Data for AI: Access to Understanding

2026-09-17 · 17:30:00

135 Constitution Dr 8th floor, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA

135 Constitution Dr 8th floor, Menlo Park

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Address: 135 Constitution Dr 8th floor Menlo Park, CA United States

Hosted by Adi Wabisabi & 4 others

Organizer: Data For AI Events

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At a glance

Tickets
Free
Format
Four practitioner talks, an executive panel, Q&A, and networking with food and drinks.
Theme
Semantics & Ontology for AI Agents
Sectors
Ai ml

Agenda

  1. The Agent Had Access to Everything and Understood Nothing — A production war story: perfect permissions, lineage, and governance, and an agent that still returned confidently wrong numbers.
  2. Missed Connections: Giving AI Agents the Context and Ontologies They Need — One question answered three ways: naive Text2SQL, then a graph semantic layer, then an ontology with reasoning tools. Live demo, all open source.
  3. The Knowledge Spine: A Machine-Executable Ontology for Governed Marketing Activation — Ontology as executable governance: consent, suppression, and frequency rules an agent can't talk its way past.
  4. Building a "Company Brain": Giving AI Agents Shared Enterprise Context — What it takes to create a company mind out of your organization's scattered knowledge, shown with a live demo.
  5. Semantics & Ontology for AI Agents — Executive panel on how to keep every layer of the business agreeing on what data means.

Speakers, judges and hosts

  • Alex Hu — EVP of Engineering, Salesforce (Panelist)
  • Mark Hoerth — Product Lead, Datastrato (Panelist)
  • Ofer Mendelevitch — Head of Developer Relations, Credible Data (Panelist)
  • Ron Gonzalez — VP of AI/ML & Data Lakehouse, WEX (Panelist)
  • Yan Qu — Director of Data and AI, Intuit (Panelist)
  • Ananth Packkildurai — Zeta Global (Speaker)
  • Ben Squire — Neo4j (Speaker)
  • Dave Nielsen — cognee (Speaker)
  • Ganesh Nathan — Co-founder and Principal Architect, Autolake (Speaker)

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