AI ambition is everywhere. The models are ready, the investment is flowing, yet the outcomes aren’t keeping up. Cloudera’s Data Readiness Index 2026 survey identifies a widening gap between what enterprises want from AI and what they can actually deliver. In this episode of The AI Forecast, Paul Muller sits down with Cloudera CTO Sergio Gago to bring a practitioner’s lens to the problem, drawing on experience across the full spectrum from startups to global enterprises.

In part 4 of this series, Mike Tarallo form Qlik, walks you through the core components of Qlik Datasets, giving you a clear understanding of how to navigate and interpret key features within the platform. We explore the Profile tab, Data Lineage, Impact Analysis, and Data Preview to see how each helps you better understand your data and its flow across systems.

NKT makes the “electrical superhighways” that bring renewable energy to city consumers. Its 24/7 site in Karlskrona, Sweden is the world’s largest producer of high voltage undersea cables, making operational stability vital. However, the plant faced hurdles. Data was trapped in silos, leading to intuition-based decisions with no single source of truth.

You have the data. You just can't get to the answer. That changes now. Databox is an AI-powered analytics platform built to give teams clear, trusted answers, fast. No waiting. No spreadsheet tabs. No "I'll loop in Mark.".

Where agentic AI meets your analytics stack to drive action at scale. The shift is here. As the industry moves from Generative AI (Chat) to Agentic AI (Action), the pressure is on for developers and data practitioners to design intelligent apps that don't just talk: they perform. The real challenge? Bridging the gap between sophisticated developer tooling and your enterprise analytics stack. That’s exactly what this session solves.

Discover the powerful new IDE-like Studio in Lenses 6.2. Learn how to manage your Kafka clusters, discover topics across multiple environments, and perform side-by-side comparisons of dev and staging data. We also dive into the new ways to interact with streaming data, including the CLI, VS Code plugin, and the new MCP server for AI agents and chatbots. Whether you're a developer troubleshooting schema mismatches or a data engineer managing complex Kafka estates, the new Lenses Studio provides the tools you need to stay in context and work efficiently.

Is your AI agent one misconfigured server away from a production data leak? In this deep dive, Jeremy from Lenses explores the critical security architecture of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how it’s evolving to protect the future of Agentic Engineering.

Most AI failures aren’t model problems. They’re data pipeline problems. Disconnected systems. Inconsistent preparation. No governance at query time. This short animation walks through the 5 Pillars of AI-Ready Data and shows how data needs to move through a structured pipeline before it can power reliable AI. 5 Pillars of AI-Ready Data Access → Prep → Context → Governance → Monitoring Five stages. One connected flow.