Reaching production isn't the finish line for agentic AI - it's where the problems start (opens in new tab)

Richard Timperlake, SVP Sales, EMEA at Confluent, argues that getting agentic AI into production is where the real problems begin, drawing on Confluent's 2026 Data Streaming Report to show that fragmented, stale and poorly governed data infrastructure - not model quality - is what stalls projects.