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Enterprises want real-time AI, but most vector databases were not built to make updates instantly available to live applications at genuine streaming scale.
For data platform, AI engineering, architecture and technology leaders.
There is a gap between a write being accepted and that write being visible to the thing making a decision. For batch analytics the gap is irrelevant. For an agent acting on a customer’s last transaction, it is the entire problem.
That is the starting point for this series. Not a product session, and not a briefing. A table of senior people working through where that lag actually sits in their architecture, whether anyone has measured it, and what it would take to close.
Six cities across APAC, between October and November 2026. Each table runs under the Chatham House Rule.
DataStax platform materials, 2026. Figures pending client verification and IBM co-branding review.
Each table works through the same three questions, shaped by what the room brings to them.
The first question is whether anyone in the room can state, with evidence, how long it takes for a committed write to become visible to their AI layer. Most cannot, and the answer usually surprises.
// tension: throughput is measured, visibility lag rarely isThis session looks at the trade between infrastructure with a long operational track record and vector-native systems designed for this workload from scratch, and how each organisation is weighing it.
// differentiator: Cassandra-grade real-time architectureThe table works through what shifts in practice when infrastructure sits inside a large enterprise portfolio: procurement, support expectations, roadmap influence, and compliance posture.
// context: now part of a larger enterprise data and AI portfolioEach city is its own table with its own room, confirmed independently. Registration of interest is open now, with dates and venues confirmed city by city.
The value of real-time infrastructure is that an update is available to the application the moment it lands.
DataStax Astra DB platform materials, 2026
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DataStax built its business on Apache Cassandra, the distributed database designed for workloads where downtime is not an option and scale is measured in petabytes. That heritage is the argument it makes about real-time AI.
The company is now an IBM company, providing an integrated platform for real-time, generative AI-powered applications at petabyte scale.
Innovatus Media is a Sydney based B2B events agency that runs invitation-only executive roundtable series across APAC, EMEA and North America.
We convene senior decision makers for closed door conversations on the problems they are actually working on, and produce every element of the series end to end, from the room and the table to the follow up.
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