Simba Khadder of Redis introduces Context Engineering 2.0, a new paradigm for AI agents that unifies structured data, unstructured data (RAG), and memory into a single, schema-driven surface. He critiques current methods like Text-to-SQL and direct API wrapping, proposing a unified context engine to provide reliable, observable, and performant data access for agents.
Jure Leskovec introduces Relational Foundation Models (RFMs), a new class of models based on graph neural networks that learn directly from raw, multi-table enterprise data. This approach bypasses manual feature engineering, leading to more accurate, faster-to-deploy, and easier-to-maintain predictive models for tasks like churn prediction, fraud detection, and recommendation systems.
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.