Agent-enabled Smart Data Mesh - Data Mesh Live 2026

Agent-enabled Smart Data Mesh

Eric BrodaEric Broda
Speaker
FormatData Mesh Live - Talk (50min)

Agent-enabled Smart Data Mesh

AI and agents are changing the shape of work: not just how we write code, but how we capture, reuse, and operationalize knowledge inside organizations. The dilemma for data products and data mesh is that most firms still treat the mesh as an operating model—ownership, domains, and principles—without the practical machinery to make it fast, coherent, and trustworthy at scale; as a result, data products remain slow and hard to build, definitions drift, tribal knowledge stays trapped in people’s heads, and “self-serve” quietly becomes “ask the same three experts again.” This talk will show how an Agentic Mesh is the next stage of evolution for data mesh: a layer of always-on, action-oriented agents that capture both explicit and tacit knowledge, enforce contracts and policy, monitor quality and usage, and wrap core data products with intelligence—so the data products you ship (and the mesh that connects them) become genuinely smart, not just well-intentioned.

About Eric Broda

Eric Broda is the Founder and President of Broda Group Software, a boutique consulting firm helping firms accelerate their agent journey. He is the author of O’Reilly’s “Implementing Data Mesh” (October 2024) and his second O’Reilly book, “Agentic Mesh” about the agent ecosystem was published in February 2026. Mr. Broda has written extensively on data mesh, data products, and agents at medium.com/@ericbroda. Mr. Broda has worked with large technology firms, banks, and insurance firms to accelerate their data product, data mesh, and agent journey.