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Progress Data Platform Summit 2026

At the Progress Data Platform Summit 2026, experts will showcase how to turn scattered enterprise data into a trusted AI knowledge engine, build an AI-ready data foundation for decisioning and discovery, and operationalize AI with governance, lineage, and confidence. Learn how to drive repeatable patterns for scaling, from pilot to production, with outcomes…

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44Speakers
4Sponsors
334Sessions
24Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at Progress, in alphabetical order.

Aijaz Baloch
EVP & Chief Data Scientist · Techlogix
Akhil Raj
Global Product Director · Boston Consulting Group
Alice Augustine
Director, Scientific Knowledge Engineering · GSK
Ari Lehavi
General manager applied ai · Moody's
Balvinder Dang
CEO · Datavid
Brian Cross
Professional Services Manager · Progress
Chris Hoffman
Senior Research Scientist · ADM
Chris Smith
Enterprise Architect & CMS Compliancy · Mississippi Division of Medicaid
Cori Moore
SVP, Federal Solutions · Progress
David Palmer
Principal Developer · Progress
Drew Lent
Solution Engineer · Progress
Drew Wanczowski
Principal Solution Engineer · Progress Software
Eloragh Espie
Ontology Consultant · Enterprise Knowledge
Eudald Camprubi
Emerging Markets & Field Operations · Progress
Gerard Rebalsky
Senior Account Manager · Progress
Heather Hedden
Taxonomy Consultant · Hedden Information Management
James Arsenault
Product Manager · Progress
"James \"Clip\" Clippinger"
Senior Principal Consultant · Progress Federal Solutions
James "Clip" Clippinger
Director of Customer Success · Progress Federal Solutions
James Kerr
Software Fellow · Progress Software
John Ainsworth
EVP & GM · Application and Data Platform
John Estep
Technical Delivery Manager · Appian

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

Carahsoft
Datavid
Microsoft
TechX

Agenda

Selected from 334 sessions.

  • 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM

    Guest Speaker

  • 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM

    Trusted by Design: Combining Knowledge Models and Modern AI

    AI initiatives often face a tradeoff between accuracy, transparency, and governance. While knowledge models and taxonomies provide trusted business context and explainability, mode…

  • 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM

    Break

  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM

    Building Intelligent AI Applications with Progress Agentic RAG - Continued

    Continuation of the hands-on session for building semantic models for AI using Progress Agentic RAG.

    Track 1
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM

    Deploy, Build, and Explore the Progress Data Platform - Continued

    Continuation of the hands-on session on deploying and building with Progress Data Platform.

    Track 2
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM

    Making Meaning from Data: Hands-On Semantic Modeling - Continued

    Continuation of semantic modeling workshop with Semantic modeling specialists.

    Track 3
  • 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM

    The Trust Layer for Enterprise AI: How Semantic Context Powers Reliable Agents

    Datavid explores using semantic technologies and knowledge graphs as a foundation for explainable, trustworthy AI agents, reducing hallucination and building business context.

    Track 4 (Business Track)
  • 10:45AM - 11:45 AM

    From Operational Data Hub to Company Brain: the semantic layer that makes enterprise agents trustworthy

    Business Track
  • 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

    Leapfrogging: How Mississippi Medicaid Turned Compliance into a Catalyst for Innovation

    Mississippi Medicaid was facing a familiar challenge: aging systems, fragmented data, looming CMS deadlines, and years of stalled modernization efforts. Instead of treating complia…

    Track 2
Company intelligence

What does it mean when 24 companies show up, and 2 bet on three roles at once?

24 companies. two are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
2All threespeak · spons · exh
2Sponsoringsponsor only
20Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

Datavid·Microsoft

Speakers by seniority

34% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite37%
  • Founder / Owner12%
  • VP-level511%
  • Director / Head of614%
  • Manager / Lead1023%
  • Product25%
  • Engineer · IC614%
  • Research / Science12%
  • Marketing / Brand25%
  • Other roles818%

Of 44 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
Sponsors by tier
unspecified4
100% of 4
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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