MariaDB’s Database Survey 2026
How are developers and organisations really using databases — and MariaDB? Take our survey and help shape this year’s public report. The survey is anonymous and should take 8 minutes or less to finish. Results will...
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InterSystems Asia READY 2026 August 31st – September 1st | Bangkok, Thailand: Watch the Event Replay
InterSystems Asia READY 2026 has come to a successful close, and we’re excited to share the highlights with you. Key topics include Next-Generation EHR & AI at the CenterExplore how AI is transitioning from ambition...
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Kätlin Pulk on What Generative AI Is Really Doing to Higher Education — and What Educators Should Do About It
Q1. You and Riina Koris chose the title The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly deliberately — a framing that signals a refusal to take either the optimistic or the catastrophist position that dominates most public discourse...
AI for Smarties: A Conversation with Bertrand Meyer
Q1. You open AI for Smarties by acknowledging that you kept meeting highly educated people who were fascinated by AI but, in your words, “had no clue of what’s inside” — unable to answer what a neuron...
When Freedom and Authenticity Diverge: James Brusseau on What Philosophy Sees in GenAI That No Other Discipline Does
Q1. You have written about “acceleration AI ethics” — an approach that argues for using ethics to enable and accelerate GenAI innovation rather than primarily to constrain it, in contrast to the precautionary approach that...
Trust Is Never Something You Can Claim: Ramesh Chitor on What a Real AI Bias Audit Actually Requires
Q1. What actually distinguishes a rigorous, defensible bias audit from something that only looks like due diligence — and where do organizations underestimate what “evidence” means to a regulator or a court? In enterprise...
Halving Hallucinations: Jacek Cala on NICD’s Breakthrough Research into Graph-Based RAG and What It Means for Enterprise AI
Q1. Your team’s research shows that introducing graph-based tools into a RAG system can significantly increase the precision and recall of factual correctness, halve the number of hallucinated answers, and achieve the highest fine-grained...
Sovereignty Starts with the Hardware: Paul Speciale and Patricia Hillebrand on Building AI Infrastructure Europeans Can Actually Control
Q1 The partnership between Pyramid Computer and Scality sits at the intersection of two trends that are increasingly in tension: the urgency to deploy AI infrastructure quickly, and the growing organizational and regulatory pressure to...
Your Graph is your MOAT
Philip Rathe, Neo4j CTO at WebSummit 2026 As technology advances at an unprecedented pace, traditional business “moats” are being challenged. This video explores why software alone is no longer a durable competitive advantage and...
From Replication to Resilience: Miguel Araújo on Building the Operational Layer of MySQL High Availability
Q1. As the tech lead for AdminAPI, you’ve spent years helping shape how MySQL users deploy and manage InnoDB Cluster, ReplicaSet, and ClusterSet environments. From your experience, what are some of the most important...