Guest host Michael Rivo is joined by Kimberly Paige, EVP and CMO of BET, and Dan Torunian, VP of Employee Technology & Experiences at Paypal, to discuss how data, intuition, and mission drive decisions.
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Nov 20
How to Maximize ROI on AI in 2026
<p>The promise of agentic AI has been massive, autonomous systems that act, reason, and make business decisions, but most enterprises are still struggling to see results.</p><p>In this episode, host Chris Brandt sits down with Sumeet Arora, Chief Product Officer at Teradata, to u ... Show More
59m 51s
Nov 6
90% of AI Demos Fail. Here’s How to Build One that Won’t
<p>If you’ve ever shipped an AI feature that looked great in testing — only to watch it behave unpredictably in production — you’re not alone.</p><p>In this episode of IT Visionaries, host Chris Brandt talks with Lawrence Jones, Founding Engineer at incident.io, about the critica ... Show More
59m 22s
Oct 31
The Future of Procurement: Real-Time Supply Chain Intelligence
<p>Every product a company ships depends on thousands of tiny decisions happening deep inside the supply chain. But most organizations are still making those decisions using stale spreadsheets, fragmented systems, and guesswork.</p><p>In this episode, we explore how AI-driven pro ... Show More
53m 20s
Feb 2021
ThoughtSpot’s Cindi Howson on Chief Data Officer Success Strategies
<p>Much like a roller coaster, 2020 was full of many loops, twists, and turns. From accelerated digital transformations to expedited migrations to the cloud, you were asked to do it all— often with far less time and resources. Through it all, <i>The Data Chief</i> was right there ... Show More
38m 3s
Dec 2021
The Top Trends in 2022 for Data Leaders from DataRobot, Databricks, and Google
<p>At the end of every year, you’re probably asking the same questions we are. What are the big changes coming next year? How do I stay ahead of them? And what’s separating real trends from the hype?</p><p>To answer these questions, we are excited to bring together some of the to ... Show More
1h 12m
Apr 2022
LPL Financial's Cara Dailey on Data Enablement and Balancing Data Defense with Offense
<p>With every passing year, a new batch of data tools comes available, and a new crop of data professionals enters the job market. The Chief Data Officer has evolved into a position that acts both on the offensive and defensive sides of these changes. Our guest today, Cara Dailey ... Show More
37m 57s
Apr 2020
About The Data Chief
<p>Data is transforming how we think about life, work, business, healthcare, education, and everything in between. Meet the world’s top data and analytics leaders bringing this data revolution to life.</p> <p>In each episode of The Data Chief, host Cindi Howson, Chief Data Strate ... Show More
1m 41s
May 2022
How to Link Data to Business Outcomes
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Every business likes to claim that it is "data-driven" or at least "data-informed," but too often, that's not the way things actually work. Data is relegated to an IT function, siloed and, in some cases, boils down to simply producing more repor ... Show More
17m 32s
Jan 2023
#123 Why We Need More Data Empathy
When working with data, it’s easy for us to think about it as a mechanistic process, where data comes in and products come out. But as we’ve explored throughout the show, succeeding in data, whether you’re a data leader looking to build a data culture, a data scientist ascending ... Show More
44m 51s
Mar 2023
[Radar Recap] Building an Enterprise Data Strategy that Puts People First
An effective data strategy is one that combines a variety of levers such as infrastructure, tools, organization, processes, and more. Arguably however, the most important aspect of a vibrant data strategy is culture and people.In the third of our four RADAR 2023 sessions, Cindi H ... Show More
41m 15s