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session_id: "1356697"
title: "The new job of the data team is providing context to AI"
phase: live
last_checked: 2026-11-12T13:24:21-08:00
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# Links: The new job of the data team is providing context to AI

## Speaker

**George Fraser**, CEO and co-founder, Fivetran

- LinkedIn: [George Fraser - Fivetran](https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-fraser-a0219230/)
- X: [@frasergeorgew](https://x.com/frasergeorgew)

Both come from the conference roster, and each page's title names him.

## Company

**[Fivetran](https://www.fivetran.com/)**: "Automated data movement platform"
(from the site's title). He uses Fivetran's own setup as the example ("And this
is how we do it at Fivetran.").

## Resources

- **Blog** · [Meet Ramp Research: Our Agentic Data Analyst](https://engineering.ramp.com/post/meet-ramp-research)
  (Ramp Builders). The talk's first example: Ramp's in-house data analyst
  agent, built on the same modeled data that serves its BI ("Last year, what
  they did is they made an interactive data analyst.").
- **Blog** · [Open Data Infrastructure needs context engineering to unify data use cases](https://www.fivetran.com/blog/open-data-infrastructure-needs-context-engineering-to-unify-data-use-cases)
  (Fivetran). The talk's argument in written form: the work that makes data
  legible to AI is the same work that makes it usable for everyone.
- **Product** · [Fivetran Connector SDK](https://fivetran.com/docs/connector-sdk).
  The demo's ingestion: Python connectors built with the SDK and its agent
  skill ("with our connector SDK skill, and it will bring you beautiful
  connectors to any data source you desire.").
- **Product** · [dbt Labs](https://www.getdbt.com/). The demo's modeling layer,
  heard by the recognizer as "DPT": dbt models shape the source tables, add the
  agent schema, and declare the vector index ("A bunch of source tables, and
  then we use DPT.").

## Gaps

- OpenAI's write-up of its in-house data agent, which the talk says OpenAI
  published, answered 403 to the link check, so it is not linked.
- Stripe's internal data agent (heard as "Kai") and a second company's (heard as
  "Vera") are named only in garbled form; no post is linked for either.
- No official recording or slides found yet. The dossier rechecks every 6 hours
  during the event.