From Insights to Autonomous Action: Powering Agentic AI
Webinar Speaker: Donald Farmer, Research Fellow
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Time: 12:00 p.m. PT / 3:00 p.m. ET
The gap between having data and acting on it has always been partly a skills problem. Most organizations hold vast quantities of well-structured data in their lakehouses, yet the analysts and business experts closest to the decisions rarely have the technical fluency to reach it without help. AI makes this gap wider, not narrower: agentic applications demand clean, governed, semantically rich data delivered fast, and the pipelines that served yesterday's dashboards weren't built for that.
This webinar looks at methods to close that gap. Join TDWI research fellow Donald Farmer and experts from Alteryx and Databricks to explore how organizations are getting their data AI-ready without making data access a privilege of the technically skilled few.
Through no-code interfaces and native pushdown capabilities, business users can reach the data catalog directly, run transformations where the data lives, and surface patterns and root causes in minutes rather than days. Attendees will come away understanding:
- How unified lakehouse architecture and accessible analytics tooling together reduce the total cost of your data stack while widening who can contribute to it
- Why pushdown execution matters for both performance and cost
- How governed, self-service access to the lakehouse lays the data foundation that agentic AI actually requires
- Practical approaches to moving your organization from ad hoc analysis to automated, AI-driven decision-making at scale
Date: March 26, 2026
Time: 12:00 pm PT
Donald Farmer