1 OCTOBER 2026 - ON AN ONLINE DEVICE NEAR YOU
The Foundation of Intelligence Led Organisations
ABOUT
What’s DataNext Architecture all about?
Data architecture has never been more consequential - or more contested.
Architects are being asked to serve AI workloads their platforms weren’t designed for, govern pipelines nobody fully owns, satisfy regulators writing rules faster than stacks can be redesigned and modernise legacy systems without stopping the business. All whilst keeping the lights on.
DataNext Architecture Summit explores the decisions, trade-offs and hard lessons shaping the intelligence led organisations of tomorrow - honest, practitioner-led conversations.
Who should attend
> Data Strategists
> Data Architects
> CIO’s
> CDO’s
> Data Services
> Transformation Leaders
> Data Management
> Business Analysts
> CTO’s
> AI Architects
> Data Engineers
> Data Leaders
Speakers
Andrew Mumford
Senior Sales Engineer
Precisely
David Guerreiro
Senior Data Lead
2K
Orlin Corea
Lead Data & AI Sol. Architect
UAP
Raja Ramachandran
Global Lead - Data Architecture
EssilorLuxottica
Sebastian Wernicke
Author
Data Inspired
Anjali Jain
Author
Architecting for Autonomy
Louw Fouché
Principle Architect, Data
Philip Morris International
Paolo Platter
CTO & Co-Founder
Witboost
Ram Atirajyam
Lead Data Architect
Mars
Stavrianna Dimitriou
AI Architecture Lead
Pfizer
Beata Lisowska
Chief Data Architect
NHS England
Martynas Dauciunas
Data Architect & Gov. Lead
Chevron
Philip Bell
Director
Sofa Summits
Sachin Tiwari
Senior Data Architect
Vestas
Subhajit Majumder
Lead Data Architect
Mars
Christoph Spohr
Lead Architect AI & Data
Volkswagen AG
Naveen Chigurupalli
Solutions Architect
Easyjet
Philip O’Shaughnessy
Author
Architecting for Autonomy
Samrat Ghosh
Lead Data & AI Architect
Tele2
Tugce Ozdeger
Solution Architect
Riksbyggen
AGENDA
The schedule is based on the Central European Time Zone
Opening Remarks
Philip Bell, Director, Sofa Summits
Setting Data Blueprint Ready for AI - Semantics, Metadata & Governance
Beata Lisowska, Chief Data Architect, NHS England
Data Contracts in ML Pipelines: Preventing the Silent Corruption Nobody Sees
Speaker to be Confirmed
Is Your Data Stack an Asset or a Liability in the Age of AI? Redesigning for an AI-Native Future without Starting from Scratch
Raja Ramachandran, Global Lead - Data Architecture, EssilorLuxottica
Architecting for Intelligence: Why Data Foundations Matter More Than Ever
Paolo Platter, CTO & Co-Founder, Witboost
Exhibition & One 2 One Networking
- Take a virtual walk through our online exhibition - find some inspiration
- One 2 One Meetings with Sponsors, Exhibitors & Peers
From Medallion Architecture to Data Products: Designing Scalable Data Platforms
Tugce Ozdeger, Solution Architect, Riksbyggen
Architecting a Trusted Data Foundation for Enterprise AI Success: A Strategic Imperative
Ram Atirajyam, Lead Data Architect & Subhajit Majumder, Lead Data Architect, Mars
Governing AI Pipelines: Data Architects at the Centre of Responsible AI
Andrew Mumford, Senior Sales Engineer, Precisely
From Data Platforms to Decision Platforms: The Next Evolution of Enterprise Architecture
Samrat Ghosh, Lead Data & AI Architect, Tele2
AIRA — AI Reasoning Architecture: A Framework for Designing, Governing & Deploying AI Responsibly in Enterprise Environments
Naveen Chigurupalli, Solutions Architect, Easyjet
Exhibition & One 2 One Networking
- Take a virtual walk through our online exhibition - find some inspiration
- One 2 One Meetings with Sponsors, Exhibitors & Peers
Technical Debt Triage: How to Modernise Without Stopping the Business
Sachin Tiwari, Senior Data Architect, Vestas
Built to Run or Built to Be Trusted? Four Questions a Data Leader Should be Able to Answer Before Someone Else Asks them First
Speaker to be confirmed
Managing Agents at Scale in a Multinational - Lessons Learnt & Changing the Mindset
Christoph Spohr, Lead Architect AI & Data Platform, Volkswagen AG
From Policy to Practice: Embedding Trust, Accountability & Control into Enterprise AI Architectures
Anjali Jain & Philip O’Shaughnessy, Authors, Architecting for Autonomy
Killing the Inbox Nightmare: Build vs. Buy When You're Migrating Maximo to SAP at Scale
Martynas Dauciunas, Data Architect & Gov. Lead, Chevron
Enterprise RAG Governance: Protecting Sensitive Information Beyond the Vector Database
Orlin Corea, Lead Data & AI Sol. Architect, Univ App. Sciences Upper Austria
Exhibition & One 2 One Networking
- Take a virtual walk through our online exhibition - find some inspiration
- One 2 One Meetings with Sponsors, Exhibitors & Peers
Panel Discussion - Architecting for Intelligence: Building Trusted, Governed Data Foundations at Scale
- Stavrianna Dimitriou, AI Architecture Lead, Pfizer
- Sebastian Wernicke, Author, Data Inspired
- Louw Fouché, Principle Architect, Data, Philip Morris International
Moderator: To be Confirmed
Closing Remarks
Philip Bell, Director, Sofa Summits
Registration Options
* Sofa Summits reserves the rights to cancel the registration if the registration conditions are not met or the registration details are false.
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