ServiceNow Podcasts

Richard Masters, Senior Managing Director and Head of AI Strategy at Ancora AI by Design and former VP of Data at Virgin Atlantic joins Juan and Tim to discuss how to tie data and AI work to business strategy. The first basic question: what does the organization want to look like in three to five years, and what has to happen to get there? Platforms and models only matter if they serve that answer...

This is the takeaway episode with Richard Masters, Senior Managing Director and Head of AI Strategy at Ancora AI by Design and former VP of Data at Virgin Atlantic where he joins Juan and Tim to discuss how to tie data and AI work to business strategy. We cover: starting with AI instead of a workflow or metric, running a pre-mortem, tracking evaluation scores instead of the business outcomes, gove...

When AI can answer almost anything, how do you know you're actually learning? Senior Staff Software Engineer Tommy Ryan and former ServiceNow intern Hannah Kuo share how they tackle hard problems, check AI's work, and know when to ask for help. #ServiceNow #EngineeringNOWUnlocked #AI #SoftwareEngineering #EarlyCareer With school back in session, hosts Jorden Shelton and Cynthia Mathenge sit down w...

In this special rant episode, Sonny Rivera joins Juan and Tim during a live recording and rant about AI-generated dashboards, semantic layers, and what it takes to trust an answer. The situation: dashboards slop is easy to build which makes foundation matter more, not less. We discussed:  Building a dashboard was never the hard part. Being able to explain where a number came from is. Speed wi...

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 when a request can’t be described in a few words, why dashboards get opened once and then fo...

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!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 potential of AI will be unlocked by humans because humans understand the problems, and are driven/motivat...

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 years!) His argument is that the potential of AI will be unlocked by humans because humans understand...

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 + track record + judgment. Dora’s point is that the equation still holds, but each part now mean...

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: expertise + track record + judgment. Don't miss it! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 working on the process (building the factories that handle those tickets). In this episode, we break...

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 working in the process to working on the process, what this means for data roles, why open components matt...

#Localization #Globalization #ServiceNow #AI A translation can be word-for-word accurate and still be completely wrong. In this episode, Bobby Brill sits down with Sam Smyth, Product Manager on the globalization side at ServiceNow, to get into what happens after you decide to go multilingual — the tools, the governance, and the quiet work nobody sees until it breaks. Sam spent fifteen years...

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, definition problems, assumption problems, and what-are-we-even-measuring problems. The fix isn't better...

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, definition problems, assumption problems, and what-are-we-even-measuring problems.  See omnystudio.co...

Most quantum conversations are stuck on the timeline question: five years out? Two? Q-Day, the day current RSA encryption breaks, keeps getting pulled forward. But the actual risk to your data is already here. Adversaries are harvesting encrypted data today to decrypt it once quantum gets there. That makes this a data management problem right now. John Licata, ServiceNow's futures director and qua...

This is the takeaway episode with John Licata, ServiceNow's futures director and quantum lead where Juan and Tim unpack what quantum means for enterprise data teams. They get into where quantum computing does things classical AI genuinely can't do well: drug discovery, supply chain simulation, personalized medicine, where the quantum + AI combination changes everything, and who even owns quantum s...

What did I say? What did I mean? Do you understand me? We ask each other those three questions constantly without noticing. Now we ask them of machines — and this episode is about what happens in the gap. Host Bobby Brill pulls together conversations with the ServiceNow linguists, research engineers, and AI governance leads working on voice, language, and chat, including a real recording of...

Shachar MEIR has spent 20 years fixing data teams and understanding why they fail. In this live episode, Shachar joins Juan and Tim to discuss the reason why they fail and what they should be doing in order to succeed.  Shachar argues that data leaders default to what they can control (cough cough technology_ and underinvest in people, process, and culture. A new CDO comes in, migrates legacy...

This is the takeaway episode with Shachar Meir, who has spent 20 years fixing data teams and understanding why they fail. In this live episode, Shachar joins Juan and Tim to discuss the reason why they fail and what they should be doing in order to succeed.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Patrick McGarry, Federal CDO at ServiceNow and author of The Adaptive Organization , has spent years watching organizations accumulate data and tools but fail to convert them into decisions. Overhead grows. Outcomes don't. Hence “ Intelligence Without Action Is Just Overhead. ” Patrick joins Juan and Tim to walk through why federal data programs stall (the idea-to-deployment lag is lon...

This is the takeaway episode with Patrick McGarry, Federal CDO at ServiceNow and author of  The Adaptive Organization , who has spent years watching organizations accumulate data and tools but fail to convert them into decisions. Overhead grows. Outcomes don't. Hence “Intelligence Without Action Is Just Overhead. ”   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Most companies slapping the "data product" label on existing data assets are fooling themselves. Bethany Sehon, Enterprise Data Leader at Capital One, has been building data products and ontologies in production long before they became buzzwords. Bethany joins Juan and Tim to share lessons learned: dedicated data product managers (not side-of-desk), ontologists treated as first-class citizens, a V...

This is the takeaway episode with Bethany Sehon, Enterprise Data Leader at Capital One where she share lessons learned of building data products and ontologies in production long before they became buzzwords: dedicated data product managers (not side-of-desk), ontologists treated as first-class citizens, a VP-accountable governance process, and much more.  See omnystudio.com/listener for priv...

Why multilingual content is a business risk, a compliance question, and an AI-readiness problem - not just a translation checkbox - with ServiceNow's Lyena Solomon. #ServiceNow #Localization #Globalization #AI Chapters 00:00  Cold open: "half ten" and the meaning problem 00:29  Welcome + episode topic 00:53  Meet Lyena Solomon 01:12  Why this isn't just translation 03:49 ...