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AI agents are now standard in enterprise workflows but most organizations have no idea they've created a governance time bomb. When agents connect to Salesforce, Snowflake, Tableau, and a dozen other systems through separate MCPs, the result is a fragmented audit trail with no single record of who accessed what data, under whose authorization, or how an answer was generated. Under GDPR, HIPAA, SOX...

Recorded live at the Accelerate conference, this episode of DM Radio explores why data - not applications - is becoming the foundation of enterprise AI.  Join host Eric Kavanagh as he speaks with Chadd Kenney of Everpure about the shift toward data-centric architectures and the importance of shared context for powering intelligent AI agents and real-time decision-making. Next, Shawn Rosemarin of P...

Join DMRadio for a compilation of interviews recorded live at We Make Future in Bologna, where industry experts share perspectives on data management, AI, analytics, cloud technologies, and innovation across the enterprise.

A mass extinction event approaches, but not because of a meteor or global warming. The culprit this time is AI, and in particular, Large Language Models like ChatGPT and Claude. In their crosshairs are a slew of vendors selling analytical functionality: dashboards, visualizations, analyses, semantic layers, OLAP cubes and the like. For decades, these vendors have dominated enterprise decision-maki...

Join this episode of DM Radio as host Eric Kavanagh speaks with Kamila Zahradnickova of Lakmoos and Tim Lidman of Clyde about two distinct but transformative applications of AI. Learn how Lakmoos uses mathematical simulation models and AI-powered digital twins to help organizations test products, campaigns, and business decisions before launching them in the real world. Next, learn lessons from bu...

In their song, Everything to Everyone, the band Everclear gave voice to every IT team on the planet who struggles to keep the lights on due to the ever-rising tide of technical debt and SaaS licensing. "The hand you hold is the hand that holds you down!" Of course, they were likely not explicitly referencing the IT landscape, but the mantra surely sticks. Today, at long last, there is a ray of hop...

Join this episode of DM Radio, as host Eric Kavanagh sits down with Marty Pesis of Troveo AI to explore one of the most critical - and least understood - layers of the AI economy: training data. From licensing massive video and audio libraries to structuring petabytes of content for frontier AI labs, you'll learn how data quality, uniqueness, and scale are shaping the next generation of AI models....

Space, the final frontier... for metadata! Space is no longer just a theater of rockets, launches, and satellites. It's a data domain, where mission success depends on the ability to collect, govern, correlate, protect, and move information faster than adversaries can react. Join this episode of DM Radio to learn from former Space Force CDO Mark Brady, along with Hammerspace CEO David Flynn, and D...

The first generation of data pipelines was built for humans. They moved data. They often broke. Engineers stepped in to fix them. While that world still exists, it now shares the stage with something far more demanding. Today, machines and AI systems are first-class consumers of data. The workload requirements are exploding, rendering the manually tuned, hand-patched pipelines woefully insufficien...

Join this episode of DM Radio, as host Eric Kavanagh speaks with Mark Brady, Chief Data Officer of TRMC/KBR, ex CDO for US Space Force, about the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence and the urgent need for clearer safety principles.  Hi will share his perspective on how intelligence works across humans and machines, from perception and memory to language and reasoning, and why to...

Since time immemorial, the concept of sovereignty has defined control, whether for nations or legal authorities. Today, the rise of AI is forcing a global reckoning around one of the most important and misunderstood aspects of modern computing: data sovereignty. First there was GDPR, the Global Data Protection Regulation out of the European Union; then the CCPA, the California Consumer Privacy Act...

Join this episode of DMRadio as host Eric Kavanagh speaks with Xin Yan, CEO of Sign, about how blockchain is reshaping the way organizations establish trust in data. Learn how decentralized technologies and identity frameworks can help verify information, reduce reliance on intermediaries, and improve transparency. Hear more about misconceptions about blockchain and where it delivers real value be...

Amid all the noise of AI hype, one thing remains constant: organizations still rely on trusted, reliable reporting as the foundation for decision-making. In fact, reporting is becoming more critical in an AI-first world, because governed, auditable data underpins every intelligent outcome. The question is how to architect for performance, scalability, and user expectations. In this episode of DM R...

Join this episode of DMRadio with Jagdeep (Jag) Bedi of Purchasing Power, Sami Akbay of Dagen.ai and Mark Madsen of Third Nature, who explore how the rapid evolution of AI is reshaping the roles of data scientists, engineers, and business leaders. Dive into the shift from simple prompt-response systems to autonomous AI agents capable of planning, acting, and learning in real time. Learn more about...

It's often not the model, the data, or even the technology. The failure rate of AI initiatives mostly stems from organizational friction. That's good news, because it should be fairly easy to solve. So says Sarang Bapat, a seasoned SVP of Data and Analytics, who crafted a heartfelt methodology that can energize your team, and breathe life into your AI initiatives. Register for this DM Radio Virtua...

Join this episode of DM Radio as host Eric Kavanagh speaks with Pinecone CEO Ash Ashutosh about the technical foundation behind modern AI systems. Explore how large language models convert text, images, and other data into vectors - mathematical representations that enable machines to understand meaning and relationships. Find out more about the role of vector databases and Retrieval-Augmented Gen...

Join this episode of DM Radio as Eric Kavanagh interviews Eric Herzog of Infinidat as he explains why cyber storage resilience is critical as ransomware attacks surge. Learn more how real-time data cleansing protects sales performance and email deliverability with Jason Gladu of Convertr . They are joined by Matt DeLauro from SEON, who explores AI-driven fraud detection and AML in a world of incre...

Enterprise AI is now a boardroom mandate, but moving from pilots to production remains a major challenge. Many organizations are trying to determine whether their infrastructure can support AI at scale without driving up costs, hitting power constraints, or locking into the wrong architecture. Training isn't inference. Fine-tuning isn't RAG. Getting these distinctions wrong can cost millions. Join...

Join this episode of DM Radio as host Eric Kavanagh speaks with Jason Ambrose, CEO of people.ai, and AI keynote speaker Sharon Gai about how AI is reshaping organizations. Learn how AI can capture unstructured data - from calls, emails, and CRM systems - and turn it into real-time business intelligence and sales opportunities. Explore next-generation search, AI agents, and how direct access to inf...

Join this episode of DM Radio as host Eric Kavanagh welcomes Sarah Hoffman, Director of AI Thought Leadership at AlphaSense, for a practical conversation about what AI actually does in the enterprise - beyond the hype. Discover why trusted data determines whether AI creates value, how retrieval-augmented generation and human-in-the-loop workflows improve reliability, and why the real breakthrough...

The promise of AI agents is quickly turning into a reality check for many organizations, with almost 90% of AI pilots failing to reach production. Many AI projects are faltering due to escalating costs and unclear business value. The root cause is often not the AI models; it's the architecture underneath. Join us for this episode of DM Radio to learn what it takes to build agent-ready systems. Sha...

Dive into the evolving modern data stack through the lens of observability, security, and log analytics as host Eric Kavanagh interviews Eric Tschetter of Imply and Mark Madsen of Third Nature about why vertically integrated observability platforms are giving way to more decoupled, composable architectures. Unpack how logs differ from traditional BI data, why schema-on-read changed the game, and h...

Join this episode of DM Radio as host Eric Kavanagh sits down with Kevin Tynan of The Presidio Group, known for his early and accurate predictions on major automotive shifts. Drawing from Presidio's 2026 year-ahead outlook, Tynan will explain why EV subsidies, tariff fears, and long-standing growth drivers are fading - and what that means for automakers. Find out how the industry's pivot toward tr...

Today's data landscape spans a vast range of information systems, from the warehouse to the edge, SaaS to on-prem. The average enterprise manages hundreds of applications and scores of databases. Making sense of all that data requires an understanding of what data exists, where it lives, who owns it, how it's actually being used, and increasingly, what it means in different business and analytical...

AI is at a turning point - and this CES special episode of DM Radio captures it from both sides of the spectrum. Hear Jason Hardy of Hitachi Vantara on how LLMs are transforming enterprise productivity, and Queena Qiu of Polyverse Studio on how GenAI is unlocking a new era of personal creativity, media creation, and storytelling. Whether you're building with AI or simply experiencing it, this conv...