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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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40Speakers
2Sponsors
224On the bill · sessions
23Companies · in total
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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
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Carahsoft
Datavid
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Agenda

Selected from 224 sessions on the bill.
  • 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM

    Guest Speaker

  • 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

    Mississippi's Division of Medicaid's Prior Authorization Modernization Journey

    Mississippi Medicaid is transforming prior authorization in response to the CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule, replacing slow, manual processes with a more in…

    Track 2
  • 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

    The Foundation for and Progress-ion of Staying Current

    This session explains why metadata, taxonomies and ontologies provide the scaffolding and guardrails AI systems need to produce useful, reliable and context-aware outputs. The sess…

    Track 3
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 23 companies show up, and 1 bet on three roles at once?

23 companies. one are betting more than once.

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Who's in the room
1All threespeak · spons · exh
1Sponsoringsponsor only
21Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Datavid

Speakers by seniority

33% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite38%
  • VP-level513%
  • Director / Head of513%
  • Manager / Lead1025%
  • Product25%
  • Engineer · IC615%
  • Research / Science13%
  • Marketing / Brand25%
  • Other roles615%

Of 40 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01Progress15V
  2. 02DatavidSp1V
  3. 03CarahsoftSp
  4. 04Progress Software3V
  5. 05Metadata Taxonomy Strategies2V
  6. 06Progress Federal Solutions2V
  7. 07ADM1V
  8. 08Amazon1V
  9. 09Appian1V
  10. 10Application and Data Platform1V
  11. 11Astro1V
  12. 12AWS1V
  13. 13Boeing1V
  14. 14Boston Consulting Group1V
Sponsors by tier
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100% of 2