It's About Data

We're releasing this continuation of Ep 53 with Miran Badzak to coincide with IBM Think 2026. What does it mean for a database to be autonomous? What is the future for DBAs? What is the outlook for text-to-SQL?The other half of this conversation:https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/pIdV72QcW2b#database #agenticai

Tony and Sanjeev record from the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. We discuss the integrated stack from hardware to agents, cloud interconnect data collaboration and TPUs.#cloudcomputing #artificialintelligence

Yitzhak Kesselman (Corporate Vice President @Microsoft ) joins us to discuss Microsoft Fabric IQ and the combination of two approaches to AI: traditional "signals" machine learning and LLM based reasoning.#dataanalytics #artificialintelligence #machinelearning

Joe Reis joins the show to talk about his upcoming data modeling book, GTA 6, and AI's impact on data engineering.Joe's Substack on data modeling:https://practicaldatamodeling.substack.com/Fundamentals of Data Engineering:https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/fundamentals-of-data/9781098108298/#aitools #aicoding #dataengineering

Jessica Talisman joins us for another episode in our one year anniversary series to discuss her recently published essay on declining literacy skills in the United States.https://jessicatalisman.substack.com/p/were-losing-the-ability-to-readWe discuss connections with AI, library science, writing and knowledge. This conversation is a continuation of episode 56. https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Y6JA2Jbh9Ze2aoI7kvzQE#literacy #artificialintelligence #writing

"Saying context graph is like saying wet water." Jessica Talisman joins us to discuss the outlook on knowledge in the midst of the AI boom. This episode is part of our first anniversary series—Jessica was one of our early guests in episode 19.https://open.spotify.com/episode/3ypGZGUtTviieiOHk1NZyk?si=fbee300adc644fa5Jessica's substack:https://jessicatalisman.substack.com/#artificialintelligence #knowledgegraph

Juan Sequeda (ServiceNow) was one of our first guest and joins us for this special 1st anniversary episode. He imparts lessons learned in years of building ontologies.Catalog and Cocktails, Juan's podcast with Tim Gasper.https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/catalog-cocktails-the-honest-no-bs-data-podcast/id1524652737#artificialintelligence #dataanalytics

Russell Spitzer joins us at Data Day Texas 2026 to discuss his work on the Apache Iceberg project.#dataanalytics #datamanagement #opensource

"It brings AI to Fabric and Fabric to AI." Andrew Brust (Blue Badge Insights) is the rare polymath who combines hardcore technical chops with industry analytics prowess. He brings his experience to this episode to discuss how Microsoft Fabric IQ helps AI to be an intelligent consumer of business data.https://www.bluebadgeinsights.com/#artificialintelligence #dataanalytics

This is a continuation of the conversation with Bruno in episode 47. What do you get for the enterprise that has everything? We've had systems of record, systems of engagement, and systems of intelligence for some time, but now it's time for action.Episode 47:https://open.spotify.com/episode/4ewPRBEDo6B7jL4WF8s92K?si=gE2EXLTfSE-0kpSOffOQYABruno's substack:https://carcast.substack.com/#artificialintelligence #dataanalytics

In this episode, we sit down with Patrick McFadin (IBM) at Data Day Texas 2026.

We preview Data Day Texas 2026 from Austin Texas. Crazy weather, ontologies, knowledge graphs, context graphs, semantics, the rebirth of the modern data stack, etc.#dataanalytics #artificialintelligence