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  1. 01Goal-Directed Data Quality Agents: Anomaly Quarantine on Apache IcebergGoal-directed data quality agents that watch Apache Iceberg tables, detect anomalies, and quarantine suspect data safely with snapshot isolation and branches.
  2. 02Policy-Aware Lakehouse Telemetry: Building Auditable AI Records on Apache Iceberg for the EU AI Act EraPolicy-aware lakehouse telemetry for the EU AI Act era: build auditable, immutable, governed AI decision records on Apache Iceberg.
  3. 03Query Routing at Machine Scale: Multi-Engine Workload Distribution for the Agentic LakehouseQuery routing at machine scale for the agentic lakehouse: engine selection, acceleration substitution, admission control, and placement across multi-engine estates.
  4. 04Metric Contracts in 2026: Standardizing Business Logic Across Multi-Agent FrameworksMetric contracts in 2026: versioned, testable definitions of business logic that let multi-agent frameworks compute revenue identically, with OSI interchange.
  5. 05The Five Layers of an Agentic LakehouseThe five layers of an agentic lakehouse: Storage, Catalog, Semantic, Gateway, and Agent Surface, and how one question travels through all of them.
  6. 06Managing the TCO of Agentic Analytics: Token Budgets, Query Throttles, and the Economics of AutonomyManaging the total cost of agentic analytics: token budgets, query throttles, unit economics, and the FinOps discipline that keeps AI spend under control.