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We discuss data, artificial intelligence, and whatever else we feel like talking about. Cohosted by Tony Baer and Matt Housley. Also available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC6XFbzM-Vn1ztmEQFDVzYCQ

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Kevin Petrie and Merv Adrian (BARC) join us to discuss a recent study:"Harnessing Unstructured Data for AI Innovation: Problems, Practices, and Principles for Success"This episode is part of a two part series. In the first part, we discuss the findin... more

Dipti Borkar joins us to discuss how Microsoft is addressing the growing importance of open data through Fabric. We also talk about solving for agentic analytics support, and the evolution of data roles and responsibilities.

In episode 80, Andy Pernsteiner (field CTO VAST Data) joins us to discuss how VAST has evolved from a storage layer to application backend services, data management and AI infrastructure.The VAST Cosmos Community:community.vastdata.com/

Tony reports from Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026. Lakehouse/RT, LTAP, Genie One, Omnigent, Unity AI Gateway, and more.

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Suresh Srinivas
CEO of Colate
Colate
Episode: Your Data Needs Metadata (with Suresh Srinivas)
Amit Sharma
CEO and founder of CData Software
CData Software
Episode: Collapsing the Modern Data Stack for AI (with Amit Sharma)
Fern Halper
Author focused on data strategy and analytics
TDWI / The Data Warehousing Institute
Episode: Data Makes the World Go Round (with Fern Halper)
Winfried Etzel
Expert in data governance and author
Deima (Norwegian chapter)
Episode: Data Governance in the Wild (with Winfried Etzel)
Jim Zemlin
CEO of The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation
Episode: The Agentic AI Foundation (Interview with Angie Jones and Jim Zemlin)
Angie Jones
Vice President of Developer Experience at The Agentic AI Foundation
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Episode: The Agentic AI Foundation (Interview with Angie Jones and Jim Zemlin)
Sanjeev Mohan
Guest from Google Cloud Next 2026 at the show floor
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Episode: GCP Next 2026 (with Sanjeev Mohan)
Thais Cooke
Senior Healthcare Data Analyst
Episode: The Human Layer of Data (Guests Jenna Jordan and Thais Cooke)
Jenna Jordan
Senior Analytics Engineer
Rachel PBC
Episode: The Human Layer of Data (Guests Jenna Jordan and Thais Cooke)

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Tony Baer
Co-host of the show; Host of It's About Data; focused on data strategy and enterprise AI discussions.
Matt Housley
Co-host of the show; Co-host of It's About Data; leads discussions on data architectures and practical implementations.

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Data Products, Agents and OSI
Q: How do data products fit into AI workflows and governance?
Data products provide curated, high-quality data with business context that can be reliably consumed by agents and LLMs, reducing hallucination and improving traceability through data lineage and access controls.
Data Products, Agents and OSI
Q: What's really changed with model-to-data and why is federation important now?
Federation allows access to distributed data sources without moving or duplicating data, enabling governance and secure, scalable querying across platforms while still supporting multiple LLMs and agents in a coordinated way.
MCP Dev Summit Recap with Andrew Brust
Q: How close are we to a fully reliable enterprise deployment of MCP, and what governance is in place to guide standardization?
The discussion suggests progress toward governance to prevent unmanageable growth and to keep standards stable, with the AAIF established to provide governance over MCP-related standards and to reduce platform-shift costs for enterprises.
Combining Two Approaches to AI (with Yitzhak Kesselman, Microsoft)
Q: How do you see the combination of analytics and operational data helping businesses?
By giving AI systems the full business context—both the structured analytics and the unstructured institutional knowledge plus the operational signals—applications can not only understand what is happening but also take timely, context-aware actions.
Combining Two Approaches to AI (with Yitzhak Kesselman, Microsoft)
Q: What is Fabric IQ?
Fabric IQ is a platform that extends semantic models and ontologies beyond analytics to cover operational aspects, including time-series data, geospatial information, and the ability to drive actions through rules and policies, providing a unified context for LLMs and AI together with real-time intelligence.

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This program centers on data, AI, and the evolving technology landscape, with a strong emphasis on data strategy, governance, and practical implementations in enterprise environments. Across episodes, topics like metadata standardization, the modern data stack, data governance in distributed systems, open-source governance for agentic AI, and AI-integrated data platforms recur. The conversation style blends practitioner experience, vendor ecosystems, and real-world deployment considerations, often featuring leaders from IBM, Microsoft, The Linux Foundation, Google Cloud, SAP, and TDWI. Listeners are likely data professionals and tech decision-makers who want actionable insights on how to design, govern, and operationalize data and AI in com... more

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