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November 4, 2026 · Virtual · Half-day

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CONTEXT

About the summit

If you’re building the context layer, figuring out what governance actually looks like in production, or making lineage work at scale, this is where the experts and your peers are gathering.

CONTEXT 2026 is a half-day virtual summit built for practitioners laying the context foundation for their businesses.

November 04, 2026

Agenda

Choose your track

8:00 AM PDT 11:00 AM EDT / 4:00 PM GST

General Session

Why DataHub? What we built, how it works, why it matters
Shirshanka Das
Swaroop Jagadish
James Mayfield
Every agent needs an onboarding plan
Prajakta Damle
Shirshanka Das

9:15 AM PDT 12:15 PM EDT / 5:15 PM GST

Write once, serve everywhere: how Optiver built the context layer for agents
Christophe Godefroy
Deploying Data Analytics Agents to Production at Miro
Ronald Angel
John Joyce
Extract, Enrich, Evaluate: A Playbook For Building an AI-Ready Context Layer
Maggie Hays
Anush Kumar

From point agents to organizational brains
Lestan D'Souza
Domain knowledge: shipped and maintained in production
Björn Barrefors
Lestan D'Souza
Stephen Goldbaum
Agents don't mind doing the data work: scaling AI readiness in DataHub
Stephen Goldbaum
Nick Adams

iFood's integration with DataHub
Alexandre Miyazaki
Building a Production-Ready DataHub Connector with datahub-skills in under 30 minutes
JARS Shaikh

10:25 AM PDT 1:25 PM EDT / 6:25 PM GST

Community Spotlight: Context in Production @ Calix
Devashis Sarangi
Evaluating & Maintaining Quality for Data Agents
Chris Collins
The State of Context Engineering
Kevin Petrie
Swaroop Jagadish

Treat data incidents like production outages: data quality SLAs at Super Technologies
Nikola Kljajo
Putting Observability on Auto-pilot: Introduction to AI Anomaly Detection
Adrian Machado

11:30 AM PDT 2:30 PM EDT / 7:30 PM GST

General Session

Aladdin's Context Layer: Inside BlackRock's Blueprint for Agent Ready Data
Jeff Miller
Shirshanka Das

Speakers

The people doing the work, not just describing it.

Swaroop Jagadish

Co-founder and CEO

Shirshanka Das

Shirshanka Das

Co-founder and CTO

Jeff Miller

Managing Director – Global Head of Data Factory & Enterprise Data Platforms, BlackRock

Christophe Godefroy

Global Head of Data Platform

Prajakta Damle

Senior Director of Product Management

Lestan D'Souza

Co-Founder & CTO

Nikola Kljajo

Senior Engineering Manager

Björn Barrefors

Metadata Management Lead

Ronald Angel

Data Products Manager

Devashis Sarangi

Distinguished Architect

Kevin Petrie

VP Research

Alexandre Miyazaki

Data Engineer

JARS Shaikh

Software Engineer

John Joyce

Co-founder

James Mayfield

VP of Product

Stephen Goldbaum

Field CTO

Maggie Hays

Founding Product Manager

Nick Adams

Software Engineer

Anush Kumar

Software Engineer

Chris Collins

Software Engineer

Manuela Wei

Principal Product Manager

Adrian Machado

Software Engineer

Product deep dives

The DataHub team goes deep

The DataHub Product and Engineering teams are on the speaker roster throughout the Summit. Expect the kind of technical depth that doesn’t make it onto a conference mainstage.

These are deep dives on how the DataHub context platform works end-to-end: how metadata and semantic understanding is ingested, how it’s curated and refined, how it’s expert-validated, and how it is activated across agentic frameworks.

Plus, lightning talks on the architectural decisions that matter: URNs, GraphRAG vs. RAG, MCP, and observability at scale.

CONTEXT 2026

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More speakers and sessions are still to come. Register now to lock in your spot, and we’ll keep you posted as the lineup grows.

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