Press Release • September 9, 2025

Alation Announces revAlation 2025 Conference Series in Chicago, Sydney, and London

Speakers from BBC, Daimler Truck North America, JLL, Johnson & Johnson Vision, and Kroger, among others, discuss how to transform an organization's data and AI strategy into tangible business value

Redwood City, Calif.— September 9, 2025Alation Inc., the data intelligence company, today announced the return of revAlation 2025, its global conference series. The 2025 series encompasses three conferences in Chicago (October 1), Sydney (October 16), and London (November 12). 

Executives and product leaders from BBC, Daimler Truck North America, JLL, Johnson & Johnson Vision, Kroger, Oceana Gold, Terracon, and more will present across more than 15 sessions around the globe. Attendees will gain insights and advice that enterprises need to thrive in the future of data and AI, get exclusive access to a preview of Alation’s product roadmap, and learn how to translate innovation and strategy into actionable business value.

“revAlation 2025 helps enterprises turn the promise of AI agents into measurable business outcomes,” said Satyen Sangani, CEO and co-founder of Alation. “By bringing together global data leaders, innovators, and practitioners, we’re creating a forum to explore the future of data and AI, exchange real-world experiences, and showcase how precision, agility, and trust are driving the next wave of transformation.”

Conference Highlights Include: 

Keynotes: 

Corporate Keynote: Hear Alation’s CEO and co-founder, Satyen Sangani, share how AI is transforming organizations' work with data, raising the stakes for precision, agility, and trust. 

Product Keynote: Join Deepesh Chourey, Senior Vice President of Engineering, and Laurel Orr, Senior Software Engineer at Alation, as they discuss and demonstrate Alation’s powerful new capabilities, designed to accelerate data workflows and empower teams with intelligent automation.

Customer Keynote: Gain firsthand insights from Alation customers, including Édgar Gallo, Chief Data Officer at Daimler Truck North America, and Nathalie Berdat, Head of Data & AI Governance at BBC, as they share real-world stories of how their data and AI strategies are driving measurable business outcomes. 

Fireside Chat: Listen to data product management leaders, including Nate Sylvester, VP of Architecture at 84.51°, a subsidiary of Kroger, discuss how the role differs from traditional product and data leadership, and the challenges and opportunities for this fast-growing discipline.

Breakout Sessions: 

Bringing the Power of AI to DQ: A Hands-On Look at Alation Data Quality: Learn from customers like Oceana Gold and see how Alation’s new data quality solution, powered by AI agents, makes it easy to identify and monitor what matters most to your business. 

Build Valuable Data Products Faster with Alation’s Marketplace: Discover how Alation’s Data Products Marketplace accelerates the creation of discoverable, governed, and business-ready data products for brands like Johnson & Johnson Vision

The Future of Data Agents: What’s New with Alation + Numbers Station: Get a first look at how organizations like JLL use Alation’s evolving agent capabilities to automate intelligent workflows and bring conversational, metadata-aware AI into the enterprise.

Empowering Development Teams with the Agent SDK: See live demonstrations of how to call APIs and enrich agent responses with real-time insights. In this session, attendees will get a front-row seat and see what’s possible with the Alation Agent SDK.

Workshop: 

The Data Product Advantage: Cultivating a Business-Centric Approach with Alation: Learn to design and launch AI-ready, governed, and discoverable data products by framing data as a strategic business asset built to deliver measurable value. 

Peer Engagement and Networking: 

Data Radicals Awards: Celebrate individuals leading the charge and driving transformation with data and AI in their organizations. 

Closing Reception: Connect and engage with a powerful network of data and AI leaders, peers, and partners solving similar challenges. 

About Alation

Alation is the data intelligence company. Nearly 600 global enterprises — including 40% of the Fortune 100 — rely on Alation to realize value from their data and AI initiatives. Customers such as Cisco, DocuSign, Nasdaq, and Pfizer trust Alation’s platform for self-service analytics, cloud transformation, data governance, and AI-ready data, fostering data-driven innovation at scale. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, Alation has been recognized five times by Inc. Magazine as one of the Best Workplaces. To learn more, visit www.alation.com.

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