Formerly known as MarkLogic World
September 14-16, 2025 | International Spy Museum, Washington, D.C.
Take a deep dive and engage in conversations that will shape the future of data management and AI.
Join us at the Progress Data Platform Summit 2025—formerly MarkLogic World—the ultimate event for data professionals looking to tackle complex data challenges with AI-driven solutions.
Hear how the latest advancements in agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), semantic AI, data integration and more can help you bust data silos and drive tangible business impact. If AI is a priority for your organization, don't miss this opportunity to learn from experts at the forefront of data-centric AI.
Yogesh Gupta, CEO, Progress, will kick off the conference by welcoming attendees to the Progress Data Platform Summit, marking the exciting evolution of what was formerly MarkLogic World. He will showcase Progress’ expansive portfolio, spanning core infrastructure, experience management and an AI-powered data platform designed to drive innovation. In this must-see keynote, Yogesh will also share insights into Progress’s continued investments in MarkLogic and strategic acquisitions, revealing what these developments mean for the future of your organization.
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CEO, Progress
John Ainsworth, EVP of Application and Data Platform, Progress, takes a deep dive into the Progress Data Platform in this engaging presentation. He will demonstrate how the platform’s diverse capabilities seamlessly integrate, featuring a compelling demo of Progress MarkLogic-powered natural language queries and FastTrack outputs that go well beyond standard retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) techniques. If you want to truly understand the power and potential of the Progress Data Platform, this keynote is not to be missed!
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EVP & GM, Application and Data Platform, Progress
A candid update on how the Progress Data Platform has advanced in the past year and what’s coming next. See how use-case driven innovation and constant adaptation are shaping a unified, multi-model, AI-ready platform.
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SVP Product and Engineering, Progress
SVP Product and Engineering, Progress
SR R&D Director, Analytical Sciences, Core R&D, Dow
General Manager Applied AI, Moody's
This presentation provides an overview of Contiem’s RSuite CCMS, highlighting why organizations utilize the MarkLogic platform to efficiently create, manage, publish and deliver complex content at scale. The speaker will then explore the MarkLogic Flexible Replication capability and how its powerful functionality supports critical use cases, including the secure and timely delivery of tactical intelligence
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President and CEO, Contiem
In this talk we discuss Boeing's strategic use of the MarkLogic platform for content management of its vast library of engineering specifications, which comprises 40% of the company's product data. We’ll cover using the MarkLogic platform to model data semantics at scale using knowledge graphs and AI. We’ll also describe plans for using the platform to establish a service-based distribution system powering a "digital thread" throughout the entire product lifecycle, from product design to maintenance.
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Chief Architect, Boeing
IT Product Manager, Boeing
Progress MarkLogic applications power critical projects across a variety of industries, where data integrity and uptime are non-negotiable. To ensure consistent performance, we need to move past reactive monitoring and watch for signals that indicate potential trouble. In this session, we’ll explore the built-in tools the MarkLogic platform offers to assess system health, uncover hidden issues and maintain peak performance. You’ll learn practical techniques to anticipate problems before they impact users, whether you're managing a single instance or a complex multi-cluster deployment. You’ll walk away with actionable insights to strengthen your system’s resilience, reliability and responsiveness.
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CO-Founder/CTO, 4V Services
Discover how Progress MarkLogic's powerful data orchestration with Flux can streamline and automate your data pipelines. This session will showcase Flux in action with live demos, followed by an exploration of how Progress DataDirect enhances connectivity and integration. Learn how these tools work together to drive seamless, scalable data operations.
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principal sales engineer, progress
principal solutions engineer, Progress
The Corticon.js solution brings the power of a proven, enterprise-grade business rules engine into the modern, serverless world—now running natively within the MarkLogic platform. Trusted across industries for managing highly complex decision logic, the Corticon platform has long been the choice for organizations demanding agility, transparency and precision in rule execution. This session introduces how the Corticon.js solution can integrate seamlessly with MarkLogic’s semantic and multi-model capabilities, enabling logic to live closer to the data. Attendees will discover how externalizing business rules from application code can accelerate development, simplify compliance and foster better collaboration between technical and business teams.
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principal sales engineer, Progress
This presentation explores how data and AI are reshaping research-driven organizations. We trace the journey from experiment to data, highlighting key challenges such as data fragmentation, legacy infrastructure, and annotation gaps. The talk showcases how AI enables acceleration of innovation and improves decision-making. Strategies for building agile, data-centric R&D ecosystems and enhancing collaboration between domain experts and AI systems experts will be discussed, along with opportunities to train the workforce and multiply impact across disciplines.
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SR R&D Director, Analytical Sciences, Core R&D, Dow
In the race to adopt AI, most organizations focus on automation and time savings but the real, lasting value lies in capturing, compounding and acting upon the intelligence across the enterprise. This session explores how Moody’s Analytics is building a collaborative “agent habitat” where both humans and AI agents continuously learn from each other, creating a dynamic institutional memory that grows smarter with every interaction. By shifting the mindset from merely using AI tools to actively teaching and evolving the human AI collaboration, organizations can unlock sustainable competitive advantage, foster innovation and empower their teams to focus on higher-value work. Attendees will learn practical strategies for architecting both technical systems and organizational culture to transform fleeting efficiency gains into enduring, collective intelligence centered on the critical topics of trustworthy knowledge retrieval, data availability and security.
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Head Architect AI, HC & LS, Progress
This session presents context engineering for R&D knowledge, a systematic approach to preparing and delivering the right information to AI systems, in the right form at the right time. We’ll show how the MarkLogic platform can unify diverse research content without premature standardization, how mixed-mode querying and knowledge graphs can assemble the tailored context for each question, and how temporally-aware data retrieval can accommodate the evolving nature of scientific understanding. Together, these capabilities let AI agents tap into the right context and deliver insights that researchers can trust, act on and build upon with confidence.
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Independent Consultant
Discover how to build intelligent, end-to-end data workflows using the Progress Data Platform. This session covers designing applications that pull from relational and unstructured sources, apply auto-classification and metadata enrichment, integrate AI-driven chunking and embedding and store enriched content in the MarkLogic platform for operational use. Learn how to streamline complex data flows into scalable, intelligent architectures.
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SVP, Product & Engineering, Progress
Emerging Markets & Field Operations, Progress
Join CAS as they share their data-centric approach to modernizing the content management pipeline. A division of the American Chemical Society, CAS manages data at scale across multiple domains—spanning chemistry and life sciences—and is currently revitalizing over a century’s worth of content and processes. By leveraging the MarkLogic platform as a core technology to process, store and distribute data at enterprise scale, CAS is driving innovation in how they author, acquire and curate their ever-growing knowledge base.
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Data Engineering Senior Manager/Architect, CAS
CEO and Co-Founder, Datavid
Join Amazon Web Services (AWS) as they share proven strategies for achieving operational excellence with the MarkLogic platform in the cloud. By leveraging AWS' advanced infrastructure and services, organizations are transforming their MarkLogic deployments into seamlessly automated operations with "set it and forget it" efficiency. Learn how auto-scaling databases, self-healing clusters and intelligent monitoring systems are freeing up teams from day-to-day management, while Graviton processors and Nitro System-powered EC2 instances optimize both performance and costs. AWS is driving innovation in how organizations deploy, manage and scale their MarkLogic implementations, enabling teams to focus on delivering mission-critical value rather than operational maintenance.
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principal solutions architect, AWS
Discover how to build intelligent, end-to-end data workflows using the Progress Data Platform. This session covers how to design applications that pull from relational and unstructured sources, apply auto-classification and metadata enrichment, and store content in the MarkLogic platform for operational use. Learn how to streamline complex data flows into scalable, intelligent architectures.
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Senior product manager, Progress
The rise of the Agentic Web is transforming how content is consumed, with AI agents increasingly mediating information access for users. This shift presents both challenges and opportunities for publishers. To stay relevant and maintain revenue streams, publishers must start creating products specifically for AI consumption. This talk will explore the concept of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers as a key technology enabling content distribution to AI agents. Building on recent AWS guidance, we'll demonstrate how publishers can implement OAuth-enabled MCP servers to securely deliver content and services to AI, while maintaining control over content selection, authentication, usage metrics and monetization. By embracing this approach, publishers can position themselves at the forefront of the AI-driven content ecosystem, opening up new avenues for engagement and revenue.
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Sr Partner solutions architect, AWS
Join us for an examination of semantic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), but with a twist! This project automates improvements to ontologies based on interactions, ensuring that the knowledge graph evolves with the needs of users. AbbVie implemented this pattern on multimodal enterprise architecture artifacts and technical debt data. Along the way, they compared this method against more traditional RAG approaches, illustrating an improvement in the quality of information retrieval and accuracy of AI-generated responses. This presentation will establish that systems can be both highly trustworthy and highly automated, giving time back to knowledge experts and transforming queries into insights.
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Associate Business Systems Consultant, AbbVie
Search Engineer, AbbVie
Head Architect, AI, HC & LS, Progress
Artificial Intelligence will continue to revolutionize the way we discover and consume content in digital experiences. However, before we jettison trusted and proven systems that help classify and deliver content in favor of machine learning, we need to better understand the implications that decision will have. How can we measure and analyze content outside of the data clusters vectorization offers?
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Independent TAXONOMY Consultant
As AI transitions from hype to reality, organizations face a critical challenge—how to move beyond isolated pilots and demos to fully operationalize AI across every function. In this session, Ed Keisling, Chief AI Officer at Progress, outlines a pragmatic and scalable approach to embedding AI into the fabric of enterprise operations. Drawing from Progress Software’s own transformation journey, the presentation will explore how to overcome common barriers, such as mismatched workflows, lack of trust and fragmented adoption, to build a culture of enablement, experimentation and accountability.
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SVP, Chief AI Officer, Progress
In today's AI-driven world, success hinges on more than just technical prowess—it's about demonstrating tangible business value. This presentation will show you how to lead technical conversations with a business-first mindset, focusing on the transformative outcomes your organization needs, not just features. We'll explore the critical role of trustworthiness in AI and provide a clear roadmap for integrating a business-centric AI strategy that ensures your innovations truly move the needle.
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principal research director, Info-Tech Research Group
Data visualization is key to understanding all elements of a complex information landscape, but conventional tools often struggle to adequately retrieve and present the intricacies of large, connected data. These tools might not effectively illustrate how complex relationships and dependencies change over time. This is why it's crucial to visualize interconnected data in context.
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Sr Principal Engineer, Progress
Join us for a deep dive into building a high-performance Product Standards repository with the MarkLogic platform, targeting the complex object model of the third-party platform, RSuite. Explore advanced XQuery techniques, data migration strategies for massive legacy datasets and our architecture optimized for scalability. Learn how we developed custom XQuery modules for content retrieval via WebDAV, REST API and XCC by leveraging the core features built into the MarkLogic platform to solve complex challenges. Ideal for developers eager to master the MarkLogic solution to build resilient, efficient content platforms.
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Systems Architect, Boeing
Sr Solution Architect, Boeing
Manager, Professional Services, Progress
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the new buzzword echoing across the AI landscape. Whether you're building with AI integrated development environments (IDEs), deploying chatbots, designing intelligent agents or powering learning and e-commerce platforms, chances are you've heard of it—but what exactly is it? In this talk, we’ll cut through the hype and unpack what MCP really is, starting with its foundational concepts and how it’s enabling the next generation of AI experiences. We’ll explore how our products can be exposed as MCP servers, share best practices for developing and managing them and discuss how to build and maintain scalable MCP infrastructure. To close, we’ll offer a sneak peek into new agentic RAG capabilities from Progress, showing how it leverages MCP servers to orchestrate agentic RAG workflows in a practical and impactful way.
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senior principal sales engineer, Progress
director, quality engineering, Progress
software fellow, engineering, Progress
This session introduces the Progress Semaphore semantic AI platform, demonstrating how organizations can transform the 80% of enterprise data that exists in unstructured formats (i.e., PDFs, Word documents and emails) into actionable intelligence through knowledge graphs and taxonomies. Attendees will learn how Semaphore addresses critical enterprise challenges including data silos, inconsistent vocabularies across systems, compliance concerns and poor AI/LLM accuracy with private data. It will also explore the evolution from traditional to semantic enterprise architecture. The presentation also features live demonstrations using real-world scenarios. Designed for enterprise decision makers, data professionals and IT architects, this session reveals how semantic data management can unlock hidden value in information assets, enhance search capabilities, improve chatbot relevance and enable better analytics by creating meaningful connections between disparate data sources through automated classification, entity extraction and data harmonization.
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principal account manager, Progress
Join us as we explore the evolution of this project to create a knowledge retention system backed by the MarkLogic Server, the inclusion of the Semaphore platform to identify and remove personally identifiable information (PII), and hear about our future plans, including the introduction of AI with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to enhance the search experience for our research scientists.
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developer iii, ADM
senior developer, ADM
The Mississippi Division of Medicaid (MS DOM) had been in limbo with stalled/failed procurements, changes in leadership and delays in complying with CMS mandates – resulting in fines and the threat of action plans for not moving forward with required modernization. The CMS deadlines for Final Rules for FHIR Interoperability and Disclosure of Ownership were approaching, yet the State had not made any progress toward compliance. The State needed a solution that could manage the variety of data that needed to be queried, while also being able to support very specific query requirements. In this session, you’ll learn how MS DOM changed the trajectory of its data modernization strategy by partnering with Progress to meet federal compliance and satisfy internal business requirements with the MarkLogic platform.
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Enterprise Architect, Mississippi Division of Medicaid
Join the talk from Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) as they share their knowledge-centric approach to modernizing Mexico’s pension system. Aside from having private pension alternatives, Mexican citizens are also entitled to receive pension from The Institute (the Mexican government agency for public health, social services and economic benefits). The eligibility for numerous types of pensions depend on a complex set of laws and a vast amount of lifetime data with over 80 million affiliates. Using ontologies and semantic data, IMSS is changing the way Mexican citizens can enjoy better service and certainty of wellbeing during their senior years.
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Head of Data and Analytics, IMSS
An exploration of common use cases where the Progress Data Platform can speed up implementation and deliver high-quality results. The session will review use cases firms often struggle with, why they have issues and how the PDP can help solve them.
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senior principal solutions engineer, Progress
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As businesses increasingly depend on Language Models for faster, more efficient decision-making, it’s essential to ensure these tools have access to the best possible context. The Progress Data Platform Summit will showcase the latest MarkLogic 12 features—such as Vector Indexing and Querying, BM25 Relevance Ranking, Shortest Path Graph Algorithm and Virtual Views—which deliver improved results and faster iteration with lower memory and storage needs. This half-day event will provide technical insights and best practices for implementing these innovations in any RAG or search application.
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Learn about the innovative features in the latest Progress Semaphore release, including menu-driven SHAQL constraints, properties on relationships and the AI Model Builder, as well as a deep dive into how the Semaphore platform uses MarkLogic software to enable text analytics and knowledge graph creation.
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Chief Executive Officer
Principal Research Director
Chief Architect
Systems Architect
Sr Solution Architect
IT Product Manager
Sr. R&D Director, Analytical Sciences, Core R&D
General Manager Applied AI
head of data and analytics
Enterprise Architect
Senior Developer
Developer III
Principal Solutions Architect
Sr Partner Solutions Architect
Data Engineering Senior Manager/Architect
Associate Business Systems Consultant
Search Engineer
CEO and Co-Founder
Co-Founder/CTO
Independent Consultant
President and CEO
EVP & GM, Application and Data Platform
SVP, Chief AI Officer
SVP, Product and Engineering
Senior Product Manager
Head Architect AI, HC, & LS
Sr Principal Sales Engineer
Principal Account Manager
Principal Sales Engineer
Director, Quality Engineering
Software Fellow, Engineering
Senior Principal Solutions Engineer
Senior Principal Sales Engineer
Senior Principal Engineer
Principal Sales Engineer
Principal Solutions Engineer
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