{"id":33165,"date":"2026-04-17T22:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pingcap.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=33165"},"modified":"2026-04-17T22:37:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:37:46","slug":"building-a-context-platform-ai-applications-actually-need-apac","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.pingcap.com\/ko\/event\/building-a-context-platform-ai-applications-actually-need-apac\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a Context Platform AI Applications Actually Need (APAC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Date: <\/strong>May 27, 2026\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>10:30 &#8211; 11:30 AM IST\n\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">AI applications are moving from demos to production \u2014 and the biggest challenge isn&#8217;t the model. It&#8217;s context. Agents reason over long conversation histories. RAG pipelines combine vector embeddings with structured metadata. Multi-agent systems share state across workflows. Behind all of these patterns is the same requirement: a scalable, reliable way to store and retrieve context.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Most teams try to solve this by stitching together a vector database, a relational database, and a caching layer. But this fragmented approach leads to data duplication, sync issues, and growing operational complexity \u2014 and it&#8217;s where many AI projects break down on the path to production. What AI applications actually need is a context platform: a unified operational data layer that supports vector search, relational queries, and real-time analytics in a single system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>What you&#8217;ll learn:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n \t<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Define the context platform and explain why it&#8217;s becoming the critical infrastructure layer for AI applications \u2014 from RAG to multi-agent orchestration.<\/li>\n \t<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Show how TiDB&#8217;s converged architecture handles vector search, relational queries, and real-time analytics in a single system, eliminating the need for a fragmented data stack.<\/li>\n \t<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Walk through real-world patterns from companies using TiDB as their operational data layer for AI, including persistent agent context, hybrid retrieval, and tenant-level isolation.<\/li>\n \t<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Demonstrate how TiDB Cloud&#8217;s instant branching capability lets teams prototype and scale AI workloads without over-provisioning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {\"style\":{\"typography\":{\"fontSize\":\"22px\"}}} -->\n\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- \/wp:list-item -->\n\n<!-- wp:list-item {\"style\":{\"typography\":{\"fontSize\":\"22px\"}}} -->\n<p style=\"font-size: 22px;\"><strong>Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- wp:columns {\"verticalAlignment\":\"center\"} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center\">\n\n<!-- wp:column {\"verticalAlignment\":\"center\",\"width\":\"33.33%\"} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center\" style=\"flex-basis: 33.33%;\">\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":20518,\"width\":\"244px\",\"height\":\"auto\",\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-32734 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/static.pingcap.com\/files\/2026\/03\/25113649\/Untitled-design-5-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.pingcap.com\/files\/2026\/03\/25113649\/Untitled-design-5-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/static.pingcap.com\/files\/2026\/03\/25113649\/Untitled-design-5-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/static.pingcap.com\/files\/2026\/03\/25113649\/Untitled-design-5-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/static.pingcap.com\/files\/2026\/03\/25113649\/Untitled-design-5-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/static.pingcap.com\/files\/2026\/03\/25113649\/Untitled-design-5.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column {\"verticalAlignment\":\"center\",\"width\":\"66.66%\"} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center\" style=\"flex-basis: 66.66%;\">\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {\"style\":{\"typography\":{\"fontSize\":\"20px\"}}} -->\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>Li Shen, Technology Evangelist, PingCAP<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {\"style\":{\"typography\":{\"fontSize\":\"20px\"}}} -->\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Li Shen is a technology evangelist and founding engineer at PingCAP, the company behind TiDB. He is a maintainer of several popular open-source projects including TiDB and TiKV, a distributed transactional key-value store and CNCF graduated project. Li has extensive experience in data infrastructure, software architecture design and cloud computing.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center\" style=\"flex-basis: 66.66%;\">\n\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/wp:column -->\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: May 27, 2026 Time: 10:30 &#8211; 11:30 AM IST AI applications are moving from demos to production \u2014 and the biggest challenge isn&#8217;t the model. It&#8217;s context. Agents reason over long conversation histories. RAG pipelines combine vector embeddings with structured metadata. Multi-agent systems share state across workflows. 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