Roundtable

Digital Sprawl in the AI Era: How leaders are simplifying content, platforms, and governance for what comes next.

September 8, 2026 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EST
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Digital Sprawl in the AI Era: How leaders are simplifying content, platforms, and governance for what comes next.

As enterprises expand across brands, regions, and digital channels, managing content has become far more complex than simply maintaining a website. Many organizations are still relying on disconnected CMS platforms, duplicated content, and inconsistent governance, making it difficult to deliver a unified brand experience while giving regional teams the flexibility they need. At the same time, AI agents and assistants are rapidly becoming another channel for customer engagement, creating new pressure to ensure content is accurate, trusted, and ready for AI-driven experiences.

This executive discussion will explore how leading organizations are simplifying content operations by consolidating onto modern, composable platforms while building governance models that support both global consistency and local autonomy. We'll discuss what it really means to be "AI-ready," how to prepare content for AI-powered search and agentic experiences, and practical approaches to improving content reuse, accelerating speed to market, and maintaining brand integrity across a growing portfolio of brands and markets.

Join Hygraph and a select group of your executive peers for a candid conversation on the future of enterprise content operations. Together, we'll share lessons learned, compare approaches, and explore how organizations are balancing platform consolidation with business flexibility.

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Speakers &
Featured Attendees

Anthony Poliseno

CMO
Anthony Poliseno is CMO for Hygraph, a structured content platform, and is passionate about storytelling, find out more

Discussion Topics

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How multi-brand enterprises are consolidating content operations onto one platform without losing flexibility

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What AI-ready means for a global brand portfolio, and how leaders are preparing for it now

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The governance models needed to evolve so brand standards and AI agent output can both be trusted at scale

About Hygraph GmbH

Hygraph is a structured content platform built for multi-brand organisations. It gives development and content teams a single governed foundation to model, manage, and deliver content across every brand, channel, and market -- through a GraphQL-native, API-first architecture that connects to any frontend, backend, or AI system. Unlike general-purpose CMS platforms, Hygraph provides native brand spaces, shared content models with brand-level overrides, and role-scoped governance as first-class features -- not custom workarounds. Organisations use Hygraph to launch new brands without rebuilding content infrastructure, onboard acquired brands incrementally, and deliver structured content to web, app, portal, commerce, and AI surfaces from a single endpoint. The MCP Server connects AI assistants directly to the content graph within human-defined governance boundaries. Content federation unifies external sources without duplication or middleware. Hygraph is SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR compliant, serving 50,000+ teams globally and delivering 2.2 billion content entries monthly for customers including Samsung, Dr. Oetker, Komax, and Epic Games.

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