DataFramed
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Welcome to DataFramed, a weekly podcast exploring how artificial intelligence and data are changing the world around us. On this show, we invite data & AI leaders at the forefront of the data revolution to share their insights and experiences into how they lead the charge in this era of AI. Whether you're a beginner looking to gain insights into a career in data & AI, a practitioner needing to stay up-to-date on the latest tools and trends, or a leader looking to transform how your organization uses data & AI, there's something here for everyone.
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- #385 Creating an Engine of Value from AI | Jim Rowan, Head of AI at Deloitte USA · 52 minMost large organizations have bought into AI, yet far fewer have turned it into measurable value. Surveys of thousands of business leaders show the same pattern: spending on…
- #384 Is the Cloud Over? | Sergio Gago, CTO at Cloudera · 54 minAI agents are only as useful as the data they can reach, and most company data is scattered across clouds, data centers, and legacy systems. Giving agents access is easy to get…
- #383 How to Coordinate Intelligence Across Teams & Agents | Vijoy Pandey, SVP of Outshift at Cisco · 1 h 5 minAI agents are getting easier to build and connect. Open standards now let them discover each other, pass messages and use shared tools. But connecting agents is not the same as…
- #382 What DataCamp's Learner Data Says About Learning | Pieter Moors, Lead Data Scientist at DataCamp · 32 minCareer goals in data have shifted quickly. Data scientist was long the default target, but AI engineer has appeared from almost nowhere, and companies are moving training toward…
- #381 Escaping the AI Hiring Doom Loop with Daniel Chait, CEO & Ophir Samson, Head of Voice AI at Greenhouse · 51 minMost hiring decisions still come down to gut feel, and gut feel is full of blind spots — a favorite school, a firm handshake, the type of coffee someone carries into the room. As…
- #380 The Best Moments from RADAR 11x: AI, Jobs, Agents and Skills · 48 minA job title can stay the same while the work underneath it changes completely. That idea ran through RADAR 11x, our online conference, and this recap keeps the best moments from…
- #379 The Secrets of Deploying AI in Production | Sumti Jairath, Chief Architect at SambaNova · 48 minAI agents are moving from demos into production, but many teams run into the same wall: responses that take too long and cost too much. As models grow bigger and reason through…
- #378 The Data Engine for AI with Ledion Bitincka, CTO at Cribl & Nikhil Mungel, Head of AI R&D at Cribl · 51 minAs agents take over more of the actual coding, the nature of technical work is shifting from producing software to judging it. Engineers increasingly spend their time specifying…
- #377 The Algorithm for Hypergrowth with Jon McNeill, CEO at DVx Ventures & Former President at Tesla · 38 minHypergrowth companies rarely scale on strategy alone — they scale on how fast decisions get made and how much risk employees feel safe taking. A recurring idea in high-growth…
- #376 Rethinking the Data Stack in the age of AI with Tristan Handy, President of Fivetran + dbt Labs · 42 minAcross the data and AI industry, infrastructure that once served dashboards and human analysts is being rebuilt to serve autonomous agents instead. That shift changes what…
- #375 Is Math The Key to Better Coding AI? With Tudor Achim, CEO at Harmonic · 47 minAI capability in mathematics jumped before most people noticed, tackling Olympiad-level problems and unsolved research questions that had resisted attack for years. But the…
- #374 How to Thrive in a World of Continuous Transformation | Phil Le Brun and Jana Werner, Executives in Residence at AWS · 46 minTechnology is now moving faster than the organizations trying to adopt it. A model can be tested in an afternoon, but the approval to test it can take half a year, and that gap…
- #373 What Do Your Colleagues Do All Day? (The Value of Institutional Knowledge & AI for Process Reengineering) | Jennifer Smith, CEO at Scribe · 52 minFour years into the AI boom, headlines still promise agents that will run entire departments, yet most companies can't point to the transformation they were sold. The gap isn't…
- #372 Bulletproof Large Scale Data Science with Srini Raghavan, Chief Product Officer at Freshworks · 49 minSoftware buying decisions used to be made once, by someone far removed from the people actually using the tool. That model is breaking down. Teams now expect software to work out…
- #371 The Real Reason Your Product Team Needs a Feedback Loop with Todd Olson, CEO at Pendo · 40 minSoftware teams are shipping faster than ever, but speed hasn't solved the oldest problem in the industry: most software still isn't very good. AI coding tools have lowered the…
- #370 Failure is Data (and Other Career Advice) | Todd Dewett, Leadership Author & Speaker · 44 minAs AI takes over more technical and routine work, the skills that set data and AI professionals apart are shifting. Raw technical ability and a high IQ still matter, but they are…
- #369 How to Become a Top Business Intelligence Analyst | Helen Wall, Founder at Helen Data Design & Microsoft Influencer · 49 minBusiness intelligence has never been only about building charts and writing queries. Most of the work that makes a report trustworthy happens below the surface — in the data…
- #368 AI Agents Are Now Your Database's Main User | Reynold Xin, Co-Founder at Databricks · 51 minFor forty years, the rule held that transactional and analytical databases had to be separate systems, connected by fragile pipelines that move data from one to the other. That…
- #367 Don't Build on Jell-O: How to Make Agentic AI Reliable with Dan Klein, CTO at Scaled Cognition · 52 minAcross the AI industry, capability has exploded while trustworthiness has lagged badly behind. The same technology that writes fluent prose can invent a refund policy that was…
- #366 Can AI Agents Outperform a Data Scientist? | James Zou, Professor at Stanford University · 49 minAI agents are no longer limited to automating routine tasks like customer support or report generation. Research labs and pharmaceutical companies are beginning to deploy teams…
- #365 Your 90 Day Blueprint for AI Success with Charlene Li, Author of Winning with AI · 53 minMost organizations know AI matters, but few have turned that conviction into a written plan. Ambition and hope are everywhere; a clear roadmap tied to business strategy is rare…
- #364 How to Enable Agentic Commerce with Nell Thomas, VP of Data at Shopify · 44 minAI agents are starting to handle parts of the shopping journey that used to require human judgment — discovery, comparison, checkout. But behind every agent recommendation is a…
- #363 Build Your Personal Brand at Work | Dorie Clark, Executive Education Faculty at Columbia Business School · 54 minTechnical skills are being commoditized faster than ever. As AI takes on more of the work that used to define a junior knowledge worker, the things that once made someone…
- #362 How to Have a Machine Learning Career in 2026 | Marina Wyss, Senior Applied Scientist at Twitch · 48 minThe role of the machine learning engineer is being rewritten in real time. AI coding assistants are absorbing parts of the day-to-day, planning and evaluation are eating up more…
- #361 If You Want AI to Work, Fix This Boring Thing First with Veronika Durgin, VP of Data at Saks · 49 minEvery conversation about AI in data eventually arrives at the same question: which roles survive, and which ones get automated away? Generative AI can already draft SQL, build…
- #360 What's Your Biggest AI Ethical Nightmare? | Reid Blackman, CEO at Virtue Consultants · 57 minMost AI ethics conversations sound the same: be fair, be transparent, be accountable. The values are right, but in practice they don't get teams out of bed in the morning…
- #359 My Best Friend is AI with Valerie Tiberius, Professor of Philosophy at University of Minnesota · 44 minValerie Tiberius is the Paul W. Frenzel Chair in Liberal Arts and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota. She is an expert in ethics, moral psychology, and…
- #358 How AI Agents Will Work While You Sleep | Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Professor at Carnegie Mellon · 58 minAlmost every AI agent demo lands in roughly the same place: it works most of the time, looks remarkable, and then fails in a way no one anticipated. Self-driving cars hit this…
- #357 Data-Driven Workforce Analytics with Ben Zweig, CEO at Revelio Labs · 58 minThe data field has changed shape faster than almost any other. The role that used to be a statistician became a data scientist, became an ML engineer, and is now morphing into AI…
- #356 The Forecast for Time Series Forecasts with Rami Krispin, Senior Manager of Data Science at Apple · 54 minTime series data is everywhere — from inventory systems and energy grids to financial planning and product demand. As data volumes grow, the old ways of building individual…
- #355 AI's Impact on Databases with Shireesh Thota, CVP of Databases at Microsoft · 53 minCloud data platforms now offer hundreds of services, plus a growing menu of SQL, NoSQL, and open source options. Unified environments promise a simpler path, but the hard…
- #354 Beyond BI: Decision Intelligence with Graphs with Jamie Hutton, CTO at Quantexa · 46 minDecision intelligence is showing up across data and AI teams as companies move beyond dashboards to decisions made with context. Graphs, entity resolution, and better data…
- #353 The Data Team's Agentic Future with Ketan Karkhanis, CEO at ThoughtSpot · 50 minData and AI platforms are racing toward agentic and even autonomous analytics. But the bottleneck is rarely the model—it’s data readiness: governed metrics, clear metadata, and a…
- #352 AI Agents at Work: What Actually Breaks (and How to Fix It) with Danielle Crop, EVP Digital Strategy & Alliances at WNS · 56 minAI agents are spreading across the data and AI industry, promising to automate everything from research to outreach. At the same time, teams are learning that these tools can…
- #351 Will World Models Bring us AGI? with Eric Xing, President & Professor at MBZUAI · 1 h 3 minWorld models are emerging as the next step after large language models, pushing AI from book knowledge toward systems that can simulate the physical and social world. Instead of…
- #350 How to Make Hard Choices in AI with Atay Kozlovski, Researcher at the University of Zurich · 1 h 10 minAcross the AI industry, high-stakes tools are being deployed in places where errors can harm people: sepsis alerts in hospitals, identity checks, welfare fraud detection…
- #349 From AI Governance to AI Enablement with Stijn Christiaens, Chief Data Citizen at Collibra · 53 minData governance has been around long enough to develop playbooks, but AI governance is evolving in real time. Industry trends like LLMs, agents, and emerging “swarms” are…
- #348 AI Agents in Your Systems: Speed, Security, and New Access Risks with Jeremy Epling, CPO at Vanta · 44 minAutomation is moving from APIs to full “computer use,” where agents click through screens like a human. That power is transforming evidence collection, access reviews, and…
- #347 Let's Get Physical with AI with Ivan Poupyrev, CEO at Archetype AI · 46 minPhysical AI is showing up across the industry as sensors, connected devices, and foundation models move from the cloud into the real world. After years of IoT wiring everything…
- #346 Get Quantum Ready with Yonatan Cohen, CTO at Quantum Machines · 49 minQuantum computing is advancing fast, but it comes with a core industry challenge: noise. The big promise—better simulations, faster optimization, and maybe new kinds of…
- #345 How to Drive Innovation with Brian Solis, Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow · 1 h 7 minAI moves fast, and the news cycle can feel like a fire hose. New tools like agents and digital twins promise to help, but they also add more choices and noise. In day-to-day…
- #344 Governing Pandora's Box: Managing AI Risks with Andrea Bonime-Blanc, CEO at GEC Risk Advisory · 51 minAI leaders talk about innovation, but the wider reality is messy: fast change, uneven guardrails, and threats that span cyber, reputation, and customer harm. Industry-wide…
- #343 Vibe Coding and the Rise of the Non-Developer Builder with Matt Palmer, Developer Relations at Replit · 47 minData and AI teams are drowning in tools, but the big trend is consolidation and speed. AI-driven building is making dashboards, internal apps, and even data workflows feel more…
- #342 The Secrets to High AI Adoption with Stefano Puntoni, Professor at Wharton · 52 minAI tools are becoming part of daily work for more professionals than ever before, yet adoption rates vary significantly across functions and company sizes. What separates…
- #341 Our Data Trends & Predictions of 2026 with DataCamp's CEO & COO, Jonathan Cornelissen & Martijn Theuwissen · 51 min2026 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for data, AI, and how we work. From step-change improvements in foundation models to AI-native workflows reshaping careers, commerce, and…
- #340 Reviewing Our Data Trends & Predictions of 2025 with DataCamp's CEO & COO, Jonathan Cornelissen & Martijn Theuwissen · 39 min2025 was another huge year for data and AI. Generative AI continued to reshape how we work and interact with technology, with organizations moving beyond experimentation and…
- #339 Modern Analytics with Mike Palmer, CEO at Sigma · 45 minSelf-service analytics has been a goal for data teams for years, but recent advances in AI are accelerating progress in unexpected ways. The combination of natural language…
- #338 The New Paradigm for Enterprise AI Governance with Blake Brannon, Chief Innovation Officer at OneTrust · 59 minAI governance is becoming critical as organizations deploy more intelligent systems across their operations. With predictions of over a billion AI agents entering the workforce…
- #337 DataFramed, Distilled. The Best Moments of 2025 with Richie Cotton · 19 min2025 was the year AI stopped being a curiosity and started reshaping real work. From data analysts speeding up entire workflows in minutes, to managers learning how to lead…
- #336 From City Sewers to Sovereign AI with Russ Wilcox, CEO at ArtifexAI · 1 h 11 minThe concept of sovereign AI is becoming increasingly critical in our interconnected world. Nations and organizations are grappling with who controls the data, infrastructure, and…
