It's About Data

"Are we delivering AI that gives you business value or not?" Maribel Lopez (lopezreseearch.com) joins us to discuss the C-suit realities of AI mandates, unrealistic expectation, use cases, and risks.
Maribel's podcast

Tim Gasper, cohost of Catalog and Cocktails, joins us to discuss the current drivers of data governance for structured and unstructured data. Also on the menu: is the SaaSpocalypse real?
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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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