Expert Panel: The Evolving Landscape for Data Platforms, Tools, and Pipelines
Webinar Speaker: Deanne Larson, Research Fellow
Date: Monday, November 10, 2025
Time: 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET
The modern data stack is undergoing rapid transformation as organizations seek to build agile, scalable, and AI-ready infrastructures. The traditional, tightly coupled systems of the past are giving way to modular, cloud-native platforms that emphasize automated data integration, pipeline reliability, and plug-and-play extensibility. Enterprises are demanding tools that reduce engineering overhead, adapt to evolving business needs, and support a growing variety of data sources—from legacy on-premises systems to SaaS applications and real time systems.
In this expert panel webinar, we’ll explore the shifting landscape of data platforms and pipelines, including trends toward automatic adaption to schema changes, declarative pipeline design, and metadata-aware orchestration. We’ll also look at the factors driving the need for more intelligent and AI-infused tooling and the features of these tools.
Guest Speaker
Aymen Ben Azouz
Lead Partner Sales Engineer, EMEA
Fivetran
Colin Dover
Business Technology Platform, Center of Excellence
SAP
As part of the SAP Business Technology Platform Center of Excellence, Colin represents a breadth of solutions within the SAP portfolio; he is an evangelist for the SAP digital transformation strategy and vision as well as a passionate advocate for the value and best practices of corporate customer data strategy and analytics capability maturity. He has held a variety of technical and strategic consulting roles at a number of market-leading enterprise software vendors gaining extensive experience over a 24-year period, working with many of the world’s leading corporations.
Date: November 10, 2025
Time: 9:00 am PT
Deanne Larson, Ph.D., DM, CBIP