The Data Playbook Podcast
🎙️ The Data Playbook is a podcast where we aim to build a playbook for data leaders. We do that through a series of interviews with other data leaders, data practitioners and data experts.
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Data Contracts and Data Products: What AI Agents Need to Access Enterprise Data - The Data Playbook podcast with Simon Harrer & Kris Peeters (opens the original)
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Simon Harrer, CEO and co-founder of Entropy Data, returns to the Data Playbook podcast to make a case every data leader will need to reckon with soon: AI agents need access to company data, and the access controls built for humans do not hold once an agent can request, use, and reuse that access without anyone reviewing it. Simon Harrer and host Kris Peeters, CEO of Dataminded, unpack the difference between data contracts and data products, how purpose-based access control catches an agent that
Data Mesh After the Hype: Why Data Products Matter More Than Ever (opens the original)
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Many organisations embraced Data Mesh. Many also discovered that organisational change is much harder than technology change. In this episode, Kris Peeters speaks with Arif Wider about what remained valuable after the initial hype around Data Mesh settled. They discuss why Data Products have become the practical foundation for modern data organisations, where Data Contracts fit into the picture, and how organisations can modernise legacy platforms without starting over. The conversation also loo
Why AI Agents Need Knowledge Graphs, Not Just Data - The Data Playbook Podcast with Kris Peeters & Eric Broda (opens the original)
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Very few companies manage 10,000 of anything today, and Eric Broda thinks that's the real challenge behind AI agents at scale. Broda runs Broda Group Software, helping banks and insurers build agent ecosystems he calls the agentic mesh. With host Kris Peeters, CEO of Dataminded, Broda explains why agents need a data mesh foundation, why one client tracks R&D tax credit exposure by watching code commits in real time, and why his team moved from fine-grained knowledge graphs to coarse markdown fil
How Tomorrowland Keeps Data Simple While Scaling Globally (opens the original)
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Modern data platforms are becoming more powerful. They are also becoming more complex. In this episode of The Data Playbook , Kris Peeters talks with Wannes Rosiers , Head of IT & Development at WEAREONE.world , the company behind Tomorrowland, about why many organisations solve familiar data problems with increasingly complicated technology. They explore what actually matters when building data platforms: delivering quickly, keeping systems maintainable, bringing business knowledge closer to en
How NMBS/SNCB Uses Data Science to Improve Public Transport (opens the original)
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Building advanced analytics is rarely a technology challenge alone. Success depends on understanding the organisation, delivering value incrementally and enabling teams to solve real operational problems. In this episode, Kris Peeters speaks with Max Hubeau, Manager of the Advanced Analytics Team at NMBS/SNCB. They discuss how a central analytics team works alongside business teams, how data science supports train punctuality, passenger counting and energy forecasting, and why AI becomes valuabl
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