Zhamak has been a guiding voice in the data world, known globally for her work in defining and leading the Data Mesh movement. Her thinking has shaped the way many of us approach data architecture, and her influence continues to inspire teams and organisations around the world.
Zhamak Dehghani, Founder & CEO, Nextdata. As enterprises scale their deployment of Generative AI (Gen AI), a central constraint has come into focus: the primary limitation is no longer model capability, but data infrastructure. Existing platforms, optimized for human interpretation and batch-oriented analytics, are misaligned with the operational realities of autonomous agents that consume, reason over, and act upon data continuously at machine scale.