Keynote: From Data Foundations to Agentic AI

Sanjeev Mohan, Principal - SanjMo Former Gartner Research VP, Data & Analytics The modern data stack was built for a world of dashboards and batch pipelines. AI agents are breaking it. The scarcest resource is no longer compute or storage, but the talent to reduce platform complexity. Further, traditional boundaries between operational and analytical databases are dissolving. The separation between roles and use is collapsing into a single operational discipline as AI systems blur the line between applications and data pipelines. This talk examines trends reshaping every layer of the AI-driven data foundation, from storage to governance to operations.