Episodes

6th YEAR SEASON FINALE: Juan and Tim Rant

Pragmatic Use-Case-Driven Data Governance with Jason Doerr

Guest:Jason Doerr

Data Catalyst³: Governance × Change Management × Data Fluency w/ Bob Seiner

Guest:Bob Seiner

AI Governance Isn't Compliance. It's About Humans with Victoria Gamerman

Guest:Victoria Gamerman

AI Appetite Is Easy, Digestion Is Hard with Diana Wu David

Guest:Diana Wu David

It's Friday: Juan and Tim rant about AI, Agents, and the Uncomfortable Truth About Data's New Center of Gravity

Think Like a Librarian: Why the Reference Interview Is the Framework Data Teams Are Missing with Jenna Jordan and Amalia Child

Guests:Amalia Child, Jenna Jordan

The Void Between Data and Decisions with Pete Williams

Guest:Pete Williams

Juan & Tim rant w/ Jesus Barrasa about Ontologies, Knowledge Graphs, Context Graphs and AI

Guest:Jesus Barrasa

The Wrong Mandate: Why Boards Set Data & AI to Fail with Kyle Winterbottom

Guest:Kyle Winterbottom

AI Governance Is Everyone's Problem (And That's Actually Good News)  with Kierra Dotson

Guest:Kierra Dotson

The Data Hygienist with Thais Cooke

Guest:Thais Cooke

Pre Gartner Data & Analytics Rants with Juan and Tim

Your data should speak your language with Säde Haveri

Guest:Säde Haveri

Shift Left Everything: How Ontology, Events, and Culture Unlocked Enterprise AI with Nachiket Mehta

Guest:Nachiket Mehta

The way we build agents today is dumb with Vaibhav Gupta

Guest:Vaibhav Gupta

It's Friday, Juan and Tim rant about Decisions, Context, MCP and Maturity Models

Stop Chasing AI Hype. Start Counting Dollars. w/ Juan Gorricho

Guest:Juan Gorricho

It's Friday, Juan and Tim rant with Data Day Texas takeaways

All things Data Lineage with Dr. Irina Steenbeek

Guest:Irina Steenbeek

Ontologies Aren’t New with Oscar Corcho

Guest:Oscar Corcho

It's Friday! Juan and Tim rant about data and context graphs

2026 Trends in the data world with Tony Baer and Matt Housley

Guests:Matt Housley, Tony Baer

Season 11 Premiere: What happened in 2025 and where are we going in 2026

Building AI Agents with Lena Hall

Guest:Lena Hall

How are we over complicating data products? with Arielle Rolland

Guest:Arielle Rolland

AI isn’t magic, it’s math w/ Danielle Crop

Guest:Danielle Crop

When is Data and AI governance truly a business enabler? w/ Jessica Zuñiga

Guest:Jessica Zuñiga

Netflix’s Unified Data Architecture: Model Once, Represent Everywhere with Alex Bertails

Guest:Alex Bertails

Fall 2025 Data & Analytics trends with Sanjeev Mohan

Guest:Sanjeev Mohan

Season 10 Premiere: Juan and Tim revisit 5+ years of Data

Season 9 Finale with Tim Gasper and Juan Sequeda

Gartner Data & Analytics Summit UK 2025 Takeaways with Rebecca O'Kill

Guest:Rebecca O'Kill

Tim & Juan are on the Road (Again!): Rants About Their Latest Observations in the Data World

What is Data + AI Observability and Why It's Part of Your Competitive Moat with Barr Moses

Guest:Barr Moses

Tim & Juan Rant About AI and TED2025 Insights

(Most) Data Teams Are a Waste of Resources with Blake Burch

Guest:Blake Burch

How to Get Out of AI Proof-of-Concept Purgatory with Hugo Bowne-Anderson

Guest:Hugo Bowne-Anderson

Digital Twins and AI with Hala Nelson

Guest:Hala Nelson

What Do Data Modeling, Data Vault and Knowledge Graphs Have in Common? with Patrick Cuba

Guest:Patrick Cuba

Data Contracts, Data Products, Data Mesh with Jean-Georges Perrin

Guest:Jean-Georges Perrin

Building Trust in Your Data with Frances O'Rafferty

Guest:Frances O'Rafferty

Gartner Data and Analytics 2025 Takeaways: Modern Governance That Works

Guests:Krystin Kim, Mary Lou Pirrera

Field Notes: Six Data Trends We're Seeing Everywhere with Tim Gasper & Juan Sequeda

Rethinking Data Governance for a Distributed World with Winfried Etzel

Guest:Winfried Etzel

How Data Governance Becomes Your Secret Weapon with Alexander Torrenegra

Guest:Alexander Torrenegra

Want to Be Data and AI-Driven? Start with the Basics...a Glossary! with Olga Maydanchik

Guest:Olga Maydanchik

Data Teams Are Strategic, Not Just Technical with Lindsay Murphy

Guest:Lindsay Murphy

Data, AI, & Business Literacy with Jordan Morrow

Guest:Jordan Morrow

Season 8 Finale with Tim Gasper and Juan Sequeda

Live from DGIQ + AIGov with Tim Gasper and Juan Sequeda

Demystifying Meta Grid with Ole Olesen-Bagneux

Guest:Ole Olesen-Bagneux

Stop Talking About Data Governance and Just Start Doing It! with Nicola Askham

Guest:Nicola Askham

We Have Agency Over AI with Ethan Mollick

Guest:Ethan Mollick

The Truth About Open Table Formats with Vinoth Chandar

Guest:Vinoth Chandar

What is the Future of Data Catalogs? with Malcolm Hawker

Guest:Malcolm Hawker

Why we need to focus on Knowledge Management, NOW! with Andrea Gioia

Guest:Andrea Gioia

Streamlining Data Value with Colleen Tartow, Ph.D.

Guest:Colleen Tartow

The Power of Active Metadata with Mike Evans

Guest:Mike Evans

Data Quality: The Key to GenAI Success with Kevin Hu

Guest:Kevin Hu

Why Data & AI Needs to Embrace Interoperability with Dael Williamson

Guest:Dael Williamson

Responsible AI with Mariam Halfhide

Guest:Mariam Halfhide

The Five Laws of Data Enablement with Amalia Child

Guest:Amalia Child

Building Diversity in Data with Dawn Carter

Guest:Dawn Carter

Humanizing Data Strategy with Tiankai Feng

Guest:Tiankai Feng

Who is doing the Data Product Management work? with Anna Bergevin

Guest:Anna Bergevin

We need your Honest No-BS Feedback! What should we do next?

What is AI Ops with Brandon Gadoci

Guest:Brandon Gadoci

4 Years of our Honest No-BS Podcast, Live from Gartner D&A Summit in London

Everything you wanted to know about Knowledge Graphs but were afraid to ask with Ora Lassila

Guest:Ora Lassila

Leadership transformation in this Data and AI world with Sol Rashidi

Guest:Sol Rashidi

Demystifying Vector Databases with Bob van Luijt

Guest:Bob van Luijt

Crawl, Walk, and Run on How to be AI Ready with Peter Kromhout and Mariam Halfhide

Guests:Mariam Halfhide, Peter Kromhout

Who’s buying Data Catalogs and Why? with Neil Burge

Guest:Neil Burge

Data Security and AI: How to get them on the same page with Jesse Sedler

Guest:Jesse Sedler

Live from Data Council Austin: what’s your honest no-bs take of the data world?

What data will say when you’re willing to listen with Scott Taylor

Guest:Scott Taylor

Gartner Data and Analytics 2024 Takeaways: Metadata is Everywhere with Cris Hadjez from Norwegian Cruise Lines

Guest:Cris Hadjez

When business goals and data strategies align with Amy Raygada

Guest:Amy Raygada

Don’t lift and shift: Data governance to AI Governance with Karen Meppen

Guest:Karen Meppen

Another sucky year for startups and investment? with Eva Nahari

Guest:Eva Nahari

Bridging Innovation and Open Source to the Real World with Paco Nathan

Guest:Paco Nathan

Without information architecture, there is no AI with Jessica Talisman

Guest:Jessica Talisman

Productivity is not performance with Santona Tuli

Guest:Santona Tuli

The data mesh-terclass

Guest:Samia Rahman

How will AI impact 2024 and beyond?

Guest:Jeremiah Owyang

Season 6 Finale with Tim Gasper and Juan Sequeda

Data Contracts and Shift Responsibility to Left with Andrew Jones

Guest:Andrew Jones

Making Data Science more Accessible with Doris Lee

Guest:Doris Lee

Understanding the Role of Knowledge Graphs on Large Language Model’s Accuracy for Question Answering on Enterprise SQL Databases

Guests:Dean Allemang, Bryon Jacob

Data Storytelling with Kat Greenbrook

Guest:Kat Greenbrook

Data Storytelling with Kat Greenbrook

Guest:Kat Greenbrook

LLMs, Retrieval Augmented Generation, Knowledge Graph, Vector Databases with Mike Dillinger

Guest:Mike Dillinger

Data Catalogs, The Power of Collaboration with Krystin Kim

Guest:Krystin Kim

Data Stewardship, Data Product Management, Data Governance and AI with Tim Gasper and Juan Sequeda

Generative AI, Data Products and Business Value with Jon Cooke

Guest:Jon Cooke

From London to San Francisco: Summary of BigDataLDN and AI Conference

Business Value on the #meandatastreets with Chris Tabb

Guest:Chris Tabb

Tim and Juan Rant from Amsterdam: where is the data budget?

Data that Doesn’t Drive Results is Useless with Alexa Westlake

Guest:Alexa Westlake

What does Data Lakehouse, Sports and Generative AI have in common? with Ari Kaplan

Guest:Ari Kaplan

From Technical to Business Data Strategy with Aaron Wilkerson from Carhartt

Guest:Aaron Wilkerson

Juan and Tim rant about AI and Chatting with your data

Data Sustainability w/ Simone Steel

Guest:Simone Steel

Is Data a First Class Citizen in your Company? w/ Wendy Turner-Williams

Guest:Wendy Turner-Williams

Ranting about (lack of) business value by data teams w/ Ethan Aaron

Guest:Ethan Aaron

People and Data w/ Tom Redman, The Data Doc

Guest:Tom Redman

Modeling and Semantics are more important than ever, because of AI with Joe Reis

Guest:Joe Reis

Catalogs & Cocktails Live from Snowflake Summit 2023 in Las Vegas

There is no “I” in Data Governance with Aakriti Agrawal from American Express

Guest:Aakriti Agrawal

Juan’s on Vacation

UPDATED RELEASE: Automating Data Governance, it’s the only way to go w/ Ben Clinch from BT Group

Guest:Ben Clinch

Using data to change the game w/ Maddy Want from Fanatics

Guest:Maddy Want

Live from the Knowledge Graph Conference with Katariina Kari from IKEA

Guest:Katariina Kari

Unpacking Responsible AI with Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Guest:Ricardo Baeza-Yates

What is the DNA of a data organization? w/ Alex Vayner from KPMG US

Guest:Alex Vayner

KG + LLM = Happily Ever After? w/ Tony Seale, Knowledge Graph Engineer

Guest:Tony Seale

Do’s and Don’t for the Next Gen Data Leaders w/ Veronika Durgin, VP of Data at Saks 5th Avenue

Guest:Veronika Durgin

Passing the buck; Business or Data?

Guest:Benny Benford

SHOW ME THE METRICS w/ Abhi Sivasailam

Guest:Abhi Sivasailam

School of Building Data and Business Relationships w/ Kristin Schooley

Guest:Kristin Schooley

Data Operations vs. Data Analytics

Guest:Bethany Lyons

Catalog & Cocktails: Throwback Elixir

Increasing adoption of data products, by design. w/ Brian T. O’Neill

Guest:Brian T. O’Neill

Metadata, is this a graph problem? w/ Mohammad Syed from Capco

Guest:Mohammad Syed

Everywhere you look, there it is; entity resolution w/ Jeff Jonas

Guest:Jeff Jonas

Is Master Data Management (MDM) dead? w/ Malcolm Hawker from Profisee

Guest:Malcolm Hawker

Data Modeling: your data isn’t going to model itself w/ Anna Abramova

Guest:Anna Abramova

Providing data business value and building data teams w/ Jane Urban from Takeda

Guest:Jane Urban

A conversation with the father of the data warehouse, Bill Inmon

Guest:Bill Inmon

Season 4 Finale

2022 State of Data Governance

Guests:Anthony Algmin, Shannon Moore

Getting into the Pool without Drowning. w/ Allison Sagraves

Guest:Allison Sagraves

Are data teams keeping up with AI teams? w/ Theresa Kushner

Guest:Theresa Kushner

Where are the semantics in the data dictionary? w/ Dan Bennett

Guest:Dan Bennett

Put the Business in charge of their own data w/ Gabi Steele and Leah Weiss of Preql

Guests:Gabi Steele, Leah Weiss

AI: No one wants your models. w/ Andrew Eye

Guest:Andrew Eye

Knowledge: the missing piece to understanding your business

Guest:Loris Marini

Data empathy; you either got it or you don’t w/ Laura Ellis from Rapid7

Guest:Laura Ellis

AI/ML: where should the focus be? w/ Patrick Bangert of Samsung

Guest:Patrick Bangert

Struggles of Setting up a Data Governance Program w/ Rupal Sumaria

Guest:Rupal Sumaria

BONUS EPISODE: Live from Big Data London

Keeping it 100 about metadata; the data stack glue w/ Fraser Harris, VP of Product, Fivetran

Guest:Fraser Harris

The Future of Data Catalogs w/ Ole Olesen-Bagneux

Guest:Ole Olesen-Bagneux

Data Engineering: where are we and where are we going? w/ Joe Reis and Matt Housley of Ternary Data

Guests:Joe Reis, Matt Housley

Catalog & Cocktails: Bonus Episode with John Kutay

Guest:John Kutay

Your thoughts become action; going from Thought Leadership to Practice w/ Roel and Valentijn of Vopak

Build bridges. Don’t Burn them. W/ Vip Parmar, WPP

Guest:Vip Parmar

Bonus Episode: Juan’s Trip Takeaways from MIT CDOIQ

Season 3: Bonus Episode with Producer of the show, Karli Burghoff

Guest:Karli Burghoff

Season 3 Finale

Data Models are Divas w/ Ergest Xheblati

Guest:Ergest Xheblati

Don’t let good metadata go to waste w/ Peter Kapur

Guest:Peter Kapur

Getting all meta about data w/ Sanjeev Mohan

Guest:Sanjeev Mohan

Does our understanding of data bias our analytics outcomes?

Guest:Ciaran Dynes

The Data Entrepreneur’s Essentials w/ Brett Hurt

Guest:Brett Hurt

A Roadmap to Data Mesh Success w/ Omar Khawaja

Guest:Omar Khawaja

Is your Modern Data Stack delivering value? w/ Sarah Krasnik

Guest:Sarah Krasnik

Automating the Enterprise: LIVE from the Knowledge Graph Conference w/ Francois Scharffe

Guest:Francois Scharffe

A layered approach to data meaning and measurement w/ Nick Handel

Guest:Nick Handel

Everybody’s an imposter sometimes w/ Steve Perry

Guest:Steve Perry

Why are we so bad at this modern data stack? w/ Chad Sanderson.

Guest:Chad Sanderson

Can data policy drive data productivity? w/ Nong Li

Guest:Nong Li

The future of data is knowledge w/ Bob Muglia

Guest:Bob Muglia

Agile like a fox, but for data. W/ Shane Gibson from AgileData.io

Guest:Shane Gibson

Your privacy is my currency with Patricia Thaine from Private AI

Guest:Patricia Thaine

Are you swimming upstream by not streaming data? w/ Arjun Narayan from Materialize

Guest:Arjun Narayan

Why are data transformations such a big deal? Live from the dbt Coalesce Happy Hour.

The easiest data is always the hardest to model w/ Karen Lopez

Guest:Karen Lopez

The three most important letters in data & analytics are W-H-Y w/ Luke Slotwinski from Prologis

Guest:Luke Slotwinski

Can Agile Practices Disrupt Data Governance? w/ Laura Madsen from Moxy Analytics

Guest:Laura Madsen

S3E5 Takeways with Laura Madsen

Guest:Laura Madsen

Can the Data Mesh be Governed? w/ Dora Boussias

Guest:Dora Boussias

What good is a Metrics Layer? w/ Benn Stancil from Mode

Guest:Benn Stancil

Modern Data Work at Drizly w/ Emily Hawkins

Guest:Emily Hawkins

Will 2022 change how we think about data? w/ Sarah Catanzaro

Guest:Sarah Catanzaro

Season Two Finale!!!

Please be quiet. The machines are talking. w/ Steve Whitla

Guest:Steve Whitla

What happens when everyone is a data worker? w/ Kelly Wright from Gong

Guest:Kelly Wright

Modern Data Stack: Technology, Methodology, or both? w/ Nick Schrock

Guest:Nick Schrock

Long live the monolith? w/ Andy Palmer from Tamr

Guest:Andy Palmer

Is self-service BI the answer? w/ Cindi Howson

Guest:Cindi Howson

Data tools: the good, the bad, and the ugly w/ Erik Bernhardsson

Guest:Erik Bernhardsson

Data is the new... Herman Miller Aeron Chair? w/ Doug Laney

Guest:Doug Laney

The Data Mesh Debate w/ hosts Juan and Tim

Sure, you’re responsible, but are you ethical? w/ Partha Srinivasa

Guest:Partha Srinivasa

A data analyst, scientist, and engineer walk into a bar...w/ Danielle Oberdier

Guest:Danielle Oberdier

Do we have a data infrastructure crisis? w/ Mammad Zadeh

Guest:Mammad Zadeh

Fashion Week...but for data w/ Jans Aasman

Guest:Jans Aasman

How to think about data value w/ Lars Albertsson

Guest:Lars Albertsson

What’s the deal with Reverse ETL? w/ Tejas Manohar

Guest:Tejas Manohar

The Era of Data Usage w/ Mike Ferguson

Guest:Mike Ferguson

Can’t spell BUZZWORDS without BS w/ Kirk Borne of DataPrime AI

Guest:Kirk Borne

Free-range, grass-fed, open-source data w/ Denise Gosnell of Datastax

Guest:Denise Gosnell

Documents and Clouds and Graphs, Oh My! w/ Emil Eifrem, CEO of Neo4j

Guest:Emil Eifrem

SEASON TWO KICKOFF w/ DJ PATIL

Guest:DJ PATIL

Special Edition: Panel on Data Architecture at the Knowledge Graph Conference

Guests:Jay Yu, Teresa Tung, Zhamak Dehghani

SEASON ONE FINALE: Episode 50

The Future of BI is AI

Guest:Ashley Kramer

Knowledge is Power: Knowledge Management meets Data Management

Guest:Joe Hilger

Don’t Treat your Data Stack like a Fine Wine

Guest:Brandon Chen

Data Organization: Reap what you Sow

Guest:Meetesh Karia

What’s the Secret Recipe for DataOps?

Guest:Chris Bergh

Why it’s time to mesh with your data architecture

Guest:Zhamak Dehghani

What do they teach at your Data Science U?

Guest:George Fletcher

Power to the Data!

Guest:Dave McComb

Building a great data team: Mission (Im)possible

Guest:Patrick Barry

Does your data have a ‘born on’ date?

Guest:Deborah McGuiness

Identity graph: the new customer 360

Guests:Bret Harper, Michael Murray

A modern approach to data transformation

Guest:Drew Banin

Do you have data trust issues?

Guest:Lior Gavish

What does a Chief Data Officer do?

Guest:Mohammed Aaser

Do you test your data?

Guest:Sam Bail

What can we learn from messy insurance data?

Guest:John Lucker

Does your data governance strategy need a therapy session?

Is Your Data Fabric a Mesh?

Has business intelligence jumped the shark? (with special guest Peter Bailis, CEO of Sisu Data)

Guest:Peter Bailis

Best of Catalog & Cocktails: 95% say exit polls don’t work. 15% say they do.

Guest:Dwayne Desaulniers

Best of Catalog & Cocktails: Is it time to hire a data product manager?

Goodbye 2020, hello 2021

Getting your data bang for your catalog buck

How Airbnb built its internal data catalog

Guest:Jeff Feng

The Thanksgiving special

Master data management: hot or not?

The data landscape is CRAZY.

Documentation matters

Guest:Will Briggs

The Data Governance House of Horrors

Your best data source may be outside your company

Guest:Jeremy Baksht

Time for a data culture makeover

95% say exit polls don’t work. 15% say they do.

Guest:Dwayne Desaulniers

Data work is much bigger than a soccer match

What we learned at the first ever data.world summit

Hear from DJ Patil and other leading thinkers at data.world summit

Data catalog Fight Night: build vs buy

Should we salute our robot overlords?

Crowdsource your way to data empowerment

Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist

Guests:Dean Allemang, Fabien Gandon, James Handler

How dirty is your data?

A data management chicken and egg

Is it time to hire a data product manager?

Guest:Claire Cahill

Get data governance right for once

Stuck in the middle: how to become an advocate for a data catalog and governance

Guest:Stewart Coerver

What the pandemic can teach us about data governance

Guest:Anoop Lalla

How does data policy impact you?

Guest:Corinna Turbes

What’s the story with data lineage?

Guest:Ernie Ostic

What’s the deal with knowledge graphs?

How does your data team get value from a data catalog?

Who’s on your data team?

Data integration from the trenches

Guest:Bryon Jacob

Don’t boil the ocean. Boil a fishbowl.

The future of data management