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URL:https://siliconbrighton.com/events/ai-and-semantic-layers/
SUMMARY:AI and Semantic Layers
DESCRIPTION:This month\, returning presenter Will Martin will be joining Br
 ighton Data Forum to tell us about From Open Storage to Open Meaning: How 
 Apache Ossie (Incubating) Completes the Open Data Lakehouse\nWill writes:\
 nThe open data lakehouse has a solid data foundation thanks to Apache Iceb
 erg and Apache Polaris: an open table format and catalog any query engine 
 can share without lock-in. But openness in storage doesn't mean openness i
 n meaning. Business context\, like “revenue” and “active customer”
 \, tends to sit in downstream systems\, like notebooks and BI tools. These
  definitions tend to not agree and they don’t travel well between system
 s. That is\, until Apache Ossie (Incubating)\, the newly Apache-incubated 
 open spec for semantic layers and ontologies\, backed by Snowflake\, Dremi
 o\, Databricks\, dbt Labs\, and Salesforce.\nThis talk will explain the cu
 rrent open data lakehouse stack and introduce Apache Ossie (Incubating). W
 e’ll discuss how open source projects provide vendor-neutral options wit
 hout sacrificing performance\, and why shared semantics is the next open s
 tandards fight in this age of agentic analytics.\nAlso\, we've got a light
 ning talk lined up on Microsoft Fabric\, straight from the trenches :)\nTh
 e Fabric Tax\nMehmet Yolcu - BI Lead\, Brighton &amp\; Hove City Council\n
 What does Microsoft's so-called unified analytics platform actually cost d
 ata teams once the demo wraps and production kicks in? Mehmet's back at th
 e Brighton Data Forum with a holistic look at Fabric after a year of real-
 world use. If you're weighing up Fabric\, or already paying the tax\, this
  is 15 minutes of field notes you won't get from the keynote.\nPlease be p
 unctual\, the event is hosted by our loyal hosts at Barclay's Eagle Labs i
 n their Platf9rm offices\, supported by Silicon Brighton and sponsored by 
 Rittman Analytics.
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