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Data Faces is a podcast that brings the human stories behind data, analytics, and AI to the forefront.
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Why "AI-Ready Data" Means Almost Nothing | Malcolm Hawker, Profisee (opens the original)
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Every vendor says your data needs to be "AI-ready." Almost none of them define it the same way.Malcolm Hawker, Chief Data Officer at Profisee, former Gartner analyst, and author of The Data Hero Playbook, joins David Sweenor to take the term apart. His definition is short: data is AI-ready when it supports the use case in front of it. That makes readiness a spectrum, not a state, and it means the same customer data can clear the bar for a marketing campaign and fall far short for a regulated dec
3x Faster Time to Market With Data Products | Capital One (opens the original)
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Amy Lenander, Chief Data Officer at Capital One, and Christina Egea, SVP of Enterprise Data, join Data Faces on location at the 20th annual CDOIQ Symposium in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Their data product strategy is producing measurable results, with use cases launching three times faster and standardized data costing 30% less to maintain.Amy and Christina walk through the talk they gave at the symposium, doubling down on data products to drive business value. They explain how a usage analysis r
The Real Cost of Enterprise AI | Sam Pierson, CTO of Qlik (opens the original)
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Every AI architecture decision made today comes with an expiration date. Models leapfrog each other every few months, patterns change, and the conversation itself will look different in a year. In this episode of the Data Faces Podcast, David Sweenor sits down with Sam Pierson, Chief Technology Officer at Qlik, to talk about building an AI stack you can change your mind about: open formats like Apache Iceberg, a model router that sends each task to the model that is good enough but 10 times chea
Run Your Data Platform Like a Product | Amin Venjara, ADP (opens the original)
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Amin Venjara, chief data and product officer at ADP, joins Data Faces on location at the 20th annual CDOIQ Symposium in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He explains why a contractor going on about wood, nails, and concrete will never win over a homeowner who just wants to entertain in the backyard, and why data teams make the same mistake when they pitch the business. Amin walks through the framework from his session, value equals data plus capabilities, and how ADP treats its internal data platform li
SaaS Is Dead? Absolute BS | April Dunford (opens the original)
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"Any software feature can be cloned with a prompt, overnight." A room full of data and AI leaders agreed on it. April Dunford's verdict: absolute BS. On this episode of the Data Faces podcast, David Sweenor talks with April Dunford, the positioning consultant behind Obviously Awesome and Sales Pitch who has worked with more than 300 B2B technology companies, about why the death-of-SaaS story falls apart inside real software companies: why "we have AI" is the new login screen, the CRM whose data
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