Monday Morning Data Chat

Mike Ferguson, industry expert in data management and analytics, discusses top key trends in data management and analytics, including GenAI, architecture modernization, and FinOps. Podcast explores the role of generative AI in improving productivity and automation, as well as natural language interfaces in data management. Trends in data governance, such as AI in data catalogs and labeled data policies, are also discussed.

Tristan Handy (CEO of dbt Labs) joins the show to chat about the data tooling landscape, business moats, semantic layers, the data engineering ecosystem, and much more. We covered a ton of ground in an hour and probably could've kept going for another hour. Enjoy!

Sarah Nagy (CEO, Seek.ai) joins us to chat about automating analytics with generative AI, the generative AI space in general, and much more.

Dave McComb, pioneer in knowledge graphs and semantics, discusses topics such as querying knowledge graphs, AI boom, waves of innovation, transitioning to semantic fashion, importance of ontology building, transparency in publicly traded companies, and flight preferences.

Kai Zenner, an expert on the upcoming EU AI Act, discusses the challenges of updating regulations for AI in the EU, international cooperation in AI development, the impact of AI on future employment, and addressing rogue states' use of AI. The speakers also talk about timing concerns regarding the act's passage.

Nadine Farah discusses Apache Hudi's core primitives like indexing and incremental processing. The podcast explores Hudi's role in data management, compliance, and interoperability. It also touches on Hootie ecosystem advancements and upcoming open source data summit talks.

Yoav Cohen, co-founder & CTO at Satori, discusses the challenges of data security, strategies for dealing with analytics over sensitive data, compliance requirements for data teams, and the importance of data engineers as security engineers. They also dive into the concept of the death of big data, the process of data masking, and the importance of adaptability in the data domain.

Kevin Hu, CEO of Metaplane, joins the show to recap major conferences. They discuss the Jitex conference in Dubai, AI dominance and rivalry in the Middle East. They delve into the evolution of data conferences and the modern data stack. They explore best practices and tool limitations in the data ecosystem, reflect on the current state of the modern data stack, and discuss the role of open source software in business. They also touch on cost management, observability at a data conference, and announce future episodes and courses.

Lukas Schulte, an expert in data warehousing and semantics, discusses the importance of semantics in data warehouses, the challenges of defining common terms in business and data analysis, and introduces SDF, a semantic data product. They also explore the significance of context in data analysis and the availability of free versions of tools.

This is a bit of a different episode, but it's a topic that is long overdue for discussion. Between long hours sitting in front of a monitor, "hustle culture", and prevalent alcohol and drug use, our profession is literally killing us. The negative effects on health and wellness among techies are insane. We've seen our friends go to the ER from stress, diet, and lifestyle-related emergencies. We've lost other friends along the way. Colleen Fotsch is uniquely qualified to discuss this issue. She is used to operating at the highest levels of sports, being an NCAA D1-champion swimmer, multiple-time CrossFit Games athlete and coach, and former US Bobsled team member. She also works as a data analyst and part-time coach for Opex, a leader in fitness education coaching (she's Joe's coach). It's time we wake up and look at how we can improve our health and wellness, and bring our best selves to our work and life. Colleen's IG: https://www.instagram.com/colleenfotsch/?hl=en