CTO Sam Pierson explains how Qlik’s associative engine and agentic AI are transforming the way businesses uncover insights and what’s next on the data frontier.

Topics Include:

• Qlik is a 30-year-old data analytics and AI company with global customers.
• Qlik's associative engine surfaces insights from data you aren't even examining.
• A paper manufacturer optimized supply chain routing and navigated tariff complexity.
• Generative AI can't easily query databases — Qlik's engine bridges that gap.
• Qlik built an agentic layer enabling natural language conversations with your data.
• MCP integration lets users access Qlik insights directly from tools like Claude Desktop.
• Qlik runs entirely on AWS, with global regions built around local compliance requirements.
• The AWS partnership prioritizes mutual success over transactional service relationships.
• Agents will mature in 2026; some agentic bets will succeed, others will be refactored.
• Fine-tuned, smaller language models will grow in importance alongside larger ones.
• AI adoption requires restructuring workflows end-to-end, from product spec to go-to-market.
• Qlik is hiring for curiosity and agency — people who experiment without waiting for permission.

Participants:

• Sam Pierson – Chief Technology Officer, Qlik

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Sumo Logic's VP of Security Strategy reveals how a ground-up agentic framework transformed their platform, and why clean data and autonomous agents are rewriting the rules of cloud security.

Topics Include:

• Sumo Logic is a cloud analytics platform ingesting data from complex IT stacks.
• Built on AWS from the start, leveraging microservices for scalable solutions.
• Early AI efforts produced a natural language query co-pilot for security data.
• Bolting AI onto existing platforms proved brittle and one-dimensional.
• Customer feedback drove a decision to redesign AI from the ground up.
• The Dojo AI framework unifies purpose-built agents across the entire platform.
• New agents include a SOC analyst agent, knowledge agent, and MCP server.
• New frontier models on Bedrock give the whole platform an instant brain transplant.
• Autonomous agents require rethinking security controls beyond traditional programmatic guardrails.
• Federal and global customers demand rigorous, levelled-up security across all regions.
• Clean, normalized data proved the biggest unlock for reliable AI query results.
• Agent-to-agent communication and MCP will define the next era of AI platforms.

Participants:

• Chas Clawson – Vice President, Security Strategy, Sumo Logic

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Avalara's Chief Architect Tim Diekmann reveals how AI and agentic technology are transforming tax compliance and accuracy across 40,000 jurisdictions leveraging AWS.

Topics Include:

• Avalara provides tax compliance software across North America, Europe, and beyond.
• They operate between commerce and government, covering 40,000+ jurisdictions.
• Services span registration, sales tax calculation, and certificate management.
• Avalara was the only company keeping pace with rapid tariff changes.
• AI is used to parse unstructured documents like tax notices and publications.
• Intelligent mapping automates ERP integration across vastly different system configurations.
• GenAI lets customers query billions of transactions using plain conversational language.
• Avalara and AWS are now engaged in a promising co-selling motion.
• Time-to-go-live and transaction accuracy are the key success metrics tracked.
• Amazon Q was rolled out company-wide, achieving 95% developer adoption.
• AI literacy is now prioritized across legal, HR, and engineering teams alike.
• Agentic AI will embed Avalara directly inside customer ERP systems going forward.

Participants:

• Tim Diekmann – SVP of Engineering, Chief Architect, Avalara

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