The AI Analyst — Will It Kill 70% of Dashboards by 2026?

Barry McCardel

Co-founder & CEO, Hex

Barry represents the future-first view of analytics. At Hex, he’s rebuilding BI for a world where AI is the default — not an add-on. He questions whether dashboards deserve to survive at all, and what analytics should look like when humans and AI collaborate in real time.

Chris Child

VP of Product Management, Snowflake

Chris brings the perspective of building the AI analyst for everyone’s favorite data cloud. As VP of Product at Snowflake, he’s responsible for making AI analytics work where the data actually lives, with initiatives like Snowflake Intelligence, Cortex, and Open Semantic Interchange.

Cindi Howson

Chief Data & AI Strategy Officer, ThoughtSpot

Cindi Howson has lived through every era of BI—and helped define most of them. From leading Gartner’s BI Magic Quadrants to advising global enterprises at ThoughtSpot, she brings a rare, long-range view of how BI actually evolves.

Tony Gentilcore

Co-founder, Glean

Tony Gentilcore is Co-founder and Product Engineering Lead at Glean. With 20+ years building high-performance products, he spent a decade at Google modernizing Search and later led the Chrome Speed Team, shaping how data is accessed and delivered at scale.

Shubham Bhargav

Product & Engineering, Atlan

Shubham is in the trenches building talk-to-data systems with enterprises today. He brings real-world lessons from attempting to operationalize AI analysts — including where they succeed, where they hallucinate, and why context is the limiting factor.