Data Bytes

Overview In this podcast episode, Yakaira Núñez (Kai), Vice President of Research & Insights at Salesforce, joins as a guest to share her story and insights on leading teams to deliver actionable insights. Kai is an experienced leader in data and analytics, with a passion for driving innovation and positive change. Kai shares her background and how she got into the field of data and analytics....

Overview We dive into the topic of informed decision-making. Our guest today is Ishita Majumdar from eBay, who will be sharing her insights on the top three areas that lead to informed decision-making. According to Ishita , the top three areas that lead to informed decision-making are experimentation, customer 360, and internal business analysis. Experimentation involves testing hypotheses and gat...

Overview This Data Bytes podcast episode features Beth A Walter, an Assistant Teaching Professor of Business Communication at Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business, where she discussed two interesting topics. The first topic focused on the common pitfalls individuals make when communicating analytic insights in the field of data analytics.  The second topic discussed on the pod...

Overview In this podcast, we will explore the world of data management with Barkha Saxena who is the Chief Data Officer at Poshmark. She shares two distinct topics - data products and datamesh. In the first part of the podcast, we will discuss data products, including how they are defined, the types of data products built at Poshmark, and whether one needs data product owners to build data product...

Overview Barr Moses, Co-Founder and CEO of Monte Carlo, joins on the podcast. Prior to founding Monte Carlo, Barr was the VP of customer success operations at Gainsight and holds a bachelors of science in mathematics and computer science from Stanford. In today’s episode Barr shares her inspiration for founding Monte Carlo, the cost and harms of poor quality data, the five principles of data obser...

Overview Gabriela de Queiroz joins us this week on the podcast.  Learn what skills are needed in a technical role as an individual contributor and how these skills change as you move to a management or leadership role. Transitioning to a leadership role can be difficult but Gabriela shares how you can best prepare to move into the role and excel! Here's a hint, a community is essential! ...

Overview Elona Tuomi and Maithili Dandige  are two senior leaders in technology, certified life coaches, and life coaches for women in data. If you are looking to overcome perfectionism, imposter syndrome, and get unstuck in your career, then this episode is for you. We cover everything from what is life coaching career transitioning, and how  perfectionism lead to imposter syndrome. Lea...

Overview Wendy Turner-Williams joins us to share her inspiring story.  She used her layoff as a pivoting point to start a community to bring people together.  She shares insights with the tech layoffs happening in this current time. Wendy also chats about the similarities of being a CDO and creating a community.  About Wendy Turner-Williams In her role as Chief Data Officer, Wendy m...

Overview We are speaking with the powerhouse, Dr Brandeis Marshall. She is the Founder and CEO of DataedX Group, author of the book Data Conscience: Algorithmic Siege on our Humanity, and founder of Black Women in Data. In this episode we talk about her journey and tips for writing a book. We also explore the doom of AI and what can be done about it. About Dr. Brandeis Marshall Brandeis Hill Marsh...

Overview Rehgan Avon, Co-Founder & CEO AlignAI where she is changing the way companies retain, update, and consume their institutional knowledge around building and using data & AI.  She shares her founder's journey, the struggles and solutions that exist sharing institutional knowledge for AI and how to overcome barriers as a woman in tech.  About Rehgan Avon Rehgan Avon is the...

Overview Our guest, Rob Collie is the Founder and CEO of P3 Adaptive. Prior to his work at P3 Rob was a Sr Program Manager for Microsoft and worked on products such as Excel, PowerPivot and more. In this episode, we discuss the love/hate relationship with excel, how to find the data gene in individuals at your organization and how to be a super PowerBI user. In addition, Rob shares how he is conti...

Overview Today’s guest is Dipti Borkar, Vice President and General Manager, SaaS, Azure Databases at Microsoft. Prior to joining Microsoft, Dipti was the Founder and Creator of Ahana, a cloud managed service. Dipit has vast experience working in startups such as Counchbase, and Marklogic, and began her career working as a software engineer for IBM. In today’s episode, Dipti shares how Databases ha...

Overview In today’s episode, Adita shares here journey transitioning from Government to Industry, the Operating Model for Internal CDO Role, the need for Data Literacy, and why Female Representation in Government is essential and how she is making a impact in this space.  About Adita Karkera With more than 20 years' of industry experience, Karkera serves as the Chief Data Officer for Deloitte...

Overview In today’s episode Kate shares her career journey, and talks about how Web3 will unlock value for consumers and brands and provides examples of this through her team’s work at Pepsico.  Kate has been a leader in digital innovation for many years. About Kate Brady Kate is a seasoned marketing veteran with over 20-years media and marketing experience, 12+ of those years within PepsiCo....

Overview Today we are chatting with Lauren Hinds. Lauren is the President of What. If. Why, a coaching and analytics company focused on tackling persistent problems. With over 15 years’ experience leading teams and applying big data toward business operations, financial growth, and product development, she is an expert at inquiry, connecting dots, and seeing trends. Today we chat about common mist...

Overview Today we have the pleasure of speaking with Christelle Mombo Zigah, Responsibility AI Committee Member and Sr Global Customer Success Manager for Cisco. With 15 years, she worked in multiple industries and wore multiple hats before discovering her superpower in helping global technology companies in their growth, transformation, and innovation strategies. Christelle believes it is “an imp...

Overview We are joined by two guests. First, Nesli Bisgin Data scientist and researcher with a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering and MS in Mathematics. Nesli is also the instructor for Women in Data’s Data Science Portfolio class. Our second guest is Taye Johnson. Taye is a technologist and educator who has worked in a variety of industries including nonprofit, start-ups and global enterp...

Overview We are talking to Shany Mahalu and Sam Borghese. We discuss how we can design projects that enable success on both the students and the industry standpoint. Finally, we wrap up the episode talking about the future of education, and how technology can enable change. About Shany Mahalu  Shany Mahalu Atiya is a higher education professional with an extensive experience designing, implem...

Overview Allexx Bolander is a digital evangelist for P3 adaptive. She has a knack for automation, process improvement, and providing a human element to technical solutions. In addition to owning two small businesses, she recently made the transition from Power BI Developer / Business Analyst to a Digital Evangelist where she melds her love of data and creativity into one career path. In this episo...

Overview Today we chat with Jolie Vitale who leads the data department at Carhartt. Jolie has been leading data teams for the past ten years and previously worked at Rocket Mortgage. In this episode, Jolie shares how to enable a data driven culture, the leadership traits one must embody to enable that change, and how we all have the opportunity to lead through empathy, authenticity and listening....

Overview Marcia Drake is the Deputy of Data Acquisition and Data Management at the State of Washington Health Care Authority and has over 20 years experiences working in a variety of public service roles.  In today’s episode, Marcia Drake shares her inspirational story of how she turned her weaknesses into her strengths, how she takes a purpose driven approach to data projects, and her though...

Overview We have the pleasure of chatting with Joanna Lovering. Joanna is an executive presence coach, workplace psychologist, and fashion stylist who helps primarily women develop transformative leadership skills. Joanna earned her M.A. in Social-Organizational Psychology from Columbia University before taking on leadership development roles at Tiffany & Co., JetBlue, and Daily Burn, among ot...

Overview Our guest today is Samantha Van Der Merwe, Data Science Technical Lead at Kantar and machine learning content creator. Samantha has a Bachelor's in Engineering and a Master's in Data Science, and helps teams successfully scale and deploy data science and analytics solutions. In this episode, we chat about the tech stack needed to deploy machine learning models, her journey to becoming a t...

Overview Today we are chatting with the Founder & CEO of Lately,  Kate Bradley Chernis. Lately uses A.I. to  learn which words will get you the most engagement, and turns video, audio and text into dozens of social posts containing those words. Kate has had an exciting career as a former rock 'n' roll DJ, to Music Director, to on-air host at Sirius/XM, to owning a marketing agency. I...

Overview Ashley M. Scott is an award-winning data professional, entrepreneur, and consultant who uses her experience in data analytics and business to encourage and champion diversification of the data practitioner pipeline.  In this episode, we chat about the 5 whys of data, whether you should be a generalist or a specialist, how to network and build relationships in a digital environment, a...