How AI Agents Are Reshaping Enterprise Data Management

The organizations that get AI right in the next two years won't be the ones with the best models - they'll be the ones with the right foundation. Thomas Mazzaferro, ranked among the top 100 most influential people in data three years running, sits down with Matillion CMO Mark Johnston to discuss what that foundation actually requires: from data quality and AI security to legacy modernization and the future of the data engineering team.

What You'll Learn:

• Why most AI initiatives underdeliver: the root cause isn't the model, it's the data foundation underneath it: quality, metadata, governance, and security
• How the data org is being restructured: from how the data engineer role is splitting in two, to why agentic tools let a fraction of your team do what used to require ten people
• What a pragmatic agentic strategy actually looks like: why consolidating to one platform is a myth, how to handle legacy infrastructure without disruption, and the one thing every CDAO must get right before scaling AI

• Mark Johnston, CMO, Matillion
• Thomas Mazzaferro, CDO, Cyera

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