Episode 1

WTF is the Context Layer?

Wednesday, May 12
12 PM ET

Every vendor claims to be the context layer now. We cut through the noise and work toward a definition that actually holds up — with the people who coined the term.

Questions we'll tackle:

  • Where does a knowledge graph end and a context layer begin?
  • What does a context layer actually look like inside a real enterprise?
  • Who owns it — the data team, the AI team, or the platform team?
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Austin Kronz and Prukalpa Sankar — WTF is the Context Layer? EP 01

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Austin Kronz

Austin Kronz

Field CDAO at Atlan

Former Gartner Director who spent years advising Fortune 500 data leaders on analytics strategy — now Field CDAO at Atlan. He's the person large enterprises call when they can't figure out why their AI keeps getting context wrong.

Prukalpa Sankar

Prukalpa Sankar

Founder and Co-CEO, Atlan

Founder and Co-CEO of Atlan. She's been inside the context layer problem longer than most, and has the receipts to prove it. One of the people who coined the term and helped define what it actually means in practice.

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