Don't Panic! It's Just Data

Most enterprises believe they have a data problem. In reality, it is an architecture problem in disguise, and the rise of agentic AI is making that distinction impossible to ignore. That is the central argument Karthik Ranganathan , CEO of Yugabyte , makes in this episode of Don’t Panic! It’s Just Data , hosted by Scott Taylor of MetaMeta Consulting. The conversation traces 30 years of infrastruct...

AI investment is growing fast, but proving its value remains one of the biggest challenges facing data leaders today. Dashboards are built, models are deployed, and yet when the budget question arrives, most teams still can't clearly demonstrate return on investment. Speaking on Don't Panic, It's Just Data with host Christina Stathopoulos , Nadiem von Heydebrand , CEO and co-founder of Mindfuel, i...

Podcast: Don’t Panic! It’s Just Data Guest: Michael Marolda, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Agentic RAG at Progress Software Host: Shubhangi Dua, Podcast Producer and B2B Tech Journalist at EM360Tech Generative AI has been brewing in the enterprise tech industry for at least three years now. AI pilots are launching every other day, internal copilots are deployed across enterprise divisions,...

Podcast Series: Don’t Panic It’s Just Data Guest: Mark Duffy, Senior Director, Artificial Intelligence & Analytics at Cognizant and Mark Blake, FSI Industry Practice Lead, Stibo Systems Host: Scott Taylor, The Data Whisperer and Principal Consultant, MetaMeta Consulting Artificial intelligence (AI) is prevalent in the insurance industry now, but many firms are not seeing the results they expec...

Podcast: Don’t Panic! It’s Just Data Guest: Jignesh Patel, Director of Product Strategy at Stibo Systems and Elsebeth Gundersen Jensen, Product Owner at Nets Host: Dr Joe Perez, Data Analytics Expert and Amazon Bestselling Author We’re living in times of an always-on digital economy where there’s no room for data errors. In the recent episode of the Don’t Panic It’s Just Data podcast, host Dr Joe...

Podcast: Don’t Panic It’s Just Data! Guest: Adrian Estala, VP, Field Chief Data & AI Officer, Starburst Host: Doug Laney, Research & Advisory Fellow at BARC and Author of Infonomics & Data Juice After years of heavy investment in data lakes and warehouses, many enterprises still face a frustrating reality. Insights continue to remain slow, fragmented, and hard to trust. In the recent e...

Podcast: Don’t Panic! It’s Just Data Guest: Adrian Estala, VP, Field Chief Data & AI Officer, Starburst Host: Shubhangi Dua, Podcast Producer, Host and B2B Tech Journalist, EM360Tech "AI is replacing BI,” stated Adrian Estala, VP and Field Chief Data & AI Officer at Starburst. When Shubhangi Dua, host of Don’t Panic, It’s Just Data , put the statement back to Estala, the tension was intent...

We’re living in an age where new technology promises to improve everything with faster decisions, smarter workflows, and better outcomes. But behind that promise lies a quieter reality, and that is many organisations have that ambition, but readiness often lags behind. In this episode of  Don’t Panic! It’s Just Data , host  Christina Stathopoulos , Founder of  Dare to Data , speaks...

Artificial intelligence is everywhere right now, in boardrooms, strategy meetings, and product roadmaps. Organisations are investing heavily in machine learning, automation, and generative AI, all with the same promise: unlock new revenue and work smarter. In the latest episode of the  Don’t Panic It’s Just Data  podcast , EM360Tech’s  Trisha Pillay  explores this challenge wit...

Enterprise AI budgets are climbing, but the data foundations beneath them remain uneven. In this episode of  Don’t Panic, It’s Just Data ,  Kevin Petrie , VP of Research at  BARC , and  Nathan Turajski , Senior Director, Product Marketing at  Informatica , examine the findings of the  CDO Insights 2026  report , which argues that executive confidence in AI may be...

What if the real advantage in AI lies not in having more data, but in having less? In this episode of the Don’t Panic, It’s Just Data podcast , host Shubhangi Dua, Podcast Producer and B2B Tech Journalist at EM360Tech, sits down with Herb Blecher, Research Director of Data and Analytics at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). This conversation challenges a common belief in enterprise tech – tha...

For years, enterprises have discussed data democratisation as if it were an inevitable end goal. An assumption was made that turning on dashboards and training the business would lead to insight following naturally. But according to Barry McCardel, Co-Founder and CEO of Hex Technologies , the reality has been much more complicated. In the recent episode of the Don’t Panic, It’s Just Data podcast ,...

Digital commerce teams rarely lack ideas. Most understand how AI, data, and personalisation  could  improve customer experiences. The problem, as explored in this episode of  Don’t Panic, It’s Just Data , is turning those ideas into something that works at scale, in real time, and without slowing the business down. Hosted by  Dana Gardner , Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solut...

In the recent episode of the Don’t Panic It’s Just Data podcast , Shubhangi Dua, Podcast Producer and B2B Tech journalist at EM360Tech, reports on the podcast shot live in London. Guest speakers, Pavel Dolezal, the CEO at Keboola , sit down with Vineta Bajaj, Group CFO, Holland & Barrett. They get specific about how modern finance leaders move faster: start with one governed source of truth, t...

We live in a world where technology moves faster than most organisations can keep up. Every boardroom conversation, every team meeting, even casual watercooler chats now include discussions about AI. But here’s the truth: AI isn’t magic. Its promise is only as strong as the data that powers it. Without trust in your data, AI projects will be built on shaky ground. In this episode of  Don’t Pa...

“What is the true value of our data and AI initiatives?”  Too often, we drive all our energy into tools, processes, and outputs, but forget to ask ourselves how what we build actually makes a difference. For enterprises, this means looking beyond AI models and dashboards to see how our data drives real, measurable impact. Understanding the difference between output and outcome is what separat...

As AI becomes a central pillar of business decision-making, enterprises face a new challenge, and that is making their data AI-ready. It’s no longer enough to collect and digitise information. For organisations, data must be structured, contextualised, discoverable, and usable—both by humans and intelligent systems. AI can only deliver if your data is truly ready, but most enterprises are drowning...

While the role of a chief data officers (CDOs) was traditionally focused on regulatory compliance, it has now expanded to empowering the consistent and effective use of data across organizations to improve business outcomes. One of the most effective ways for CDOs to demonstrate their value is by developing a data strategy that is closely aligned with business goals, processes, and outcomes. ...

The challenge all organisations, big and small, face is answering and implementing solutions to solve this key question: How can finance and accounting teams work faster, smarter and more accurately? In the recent episode of the  Don’t Panic It’s Just Data podcast , host  Scott Taylor, The Data Whisperer  and Principal Consultant at MetaMeta Consulting, speaks with  Kevin Gibso...

"A flaw of warehouses is that you need to move all your data into them so you can keep it going, and for a lot of organisations that's a big hassle,” says Will Martin, EMEA Evangelist at Dremio. “It can take a long time, it can be expensive, and you ultimately can end up ripping up processes that are there." In this episode of the  Don’t Panic It’s Just Data podcast , recorded live at Big Dat...

At  Big Data LDN (BDL) 2025 , Keboola CEO Pavel Dolezal presented a new data agent designed for all business users, not just engineers. With a mission to make AI, automation, and data easy to access, relevant, and useful across the organisation, Dolezal revealed that the data agent has been embedded with contextual intelligence and generative AI. “While we typically assist data engineers with...

With an ever-changing business climate, companies have begun to shift their focus to unstructured data. In the past, unstructured data was challenging to deal with, considering the volume, governance and compliance, so organisations mainly focused on structured datasets.  However, with the rise of generative AI and large language models (LLMs),  Reece Williams Griffiths , Field CTO of&nb...

Organizations are increasingly exploring new technologies to improve their operations, but adoption comes with real challenges. In the latest episode of  Don’t Panic, It’s Just Data , host  Trisha Pillay  speaks with  Kevin Petrie , VP of Research at  BARC , about the practical realities of integrating these emerging technologies into business operations, particularly when...

"Most companies still juggle with multiple different platforms; the communication between these tools and these platforms is happening in spreadsheets, and that is tedious, it's error-prone,” states Søren Lundtoft , Sr. Director of Product Management at Stibo Systems. On the Don't Panic, It's Just Data podcast, host Doug Laney and Søren Lundtoft dive into how business leaders can overcome digital-...

With an erratic and fast business environment, finance teams are facing high pressure to process reports. The main challenge lies in how mid-market firms achieve digital transformation, not by abandoning familiar tools but by making them more effective.  In this episode of the  Don't Panic It's Just Data podcast , host Kevin Petrie, Vice President, Research and Head of Data Management Pr...