Operational Database Management Systems
This section contains dedicated contributions from ODBMS.ORG’s Panel of Experts.
Q&A with Colm Scannell of Chadwicks Group (Ireland), joined by Paul Cranston of J2 Interactive, a partner of Chadwicks and of InterSystems. InterSystems Impact Award 2026 | Winning Category: Supply Chain Colm Scannell, IT Director of Chadwicks...
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...
Q1: You served as Chief Innovation Officer at the City of San Leandro — a mid-sized city in the San Francisco Bay Area, surrounded by some of the most intense technology innovation in the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Q1. The publication of EN 18286 — the AI Quality Management System standard — is a significant milestone for organizations trying to operationalize the requirements of the EU AI Act. For a Chief Risk...
Q1. Aqtra is building a Development Infrastructure Layer that enables organisations, cloud providers, and service partners to create and operate business applications, ERP solutions, portals, and automation services on a common foundation. That is a...
Q1. What failure occurs when AI-assisted decision-making operates without an explicit Feedback layer? The specific failure mode is what I call loop erosion: the system continues to optimize under the assumption that real-world consequences...