20 mins lightning talk We’re in the middle of a massive transformation of entire economies through data & AI. Today, business applications usually are the “incumbents” while data platforms are the “new kids on the block” that bring data from multiple data sources i.e. applications together and build AI, which, in turn, are consumed by business applications and users. Generative AI already helps us write text and improve code. So what happens once AI builds entire applications and starts to deploy them? Well, it needs to be deployed somewhere and the data platform holding the AI might just be the best place for it. And this includes compliance with security requirements as well as a seamless integration into business processes whilst ensuring that data can flow. When this happens, the data platform gets elevated from being a data consumer to a foundational runtime for any type of IT application - all while optimizing for the use and development of AI. In this talk we’ll explore some of the consequences and possible scenarios this development can lead into.