“The most important user is no longer human.” That’s how I opened my keynote at Helena Insurance in 2026. It sounds like a provocation, but it’s where the market is already heading. AI agents are the most demanding data consumers we’ve ever seen – they query in bursts, run in parallel, and treat every millisecond of latency as a problem. Databases built for human pace simply weren’t designed for it. That’s the gap Exasol was built to close: a database that keeps up under real agentic load, stays under your control, and gets you from prototype to production fast. Because that’s the real shift in 2026: less experimenting, more actually putting AI to work.
Dr. Florian Wenzel
VP Product Management
Associate Lecturer
Dr. Florian Wenzel
VP Product Management
Associate Lecturer