How AI is Changing Enterprise Data Search
Presentation at ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data
I'll be presenting at the ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference 2026 in Bengaluru, India next week.
It's a milestone for me.
This is an incredibly prestigious conference, and it's my first presentation in Bengaluru - the amazing Indian tech hub with so many brilliant people and enterprises.
My readers know that I am all about search.
My presentation "How AI is Changing Enterprise Data Search" will accordingly be about search. And there is a lot to tell. The very first use case for the AI revolution we currently find ourselves in was search - the battle of the bots, as The Economist has named the reconfiguration of the biggest business on the web; search. The era of the search engine has ended, and something new is emerging.
The AI-fueled reconfiguration of search is also hitting your enterprise data, and the way you search for data, and in data, is changing. This has consequences, and - if you architect with intelligence - it has advantages. Your enterprise will get ahead of your competitors, and deliver on data & AI agendas like never before, because of speed, precision and usability in searching data. For data, at the metadata layer, and in data, at the data layer itself. That's what I will be presenting, there is a sneak peak in the illustration below.
I present on the basis of our patented, technological advancements in Actian. Actian is the Data & AI division of HCLSoftware, again part of the entire HCLTech family. With our increasing number of customers, we build data Intelligence and AI solutions that are making a difference.
I also present on the basis of my two books published at O'Reilly :
📖 The Enterprise Data Catalog, and
📖 Fundamentals of Metadata Management.
My books are tech agnostic. This is important to me. I wrote my first book as an enterprise architect, not as an employee in a software company. I have written my books to provide simple, pragmatic, independent advice on how to set up data catalogs for success and effectively manage metadata altogether. I have the honor of having readers all over the world, this is my first time I get to present for my readers in India. I will be signing copies of Fundamentals of Metadata Management at our booth *D2* and I really hope to see you!
Also, because of continuous demand, I am writing the 2nd edition of The Enterprise Data Catalog, exactly because AI is changing how we search for data. I would love to engage in conversations on that, at SIGMOD.