Goodbye Dashboards: Talking to Your Data with AI

​Join as as Sharan Shirodkar presents his talk "Goodbye Dashboards: Talking to Your Data with AI"

​From schema grounding to SQL synthesis, Text-to-SQL is a complex orchestration problem — not just a prompt. In this session, we’ll dissect the full stack of modern Text-to-SQL systems: database connectors, schema indexing, dynamic prompt construction, model selection, and post-processing for query validation. Based on hands-on experience building these systems for enterprise analytics, we’ll discuss architecture patterns, scaling challenges, and how to move beyond “demo-grade” toward production reliability.

​Connect with Sharan - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharanshirodkar7/

​The Event is hosted at the Old Post Office

​433 W Van Buren St. Chicago, IL 60607

​Please reference our visitor guide page (https://www.notion.so/focusedlabs/Focused-Chicago-Visitor-Guide-External-fb804f764479438393f43ed5b15a441b#fb804f764479438393f43ed5b15a441b) for detailed information on how to access the building.

​The event is in the Stage Coach space located on the second floor. ALL guests must register for the event in advance and will need to check in with security upon arrival.

​Agenda

​6:00 - 6:30 Networking and Pizza

​6:30 - 7:15 Presentation

​7:15 - 7:30 Q&A

​7:30 - 8:00 Networking and Wrap Up

​Agentic Engineering Chicago is sponsored by Focused an exclusive LangChain partner and boutique consultancy dedicated to building production-ready AI systems that work in the real world.

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