---
title: "Top 10 Trends in Data \u0026 AI at the Impact Summit"
description: "Explore 10 transformative data \u0026 AI trends shaping tech in 2024, plus a scorecard on last year's predictions. Key insights for founders \u0026 investors."
categories: ["fundraising"]
keywords: ["Data \u0026 AI trends","Impact Summit","cloud data warehouses","data observability","SaaS applications","Tomasz Tunguz","venture capital","data engineering","LLMs","cloud data lakes"]
ai_summary: "Discover 10 key data and AI trends for 2024 and evaluate last year's predictions at the Impact Summit."
date: 2023-10-23
lastmod: 2026-07-28
canonical_url: https://www.tomtunguz.com/10-trends-data-2023/
author: "Tomasz Tunguz"
---

![image](https://res.cloudinary.com/dzawgnnlr/image/upload/ymwuvcw4zdfca2cutecv.png)

On November 8th, I'll share my 10 Top Trends in Data & AI at the IMPACT Summit.

Last year, I covered 9 topics: 

1. Cloud data warehouses will process 75% of workloads by 2024.
2. Data workloads segment into in-memory, cloud data warehouse, & cloud data
   lakes.
3. Metrics layers unify the data stack.
4. LLMs change the roles of data engineers.
5. WASM becomes an essential component of web applications.
6. Notebooks win 20% of Excel users. 
7. SaaS applications use the cloud data warehouse as a reading & writing
   database.
8. Data observability becomes a must-have.
9. The decade of data continues. 

How many of those turned out to be true? I'll be scoring them!

In the 12 months since I shared those views, the data world has been completely
transformed.

- AI which has influenced the [structure of data teams](https://tomtunguz.com/data-engineering/) & will [increase the number of data roles](https://tomtunguz.com/why-data-teams-will-grow-ai/)
- changed the way we work with
data ([Are you centaur or a cyborg?](https://tomtunguz.com/bcg_ai_paper/))
- Databricks revealed [their
numbers](https://tomtunguz.com/databricks-snowflake-compare/)

That's just in the last three months. 

If you're interested to hear about these trends, [register here for the
virtual event.](http://bit.ly/3rwjpj5)