WTF IS THE CONTEXT LAYER? · RECORDING · EP 03
Is Semantic Layer = Context Layer?
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
Co-founder and CTO, AtScale
Co-founder and CTO of AtScale — one of the companies that put the semantic layer on the enterprise map. He's spent decades building the infrastructure that sits between raw data and business decisions — and now brings that perspective to the question every enterprise data team is asking.
Thu, Jul 30 | 11 AM ET
From Ontology to Context Layer: What Actually Changed With AI?
Both ontologies and context layers are trying to solve the same problem: give AI an understanding of what business concepts actually mean. Ontologies were the original attempt to encode the meaning human organizations run on. Jessica Talisman has been building ontologies since before LLMs existed. She joins Austin to give her honest take.
