Metadata Is the Missing Layer in Enterprise AI

The Ravit Show · Mar 20, 2026 · 9m

Five years advising CDAOs at Gartner D&A. Now in the field helping enterprises actually implement AI and governance. That shift gives Austin Kronz, Head of AI & Data Strategy, Atlan, a rare lens. And this conversation was honest. We talked about the gap between what we say on stage at big events and what really happens inside companies once everyone flies home.

Here is what we unpacked:

• What surprised him most moving from analyst to operator

• The real signals coming out of this summit around AI governance, metadata, and context for AI agents

• The controlled experiments around context…