Suresh Srinivas, a data platform technologist and co-founder of OpenMetadata, and Sriharsha Chintalapani, CTO of Collate, delve into the transformative role of metadata in AI. They discuss how metadata evolves from a human-centric tool to a foundational layer for AI, emphasizing the importance of semantics for accurate outcomes. The conversation highlights automated documentation and governance enhancements, scaling agent workflows, and the crucial balance of user identity and policy enforcement as AI access expands. Their insights reveal how marrying big data with ontologies can create machine-understandable meaning.
