Fireside Chat: Data Dominance: Navigating the Expanding Commercial Data Universe
Live
2026-09-24 | 10:55 AM - 11:05 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Synopsis
The data provider market has evolved from a relatively concentrated group of major vendors into a highly fragmented ecosystem of specialist providers, aggregators, analytics platforms and workflow businesses. Data increasingly is becoming both a product and a substitute for traditional workflow technology.
- How has the commercial data universe become more complex?
- Where is the line between a data provider, analytics provider and workflow platform?
- How are aggregators helping firms navigate thousands of datasets?
- Who captures value in the AI-enabled data chain?
- Can data providers become outsourced risk, research or analytics functions?
- How will agentic AI operate across data lakes, warehouses and standardized datasets?
- How should institutions evaluate data quality, relevance and return on investment?
