#TrueDataOps

Building in Snowflake is exciting. Keeping it running, scalable, & AI-ready? That’s where things get real. Too often, teams move fast to prove value, only to find themselves buried in broken pipelines, rising costs, & constant rework. What starts as momentum quickly turns into maintenance & unreliable data that can’t support AI. In this episode of #TrueDataOps, Peter Chase from Catalys...

Got Skills? AI can generate Snowflake code in seconds. But how do organizations ensure that AI-generated data pipelines still follow enterprise data architecture standards? In this episode of the TrueDataOps podcast, Keith Belanger is joined by Mark Bartlo, Principal Sales Engineer at DataOps.live, to explore Skills and the role they play in enabling Agentic DataOps for AI-ready data. Keith and Ma...

Join Keith Belanger, Field CTO at DataOps.live & Snowflake Data Superhero as he discusses ' DataOps as a Force Multiplier for Data Engineers in the Era of AI ' with his guest Amit Kapoor, Senior Analytics Platform Consultant, FormativGroup. Amit has over 20 years of experience designing and delivering data platforms. He's worked across many industries including media & digital streaming, r...

Join Keith Belanger, Field CTO at DataOps.live & Snowflake Data Superhero as he discusses 'Getting back to Basics' with his guest Doug Needham, 'The Data Guy'. Doug, Principal Solutions Architect for DataOps.live is a seasoned data scientist with a proven track record of success, possessing extensive expertise in enhancing, automating, and analyzing data processes to drive business growth. His...

Keith Belanger's guest is Angela Harney, a fellow Snowflake Data Superhero to talk about the topic of the year, 'AI Ready Data'. Angela Harney has 30+ years of IT experience spanning data engineering, architecture, and teaching. A four-time Snowflake certified expert, she’s worked with Snowflake on AWS and Azure while focusing on Cortex AI, AISQL, Cortex Agents, and Snowflake Intelligence solution...

Join Keith Belanger, our very own Field CTO & a Snowflake Data Superhero as he meets & discusses everything data with a range of guests for our third episode on Season 4. Today Keith is joined by Ronny Steelman, author & CEO of Quadrabyte LLC. His latest book, published on 21st Nov 25, is titled Mastering Snowflake DataOps with DataOps.live: An End-to-End Guide to Modern Data Managemen...

Join Keith Belanger, DataOps.live very own Field CTO & Snowflake Data Superhero as he meets & discusses everything data with a range of guests for our second episode on Season 4. Nadia is Lead Data Engineer in the Self-Service Data Hub at Eutelsat. She has an MSc in Data Science & a BSc in Mathematics. Having joined Eutelsat over 4yrs ago, Nadia now plays a key role in mentoring data e...

"Good enough" data is not AI ready. So says Keith Belanger, Field CTO DataOps.live and the new host of the hashtag#TrueDataOps podcast. Join Keith & Sanjeev Mohan, Principal at Sanjmo and former Gartner Research VP, for the opening episode of Season 4 to discuss what it takes for enterprise data teams to change that. 30 minutes of data talk that can change how you do business. Listen now! ***...

Join Kent Graziano, the Data Warrior for his final #TrueDataOps podcast of this series & as host.  He is joined by Guy Adams, CTO & Co-Founder of DataOps.live and Keith Belanger, Field CTO, DataOps.live.  Guy's a Snowflake Global #1 Data SuperHero, an experienced CTO and VP, & is passionate about DataOps. He's spent 20+ years running software development organisations and now his focus...

Join Kent Graziano, The Data Warrior as he talks to Andrew Helgeson, Snowflake and John Marchese from DataOps.live. Andrew is a Sr. Manager, ISV & Platform Data Cloud Product Partners at Snowflake. He joined in early 2022 to develop the Observability ISV partner category & now leads the Platform Alliances Organization. Platform Alliances consists of strategic, infrastructure partnerships i...

Join Kent Graziano, The Data Warrior and Dan Galavan, an Independant Data Architecture Consultant for the latest #TrueDataOps podcast episode. Dan has been advising clients & leading the delivery of data solutions for 26 years. This includes working with European, North American, and Middle Eastern clients in both the public & private sector within Healthcare, Telecoms, and Financial Servi...

Join Kent Graziano & his guest Keith Belanger; a Snowflake Data Superhero on the latest #TrueDataOps podcast episode. Keith is an innovative and results-driven Data & Technology Leader with a strong background in data architecture, cloud data strategy, AI/ML initiatives, and data product evangelism. Passionate about bridging the gap between business needs, technology, and customer engageme...

Prof. Barzan Mozafari is the co-founder and CEO of Keebo, a turn-key data learning platform for automating and accelerating enterprise analytics. He is also an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Michigan, and has won several awards for his research at the intersection of machine learning and database systems.

A former Research VP, Data & Analytics for Gartner, Sanjeev was bitten by the data bug 30 years ago, and it's never let go. It started with an accidental introduction to dBASE III+ and years of being an Oracle evangelist, and he's now deep into Big Data and the plethora of technologies that complement the Data Science space. In between, he's helped the world's largest companies select the righ...

Scott Ambler is a Data Methodologist with Ambysoft Inc., leading the evolution of the Agile Data and Agile Modeling methods. Scott was the (co)-creator of PMI’s Disciplined Agile (DA) tool kit and helps organizations around the world to improve their way of working (WoW) and ways of thinking (WoT). Scott is an international keynote speaker and the (co-)author of 30 books, including Choose Your WoW...

Wayne has been a thought leader in the business intelligence and analytics field since the early 1990s. He is a sought-after consultant, noted speaker and bestselling author who thinks critically, writes clearly and presents persuasively about complex topics.   Wayne has written two books: “The Secrets of Analytical Leaders: Insights from Information Insiders” (2012) and “Performance Dashboards: M...

Matt leads the software research and advisory for the Analytics and Data expertise at ISG Software Research, covering software that improves the utilization of information across business and IT. His focus areas of coverage include analytics, data intelligence, data operations, data platforms, and streaming and events. Matt’s specialization is in the operational and analytical use of data and the...

Paul is a Senior Data Architect, BI and Analytics Solutions Specialist with a focus on cloud architecture and the data management ecosystem. He has over fifteen years of experience designing and delivering data integration and BI solutions for a large number of national and international organizations. Paul currently lives and works in Switzerland, where he recently wrapped up his role as Head of...

Start 2025 off with Guy's predictions for the year in data. An experienced CTO and VP, Guy is passionate about DataOps. He's spent 20+ years running software development organizations and now his focus is on bringing the principles and business value from DevOps and CI/CD to data. Co-founder of the truedataops.org movement. He's also a dad, technologist, (over) engineer, amateur inventor, skier, a...

Carl is a Chief Technology Officer with over 20 years of IT industry experience in the UK, EMEA, APAC, and the Americas. He has experience providing high-level DataOps, governance, and messaging solutions to enterprise environments in both the public and private sectors. Carl specializes in Delphix Architecture and Big Data integration and has integrated Delphix into infrastructures from a top 5 g...

Kent interviews Chris Hastie, Data Practice Lead at InterWorks. Chris’s passion is not only to personally provide elegant and simple solutions to complex problems but also to provide others with the knowledge and tools to do this themselves. He has been engineering data since 2014 and using Snowflake since 2018 to solve customer challenges and drive value, becoming a Data Superhero in 2019 followi...

In this episode, Kent interviews Inna Tokarev Sela, founder and CEO of illumex.ai , a company revolutionizing data potential with its Generative Semantic Fabric. Recognizing the complexities of unifying business data semantics—essential for GenAI readiness—illumex created a platform that simplifies semantic mapping and alignment. illumex is widely used by data-intensive enterprises for GenAI, Data...

In the season 3 opener, Kent welcomes Mike Ferguson, CEO Intelligent Business Strategies.

Kevin Bair, VP of Data Cloud Architecture at Snowflake, discusses his 35-year career journey from federal systems to IBM and then Snowflake, where he's spent the last decade. He and Kent explore how data architecture and operations have evolved with cloud computing and AI, emphasizing the continued relevance of the Seven Pillars of True DataOps ( www.truedataops.org/7-pillars ). Kevin highlights t...

Data Warrior and host of the #TrueDataOps podcast talks to David Garrison, Snowflake Data Superhero and Principal Data Architect at National Grid.