Strategic small-data systems can outperform large architectures when designed around the real problem, the real people, and the real business model. At Data Summit 2026, Joseph Hilger, COO, Enterprise Knowledge, LLC, presented his session "Simplicity as Strategy: Building Data Systems People Actually Trust."
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It's time to vote for the annual Database Trends and Applications Readers' Choice Awards, a competition in which the winning information management solutions, products, and services are selected by you, the readers. The voting period will be open through May 22.
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The roles of information professionals are being redefined in the digital age, seamlessly bridging the gap between traditional knowledge management (KM) practices and cutting-edge AI applications. At Data Summit 2026, Fleur Levitz, principal consultant, FDL consulting NYC LLC, and former data governance executive on Wall Street and senior management consultant and data governance practice lead, IBM lead her session, "Information Professionals in the Age of AI," examining several classical approaches to organize and rationalize human thought, namely through catalogs, classification schemes, and taxonomies.
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AI is capturing the market in the startup space in 2026, with Crunchbase reporting that AI landed 80% of venture dollars. That means $242 billion went to AI startups and four of the five largest venture capital rounds in history closed in Q1 of 2026. Startups continue to emerge that bring fresh approaches to accelerating digital transformation, expanding what's possible with AI and analytics, breaking down silos, enhancing security, improving data observability, introducing new types of databases, maintaining data at the edge, advancing Web3, and more. Here are 30 startups DBTA thinks are worth watching in 2026.
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