Upcoming Webinar: Building a Semantic Layer for Your Enterprise Data Estate
Date: 8 September 2026
Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET
Duration: 50 minutes
The democratisation of data has encouraged engineers to think about how to make their data estates more accessible and useable for non-technical business end-users. Translating intention into data action requires careful configuration that enables consumers to mine insight, analytics and value without having to use precise technical terminology.
Data engineers achieve this through semantic layers, a set of digital instructions that act as an intermediary between consumers and the tech stacks of organisations.
Not only do they permit non-technical personnel to interact with data, converting it from its raw form to business-meaningful information, they also create a unified view of that data across an enterprise. This in turn optimises data quality, creates the fundamentals for self-service analytics and facilitates a host of powerful applications and use cases.
Building a semantic layer takes precision to ensure it aligns with the business requirements of the organisation. In this webinar, leading practitioners will look at how semantic layers can bring value to organisations and examine how they can most effectively be configured for an enterprise.
Among the topics discussed will be:
- Best practices for building a semantic layer
- How such structures can be monitored and validated
- The kinds of modelling tools used in their creation
- Construction challenges and how to overcome them
Speakers:
Raguvaran Reddy Kalluri
Lead Developer & Solution Architect
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
Moderator: Mark McCord
Editor, Data Management Insight
A-Team Group
More about our speakers:
Raguvaran Reddy Kalluri
Lead Developer & Solution Architect
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
With 18 years of leadership in Information Technology, Raghuvaran is a distinguished Solution and Data Architect specializing in enterprise-grade data management and Master Data Management (MDM) strategy. Currently serving as a Solution Architect and Data Owner at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), he sits at the intersection of technical architecture and data accountability, ensuring that complex data ecosystems drive measurable business value.
Raghuvaran has architected and delivered mission-critical, data-driven solutions for global industry leaders and major financial services industries. An Informatica Certified MDM Specialist, his expertise spans the modernization of legacy platforms into scalable, cloud-native environments that support AI/ML integration and high-performance governance.
Raghuvaran’s deep experience across the Financial Services, Retail, and Public sectors has made him a specialist in navigating the complexities of Customer, Product, and Location data domains. By bridging the gap between technical MDM implementation and executive-level data strategy, he has helped some of the world’s largest organizations unlock the power of event-driven architectures and intelligent decision-making.
Jez Davies
Chief Information Architect
Northern Trust
Jez is driving Northern Trust to turn data into a competitive advantage through semantic models, observable pipelines, knowledge graphs, and AI-ready foundations. He leads a team building the semantic foundations that make enterprise AI actually work.
Cara Baestlein
Director of Product
Ataccama
Cara Baestlein is the Director of Product at Ataccama, driving product strategy to help organizations maximize the value of their data estates. Passionate about democratising data, she focuses on scaling unified, AI-ready data management solutions that bridge technical complexity and build the self-service foundations that make enterprise AI actually work.
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