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14:10 - 14:40  Data Engineering, Integration & Automation Theatre

Future of Data Engineering in an Agentic World

Wednesday 22nd October 2025

About

This session will provide a Maia demo with roadmap teasers. The demo will showcase Maia’s core capabilities: authoring pipelines in business language, multiplying productivity by accelerating tasks, and enabling self-service. It demonstrates how Maia takes natural language prompts and translates them into YAML-based, human-readable Data Pipeline Language (DPL), generating graphical pipelines. Expect to see Maia interacting with Snowflake metadata to sample data and suggest transformations, as well as its ability to troubleshoot and debug pipelines in real-time. The session will also cover how Maia can create custom connectors from REST API documentation in seconds, a task that traditionally takes days . Roadmap teasers will likely include the upcoming Semantic Layer, a Pipeline Reviewing Agent, and enhanced file type support for various legacy ETL tools and code conversions.

Takeaways 

  • Understand how agentic AI can accelerate data engineering workflows
  • Learn how Maia transforms natural language prompts into YAML-based pipelines
  • Discover real-time debugging and metadata interaction capabilities
  • Get an exclusive preview of upcoming Maia roadmap features