Ashley Farrugia

The future of agentic enterprise will be driven by AI with the deepest organizational knowledge. For AI to be successful, it needs a data foundation with the context from business processes, policies, and logic that makes your data meaningful. This session by SAP and Dremio will show how to architect a business data fabric, along with key data lakehouse capabilities required to accelerate AI-driven business transformations.

Modern data platforms solved access. They didn't solve understanding. Teams still fight inconsistent metrics, duplicated logic, and data nobody trusts. The culprit? The semantic layer was quietly dropped from the modern stack — and it broke everything. This talk makes the case for bringing it back: open, reusable, and built into the core of your data platform. Because autonomy without shared meaning is just noise.