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Daren Drummond

Your Agents Always Have an Answer, But Is It One You Trust?

AI agents don't hallucinate because the models are bad. They hallucinate because the data has no shared meaning. When agents query raw tables directly, "revenue" becomes whatever the context implies. The semantic layer fixes that: enforcing consistent metric definitions, applying security policy before any query executes, and making every agent response auditable after the fact.…

Josh Patterson

Every Slice, Same Story: How Papa Johns Unified Analytics Across a Franchise

Thousands of franchise locations. One legacy cube. Countless conflicting reports. Papa Johns retired a fragile OLAP environment and unified analytics across Excel and Tableau with a single semantic layer. Franchisees, finance, and corporate now see the same KPIs everywhere: comps, delivery times, customer satisfaction. This session covers how governed semantics drive trust, adoption, and faster…

Mark Palmer

Rajiv Shah

Justin Lo

Ikechi Okoronkwo

André Balleyguier

2026 Semantic Layer Summit Keynote