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It's About Data is a sponsor of Data AI Weekend, Oct 10th-11th, 2026 in Austin, TX. Use the discount code ITSABOUTDATA to register. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1984522656688/?discount=ITSABOUTDATA Mike Ferguson (CEO Intelligent Business Strategies) joins us to discuss data governance in the AI era. Where past data governance initiatives aimed to achieve compliance, he argues that companies view AI data governance as a commercial strength.Fundamentals of Data Engineering is available through the O'Reilly Learning platform. Use the code MATT20 for a 20% discount on a one year subscription. https://learning.oreilly.com/signup/ Your subscriptions support this podcast.

Fundamentals of Data Engineering is available through the O'Reilly Learning platform. Use the code MATT20 for a 20% discount on a one year subscription. https://learning.oreilly.com/signup/ Your subscriptions support this podcast. Mike Ferguson (CEO Intelligent Business Strategies) joins us to discuss an increasingly urgent question: what do you have to do to make data AI-ready? It's About Data is a sponsor of Data AI Weekend, Oct 10th-11th, 2026 in Austin, TX. Use the discount code ITSABOUTDATA to register. Registration link More information on the conference

Dave McComb, CEO of Semantic Arts, joins us to discuss AI code overload, the software wasteland and data centric AI architecture. Dave's book, Software Wasteland. The New York Times article we discuss. It's About Data is a sponsor of Data AI Weekend, Oct 10th-11th, 2026 in Austin, TX. Use the discount code ITSABOUTDATA to register. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1984522656688/?discount=ITSABOUTDATA More information on the conference. Matt's book Fundamentals of Data Engineering is available through the O'Reilly Learning platform. Use the code MATT20 for a 20% discount on a new one year subscription. https://learning.oreilly.com/signup/ Your subscriptions support this podcast.

Use the code MATT20 for a 20% discount on a one year subscription to The O'Reilly Learning Platform. https://learning.oreilly.com/signup/ Your subscriptions support this podcast. Paul Blankley, CTO and Cofounder of Zenlytic, joins us to discuss agents and semantic layers. Paul's talk at AI Council.

Matt's book Fundamentals of Data Engineering is available through the O'Reilly Learning platform. Use the code MATT20 for a 20% discount on a one year subscription.https://learning.oreilly.com/signup/Your subscriptions support this podcast.We welcome Justin Borgman, cofounder and CEO of Starburst, back to the show to discuss data and context. Justin argues that context engineering is a human in the loop process.

Use the code MATT20 for a 20% discount on a one year subscription to The O'Reilly Learning Platform. https://learning.oreilly.com/signup/ Your subscriptions support this podcast. Rob Strechay (Lead Analyst, VentureBeat) joins us to discuss the state of enterprise AI. Is the term context graph useful? What role will open weight models play in the enterprise? How are enterprises managing AI costs?

Are we finally going to experience the year of the graph database? According to Arthur Bigeard, (founder gdotv.com) graph databases are having a moment driven by gen AI and graph on relational tools. We also talk about the evolution of data development, graph visualization, ontologies, and socialization of graph technology. Fundamentals of Data Engineering is available through the O'Reilly Learning Platform along with over 60K other titles. Sign up for a free trial here. Get a 20% discount on a one year O'Reilly Learning Platform subscription using the code MATT20. https://learning.oreilly.com/signup/ Your subscriptions support this podcast.#graphdatabase #genai

We're joined by Miriah Peterson and Matt Sharp to discuss Nvidia's acquisition of Hugging Face. Coverage from The Information Domesticating AI, Matt and Miriah's podcast with Chris Brousseau. Hugging Face: huggingface.co Matt Sharp's book LLMs in Production is available through the O'Reilly Learning Platform along with over 60K other titles.Sign up for a free trial here. Get a 20% discount on a one year O'Reilly Learning Platform subscription using the code MATT20. https://learning.oreilly.com/signup/ Your subscriptions support this podcast.

This is a breaking news episode responding to the announcement that Amazon has signed an agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the developer of the DuckDB analytics database. The announcement from DuckLabs: https://ducklabs.com/ducklabs-to-join-aws Joe Reis and Matt Housley interviewing Jordan Tigani about the founding of MotherDuck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2fi-Y6RiTw Our interview with Nikita Shamgunov on Neon and Lakebase. (Ep 73). https://youtu.be/zpqM-YWrXB4?si=Ik-0zjrjT1_mU-Rz. MotherDuck acquires Tower Computing: https://motherduck.com/blog/motherduck-acquires-tower/ #duckdb #dataanalytics

Vipin Samar (SVP Database Security at Oracle ) joins us to discuss a database centric approach to securing and enabling agentic AI.

Ryan Dolley joins the show to discuss his work on an upcoming book. This episode was recorded at DataTune 2026 (https://datatuneconf.com/).#businessintelligence #largelanguagemodels

Stephen Messer (cofounder of Collective[i]) joins us to discuss an AI-driven talent shortage, the future of education, non-generative AI and the business prospects of foundation model developers.This episode is a continuation of our conversation in episode 86.https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/vI0LwVLgY4b#artificialintelligence

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 engineers.Episode 81:https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/K7ACFfYNq4b