VIS Panels: Industry Meets Academia: Data and Visual Analytics in the Agentic Era
Agentic AI is reshaping how data and visual analytics products are designed, built, used, and evaluated. Major visual analytics software (e.g., Microsoft Excel, Tableau) and a new wave of AI-native startups are introducing natural-language interfaces and LLM-based autonomous agents, opening a rich design and research space that the VIS community is uniquely positioned to shape. This 90-minute panel brings together three industry practitioners building agentic visual analytics products (at Tableau Research, Microsoft, and the startup Ridge AI) and two professors in academia to discuss: (1) what industry is building in the agentic era of data and visual analytics, (2) what research the VIS community can contribute that industry most needs, and (3) how should universities train VIS students to be impactful in building real-world data and visual analytics solutions.
Presentations in this session
13:00 - 14:30
Industry Meets Academia: Data and Visual Analytics in the Agentic Era
Nicole Sultanum, Fritz Lekschas, Zahra Ashktorab, Lane Harrison, Dominik Moritz