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krishan goyal

@krishan1390

Reimagining Analytics: Unlocking AI-Driven Insights with Pinot MCP Server

Submitted Nov 13, 2025

Type of submission: 30 mins talk

Description
This session will showcase the potential of Pinot MCP Server—a capability which enables business teams to interact with enterprise data through natural language.

Attendees will discover how Pinot MCP bridges the gap between large language models and real-time structured and unstructured data, enabling natural language queries, millisecond-level responses, and intelligent schema discovery. This enables organizations to extract actionable insights and maintain analytical context throughout even the most complex data explorations.

You’ll witness how this next-generation query console makes advanced analytics accessible to users of all backgrounds—no SQL required—and how it paves the way for the future of agent-facing analytics. Real-world deployment options and step-by-step guidance for integrating AI-native analytics into your workflow will also be covered, along with a preview of exciting roadmap enhancements, including native AI data fluency and robust enterprise guardrails.

https://startree.ai/resources/startree-mcp-server-for-apache-pinot/

Takeaways

  1. Learn how to deploy and leverage Pinot MCP Server for instant, AI-driven business insights.
  2. Discover how AI agents can autonomously analyze, visualize, and interpret your analytical data without writing SQL.

Target Audience
This session will be highly beneficial for data engineers, AI/ML practitioners, analytics leaders, business analysts, and decision-makers seeking to equip their organizations with cutting-edge, user-friendly AI analytics capabilities

Speaker

Krishan Goyal - Staff Engineer, StarTree

Krishan Goyal is a database and infrastructure specialist with extensive experience in building and scaling distributed systems. He was developed various features in Apache Pinot, Apache Yarn, Apache Solr during his career in StarTree, LinkedIn and Flipkart

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