The Data Layer for AI Agents: GPUs, Governance, and Open Architecture

AI agents turn every analytical query into a step in a chain, and GPUs are about to change how fast each step can run. In this panel, hosted by Starburst, Martin Traverso, co-creator of Trino and CTO at Starburst, joins Joe Sack and Chuck Desai from NVIDIA to discuss what GPUs mean for analytics, why converged platforms limit your choice of compute, and how an open data ecosystem lets you put the right compute behind every workload.

In this session, you’ll learn how to:

• Understand where GPUs change analytics for AI agents
• Avoid being tied to a single compute ecosystem
• Keep governance attached to every query, including queries from agents
• Prepare your data architecture for GPU-ready analytics