
Prukalpa Sankar is the Founder & Co-CEO of Atlan, the context layer for AI. She's been early to a defining idea of the AI era: context is king. AI systems are only as good as the business context behind the data they rely on. Under her leadership, Atlan has become a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrants for both Data & Analytics and Metadata Management, serves 300+ enterprises including Mastercard, GM, JPMorgan Chase, and Nasdaq, and has raised $200M+ from Sequoia, GIC, and Salesforce Ventures. Before Atlan, Prukalpa co-founded SocialCops, the world's largest government data lake powering the UN's SDG monitoring — recognized by the New York Times and the World Economic Forum. She's been featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 and Fortune 40 Under 40.
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Prukalpa Sankar is the co-founder and co-CEO of Atlan, where she has spent the past year arguing that enterprise AI fails not because of model quality but because of missing context — a case she makes through live demos, industry survey data, and a 'context as your IP' narrative aimed at data leaders and AI practitioners. Her session offers a practitioner-grounded framework for diagnosing why AI pilots stall and a concrete picture of what a production context layer actually looks like.
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