spirit Airlines' data. They explain how Eon addresses the challenges of scattered enterprise data by providing tools for mapping, classification, and secure access, enabling its use in AI workflows. The conversation also delves into the emerging threat of autonomous AI agents with legitimate system permissions, the fundamental shifts required in enterprise data infrastructure, and how the rapid, fear-driven adoption of AI contrasts sharply with the slower cloud migration era.

Aug 13, 2026

AI & Data Science Periodic Tables: How They Work Together

Aaron Baughman and Martin Keen present a unified framework using "periodic tables" to integrate AI and Data Science. They illustrate how elements like pipelines, embeddings, and RAG combine to build real-world AI applications, using a detailed document Q&A system example. The discussion emphasizes the critical interdependence of data science in grounding AI models and ensuring continuous improvement through an innovative feedback loop.

Jul 20, 2026

Enterprise Agents Have a Structure Problem - Ishita Daga, Tesla

Ishita Daga, a Senior ML Engineer at Tesla, explains why enterprise AI agents fail, highlighting that current fixes like larger models or more RAG are insufficient. She identifies ambiguity, staleness, and user preference as key structural problems. Daga proposes a solution built on semantic retrieval infrastructure: a hierarchical approach to knowledge sources, including a curated semantic layer and metadata graphs. She also details a robust context life cycle with live data sources and continuous feedback loops to combat staleness. The challenge of integrating individual preferences, requiring agents to reason over business concepts rather than raw schemas, is also discussed.

Jul 14, 2026

WTF Is the Context Layer? The Missing Infrastructure for Production Agents — Prukalpa Sankar

Prukalpa Sankar argues that while AI models are increasingly intelligent, their practical business utility is limited by a lack of contextual intelligence. She proposes a "context layer" as a crucial solution, akin to a "GitHub for context," to centralize and manage business knowledge, expertise, and norms. This system aims to provide AI agents with the shared, versioned, and continuously learning context necessary to overcome the challenges of isolated systems and context sprawl, ultimately differentiating companies in an AI-driven world.

Mar 31, 2026

Agentic Data Management and the Future of Enterprise AI — with Rohit Choudhary

Rohit Choudhary, CEO of Acceldata, discusses the imminent 10x annual growth of enterprise data and how most organizations are unprepared. He introduces Acceldata's agentic data management platform, designed to make data self-aware, self-optimizing, and AI-ready. He emphasizes the 1000x cost difference of fixing data early versus late, the need for operational, real-time data governance, and why clear thinking and deep domain expertise, not just programming skills, will be most valuable in the age of AI.