
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast
Catalog and Cocktails is the honest, No-BS, non-sales-y podcast about data and analytics. This is your unfiltered chat about everything interesting in data and analytics. Join Juan Sequeda and Tim Gasper to explore emerging topics and hear from thought leaders, practitioners and executives across the data and analytics space.
How data teams become trusted business partners with Nick Zervoudis
Nick Zervoudis, data product manager, trainer, and consultant at Value from Data & AI, joins Juan and Time to talk about why many data teams end up working like a service desk and what to do about it. The answer is: DO DISCOVERY! In this conversation, we cover how a service desk model breaks down w…
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TAKEAWAY How data teams become trusted business partners with Nick Zervoudis
This is the takeaway episode with Nick Zervoudis, data product manager, trainer, and consultant at Value from Data & AI, joins Juan and Time to talk about why many data teams end up working like a service desk and what to do about it. The answer is: DO DISCOVERY!
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Game Changers: The Talent Imperative for the AI Era with Mohammed Aaser
Mohammed Aaser, former chief data officer at McKinsey and former chief data strategy officer at Domo, recently visited Juan and shared his framework on talent in the AI era. It was incredibly insightful and we asked if he could come back to the podcast (after 5 years!) His argument is that the pote…
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TAKEAWAY Game Changers: The Talent Imperative for the AI Era with Mohammed Aaser
This is the takeaway episode with Mohammed Aaser, former chief data officer at McKinsey and former chief data strategy officer at Domo. He recently visited Juan and shared his framework on talent in the AI era. It was incredibly insightful and we asked if he could come back to the podcast (after 5 …
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Preserve Executive Trust by Protecting Your Judgement with Dora Boussias
How do leaders preserve executive trust and credibility? Dora Boussias, executive advisor and former data executive returns to the podcast to unpack this question. Her answer: protect your judgement. In this episode, Dora presents the trust equation that most leaders grew up with: expertise + tra…
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TAKEAWAY Preserve Executive Trust by Protecting Your Judgement with Dora Boussias
This is the takeaway episode with Dora Boussias, executive advisor and former data executive. We unpack the question "How do leaders preserve executive trust and credibility?" Her answer: protect your judgement. In this episode, Dora presents the trust equation that most leaders grew up with: exper…
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Agents are taking over data! So what comes next? with Tristan Handy
Agents will build data infrastructure at every layer and become its primary consumers. Tristan Handy, President and Co-founder of Fivetran / dbt Labs joins Juan and Tim where we unpack the big shift that is happening: teams need to move from working in the process (picking up individual tickets) to…
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TAKEAWAY - Agents are taking over data! So what comes next? with Tristan Handy
This is the takeaway episode with Tristan Handy, President and Co-founder of Fivetran / dbt Labs where he joins Juan and Tim to discuss how agents will build data infrastructure at every layer and become its primary consumers. We unpack the big shift that is happening: teams need to move from worki…
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AI Inherits the Business Choices You Never Made with David Krauza
AI doesn't create your problems. It inherits the business choices you never made and the results nobody owns. David Krauza, VP of Data Strategy and Governance at Comcast, joins Juan and Tim to make the case that most "data problems" aren't data problems at all. They are accountability problems, def…
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TAKEAWAY - AI Inherits the Business Choices You Never Made with David Krauza
This is the takeaway episode with David Krauza, VP of Data Strategy and Governance at Comcast who makes the case that AI doesn't create your problems, it inherits the business choices you never made and the results nobody owns. David joins Juan and Tim and discuss the accountability problems, defin…
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