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title: "Prukalpa Sankar - Co-founder & Co-CEO, Atlan | Context and Chaos"
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description: "Prukalpa Sankar is Co-founder & Co-CEO of Atlan and the creator of Context and Chaos. Forbes 30 Under 30, Fortune 40 Under 40, TED Speaker. She writes on context graphs, knowledge graphs, and the category infrastructure for enterprise AI. Follow her work on Context & Chaos."
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> Atlan is hosting Context Conference, bringing together the leaders and builders at the frontier of giving AI the context it needs to understand their business. It runs online on October 28, 2026, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM ET. Atlan co-founder Prukalpa Sankar opens and closes the day. Leaders from AstraZeneca, BNY and Verizon share why they invest in context and what they get from it. Registrants get early access to The AI Context Gap, a new study from MIT Technology Review Insights. Register: https://atlan.com/context-conference/

Context & Chaos expert profile: **Prukalpa Sankar**, Co-founder & Co-CEO / Atlan.

Prukalpa Sankar is Co-founder & Co-CEO of Atlan and the creator of Context and Chaos. She has spent over a decade building at the intersection of data and AI - first at SocialCops (which merged government and nonprofit data to address global development challenges), then building Atlan into the leading AI-era data governance platform. She started Context and Chaos (formerly Metadata Weekly) four years ago to create a space for experts and practitioners to share what actually works in the trenches. Forbes 30 Under 30, Fortune 40 Under 40, TED Speaker, and Economic Times Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year.

## Expertise and background

- **Expertise in:** Context Graphs, Enterprise AI, Knowledge Graphs, Semantic Layer, Data Governance, AI Readiness, Category Creation
- **Specialty:** Data & AI Strategy | Category Builder
- **Experience:** 12+ years founding and scaling data companies (Atlan, SocialCops)
- **Notable work:** Co-founder & Co-CEO, Atlan; Creator, Context and Chaos; Previously co-founded SocialCops
- **Certifications:** Forbes 30 Under 30; Fortune 40 Under 40; TED Speaker; Economic Times Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year

## Resources

- C&C Issue: [Context Graphs Are a Trillion-Dollar Opportunity. But Who Actually Captures It?](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/context-graphs-are-a-trillion-dollar-opportunity-but-who-captures-it/)
- C&C Issue: [Semantic Layers Failed. Context Graphs Are Next... Unless We Get It Right](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/semantic-layers-failed-context-graphs-are-next/)
- C&C Issue: [OpenAI's Frontier Proves Context Matters. But It Won't Solve It.](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/openais-frontier-proves-context-matters-but-it-wont-solve-it/)
- C&C Issue: [Metadata Weekly Is Now Context and Chaos (& Cats!)](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/metadata-weekly-is-now-context-and-chaos/)
- C&C Issue: [If Intelligence Is Abundant, What Is the Moat?](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/if-intelligence-is-abundant-what-is-the-moat/)
- C&C Issue: [The Context Layer: Knowledge Graph's second act](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/the-context-layer-knowledge-graphs-second-act/)
- C&C Issue: [What an Enterprise Context Layer Actually Is](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/issue/what-an-enterprise-context-layer-actually-is/)
- All issues: [the full Context & Chaos library](https://atlan.com/context-and-chaos/)

## Connect with Prukalpa Sankar

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prukalpa/
- Personal site: https://atlan.com/

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