Using metadata to power and govern MCP and A2A in open lakehouse architecture

reach out to miriah@theforge.tech to speak

Developing powerful Al tooling has been our theme of the year, with agents and foundational models picking up steam across the board. Therein still lies the question though: how do we serve data for agents to work effectively? What sort of interfaces and service mesh infrastructures will be required? What about at enterprise scale? What even is context? In this talk we discuss the current big data landscape, challenges to data platforming for Al, and why data catalogues and metadata are the only viable path forward to effective, governed Al-development. In this talk we use the open source framework, Apache Gravitino as a key example for why such a solution needs vendor neutrality.

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Schedule:
6:30pm-6:50pm pizza
6:50pm announcements
7:00pm speaker
7:45-8:30pm mingle

How to find us:
Enter by the East entrance on 400W (across form the Delta Center). If the door is locked ring the bell and you can be let in. Sign in at the security desk. You can ask security for parking validation for Gateway parking garages, the North garage has easier access to the office.