Data Voyagers Podcast

You ask questions every day. Always have. You asked them before you could read, before you could write, well before anyone handed you a dashboard. Questions feel natural. They feel automatic. Questions were the beginning of Philosophy and Science. But think about the last conversation where someone walked away with completely the wrong idea of what you needed. Or the last time you got a technicall...

There is a moment in every great match that nobody saw coming. The pass, no model would recommend. The run that made no sense until it did. We watch sports for that. The thing you cannot predict. And yet, right now, somewhere behind that pitch, a room full of people is trying to predict exactly that. Measuring every step. Every sprint. Every heartbeat. The most human, chaotic, emotional thing we d...

There is a moment some people hit in their careers. They stop being someone who uses a tool and start being someone who believes in it. They write the blog post nobody asked for. They answer forum questions at 11pm. They drive six hours to speak at a conference they could have watched from home. Qlik has two programs working on exactly that. One for partners. One for customers. Different audiences...

AI is showing up in every tool, every workflow, and every job description. But understanding how to use it is still treated like something you either pick up on your own or just don't bother with. Presented by Qlik Partner Ambassador and Qlik Education Ambassador Angelika Klidas, this episode features some of the members of the Women Who Qlik group: Stephanie Robinson, Priscila Paolinelli, and Gwe...

Every conversation around AI seems to orbit the same themes. Speed. Scale. Capability. What systems can now do without us. But beneath that momentum, a quieter question keeps surfacing, one that is harder to measure and harder to answer. If the system writes, decides, recommends, and acts, what is left for the human? Not in theory, but in practice. Not as a slogan, but as a responsibility. Present...

We often speak about data as a business asset. Something that improves efficiency, increases revenue, or sharpens decisions. But there are moments when data steps outside the boardroom and into something far more consequential. When it becomes a tool not just for insight, but for intervention. Presented by Qlik Partner Ambassador and Qlik MVP Igor Alcantara, and Qlik Partner Ambassador and Qlik Ed...

Artificial intelligence has been moving fast. It writes, summarizes, recommends, and explains. It feels capable, even reliable. But behind most of these systems there is still a quiet limitation. They wait. They respond. They depend on us to take the next step. Agentic AI changes that. It takes a goal and turns it into action. It plans, selects tools, executes tasks, and adjusts along the way. The...

Dashboards are everywhere. Clean, interactive, and full of answers. They show us trends, highlight risks, and point to opportunities. But there is a quiet assumption behind most analytics systems, that once the insight is delivered, the job is done. It rarely is. Because insight without action is just observation. And action without context often leads to poor decisions. The real challenge is not...

Platforms look powerful. Capable. Comprehensive. They promise insight, automation, intelligence. But platforms do not succeed because of features alone. They succeed because people adopt them, build around them, and carry them into markets that no vendor could reach alone. In the world of data and analytics, the real architecture is not only technical. It is human. Partnerships, incentives, trust,...

Artificial Intelligence feels powerful. Capable. Objective. It drafts our emails, ranks our candidates, flags our risks, recommends our actions. It moves quickly, scales effortlessly, and speaks with confident fluency. But what happens when intelligence spreads faster than responsibility? What if the real risk is not that AI makes mistakes, but that we never decided who owns those mistakes? Presen...

Numbers feel precise. Clean. Objective. They sit on dashboards with confidence, backed by charts, models, and carefully defined metrics. But what if the danger is not bad data, but trusting numbers too easily? What if filters reshape reality, samples distort conclusions, and metrics quietly become targets instead of signals? Presented by Qlik Partner Ambassador and Qlik MVP Igor Alcantara, and Qli...

We live in a time where data is everywhere. We measure everything. We store everything. We visualize everything. And yet, somehow, we still get surprised by outcomes. Projects fail even though the numbers looked good. Decisions backfire even though the dashboards were green. Predictions miss reality even with sophisticated models behind them. Presented by Qlik Partner Ambassador and Qlik MVP Igor...

As 2025 comes to a close, the Data Voyagers crew comes together for a final, unscripted conversation to reflect on the year behind them. In this season-closing episode, Qlik Partner Ambassadors Igor Alcantara, and Angelika Klidas, are joined by Qlik MVP Mark Costa to look back at how Data Voyagers grew across the podcast, blog, and YouTube, share behind-the-scenes moments, highlight meaningful con...

In this insight-packed conversation, Igor Alcantara and Angelika Klidas sit down with Dan Sommer, Qlik’s Senior Director for Global Market Intelligence, to explore how data, analytics, and AI are evolving and what truly matters as organizations navigate this shifting landscape. Dan shares his perspective on the signals shaping the market, the trends worth paying attention to, and how strategy, tec...

Recorded in Lund, Sweden, the birthplace of Qlik, this special episode of Data Voyagers features an honest and unfiltered conversation with some of the best Qlik customers. In this episode, Qlik Partner Ambassadors Igor Alcantara and Angelika Klidas sit down with Qlik Luminaries Vivienne Parsons (NHS Foundation Trust) and Henri Rufin (Radiall) for an open and unfiltered conversation about analytic...

Recorded in Lund, Sweden, the birthplace of Qlik, this special episode of Data Voyagers features an in-depth conversation of our hosts, Igor Alcantara and Angelika Klidas with Qlik CEO Mike Capone. Together, we explore Qlik’s remarkable journey from its Scandinavian origins in 1993 to its present as a global leader in data and AI. Mike reflects on how Qlik’s mission evolved from helping people see...

Time is the most democratic of all data sources — everyone gets it in the same increments. Second by second, minute by minute, reality unfolds, leaving behind a trail of information: a stock price changing, a heart beating, a sensor blinking, a shopper clicking “buy”. Each event on its own is nothing. But together, they form a rhythm; a pattern hidden in plain sight. And once you learn to read tha...

Organizations all over the world spend millions deploying advanced analytics platforms, convinced that if they just bring in the right technology, transformation will naturally follow. But reality tells us something very different. The best dashboards, built on the most powerful tools, often end up sitting untouched. Expensive shelfware. Why? Because adoption—not access, not licenses, not the numb...

For many people, data and AI can feel like a foreign tongue—full of acronyms, technical jargon, and concepts that seem reserved for specialists. But just like any language, fluency is possible when you start with the fundamentals, practice consistently, and embrace the culture behind it. Welcome to the Data Voyagers Podcast: Navigating the Stories Behind the Numbers. Presented by Igor Alcantara an...

Machine Learning isn’t science fiction anymore. It’s not locked away in research labs or reserved for Silicon Valley elites. It’s shaping the ads we see, the music we stream, the fraud alerts on our credit cards, and even the way billion-dollar companies make decisions. But here’s the question… do we really know how it works? Welcome to the Data Voyagers Podcast: Navigating the Stories Behind the...

We live in a time where data is everywhere but wisdom is rare. A time where more data is available. But, with all this power, are we thinking better or just… faster? The real challenge of the information age isn’t access to data, it’s knowing how to think with data. In today's Episode, Igor Alcantara and Angelika Klidas welcome Kevin Hanegan to discuss critical thinking. Critical thinking isn’t ju...

We make an estimated 35,000 decisions every day. Most of them are small — what to eat, what to wear, whether to read the notification or ignore it. But others? They shape careers, relationships, businesses, the house we live in… our lives. In today's Episode, Igor Alcantara and Angelika Klidas will talk about decision making. Some decisions are made in milliseconds. Others paralyze us for days. So...

What do dirty-dish standoffs, tariff negotiations, ride-share fee wars, marriage conflicts, and self-driving cars negotiating a four-way stop have in common?  They’re all games, and the stakes are higher than you think. In this episode, Igor Alcantara and Angelika Klidas channel their inner secret agents to reveal how Game Theory turns everyday choices into strategic missions, and how a single twe...

Welcome to a very special episode of Data Voyagers where we get to do something we are genuinely proud of. Let’s take a step back, listen more than talk, and learn from some of the most fearless voices in data. It’s not about stereotypes, not about soft stories, this is about leadership, vision, and bold moves in the world of data and analytics. In this episode, Igor Alcantara and Angelika Klidas...

Statistical thinking is not just about numbers. It’s about understanding variation, uncertainty, and how to reason from evidence. In this episode, we borrow the mindset of Sherlock Holmes to uncover how statistical thinking helps us find hidden clues in data, make better decisions, and avoid being fooled by randomness. In this episode, Igor Alcantara and Angelika Klidas explore the concepts, traps...