Send us a textWant to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at [almartintalksdata@gmail.com] and tell us why you should be next. AbstractMaking Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, VP, IBM Expert Services Delivery, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.This week on Making Data Simple, we have Benn Stancil, Chief Analytics Officer + Founder @ Mode. Benn is an accomplished data analyst with deep expertise in collaborative Business Intelligence and Interactive Data Science. Benn is Co-founder, President, and Chief  Analytics Officer of Mode, an award-winning SaaS company that combines the best elements of Business Intelligence (ABI), Data Science (DS) and Machine Learning (ML) to empower data teams to answer impactful questions and collaborate on analysis across a range of business functions. Under Benn’s leadership, the Mode platform has evolved to enable data teams to explore, visualize, analyze and share data in a powerful end-to-end workflow. Prior to founding Mode, Benn served in senior Analytics positions at Microsoft and Yammer, and worked as a  researcher for the International Economics Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Benn also served as an Undergraduate Research Fellow at Wake Forest University,  where he received his B.S. in Mathematics and Economics. Benn believes in fostering a shared sense of humility and gratitude. Show Notes1:22 – Benn’s history7:09 – Tell us how you got to where you are today9:14 – Tell us about Mode12:08 – What is your definition of the Chief Analytics Officer?21:53 – Why do we need another BI tool?24:09 – What’s your secret sauce?27:48 – Where did the name Mode come from?28:41 – How do we use Mode?31:08 – What is you goto market strategy? 32:38 – Any client references?34:58 – “The missing piece in the modern data stack” tell us about thisMode Email: benn@mode.combenn@substack.comTwitter: benn stancilConnect with the TeamProducer Kate Brown - LinkedIn. Producer Steve Templeton - LinkedIn. Host Al Martin - LinkedIn and Twitter. Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at almartintalksdata@gmail.com and tell us why you should be next. The Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales, IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.

Send us a textWant to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at [almartintalksdata@gmail.com] and tell us why you should be next. AbstractMaking Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, VP, IBM Expert Services Delivery, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.This week on Making Data Simple, we have Douwe Maan. Douwe is the Founder and CEO of Meltano, an open source data integration and transformation platform. He joined GitLab as employee number 10 while still in college and later became its Engineering Manager. Meltano originally began as an internal project within GitLab, but spun out as an independent startup in early 2021 while raising $4.2 million in seed funding led by GV. Today, Meltano has over 5,000 active projects every month and supports data integration connectors for almost 300 sources and destinations.Show Notes1:30 – Douwe’s history4:00 – What is an iPhone jail break?8:04 – How would you describe Meltano?10:38 – What kind of tools do you use?12:12 – Did you start with ELT?16:08 – Is this dev ops or data ops and what is the difference?18:38 – What platform does Meltano use?29:52 – What can you do that no one else can do?32:10 – Do you have point and click analytics?36:23 – How do you measure success?Meltano Connect with the TeamProducer Kate Brown - LinkedIn. Producer Steve Templeton - LinkedIn. Host Al Martin - LinkedIn and Twitter. Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at almartintalksdata@gmail.com and tell us why you should be next. The Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales, IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.

Send us a textWant to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at [almartintalksdata@gmail.com] and tell us why you should be next. AbstractMaking Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, VP, IBM Expert Services Delivery, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.This week on Making Data Simple, we have Wennie Allen Business Director, Data Science and AI Elite Team and Carlo Appugliese Program Director – Data &AI, Data Science Elite Team. This week we talk about agile AI and remote data science. Carlo discusses his book, while Wennie talks about the secret sauce.Show Notes2:56 – How do we get people to adopt AI?4:49 – Carlo’s book6:15 – Why do we call it agile AI?11:12 – Six weeks to get it done!15:07 – Where are we at with AI?16:54 - Problems with AI today22:05 – Secret sauce26:31 - Process and methodology 30:22 – Talk data34:19 – Integration, trust, and quick deployment36:10 – Working remote39:40 – How do you engage?Remote Data Science Website: http://ibm.biz/RemoteDataScience Agile AI Blog: http://ibm.biz/DSE-AgileAI-Blog Agile AI Book:   http://ibm.biz/DSE-AgileAI Community: http://ibm.biz/DSE-Community Chat with the Lab: http://ibm.biz/DSE-ChatWithTheLab Consultation: http://ibm.biz/DSE-ConsultationBlogs: Virtual Data Science can rise to the challenge in unprecedented times by Wennie Allen Data Science and AI from anywhere... by Carlo AppuglieseWennie on LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/wennie-allen Carlo on LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/carloappuglieseConnect with the TeamProducer Kate Brown - LinkedIn. Producer Steve Templeton - LinkedIn. Host Al Martin - LinkedIn and Twitter. Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at almartintalksdata@gmail.com and tell us why you should be next. The Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales, IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.

Send us a textWant to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at [almartintalksdata@gmail.com] and tell us why you should be next. AbstractMaking Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, VP, IBM Expert Services Delivery, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.This week on Making Data Simple, we have Yonatan Geifman, CEO & Co-founder of DECI.ai. We provide a proprietary optimization technology for deep learning practitioners that complements other techniques like pruning, quantization and NAS, enabling you to accelerate deep neural network inference on any hardware while preserving accuracy.Show Notes1:28 – Yonatan’s experience4:19 – What did you see in the market that didn’t exist today? 9:30 – How does the process begin?11:57 – Does it sync in the cloud?14:50 – What is it that you can’t find in the market?20:13 – What is the most common hardware?22:55 – What are your thoughts on bias?26:08 – What is your definition for AI to be practical?31:35 – What do you do when the data is not ready?DECI Connect with the TeamProducer Kate Brown - LinkedIn. Producer Steve Templeton - LinkedIn. Host Al Martin - LinkedIn and Twitter. Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at almartintalksdata@gmail.com and tell us why you should be next. The Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales, IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.

Send us a textWant to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at [almartintalksdata@gmail.com] and tell us why you should be next. AbstractMaking Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, VP, IBM Expert Services Delivery, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.This week on Making Data Simple, we have Slater Victoroff the founder and CTO at Indico, an enterprise AI solution for unstructured content with a focus on document understanding and process automation. Slater builds machine learning solutions for start-ups, governments, and Fortune 100 companies for the past 7 years. Indico’s framework requires 1000x less data than traditional machine learning techniques.Show Notes1:34 – Why did you go from CEO to CTO?3:51 – What are you pitching to me?10:55 – What use cases is Indico involved with?13:23 – What industries do you cross?18:06 – Is there any cleansing of data?23:12 – How long does it take?27:20 – How is the data maintained?28:14 – What’s the business model?35:13 – What’s the #1 problem that prevents companies from adapting this technology?38:59 – What can clients expect?43:16 – What have you learned about leadership?  Slater Victoroff email: slater.websiteIndico Connect with the TeamProducer Kate Brown - LinkedIn. Producer Steve Templeton - LinkedIn. Host Al Martin - LinkedIn and Twitter. Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at almartintalksdata@gmail.com and tell us why you should be next. The Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales, IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.

Send us a textWant to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at [almartintalksdata@gmail.com] and tell us why you should be next. AbstractMaking Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, VP, IBM Expert Services Delivery, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.This week on Making Data Simple, we have Nick Amabile. Nick is the CEO is DAS42, a US data analytics consulting firm that helps companies make better decisions, faster. Founded in 2015, DAS42 is comprised of data analysts, scientists, business professionals, and engineers who provide end-to-end data services —including data strategy, tech stack integrations, application implementation, and enterprise analytics training. Nick’s philosophy is centered around the two components critical to achieving data-driven success: building an effective data analytics environment and building a data-centric company culture.Show Notes2:15 – Nick’s history4:22 – DAS428:52 – Is your brand consulting?11:07 – What do you do different?14:39 – What’s important about consulting?18:25 – Is managed services cost effective?21:18 – What still surprises you?25:32 – What metrics do you look at?28:11 – How has the pandemic affected you?32:28 – Why venture capital fund?34:49 – What are your practices today?Website:  das42Email – nich@das42.com Connect with the TeamProducer Kate Brown - LinkedIn. Producer Steve Templeton - LinkedIn. Host Al Martin - LinkedIn and Twitter. Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at almartintalksdata@gmail.com and tell us why you should be next. The Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales, IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.

Send us a textWant to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at [almartintalksdata@gmail.com] and tell us why you should be next. AbstractHosted by Al Martin, VP, IBM Expert Services Delivery, Making Data Simple provides the latest thinking on big data, A.I., and the implications for the enterprise from a range of experts.This week on Making Data Simple, we have Tim Freestone. Tim is the founder of Alooba. Alloba is a skills assessment platform for analytics, data science and data engineering. They help businesses identify the best candidates that apply for a role within its company.Show Notes4:46 – How do you go from economics teacher to head of business intelligence?7:53 – Do CV’s matter anymore?13:22 – What business problem is Alooba solving?16:05 – Do you have any data that supports your theory?19:01 – Why analytics, data science, data engineering?20:26 - What do you do that others don’t?23:50 – How does Alooba define success?25:42 – Who’s your target client base?32:40 –Is there a customer you can talk about?36:24 – What does Alooba mean?Alooba Connect with the TeamProducer Kate Brown - LinkedIn. Producer Steve Templeton - LinkedIn. Host Al Martin - LinkedIn and Twitter. Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at almartintalksdata@gmail.com and tell us why you should be next. The Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales, IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.

Send us a textWant to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at [almartintalksdata@gmail.com] and tell us why you should be next. AbstractHosted by Al Martin, VP, IBM Expert Services Delivery, Making Data Simple provides the latest thinking on big data, A.I., and the implications for the enterprise from a range of experts.This week on Making Data Simple, we have Ariel Utnik. Ariel is COO and GM at Verbit, an AI-driven transcription and captioning solution, Ariel has over 20 years of experience in enterprise tech, focusing on driving business efficiencies and enabling scale through AI. He can speak to how AI is transforming industries – from our court systems to entertainment and education – and how it can be used to democratize information across the globe.  Ariel has a strong customer focused background (Like Al), Chief customer officer at Feedvisor, VP customer success at Panaya, and VP Customer success at Clarizen.Show Notes2:51 – Tell us about customer success4:35 – How do you make the transition from Chief Customer Officer to COO?6:47 – What is Verbit’s main mission objective?14:15 – How many languages do you support?14:42 – What makes Verbit’s technology better?19:10 – How do you train your AI?22:47 – What solutions does Verbit offer?27:20 – How far are we from a chat translator?32:30 – What is the size of the market?VerbitAriel Utnik - LinkedInConnect with the TeamProducer Kate Brown - LinkedIn. Producer Steve Templeton - LinkedIn. Host Al Martin - LinkedIn and Twitter. Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at almartintalksdata@gmail.com and tell us why you should be next. The Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales, IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.

Send us a textWant to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at [almartintalksdata@gmail.com] and tell us why you should be next. AbstractHosted by Al Martin, VP, IBM Expert Services Delivery, Making Data Simple provides the latest thinking on big data, A.I., and the implications for the enterprise from a range of experts.This week on Making Data Simple, we have Paul Zikopoulos. Paul is the VP of IBM Technology Sales – Skills Vitality & Enablement Global Markets. Paul is an award winning speaker and author and has been at IBM for 28 years.Show Notes3:40 – Is Skills Vitality not the prefect job?5:08 – What’s been your journey at IBM?8:29 – Hybrid Cloud Operation and Artificial Intelligence is this the right strategy?21:13 – What is the new maturity curve?23:53 – Define Data Fabric26:53 – Why is the Challenger Seller book so important?29:14 – What makes a great leader?BooksEnergy BusGritChallenger SaleChallenger CustomerEffortless Experience  Connect with the TeamProducer Kate Brown - LinkedIn. Producer Steve Templeton - LinkedIn. Host Al Martin - LinkedIn and Twitter. Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at almartintalksdata@gmail.com and tell us why you should be next. The Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales, IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.

Send us a textWant to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at [almartintalksdata@gmail.com] and tell us why you should be next. AbstractHosted by Al Martin, VP, IBM Expert Services Delivery, Making Data Simple provides the latest thinking on big data, A.I., and the implications for the enterprise from a range of experts.This week on Making Data Simple, we have Jean-Claude Mamou. Jean-Claude is the Chief Architect of Information Integration and Governance portfolio, this includes such products as Watson Knowledge Catalog and Datastage.  Show Notes1:45 – Jean-Claude’s experience5:15 – What are the industry challenges?6:52 – Is there integration without governance?9:49 – What is the new solution?13:12 – Understanding your critical data16:06 – Explain what IBM Satellite means19:53 – Where does Cloud Pak for Data come into play?24:57 – What technology can we use to avoid repetitive mistakes?30:36 – Understanding critical data33:52 – What is the number 1 data quality issue?37:08 - How are you inspired and how do you figure your next innovation? 38:52 – Do you have a process you follow?Jean-Claude Mamou – LinkedIn Connect with the TeamProducer Kate Brown - LinkedIn. Producer Steve Templeton - LinkedIn. Host Al Martin - LinkedIn and Twitter. Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at almartintalksdata@gmail.com and tell us why you should be next. The Making Data Simple Podcast is hosted by Al Martin, WW VP Technical Sales, IBM, where we explore trending technologies, business innovation, and leadership ... while keeping it simple & fun.