AI initiatives often stall when data teams can’t keep up with business demand for fast, self-service data. Whether it’s AI agents, BI tools, or business users—everyone needs data, but the pipeline-centric modern data stack wasn’t built for this kind of agility. In this session, learn about how an Instant Data Fabric enables data teams for self-service at AI scale by instantly generating contextual Data Answers from distributed enterprise data for consumption by business teams. Discover how leading organizations are using this new data architecture to accelerate AI adoption without comprising governance and control.

Power BI and Microsoft Fabric have become the data hub for your organisation, providing everyone access to your critical and sensitive data. Whilst incredibly powerful, this also brings significant risk.
Including real world case studies, this session will look at how you can protect your organisation, your data, and yourself, through effective governance, auditing and disaster recovery within Power BI and Fabric.
This will cover effective planning, risk management, license reduction, FinOps, permissions monitoring, audit trails, and more.

Gartner's Analytics and Business Intelligence (ABI) Bake-Off showcases the capabilities of three vendors side-by-side on stage using live scripted demonstrations. Join this roundtable to discuss the ABI Bake-Off with your peers. How did key features compare in action? What were the main strengths and weaknesses of the platforms? Did the vendors change your mind about their products?

Analytics is experiencing another monumental change. Just as visual drag and drop BI tools and augmented insights led to changes in analytics delivery, we now experience conversational interfaces, automated workflows and AI agents that cause us to rethink how analytics will be done. Join this session to learn the new technologies that are making an impact and how this will affect plans for future investment in analytics tools, platforms and solutions.

Poor governance of reports, data, and ETL leads to significant hidden costs in most organizations. Companies are spending excessive amounts on database and BI usage, while at the same time BI end user experience is suffering and engagement is low. We'll look at the top 6 ways companies waste money in these areas and how to fix them.

Rapid changes demand innovative decision-making tools beyond traditional methods. Businesses are turning to AI, BI, and data science to gain a competitive edge. The perfect blend of these technologies can be a true differentiator.

- Take a quick look at what to expect from this session
- Challenges in data and analytics today
- Unlocking the power of AI, BI, and data science
- The transformative role of AI-powered self-service BI platforms
- Live demos of next-generation analytics in action

Learn how these innovations can drive better decisions to deliver transformative business outcomes.

Metadata, data quality and data observability tools provide significant capabilities to ensure good data for your BI and AI initiatives. Metadata tools help discover, and inventory your data assets. Data quality tools help business users manage their data at sources by setting rules and policies. Data observability tools give organizations integrated visibility over the health of data, data pipeline and data landscape. Together the tools help organizations lay good foundation in data management for BI and AI initiatives.

Modernize your analytics capabilities by identifying the products that best meet your needs. See side-by-side, scripted demonstrations of three leading vendors: Strategy, Oracle and Tableau. What are the key features to consider and how do they compare in action? What are the main strengths and weaknesses of these vendors? What innovations are coming?

Join us to learn how the Schwarz Group, the parent company of Lidl and Kaufland and the 4th largest retailer worldwide, leverages containerized Strategy in STACKIT for sustainable growth of their data and AI infrastructure. Over a decade-long partnership, Schwarz has utilized sovereign data and cloud services to maintain a competitive edge. Discover their use of Strategy, the last independent BI tool, with open data formats to avoid vendor lock-in. Get insights into delivering open and sovereign cloud solutions for their business lines and the EU, ensuring data independence and scalability.

D&A value is not possible without data storytelling that offers a better way to engage communication findings than just BI reporting or data science notebooks. Join this session to know about the fundamentals of data storytelling and how to fill the gap between data science speakers and decision makers. It further discusses how to tell the best data storytelling and how to upscale data storytelling for future in landscape of GenAI.

Analytics and Business Intelligence (ABI) Platforms are being transformed by AI. Data insights are more likely to be discovered by machine learning. Natural language generation will turn dashboards into data stories. Natural language query will make data more accessible. This session will show how ABI Platform vendors are incorporating AI and how analytic leaders can manage the additional cost and risk these trends will bring.