“Data governance is equal to trust. Can I trust my data to run AI models on it? Can I trust my data to make decisions based on it?” said Varun Babbar, vice president and India managing director at Qlik, summing up the core theme of Qlik Connect 2026 – a shift from experimenting with AI to deploying it at scale, rooted in trust in data.  In conversation with indianexpress.com , Babbar shared that when he meets enterprises today, he finds most AI conversations fall into three categories. The first is democratisation, which is making AI accessible to employees who are not data scientists. Second is about conversational analytics, essentially allowing users to query enterprise data the way they already interact with consumer AI tools at home. And the third, the most prominent, is agentic AI – systems that do not merely output an insight but also act on it.  “At home we are using ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini for almost everything. Gone are the days of using the search bar.…