What QuanCon26 Revealed about the Decision-Centric Era

QuanCon is Quantexa’s annual ecosystem event, bringing together customers, partners, and industry leaders to explore how organizations are turning data, analytics, and AI into better decisions at scale. Each year, QuanCon creates a space for the ecosystem to share real-world progress and look ahead to what is required to operate with confidence in increasingly complex environments. 

At QuanCon 2026, we celebrated our first decade of innovation. Over the past decade, we’ve seen the importance of trusted data foundations; we’ve rolled out game-changing new AI capabilities; then, we’ve enabled our customers to leverage trusted data to unlock transformative AI success. 

We are solidly in the era of AI discovery and its important to keep asking: What’s next?   

The answer: decision-centricity.  

Exploring the theme “Decoding Data + Decisions”, each of our keynotes, panels, and breakaway sessions focused on this underlying idea that enterprises must move beyond data gathering and AI experimentation to operational, trusted decision‑making at scale.  

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For a taster of this year’s event, here’s a list of the key takeaways:  

1. Decision-centricity is the new end goal  

QuanCon26 gave attendees a look into what decision‑centricity looks like in practice live demonstration. 

In an end‑to‑end demo, Jamie Hutton, Chief Technology Officer and co‑founder at Quantexa, alongside Christina Eleftheriou, Lead Data Scientist at Quantexa, showed how organizations can move from an empty environment to insight and action in minutes. 

Starting with raw, disconnected data, the session walked through building a trusted data foundation, using AI to surface data quality issues, enriching context through knowledge graphs, and pushing opportunities directly into downstream systems for action. The demonstration showed multiple personas across the enterprise working from the same platform, highlighting how decision intelligence supports collaboration rather than isolated analysis. 

The key takeaway was clear. Better decisions come from connected data, embedded context, and workflows designed around how decisions are actually made. 

Jamie Hutton, CTO, Quantexa on stage at QuanCon26.

2. Context is the key to strong decisioning 

Until now, many organizations have struggled to obtain tangible value from their data or AI transformation. The missing piece? Context.  

CEO and founder Vishal Marria’s keynote discussed how context offers vital real-world understanding, revealing how people, places, institutions, transactions, and events are connected. Without knowing how these entities interact or influence each other, decision-making is guess-work, relying on disparate, fragmented data points even with the benefit of the most sophisticated AI tools.  

Context bridges the gap between insights and impact, aligning teams around a shared, accurate 360-degree view. In doing so, previously unseen risk and opportunities are surfaced, and risk and uncertainty are reduced.

Vishal Marria, CEO, Quantexa on stage at QuanCon26.

3. Product innovation is designed around real decision journeys 

QuanCon26’s product vision and roadmap sessions offered a window into some of the real, impactful ways that decision intelligence is being put into practice across the enterprise. 

Dan Higgins, Chief Product Officer at Quantexa, and Freya Longhurst, VP of Product Marketing, shared how the company is building modern data, analytics, and AI capabilities designed for complex, highly regulated environments. They walked through how trusted data foundations, explainable analytics, and embedded AI work together to help organizations make more confident decisions.

The session also highlighted how customer feedback continues to shape Quantexa’s product roadmap. From low-code configuration and persona-driven workflows to greater user self-sufficiency and faster time to value, the focus is on making it easier for organizations to turn insights into action.

Dan Higgins, CTO, Quantexa on stage at QuanCon26.

4. Innovation occurs at the point-of-use

QuanCon26 saw the highly anticipated return of our hands-on Innovation Forums, in which industry leaders and our own experts share how Decision Intelligence is being applied across various hyper-regulated and data-intensive sectors.  

This year’s forums featured four dedicated tracks, each of which explored real‑world scenarios, reference architectures, and peer stories: 

• Banking: turning regulatory complexity into a catalyst for growth 

• Insurance: building AI‑ready foundations to drive competitive advantage 

• Government: modernizing decision‑making through trusted data 

• Data & AI: operationalizing contextual analytics and trusted AI at scale 

Our Innovation Forums moved beyond theoretical frameworks to focus on practical implementation and use strategies across different industries and government spaces, revealing how organizations are utilizing Quantexa’s platform to refine decision processes and deliver measurable impact.

5. Our customers were the heroes of QuanCon26

Customer sessions throughout QuanCon26 demonstrated how decision intelligence is being applied across industries. 

Speakers from organizations including Citibank, Intact, the Infected Blood Compensation Authority, and the IRS offered informative and inspiring examples of how connected data and contextual intelligence are improving investigations, strengthening trust, and supporting better outcomes for people and communities, even within highly regulated environments. 

Together, these sessions showed decision intelligence moving from proof‑of‑concept to production, helping organizations act with confidence in complex and evolving risk landscapes. 

6. A new chapter in market intelligence is beginning with Moody’s 

One of the standout moments at QuanCon26 was a joint session with Rob Fauber, President and CEO of Moody’s, and Vishal Marria, Founder and CEO of Quantexa. 

Their conversation dove into how contextual data and AI are transforming modern market intelligence, especially as risks across credit, cyber, market, and financial crime become increasingly interconnected. They explored how bringing together internal and external data with advanced analytics helps organizations anticipate emerging threats, increase transparency, and build more resilient financial systems. 

The session offered a clear, real-world look at how decision intelligence is being applied to market intelligence at scale and showed not just what’s possible today, but the path forward for smarter, more proactive risk management. 

Ron Fauber, President & Chief Executive Officer, Moody’s on stage at QuanCon26

7. Transformation happens through ecosystems, not in isolation 

One of the recurring themes at QuanCon26 was the power of ecosystems. 

Sessions with leaders from Microsoft, KPMG, Accenture, and Quantexa highlighted how co-innovation can accelerate decision-centric transformation. Speakers shared insights on how trusted data, responsible AI, and combined expertise help organizations turn ambition into real-world execution. 

If there was one clear takeaway from these sessions with industry partners, it’s that no organization transforms alone. Real progress comes from collaboration between customers, partners, and technology leaders working on hard problems together. 

Mainstage Host Award-Winning Futurist, Shivvy Jervis is joined by Julie Sweet, Chair & CEO, Accenture and Vishal Marria, Founder & CEO, Quantexa on stage.

8. Valued partnerships drive transformation 

Quantexa’s global, multi-industry partnership network is an integral part of the work we do. Every day, enterprise leaders and their teams are finding innovative, inspired use cases for decision intelligence.  

At QuanCon26, we were incredibly proud to celebrate our joint growth with our global, cross-industry partner network. The partners that were recognized with awards for their contributions were: 

• PwC: Growth Partner of the Year 2026 (Craig McKeown)  

• KPMG: Innovation Partner of the Year 2026 (Eugene Ozolua)   

• Deloitte: Americas Partner of the Year 2026 (David Stewart)  

• PwC: EMEA Partner of the Year 2026 (Emma Tyler)  

• NTT: DATA Luweave APAC Partner of the Year 2026 (Satoshi Tokunaga)  

Alison Say, Head of EPS UK, Microsoft, Lisa Fernihough, Head of Advisory UK, KPMG, and Alden Hultgren, VP, North America Alliances Quantexa on a panel onstage at QuanCon26.

Attendees could play games and win prizes in our arcade.

9. Hands‑on experiences and community connection  

Beyond the main sessions, QuanCon26 featured demo booths, interactive experiences, and dedicated spaces for networking and collaboration.  

Attendees explored live product demonstrations, engaged directly with Quantexa experts, and connected with peers across industries. These hands‑on moments reinforced how decision intelligence comes to life through experimentation, shared learning, and community. As well as this, they had the opportunity to win prizes and lean into their competitive spirit in the arcade.   

10. It’s been ten years…and we’re only getting started  

This year’s QuanCon26 also served as a moment of reflection, marking Quantexa’s 10‑year anniversary, as well as the maturation of the decision intelligence category itself.

Besides giving us a chance to celebrate our progress over the past decade, QuanCon26 provided an important opportunity to consider some important questions: What do we expect Quantexa’s impact to be on the evolving decision intelligence space? How do we expect to shape this industry over the next ten years?

We believe one thing is clear: The next decade will be defined not by who has the most data or the most AI, but by who can consistently make better decisions with confidence. 

A big thanks for QuanCon26’s success  

QuanCon26 was made successful by our vibrant network, including a mix of customers, partners, and Quantexa experts. The sheer variety of attendees, both in-person and virtual, underscored the power of our community in shaping the future of data, analytics, and AI. 

We look forward to continuing the conversation around decision intelligence, not just in the next few weeks, but over our next decade in this industry.

We remain incredibly proud that Quantexa is leading the way in enabling organizations to make confident decisions that, in turn, help enterprises and communities grow.