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Herb Blecher

Herb leads the Data and Analytics practice at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). His research examines how enterprises architect, govern, and operationalize data platforms to drive business outcomes, with particular focus on AI/ML platforms, data observability, analytics modernization, and data integration. Herb has been a data and analytics practitioner in financial services and data product development for more than two decades. He directed national data programs for the U.S. Treasury and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, built and managed large-scale data platforms covering 80% of U.S. mortgages, and developed analyses relied on by federal regulators and cited in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and CNBC.

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Data Trust Convergence 2, The Rise of Context

By Herb Blecher on May 14, 2026 7:31:42 AM

We're in the middle of conference season, and it’s a firehose of announcements: feature releases, partnership reveals, integration demos, and new claims around enterprise intelligence. Across nearly every keynote and product launch, two themes keep surfacing: trust and context.

Topics: Data governance Data catalog Agentic AI data trust context layer data observability AI agents Agentic observability AI infrastructure MCP Semantic layer Enterprise AI
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