CData Announces Free AI Event for Enterprises

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Oct. 15, 2026 /CourierPR/ -- CData Software today announced Foundations 2026, a free, one-day virtual event taking place on November 5, 2026. The event, themed "The AI Gateway, from every angle," aims to address the critical issue of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into enterprise systems while maintaining control and governance. CData, the AI gateway between AI and the systems that run the business, is hosting the event to showcase how enterprises can effectively deploy AI within their systems, ensuring that access, actions, and costs are managed appropriately.

Foundations 2026 will bring together CData's CEO and product leaders, a customer CIO, and the company's research team to provide insights and practical examples. The event will cover several key areas, including how AI reaches the systems a business runs on, how it stays governed, and what a CIO's rollout looks like in practice. The event will also feature a CIO's perspective from Anaqua, a company that has successfully brought AI into production, and a research team that will share its test results openly for others to verify.

The event will feature several sessions, including an overview of the AI Gateway's opportunity, how the gateway learns a company's business, a CIO's perspective on rolling out AI, and an exploration of the gateway's design and testing. Foundations 2026 will be a comprehensive look at the challenges and solutions in integrating AI into enterprise systems, providing attendees with the knowledge and tools needed to navigate this complex landscape.

CData Software, the AI gateway between AI and the systems that run the business, is committed to helping enterprises harness the power of AI while maintaining control and governance. With more than 10,000 customers worldwide, CData is uniquely positioned to provide valuable insights and solutions for enterprises looking to integrate AI into their operations.

Foundations 2026 will take place entirely online on November 5, 2026. To view the full agenda and register, visit www.cdata.com/events/foundations-2026. The event will feature a guided walkthrough of the gateway architecture with Mike Albritton and Amit Naik, and a conversation with CData's own marketing, finance, and business development teams on how they run their work through the gateway today.

The event will also include sessions such as "The AI Gateway Opportunity," where CData's CEO and product leaders will discuss how the AI gateway works and how it learns a business over time. Another session, "The Context Engine," will feature Dr. Nick Golovin, SVP of Enterprise Data Platform, Mike Albritton, SVP of Cloud, and Amit Naik, VP of AI Architecture, CData, who will explain how the gateway learns what a company's data means, captures its definitions, and turns approved corrections into knowledge every request reuses, ensuring answers improve with use and the context stays with the customer no matter which model runs.

CData Software is the AI gateway between AI and the systems that run the business. One control point connects agents and individuals to data across hundreds of enterprise systems, grounds every request in company context, governs it down to the record, and routes it to the most efficient model. Built on CData's data layer, it delivers accurate answers, governed access, and falling cost, whether the user is an agent, an application, or a person. CData powers AI workloads for Anthropic, Databricks, Microsoft, Google, Palantir, and more than 10,000 customers worldwide.