What Our Reps Heard at dbt Summit 2026

What are data teams actually asking for at dbt Summit 2026? We put the question to our reps on the show floor. The themes that kept coming up: giving AI agents real context into your infrastructure, SLAs and freshness across the entire stack (not just dbt), the gap between data engineering and AI/ML teams, and MCP servers as a way to put your team's expertise on demand for everyone's Claude. dbt, Dagster, and Prefect are already how most of these teams run their pipelines. MCP and agent context are what they're building next. Subscribe for more from the floor and from the team building Prefect, Dagster, and FastMCP. --- Prefect docs: https://docs.prefect.io GitHub: https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect Discord: [link] X: @PrefectIO