AI Broke the
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The AI Analyst — Will It Kill 70% of Dashboards by 2026?
This debate brings together the people who’ve defined BI’s past, are building its future, and are watching AI expose its cracks:
• Cindi Howson, who helped shape how the world evaluates BI platforms at Gartner and Thoughtspot
• Barry McCardel, who’s building the future of BI for an AI-native world at Hex
• Tristan Handy, who changed how data teams think about semantics and transformation at dbt Labs and RJMetrics
• Chris Child, who’s building Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex
• Shubham Bhargav, who’s in the trenches building talk-to-data at the world’s biggest enterprises
Context Graphs: The Next $1T Opportunity — But Who Owns Them?
Everyone agrees AI needs context. Nobody agrees on where it should live. This debate brings the divergent, leading perspectives together:
• The System of Data — represented by Bob Muglia, former CEO of Snowflake
• The System of Record — represented by Karthik Ravindran, GM of Data Platforms at Microsoft
• The System of Agents — represented by Tony Gentilcore, co-founder of Glean
• The Universal Context Layer — represented by Prukalpa Sankar, co-founder of Atlan
• The Origin Story — represented by Jaya Gupta, author of the viral essay Context Graphs: AI’s Trillion-Dollar Opportunity
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The 7 Shifts Reshaping the Data Stack for an AI-First World
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