WTF IS THE CONTEXT LAYER? · RECORDING · EP 04
From Ontology to Context Layer: What Actually Changed With AI?
SPEAKERS
CONVERSATION LEADERS
HOST
Director of Data Strategy, Atlan
Former Gartner Director who spent years advising Fortune 500 data leaders on analytics strategy — now Director of Data Strategy at Atlan. He's the person large enterprises call when they can't figure out why their AI keeps getting context wrong.
GUEST
Founder, Contextually LLC & Co-founder, Knowledge Graph Academy & Founder, Ontology Pipeline™
Founder of Contextually LLC and co-founder of Knowledge Graph Academy. She comes from Information and Library Science — the discipline that organized human knowledge before the data world existed. She has been building ontologies since before most of today's AI stack was invented, and she has a clear point of view on what the AI industry keeps getting wrong about structured knowledge.
Wed, Aug 19 | 11 AM ET
How Do Graph Databases and the Context Layer Fit Together?
Emil Eifrem and Prukalpa Sankar agree on the problem: enterprise AI fails when agents can't navigate the relationships that give data meaning. Emil argues graph databases are the foundation. Prukalpa argues graph databases store structure, but the context layer carries meaning, governance, and lineage. They join Austin to work toward a shared picture of what enterprise AI actually needs.
