Semantic Layer Summit 2026
Overview
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Date | 2026 (specific date TBA) |
| Host | AtScale |
| Format | Virtual |
| URL | semanticlayersummit.com |
Agenda
| Time | Type | Session | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 | Keynote | 2026 Semantic Layer Summit Keynote | Dave Mariani, Luis Maldonado (AtScale) |
| 11:00 | Roundtable | Agentic AI: Why Internal Context Matters | André Balleyguier (Anthropic), Ted Kwartler (Accenture), Justin Lo (Chevron), Josh Patterson (Nvidia), Rajiv Shah (OpenHands) |
| 12:10 | Roundtable | Knowledge Graphs vs Ontologies vs Semantic Layers | Juan Sequeda (ServiceNow), Sanjeev Mohan (ex-Gartner), Jessica Talisman (Ontology Pipeline) |
| 12:45 | Lightning | Empowering Enterprise Agentic ROI | Daniel Gray (AtScale) |
| 1:40 | Case Study | Carrefour: 3,000 KPIs to Universal Semantic Layer | Nicolas Treanton (Carrefour) |
| 2:05 | Case Study | Blue Yonder: AI-Ready Semantic Foundation + MCP | Jeremy Arendt (Blue Yonder) |
| 2:35 | Case Study | Papa Johns: Unified Analytics Across Franchises | Brian Jones (Papa Johns) |
| 3:10 | Lightning | Customer Stories: Vodafone, Slickdeals, TELUS | Sean Francis, Cornell Lee, Michael Skariah |
| 4:00 | Roundtable | OSI & The Future of Open Semantics | Jamie Davidson (Omni), Josh Klahr (Snowflake), Ken Wong (Databricks), Dave Mariani (AtScale) |
Why
Two threads connect to current research:
- Agentic AI + enterprise context. The 11:00 roundtable (Anthropic, Accenture, Chevron, Nvidia, OpenHands) addresses the same problem as agent memory systems: agents hallucinate not because models are bad but because the data has no shared meaning. The semantic layer is the enterprise answer to what JITIR approaches at the research level.
- MCP for analytics. Blue Yonder's case study explicitly mentions AtScale's MCP server for wiring semantic layers into AI tools. This is MCP in production for business intelligence — a different surface than the CLI coding agent MCP servers in CLI agents Q2.
Related
- Agent Memory Systems — JITIR, reactive vs proactive contracts
- CLI Coding Agents Q2 — MCP across coding agents
- GraphQL — domain modeling, schema-first vs code-first
- GopherCon 2026 — MCP execution engine talk (same summer)