Best Bi Architecture Podcasts (2025)

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Code As You Are 43:36

10m ago43:36

43:36

In this episode of Data-powered Innovation Jam, hosts Robert Engels and Ron Tolido jam with Craig Wiley, Senior Director of AI/ML Products at Databricks and former founder of AWS SageMaker and Google Vertex AI. From Seattle’s grunge roots in Nirvana, from Jimi Hendrix to Kurt Cobain, then going on to the evolution of AI platforms, Craig shares insi…

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199: Anna Aubuchon: Moving BI workloads into LLMs and using AI to build what you used to buy 59:41

2d ago59:41

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What’s up everyone, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Anna Aubuchon, VP of Operations at Civic Technologies. (00:00) - Intro (01:15) - In This Episode (04:15) - How AI Flipped the Build Versus Buy Decision (07:13) - Redrawing What “Complex” Means (12:20) - Why In House AI Provides Better Economics And Control (15:33) - How to Treat AI…

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7 Bold Predictions for 2026 48:13

6d ago48:13

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What does the future of AI sound like? In this special year-end episode of Data-powered Innovation Jam, we riff on seven bold predictions for 2026, from security-first AI and multi-agent ecosystems to industry-native intelligence and even synthetic curiosity. Join hosts Ron Tolido and Robert Engels as they jam with thought leaders on trends that wi…

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S3E5 - Intentional AI: How much can you trust AI for accessibility? 23:01

8d ago23:01

23:01

In Episode 5 of the Intentional AI series, Cole, Virgil, and Seth shift into another part of the content lifecycle. This time, they focus on accessibility and how AI fits into that work. Accessibility is more than code checks. It is making sure people can actually use and understand what you create. The team walks through what happened when they ra…

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198: Pam Boiros: 10 Ways to support women and build more inclusive AI 49:01

9d ago49:01

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What’s up everyone, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Pam Boiros, Fractional CMO and Marketing advisor, and Co-Founder Women Applying AI. (00:00) - Intro (01:13) - In This Episode (03:49) - How To Audit Data Fingerprints For AI Bias In Marketing (07:39) - Why Emotional Intelligence Improves AI Prompting Quality (10:14) - Why So Many W…

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197: Anna Leary: The Art of saying no and other mental health strategies in marketing ops 56:18

16d ago56:18

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What’s up everyone, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Anna Leary, Director of Marketing Operations at Alma. (00:00) - Intro (01:15) - In This Episode (04:38) - How to Prevent Burnout (05:46) - What Companies Can Do Better (07:50) - Agility of Planning (08:53) - Why Saying No Strengthens Marketing Operations (13:48) - How to Decide Whe…

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Jam Francisco 53:01

16d ago53:01

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Bringing you a very special edition of the Data Powered Innovation Jam podcast, recorded live during a tech road trip through San Francisco and Silicon Valley. This episode blends the city’s musical heritage with cutting-edge innovation, exploring how creativity and technology intersect. Hosts Robert Engels, together with our ‘tech guy’ Alex Bulat …

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196: Blair Bendel: The World of casino marketing and the tech that brings it to life 55:09

23d ago55:09

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What’s up everyone today we have the pleasure of chatting with Blair Bendel, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Foxwoods Resort Casino. (00:00) - Intro (00:49) - In This Episode (03:39) - Evolution of Casino Martech (06:11) - Customer Loyalty & Personalization (09:36) - Using the Right Marketing Channel for the Right Goal in Hospitality (12:38) …

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S3E4 - Intentional AI: The role of AI in content management 21:20

24d ago21:20

21:20

In Episode 4 of the Intentional AI series, Cole and Virgil move further into the content lifecycle and this time they are focusing on content management. Once your content’s written, the real work begins. Editing, organizing, translating, tagging, all the behind-the-scenes steps that keep content consistent and usable. In this episode, the team loo…

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195: Megan Kwon: How One of Canada’s largest retailers orchestrates messaging, and structures martech 55:03

30d ago55:03

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What’s up folks, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Megan Kwon, Director, Digital Customer Communications at Loblaw Digital. (00:00) - Intro (01:26) - In This Episode (04:11) - Building a Career Around Conversations That Scale (06:25) - Customer Journey Pods and Martech Team Structures (09:08) - Martech Team Structures (11:23) - Custom…

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194: Jane Menyo: How Gong democratized customer proof with AI research and standardized prompts 53:00

1M ago53:00

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What’s up everyone today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Jane Menyo, Sr. Director, Solutions & Customer Marketing @ Gong. (00:00) - Jane-audio (01:01) - In This Episode (04:43) - How Solutions Marketing Turns Customer Insights Into Strategy (09:22) - Using AI to Mine Real Customer Intelligence from Conversations (13:18) - Why Stitching Re…

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S3E3 - Intentional AI: Smarter content creation with AI 19:47

1M ago19:47

19:47

In Episode 3 of the Intentional AI series, Cole and Virgil move into the next stage of the content lifecycle: content creation. AI can write faster than ever, but that doesn’t mean it writes well. From prompting and editing to maintaining voice and originality, AI-generated content still requires human effort and judgment. In this episode, the team…

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193: David Joosten: The Politics and architecture of martech transformation 1:03:09

1M ago1:03:09

1:03:09

What’s up everyone, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with David Joosten, Co-Founder and President at GrowthLoop and the co-author of ‘First-Party Data Activation’. (00:00) - Intro (01:02) - In This Episode (03:47) - Earning The Right To Transform Martech (08:17) - Why Internal Roadshows Make Martech Wins Stick (10:52) - Architecture Shape…

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Mix, Master & Mesh 50:59

2M ago50:59

50:59

In this genre-blending episode of Data Powered Innovation Jam, hosts Ron Tolido, Robert Engels, and Arne Rossman welcome Stephen Brobst, CTO of Ab Initio and former CTO of Terradata, for a deep dive into the art of mixing data, AI, and music. From punk rock roots and stage-diving legends to the reinvention of enterprise data platforms, Stephen shar…

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192: Angela Vega: Expedia’s Martech leader on ADHD, discernment, and the art of picking battles in martech 1:06:04

2M ago1:06:04

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What’s up everyone, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Angela Vega, Director, Capabilities and Operations at Expedia Group. (00:00) - ‌Intro (01:18) - In This Episode (04:55) - Building an ADHD Techstack (11:11) - Why ADHD Shapes Better Decision-Making in Marketing Operations (19:06) - How to Turn ADHD Patterns Into Martech Leadership …

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S3E2 - Intentional AI: Maximizing AI for research & analysis 22:07

2M ago22:07

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In Episode 2 of the Intentional AI series, Cole and Virgil dive into the first real stage of the content lifecycle: research and analysis. From brainstorming ideas to verifying data sources, AI is being used everywhere in the early stages of content creation. But how much of that information can you actually trust? In this episode, the team unpacks…

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191: Aboli Gangreddiwar: Self healing data agents, hivemind memory curators and living documentation 1:02:43

2M ago1:02:43

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What’s up everyone, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Aboli Gangreddiwar, Senior Director of Lifecycle and Product Marketing at Credible. (00:00) - Intro (01:10) - In This Episode (04:54) - Agentic Infrastructure Components in Marketing Operations (09:52) - Self Healing Data Quality Agents (16:36) - Data Activation Agents (26:56) - Ca…

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Supply Chain Reaction 45:11

2M ago45:11

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Welcome to the latest episode of the Data Powered Innovation Jam, where data meets disco and AI grooves with funk. After a long summer break, our hosts return with fresh stories, musical nostalgia, and cutting-edge insights into the world of supply chain superintelligence. In this vibrant and eclectic episode, we’re joined by Guillaume Waline, Seni…

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190: Henk-jan ter Brugge: The Head of Martech at Philips thinks martech has outgrown marketing and it’s time we lead like pirates 1:00:12

2M ago1:00:12

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By Phil Gamache

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S3E1 - Intentional AI: Applying AI across the content lifecycle 19:04

2M ago19:04

19:04

In the Season 3 premiere of Discussing Stupid, Cole and Virgil kick off the new series Intentional AI: a season-long dive into how AI fits (and sometimes doesn’t even fit) into the stages of the content lifecycle. Organizations are rushing to hand entire workflows over to AI… but without a clear plan, the results are messy at best and risky at wors…

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189: Aditi Uppal: How to capture, activate and measure voice of customer across go to market efforts 52:37

2M ago52:37

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What’s up everyone, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Aditi Uppal, Vice President, Digital Marketing and Demand Generation at Teradata. (00:00) - Intro (01:15) - In this Episode (04:03) - How to Use Customer Conversations to Validate Marketing Data (10:49) - Balancing Quantitative Data with Customer Conversations (16:14) - Gathering C…

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188: Rebecca Corliss: Why lifecycle marketers will thrive in the agentic marketing org 57:02

3M ago57:02

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What’s up folks, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Rebecca Corliss, VP Marketing at GrowthLoop. (00:00) - Intro (01:20) - In This Episode (03:46) - The Future Agentic Marketing Org (07:59) - The Rise of the Marketing Dispatch Layer (14:47) - Lifecycle Marketers Belong at the Center of Every Agentic Org (21:19) - Why Channel Specialist…

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187: John Saunders: Building the ultimate operating engine for a modern agency 54:28

3M ago54:28

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What’s up everyone, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with John Saunders, VP of Product at Nova / Power Digital Marketing. Power Digital is a San Diego-based growth marketing firm. Nova is their proprietary marketing technology. (00:00) - Intro (01:15) - In This Episode (03:26) - How an Agency Operating System Reduces Silos (05:47) - Why C…

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Season 3: The Teaser 3:25

3M ago3:25

3:25

“Stupid is as stupid does.” Forrest Gump said it best... and you don't have to look far in the digital world to see just how much stupid is out there. Whether you're lost in the layers of a bloated website, juggling 5 different collaboration tools just to get ONE project done, or searching for a document you know exists but still can't find... we'v…

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186: Olga Andrienko: Ex-VP at Semrush left her 35-person brand team to build AI for marketing ops 1:07:49

3M ago1:07:49

1:07:49

What’s up everyone, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Olga Andrienko, Former VP of Marketing Ops at Semrush. (00:00) - Intro (01:24) - In This Episode (03:55) - How AI Agents Reshape Marketing Ops Roles (08:53) - How To Beat AI Imposter Syndrome And Start Using Custom GPTs (13:28) - How AI Content Agents Generate Drafts Using Internal…

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185: Jonathan Kazarian: Platforms vs point solutions and the marketing operator’s dilemma 58:01

3M ago58:01

58:01

What’s up everyone, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Jonathan Kazarian, Founder & CEO of Accelevents. (00:00) - Intro (01:35) - In This Episode (03:41) - Are Point Solutions Actually a Distraction for Marketing Teams? (09:32) - Data Models Can Decide Platforms or Point Solutions (14:20) - Contact Based Pricing Skews Platform Versus P…

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184: Nadia Davis: How to decide if attribution data is good enough to guide strategy 1:09:07

4M ago1:09:07

1:09:07

What’s up everyone, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Nadia Davis, VP Marketing at CaliberMind. (00:00) - Intro (01:12) - In This Episode (02:53) - Understanding the Attribution Periodic Table Framework (07:49) - Why Marketing Teams Face Higher ROI Pressure Than Other Departments (20:15) - Why Attribution Fails Without Data Stewardshi…

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183: Kevin White: Building a super IC role to escape management burnout and fixing the broken promise of AI SDRs 59:43

4M ago59:43

59:43

What’s up everyone, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Kevin White, Head of GTM Strategy at Common Room. (00:00) - Intro (01:00) - In This Episode (02:59) - How to Design a Super IC Role for Senior Marketers (09:11) - How to Get Comfortable With Public Visibility as an Introverted Leader (10:39) - sing Empathy and Product Demos to Buil…

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182: Simon Lejeune: Wealthsimple’s VP of Growth on 2 keys to be a top 5% marketer 1:06:59

4M ago1:06:59

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What’s up everyone, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Simon Lejeune, VP of Growth at Wealthsimple. (00:00) - Intro (01:16) - In This Episode (03:55) - How to Escape Local Maximum Traps in Growth Marketing (08:59) - Productive Laziness Mindsets (12:03) - The Psychological Trap of A/B Testing (15:55) - Balancing Clean Experiments with B…

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181: Alison Albeck Lindland: Climb the AI Literacy Pyramid and Stand Out as a Customer‑First Marketer 59:29

4M ago59:29

59:29

What’s up folks, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Alison Albeck Lindland, CMO at Movable Ink. (00:00) - Intro (01:14) - In This Episode (03:10) - 1. Movable Ink's Platform Evolution (04:19) - 2. Alison's 3 Stage Journey at Movable Ink (05:08) - 3. Using Customer Relationships to Future Proof a Marketing Career (09:50) - 4. Building A…

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180: István Mészáros: Merging web and product analytics on top of the warehouse with a zero-copy architecture 59:15

4M ago59:15

59:15

What’s up everyone, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with István Mészáros, Founder and CEO of Mitzu.io. (00:00) - Intro (01:00) - In This Episode (03:39) - How Warehouse Native Analytics Works (06:54) - BI vs Analytics vs Measurement vs Attribution (09:26) - Merging Web and Product Analytics With a Zero-Copy Architecture (14:53) - Feature…

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179: Tiankai Feng: The comeback of data quality and how NLP is changing the data analyst role 1:04:42

5M ago1:04:42

1:04:42

What’s up everyone, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Tiankai Feng, Data & AI Strategy Director at Thoughtworks and Author of Humanizing Data Strategy. (00:00) - Intro (01:06) - In This Episode (03:18) - How Data and Marketing Create a Symbiotic Relationship (06:00) - If Data Governance Is the Jedi Council, Marketing Ops Is the Rebel …

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178: Guta Tolmasquim: Connecting brand to revenue with attribution algorithms that reflect brand complexity 1:06:44

5M ago1:06:44

1:06:44

What’s up everyone, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Guta Tolmasquim, CEO at Purple Metrics. Summary: Brand measurement often feels like a polite performance nobody fully believes, and Guta learned this firsthand moving from performance marketing spreadsheets to startup rebrands that showed clear sales bumps everyone could feel. She …

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177: Chris O’Neill: GrowthLoop CEO on how AI agent swarms and reinforcement learning boost velocity 58:23

5M ago58:23

58:23

What’s up everyone, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Chris O'Neill, CEO at GrowthLoop. Summary: Chris explains how leading marketing teams are deploying swarms of AI agents to automate campaign workflows with speed and precision. By assigning agents to tasks like segmentation, testing, and feedback collection, marketers build fast-mo…

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The Hour of (data) Power 47:40

5M ago47:40

47:40

Ready for your Hour of (Data) Power with some Radioactive and Electric Feel thrown in? Ok, so hang tight, get your coffee or lemonade (depending on how your summer looks like!), as we bring you a double whammy from your newest Data-powered Innovation Jam to celebrate the anniversary launch of the 10th edition of the Data Powered Innovation Review. …

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176: Rajeev Nair: Causal AI and a unified measurement framework 1:08:49

5M ago1:08:49

1:08:49

What’s up everyone, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Rajeev Nair, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Lifesight. Summary: Rajeev believes measurement only works when it’s unified or multi-modal, a stack that blends multi-touch attribution, incrementality, media mix modeling and causal AI, each used for the decision it fits. At Li…

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S2E18: What it really takes to build accessible forms 19:08

6M ago19:08

19:08

In the Season 2 finale of Discussing Stupid, Virgil and Cole are joined by Ali Gillberg, a senior developer at High Monkey, to talk about one of the most broken (and misunderstood) parts of UX: form accessibility. Using a real-world PowerApps project for the Minnesota Office of Accessibility, the team breaks down the invisible complexity of buildin…

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175: Hope Barrett: SoundCloud’s Martech Leader reflects on their huge messaging platform migration and structuring martech like a product 1:03:01

6M ago1:03:01

1:03:01

What’s up everyone, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Hope Barrett, Sr Director of Product Management, Martech at SoundCloud. Summary: In twelve weeks, Hope led a full messaging stack rebuild with just three people. They cut 200 legacy campaigns down to what mattered, partnered with MoEngage for execution, and shifted messaging into t…

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174: Joshua Kanter: A 4-time CMO on the case against data democratization 1:05:01

6M ago1:05:01

1:05:01

What’s up everyone, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Joshua Kanter, Co-Founder & Chief Data & Analytics Officer at ConvertML. Summary: Joshua spent the earliest parts of his career buried in SQL, only to watch companies hand out dashboards and call it strategy. Teams skim charts to confirm hunches while ignoring what the data actuall…

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S2E17: Why inconsistent layouts wreck your UX 17:58

6M ago17:58

17:58

In this episode of Discussing Stupid, Virgil and Cole tackle a quiet killer of user experience: layout inconsistency. From university websites that feel like ten different brands stitched together to internal systems that change button locations with every page, inconsistent layouts confuse users, break trust, and derail digital goals. This episode…

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173: Samia Syed: Dropbox's Director of Growth Marketing on rethinking martech like HR efforts 59:31

6M ago59:31

59:31

What’s up everyone, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Samia Syed, Director of Growth Marketing at Dropbox. Summary: Samia Syed treats martech like hiring. If it costs more than a headcount, it needs to prove it belongs. She scopes the problem first, tests tools on real data, and talks to people who’ve lived with them not just vendor r…

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Every doc you take 43:30

6M ago43:30

43:30

From punk rock to process automation, from Blondie to BSON — it’s a genre-defying episode of the Data-Powered Innovation Jam where we grab a virtual bench in Central Park with Andrew Davidson, SVP of Products at MongoDB, and let the data conversation run wild. What follows is an improvisational jam session on the evolution of data, the art of distr…

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172: Ankur Kothari: A practical guide on implementing AI to improve retention and activation through personalization 52:46

6M ago52:46

52:46

What’s up everyone, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Ankur Kothari, Adtech and Martech Consultant who’s worked with big tech names and finance/consulting firms like Salesforce, JPMorgan and McKinsey. The views and opinions expressed by Ankur in this episode are his own and do not necessarily reflect the official position of his emplo…

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S2E16: Headless vs traditional CMS: Which one fits your organization? 16:08

7M ago16:08

16:08

In this episode of Discussing Stupid, Virgil sits down with High Monkey’s Senior Developer, Chad Heinle, to break down one of the most debated choices in modern digital strategy: headless vs traditional CMS. While flashy features and buzzwords like “omnichannel” dominate vendor pitches, the real decision comes down to your organization’s resources,…

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171: Kim Hacker: Reframing tool FOMO, making AI face real work and catching up on AI skills 1:01:26

7M ago1:01:26

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What’s up everyone, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Kim Hacker, Head of Business Ops at Arrows. Summary: Tool audits miss the mess. If you’re trying to consolidate without talking to your team, you’re probably breaking workflows that were barely holding together. The best ops folks already know this: they’re in the room early, prote…

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The six pistols of technology trends 1:18:45

7M ago1:18:45

1:18:45

Ready for the remix? You might have already listened to one of the most recent episodes of the Cloud Realities podcast, where six dynamic voices from two podcast teams came together to unpack Capgemini’s TechnoVision 2025. From infrastructure and applications to collaboration, user experience, automation, and — naturally — a heavy dose of data and …

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170: Keith Jones: OpenAI’s Head of GTM systems on building judgement with ghost stories, buying martech with cognitive extraction and why data dictionaries prevail 58:34

7M ago58:34

58:34

What’s up everyone, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Keith Jones, Head of GTM Systems at OpenAI. Also just a quick disclaimer that Keith is joining the podcast as Keith the technologist and human, not the employee at OpenAI. The views and opinions he expresses in this episode are his own and do not represent OpenAI. Summary: The best…

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S2E15: What separates good projects from great ones? Proper testing. 21:44

7M ago21:44

21:44

In this episode of Discussing Stupid, Virgil and Cole are joined by a new guest—High Monkey’s Project Manager and QA specialist, Seth Moline. Together, they dig into the often-overlooked world of quality assurance (QA) and why it can make or break a digital project. From accessibility issues to ripple effects caused by last-minute code changes, Set…

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169: Elena Hassan: Visa acquires your startup but nobody warns you about the tech stack aftermath and enterprise culture shock 1:00:50

7M ago1:00:50

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Summary: Elena has done what most startup marketers only guess at; made it through multiple acquisitions and now leads global integrated marketing at Visa. In this episode, she breaks down what actually changes when you go from scrappy lead gen to enterprise brand building, why most martech tools don’t survive security reviews, and how leadership w…

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Models on the dance floor 43:10

7M ago43:10

43:10

What happens when Professor Erik Proper of the Technical University of Vienna teams up with the ever-inquisitive ‘Dr. Bob’ Robert Engels – modestly supported by co-hosts Weiwei Feng and Ron Tolido - to discuss AI, models, semantics, ontologies, and context? A true PhD Fest? Or a practical exploration of the synergies between the academic and busine…

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