Three out of four companies are betting big on AI – but most are digging on shifting ground. In this $100 billion gold rush, none of these investments will pay off without data quality and strong governance – and that remains a challenge for many organizations. Not every enterprise has a solid data governance practice and maturity models vary widely. As a result, investments in innovation initiatives are at risk of failure. What are the most important data management issues to prioritize? See how your organization measures up and get ahead of the curve with Actian.

Join Transurban as they share their journey, highlighting how enhanced data visibility and effective remediation have transformed their data culture and driven improved business value in infrastructure and road operations. Gain insights into Transurban’s plans for leveraging AI governance in the future to unlock further benefits and optimize industry practices.

Join us for an exclusive roundtable discussion featuring industry leaders and experts as we delve into the transformative power of the SAP and Databricks partnership. This session is designed to provide actionable insights and foster a collaborative dialogue on the ways this collaboration is reshaping the landscape of data management, AI, and business strategy.

This will be a dynamic, interactive roundtable where participants can share their viewpoints, explore real-world use cases, and address challenges and opportunities. The session is designed to encourage open discussion and provide valuable insights for navigating the evolving data and AI landscape.

Enter the agentic era of data and analytics with Tableau and Agentforce. Discover how AI agents are accelerating data modeling and unlocking conversational analytics. Hear how leading organizations are harnessing agents to reimagine decision-making, supercharge insight delivery, and unleash the full potential of their data-driven workforce.

This session will look at the quickly emerging domain of agentic AI. What are AI agents? What are the solutions and applications that will most benefit from an agent-based approach? What are the pitfalls to watch for when considering this fast-growing software engineering discipline? Join this session to know the answers to such questions and more.

Chief data and analytics officers play a critical role in driving and overseeing major business changes to deliver enterprise value. Clear and actionable change-management plans are essential for both proactive and reactive data-driven change.

Data and AI is playing a pivotal role in the energy transition, enhancing customer centricity and unlocking operational efficiency. Come and hear how AGL Energy is empowering it's people with the knowledge and skills to thrive in a data & AI driven future.

Top tech companies have utilized graphs to power everything, from fraud detection systems to recommendation engines, and they are now finding their way into use cases across industries. This session will introduce the concept of graph analytics and the algorithms used to find hidden insights in data that enhance decision making, with context as king. Additionally, we will explore how Knowledge Graphs can significantly augment LLMs, particularly in the context of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems.

With new pressures coming from AI, CDAOs must be agile in implementing and enabling business innovation. But, with quick adaptation, inevitably comes stress on traditional D&A delivery processes and practices. Join this interactive session to lean how to: clarify strategies to support business innovation, design adaptable and scalable delivery models and collaborate with business units to ensure value of D&A capabilities and services.

Adoption and diffusion of enterprise agentic AI systems that reliably generate business value, will be inextricably linked with the ability to provide contextually relevant governed data and metadata to those systems. This session will demonstrate how the Ab Initio Data Platform’s unique approach to context and governed metadata, combined with state of art AI capabilities including MCP, agentic planning and multi-agent workflows, accelerates the application of trusted, traceable, and well governed AI capabilities to high value use cases for the data driven enterprise.

Join us to explore how leading companies like Xero are harnessing the power of Generative AI to deliver hyper-personalized, intelligent experiences that drive real results. From cutting case volumes by 20% to improving search precision and accelerating self-service, you’ll see how these innovators are using relevance-augmented GenAI to meet people in the moment—with the right answer.

Join award-winning broadcaster and national comedy champion, Adam Spencer to learn how technologies like AI, Cyber Security and ChatGPT are disrupting business and how you can win in this world. In this thought-provoking and funny presentation, Adam will share:
• How Artificial Intelligence will impact every industry and how to harness its potential
• The crucial role every worker plays in your cyber security
• The business potential of holding a supercomputer in your hands
• How to keep up if the pace of digital disruption feels overwhelming

Implement your target AI governance operating model by mapping governance pillars to key AI components and differentiating AI capabilities. This model should connect with other governance bodies and extend existing governance models to AI-specific considerations of trust, transparency and diversity.

Traditional approaches and thinking around data quality are out of date and not sufficient in the era of AI. Data, analytics and AI leaders will need to reconsider their approach to data quality going beyond the traditional six data quality dimensions. This session will help data leaders learn to think about data quality in a holistic way that support making data AI-ready.

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.

Government organizations are signaling broader adoption of AI capabilities and increasing investments. Various national and regional governments have published directives that provide guardrails to ensure safe, secure and trustworthy implementation of AI. This session addresses the necessary ingredients through example use cases for deploying and scaling AI capabilities in government.

Join industry peers to explore the crucial role of Data & Analytics and AI in driving innovation in banking and financial services. Discuss best practices for integrating advanced analytics into banking operations in today's rapidly evolving landscape. Connect and share insights in this networking session. Peer Meetups are networking sessions that allow you to connect and share with a small group of your peers without Gartner facilitation. Please make every effort to attend your peer meetup, as other attendees look forward to meeting with you.

Discuss common hurdles faced by government organizations when implementing data analytics and AI strategies and share solutions to overcome them. Peer Meetups are networking sessions that allow you to connect and share with a small group of your peers without Gartner facilitation. Please make every effort to attend your peer meetup, as other attendees look forward to meeting with you.

When an organization’s thoughts turn to AI, the CDAO’s name should be one of the first they think of. The CDAO must have a leading voice in their organization’s AI conversation. This session discusses techniques for the CDAO to take this position including real-world examples of success.

In our recent study, an overwhelming majority—80% of respondents—reported using AI in their day-to-day workflows. This marks a significant increase from just a year ago, when only 30% were doing so.
But what about data quality? Can you trust your data?
In this session, we’ll discuss how dbt can help organizations increase trust in their data, improve performance and governance, and control costs more effectively.
dbt is widely regarded as the industry standard for AI on structured data. Its Fusion engine, with deep SQL comprehension, powers the next generation of dbt use cases.

Oh, AI, It’s everywhere! In some cases can lead you to asking more questions than you ask it. Join us as we provide actionable and pragmatic insights helping your organisation navigate the journey AI adoption. Focusing on navigating hype, calibrating your Activities aligned to Organisational Maturity & Value, building & adopting a Scalable AI Ecosystem, integrating AI into your value Chain through Agent’s, Tools & Microservices. We aim provide food for thought of a balanced perspective on engraining AI into your organisation. Tracking towards enabling long term sustainable value.

Stephen Brobst, CTO at Ab Initio and top-rated speaker from last year returns. The fourth industrial revolution is fueled by AI and data. This talk will describe how to create and consume data products that use Generative AI, including the anatomy of data as a product in support of corporate AI initiatives. Empowering knowledge worker access to data is an essential capability of a modern enterprise. Robust metadata and a framework for Minimum Viable Governance (MVG) is at the heart of trusted AI. The use of natural language interfaces for interrogating data products will also be discussed.

Embark on a transformative AI journey with our session focused on deploying AI agents that deliver immediate ROI while ensuring robust data security. We’ll delve into advanced AI orchestration techniques that not only enhance system efficiency but also improve employee productivity. By incorporating TRiSM principles, you’ll learn how to develop AI applications that are both trustworthy and risk-managed. Whether you are just beginning your AI journey or seeking to expand your existing framework, this session offers practical insights to transform AI potential into meaningful business outcomes.

Hear how Mercy Corps leveraged Cloudera’s AI to transform data into actionable insights, enabling agile responses in crisis situations. The session will provide some principles on how to setup a scalable AI capability in your organisation and explore the Mercy Corps connection between data systems and organisational goals, which has allowed them to convert complex data into immediate, actionable insights. This approach can offer valuable guidance for other industries looking to expand their decision-making capabilities through AI.

Gain expert insights on building GenAI applications with GraphRAG and Knowledge Graphs. Dan McGrath, VP of Product at Neo4j, will share the power of these technologies, illustrated by the real-world success of Jin Foo, Head of Data & Analytics at Prospa. Hear directly from Prospa on how they use Knowledge Graphs to surface complex entity relationships across structured and unstructured data to achieve faster yet safer loan approvals and significant efficiency gains, including an 80% reduction in manual verification work, while establishing a foundation for future Agentic AI capabilities.