The Decisive
Circle · Bay Area
A strategic morning on BI and analytics governance in the age of Agentic BI and generative AI.
Free admission, by confirmed invitation only.
Agenda
One morning, three sessions.
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9:30 – 10:00 am
Welcome Breakfast
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10:00 – 10:45 am
Keynote
The End of BI as You Run It Today
The road to AI analytics, and the leaders who will shape it
AI now builds dashboards, writes queries and answers business questions on its own. What does that mean for BI, and for the people who lead it? Drawing on the 500 enterprise BI teams we support, this keynote shows what ends, why AI is breaking BI cost models, what trusted analytics now requires, and what BI leaders should change first, in their teams and in their careers.
Sébastien GoiffonCEO and Founder, Wiiisdom -
10:45 – 11:15 am
Break
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11:15 – 11:35 am
Session
AI Builds the Dashboard. Who Signs Off?
Closing the validation gap in agentic analytics
A prompt now builds in minutes what used to take days. Validation did not keep pace, so it gets skipped. This session explores what that gap means for BI and data leaders, why the semantic layer matters again, and why the shared asset, not everything built, should be the unit of governance.
Douglas LamBI Platform Manager, Netflix -
11:40 am – 12:00 pm
Session
Governing What You Didn't Build
How data leaders keep accountability as AI generates the analytics
When AI generates the dashboard, who is accountable for it? This session explores ownership of assets nobody built by hand, why regulated data should trigger review automatically, and where a platform team can enforce versus only influence.
Don CollinsSenior BI Leader, UCLA Health -
12:00 – 2:00 pm
Lunch Cocktail & Peer-to-Peer Networking (vegetarian options are available)
Why attend
What is the BI team for when agents build the content?
A private morning for data and BI leaders. November 19, Four Seasons Silicon Valley.
Everyone is deploying agents right now. Very few people are saying out loud what is actually working.
When agents generate most of the insight, every BI leader faces the same question: how do you keep trust, consistency and business value when content is produced and distributed at scale? Most leaders are working out the answer privately, and nobody is publishing it.
The Decisive Circle brings about 30 data and BI leaders into one room for a candid, peer-to-peer morning on exactly that conversation, followed by lunch.
What to expect
- Practitioners first. Douglas Lam (Netflix) and Don Collins (UCLA Health) open by describing what they are doing today, including the parts that are not working yet.
- The view across 500 BI teams. Sébastien Goiffon, Founder and CEO of Wiiisdom, shares what we see across the enterprise BI teams we support.
- Open conversation. The role of the BI team in the agentic era, the new risks of democratized insight, and how to secure the last mile of BI without slowing innovation.
- Networking lunch. Continue the discussion with peers.
Venue
See you in Bay Area, CA.
- Date
- Thursday, November 19, 2026
- Time
- 9:30 am – 2 pm
- Venue
- Four Seasons Silicon Valley, Palo Alto East
(Free parking is available) - Admission
- Free, by confirmed invitation
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