Sean Knapp is the Founder and CEO of Ascend.io, where he’s building the future of agentic data engineering. With 20 years shipping data platforms, Sean previously co-founded Ooyala (acquired by Telstra) and held engineering roles at Google. He’s passionate about shifting data teams from maintenance to high-leverage architecture work, and his frameworks on AI agents, feedback loops, and graduated trust have reached thousands of practitioners through bootcamps and industry talks.