Victoria Sybel-Scott

Every centralisation programme looks beautiful on paper. One platform. One governed store. One diagram that fits on a slide. It was a reasonable bet, and consolidation solved real problems. But the diagram describes a company that doesn't exist. Acquisitions sit half-integrated, subsidiaries run their own stacks, and sovereignty rules and cloud costs are pushing workloads back on premise. So the migration runs for years and is overtaken by the next platform decision before it lands. Now AI has raised the stakes. To reason across your business it needs all your data and all your context with it. So a migration that never finished just got bigger. But what if data and context could be queried and governed where they already live, across cloud and on premise, without migrating first? This session explores how you can leverage your existing architecture to start driving AI value without waiting for the migration to finish, and where we are taking it next for context.

Forget polite panel discussions and canned PowerPoint slides. The Duel of the Data Experts is a high-stakes clash of ideas where you, the audience, hold the power. Six of the industry's sharpest thinkers will take the stage to debate the most pressing controversies in modern analytics. Operating under strict time limits, our debaters are split into two opposing camps: Team Optimist (visionaries betting on the AI-driven future) and Team Pragmatist (battle-hardened veterans who’ve lived enterprise software reality). They debate, YOU vote. Fast, unfiltered, and deeply provocative, this interactive session pits champion against challenger across three explosive thematic rounds: ROUND 1 — THE INTERFACE: AI Analytics means dashboards, and even data stories, are a thing of the past. Can conversational AI agents truly replace human-designed BI reporting, or are we abandoning visual clarity for hallucinated chaos? ROUND 2 — THE ARCHITECTURE: Modern semantic architecture finally makes 'Single Source of Truth' a reality. Do modern semantic layers finally solve corporate metric alignment, or are we just building the next unmanageable tech swamp? ROUND 3 — THE HUMAN: Data teams and analysts are the primary drivers of modern business value. Does AI elevate analysts into strategic powerhouse decision-makers, or are data teams dazed and drowning in an automated ticket queue? Expect sharp banter, zero corporate diplomacy, and direct audience voting to decide who wins each round. Whether…