What to expect from Alteryx Inspire 2026
Alteryx is known for its analytics automation platform and its capabilities in end-to-end automation and data-driven decision-making.
The Computer Weekly Developer Network last attended Alteryx Inspire 2023 when the event was billed as a user conference for data experts, key decision makers and innovators in the analytics space, but what can we expect this time around from Alteryx Inspire 2026?
Inspire is billed as an event with “curated keynotes” and sessions designed to help analysts build a data foundation ready for anything – and that “anything” means everything from everyday analytics to agentic workflows.
Customers on show include Bank of America and Disney, who will explain how they have moved beyond rudimentary data cleansing into the realm of automated, generative insights.
The company tells us to look out for hands-on training & certifications – and attendees can also participate in instructor-led training to improve skills in Alteryx Designer (a self-service data analytics platform used to automate data preparation, blending and advanced reporting through a drag-and-drop interface) and Alteryx Server (the company’s cloud-based – or on-premises – tool for scheduling, sharing and governing automated analytic workflows) and the rest of the organisation’s platform.
Looking ahead to the event, Alteryx CEO Andy MacMillan said, “What I’m looking forward to going into Inspire this year is how quickly the conversation has shifted from AI experimentation to real execution. We’re hearing from customers that access to AI isn’t the challenge; it’s making it work in the context of their business. Clean, governed data is critical, but it’s not enough. AI doesn’t understand your revenue logic, your rules, or how decisions actually get made.”
The organisation’s pre-show materials mention what the firm calls ‘stories of innovation’ where presentations and sessions feature customer and partner speakers sharing practical, repeatable approaches to modern analytics, including how they’re scaling AI across the business.
“As companies move toward more agentic use cases, that gap becomes even more important. Without visible, understandable, repeatable and auditable logic behind it, AI isn’t something businesses can trust. It’ll be great to be at Inspire with our customers and community who are solving exactly that. How to make AI reliable, truly operational and applied to some of the most interesting data and AI challenges enterprises are facing today,” added CEO MacMillan.
The event’s “All-Tricks” sessions are filled with best practices and tips to help users build cleaner, more reliable data, create repeatable workflows (at scale, of course) without adding risk or complexity.
Alteryx One
The company will also focus on Alteryx One, its unified software toolset and platform that aims to form a link between fragmented data silos and a governed, scalable ecosystem. Alteryx One works to “streamline data orchestration” and for software developers, that means a toolset that can be used to build, govern and scale AI-driven workflows. The company says that it’s all about eliminating fragmented toolsets and complex infrastructure hurdles and moving towards data clarity.
Alteryx chief product officer Ben Canning will likely focus on agentic copilots and talk about the use of AI-powered assistants not just working to autocomplete for code, but how they can act as core partners in data analytics workflow construction.
Let’s also remember that this year has seen Alteryx launche an in-warehouse data prep tool for BigQuery. As reported on TechTarget, the expanded partnership with Google Cloud includes the launch of Live Query for BigQuery, a new feature that enables joint customers to build and run Alteryx workflows in BigQuery.
Power, security & governance
As Canning was quoted at the time, the company has highlighted the fact that users want the power, security and governance of a centralised platform like Google BigQuery (a serverless, multi-cloud data warehouse that enables fast SQL analysis of massive datasets using Google’s infrastructure), along with the data preparation and integration capabilities of a vendor such as Alteryx.
“Business users clearly see the value of these platforms, but they’re often too complex for non-technical teams to fully take advantage of on their own,” Canning said. “That means a lot of the business-critical work — things like data prep, calculations and logic — still happens outside the platform. Live Query for BigQuery brings those together.”
The extended product “sneaks and obscura” session is Alteryx’s way of closing out the event with a special look at new and emerging ideas from the Alteryx engineering team. The event’s full session catalogue is here.
Alteryx Inspire 2026 runs from May 18–21 and is held at the JW Marriott Orlando Grande Lakes, in Orlando, Florida.
