The End of Ad-Hoc BI Dashboards
Nick Schrock, CTO of Dagster, introduces Compass, a Slack-native tool for collaborative, exploratory data analysis, and discusses the rising importance of 'context engineering' as the new data pipeline in the AI era.
Semantic layer
The Missing Piece in the AI for BI Puzzle
Yoni Leitersdorf, CEO of Solid, explains that directly applying Large Language Models (LLMs) to databases for text-to-SQL fails due to a lack of business context. He introduces the concept of a semantic layer as a critical "Rosetta Stone" that translates raw data into a meaningful format AI can understand, enabling reliable and accurate data interaction.
Making Your Data Agent-Ready with EnrichMCP // Simba Khadder // Agents in Production 2025
Simba Khadder explains that the primary bottleneck for LLM agents is not intelligence, but access to structured data. He introduces EnrichMCP, an open-source framework that creates a semantic layer over data models, enabling agents to discover, reason about, and query data sources like SQL databases effectively, moving beyond the limitations of RAG and direct API conversions.