[Online] Why Your Agents Need Data Contracts Too

​Continuing our DPM webinar series aimed at upskilling & knowledge-sharing, we're joined by Andriy Mandyev - Data/AI Architect and Strategy Consultant!

​Every team is building agents. But agents are only as reliable as the data they consume — and most teams haven't designed their data with agents in mind.

​Data contracts have become standard practice for data pipelines. The argument is simple: producers and consumers should agree on schema, semantics, and SLAs. But as AI agents increasingly depend on structured data feeds, the same logic applies — with higher stakes. An agent that hits an unexpected null doesn't just fail a dashboard. It may take a wrong action.

​Andriy Mandyev has spent 15+ years building data organisations and architectures at scale — across finance (Société Générale), retail (Decathlon), and start-ups (Bryj) — and has watched this problem emerge from the ground up.

​What we'll unpack

• ​Why data contracts matter for agentic AI, not just data pipelines

• ​What breaks first when agents encounter inconsistent or undocumented data

• ​How to design data interfaces that agents can depend on

• ​Who owns the contract between data producers and agent builders

• ​Lessons from building at scale across Société Générale, Decathlon, and Bryj

​What you'll walk away with

• ​A framework for thinking about data contracts in an agentic context

• ​Practical patterns for making your data agent-ready

• ​An understanding of where the contract sits in your architecture

• ​Questions to ask your team before your next agent build

​Perfect for: Data product managers, data architects, platform engineers, and AI/ML teams building or evaluating agentic systems. If you've ever had an agent silently fail because upstream data changed, this one's for you.

​Whether you're just starting to think about agents or already running them in production, this session will give you a practical lens for the data layer that most teams miss.

​About our speaker

​Andriy Mandyev brings over 15 years of experience in the tech industry, spanning the evolution of software from high-performance distributed systems to data platforms, analytics, machine learning, and agentic AI. Having built and led data organisations at scale, designed enterprise data architectures, and delivered data services across hundreds of operational and analytical use cases, Andriy's career has moved from development to leadership across diverse sectors including Finance (Société Générale), start-ups (Bryj), and Retail (Decathlon). Regardless of the role, the lens remains the same: the art of scaling — be it systems, teams, or products.

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