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Hosted by Matthew Housley and Tony Baer · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 84 episodes
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We discuss data, artificial intelligence, and whatever else we feel like talking about. Cohosted by Tony Baer and Matt Housley. Also available on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6XFbzM-Vn1ztmEQFDVzYCQ
Matthew Housley and Tony Baer hosts It's About Data, a technology show with 84 episodes published.
Stephen Messer joins us to argue that we're making a significant cognitive error when we view AI as a shiny new feature to augment existing software and user experiences.
Tiankai Feng (Director of Data and AI Strategy, Thoughtworks) joins us to discuss two of his recent books on the human side of data and AI.
This is a continuation of our conversation with Dipti Borkar from episode 81. We discuss Microsoft Fabric IQ as a tool for managing meaning in data, the problem of data interop, and the rapidly evolving role of data engi
This is a continuation of our discussion in episode 82. Kevin explains that AI agents are now a "fox in charge of the hen house," but this actually portends great things in the longstanding quest for data quality.Harness
Kevin Petrie and Merv Adrian (BARC) join us to discuss a recent study:"Harnessing Unstructured Data for AI Innovation: Problems, Practices, and Principles for Success"This episode is part of a two part series. In the fir
Dipti Borkar joins us to discuss how Microsoft is addressing the growing importance of open data through Fabric. We also talk about solving for agentic analytics support, and the evolution of data roles and responsibilit
In episode 80, Andy Pernsteiner (field CTO VAST Data) joins us to discuss how VAST has evolved from a storage layer to application backend services, data management and AI infrastructure.The VAST Cosmos Community:https:/
Tony reports from Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026. Lakehouse/RT, LTAP, Genie One, Omnigent, Unity AI Gateway, and more.
Lisa Cao (Databricks) joins us to discuss major new features in Apache Spark 4.1, and the continuing evolution of the platform to meet new challenges and serve an expanding user base.
We interview Florian Douetteau, CEO and cofounder of Dataiku, about why data is the fuel for AI and how automation can solve the problem of "Shadow Data Products."
Nikita Shamgunov (Databricks) argues that all stateful systems in the future will need to support forking and version control to allow agents to make mistakes. Also on the agenda: wrangling spaghetti data, managing schem
Juan Sequeda joins Tony to go over the latest announcements and their broader implications for the industry. CoCo, CoWork, Horizon Context, data sharing, context wars, and more.#artificialintelligence #aiagents
Suresh Srinivas (CEO Collate getcollate.io) joins us to discuss his journey from big data to metadata.
Much digital ink has been spilt on the death of the modern data stack. Amit Sharma (CEO CData Software ) joins us to discuss a vision for collapsing the modern data stack to better support AI applications.
Dr. Fern Halper joins us to discuss her recently published book.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781394390663
Tony returns from SAP Sapphire 2026 to report on "the most consequential Sapphire of Christian Klein's reign."
Winfried Etzel joins us to discuss the hard, practical problems of data governance, made more complicated by AI as data consumer and generator. This episode was recorded at Data Day Texas 2026. https://winfriedadalbertet
Tony records from Boston to bring us the latest updates from @IBM Think 2026.#artificialintelligence #bigblue
We're releasing this continuation of Ep 53 with Miran Badzak to coincide with IBM Think 2026. What does it mean for a database to be autonomous? What is the future for DBAs? What is the outlook for text-to-SQL?The other
We chat with Angie Jones (VP Developer Experience, @AgenticAI-Foundation ) and Jim Zemlin (CEO of @LinuxfoundationOrg ) at MCP Dev Summit about what's next for agentic AI and the foundation.#agenticai #mcp
Amit Sharma
Edward Friedman and Stuart Mann Professor of Hospitality Management · Pennsylvania State University
1 appearance on this show
Angie Jones
Animation Supervisor, Educator, & Author · AgenticAI-Foundation
1 appearance on this show
Sanjeev Mohan
Ex VP of Data · Snowflake
1 appearance on this show
Thais Cooke
senior healthcare data analyst
1 appearance on this show
Joe Reis
Ternary Data
1 appearance on this show
Lena Hall
Tony Award-winning actress
1 appearance on this show
Juan Sequeda
Principal Researcher · data.world
1 appearance on this show
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