Christina Stathopoulos tells Katie Baker why natural language won't replace dashboards, and where leaders should invest for the agentic era.
We caught up with Christina at Big Data LDN 2026. Her message to data leaders is that nothing has changed, and that's the point. Data still needs to be accessible, governed and trustworthy. AI just raises the stakes.
Then comes the 12-month bet. Some people argue that asking questions of your data in natural language will replace dashboards and reports. Christina doesn't buy it. She calls it hype for now, and expects that a year from today we'll see it as one more way to work with data, not a replacement for trusted, well-prepared metrics.
Her advice on where to invest as the agentic era arrives is to go back to your data pipelines.
