Enterprises looking to build generative and agentic AI apps face a key challenge: how to realize business value quickly.

This session lays out a strategic framework for evaluating AI-ready data platforms with a focus on rapid time to value. William McKnight, president of McKnight Consulting Group, and Lizzy Nguyen, director of Product Marketing at EDB, team up to compare two real-world approaches to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and agentic AI: leveraging sovereign, hybrid EDB Postgres® AI vs. building an in-house DIY stack with cloud services.