How AI is transforming enterprise data

How AI is transforming enterprise data

From The ITPro Podcast by ITPro

April 3, 2026 · 32 min · Episode 345

About this episode

This episode explores how AI is transforming enterprise data management and the implications for businesses in the UK.

It’s long been said that good data is necessary before you can have good AI. But to an increasing degree, AI is also helping businesses manage, analyze, and generate their data too. With AI code generation already well understood, businesses are also leaning on natural language processing and agentic AI to help their experts such as data engineers and data scientists automate their work more effectively. What does all this mean for businesses looking to adopt AI? And how is the UK AI market maturing? In this episode, recorded on the ground at Databricks AI Days London 2026, Rory speaks to Michael Green, UK&I managing director at Databricks and Richard Shaw, AVP Field Engineering at Databricks, to better understand how data and AI are converging. Read more: What is natural language processing? ‘A true vote of confidence’: Databricks announces $850m UK investment as firm looks to quadruple London office footprint "We want AI to work for Britain": The UK government wants to upskill 10 million Brits in AI by 2030 – and the courses are free to access The UK’s AI ambitions depend on channel partners Microsoft says fear of falling behind is driving an AI arms race among UK…

People in this episode

Host: Rory

Guests: Michael Green, Richard Shaw

Topics covered

  • AI transformation
  • enterprise data
  • natural language processing
  • data engineering
  • UK AI market
  • business automation

Keywords

  • AI
  • enterprise data
  • natural language processing
  • data engineers
  • automation
  • UK AI market
  • Databricks

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Databricks

Places: UK

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