CDO Magazine Podcast Series

Shebani Baweja, Group Chief Data Officer at Standard Chartered, speaks with Bryan Lee, Group Head of Data at United Overseas Bank, about why governance, agility and innovation reinforce each other when they are designed well. Baweja also maps how the CDO role is moving from risk and control leader to strategic enabler as AI becomes embedded across the bank.

Beth Hiatt explains why AI initiatives need clear business priorities and why governance programs can lose traction when organizational maturity is overlooked. Jessie Smith, Chief Product Officer at Ataccama, explores how data leaders can assess readiness, adjust execution, and connect AI use cases to measurable business outcomes.

Legacy technology architectures were not designed for artificial intelligence, making tail-end data reviews a major bottleneck for scaling enterprise AI. In this interview, Shebani Baweja, Group Chief Data Officer at Standard Chartered, speaks with Bryan Lee, Group Head of Data at United Overseas Bank, about embedding data controls directly into development pipelines. Discover how automating data...

How can government agencies prepare data for advanced analytics and AI while maintaining quality, governance, privacy, and public trust? Neil Cooke, Chief Data Officer at the State of Texas, discusses the challenge with Dr. Adita Karkera, Chief Data Officer, Government and Public at Deloitte, including agency data maturity assessments, responsible AI practices, and practical data literacy.

Kyle DuPont, Founder and CEO of DataXray, speaks with CDO Magazine Editorial Board Member Maribeth Achterberg, that most enterprise AI strategies stop at a stack of Copilot licenses with no way to measure return. DuPont breaks down why a typical enterprise project takes roughly eighteen months to move from proposal to a budgeted rollout, and argues that real safeguards start with knowing exactly w...

Beth Hiatt, SVP of Product Management, Data Governance and Responsible AI, tells Jessie Smith, Chief Product Officer at Ataccama, that even flawless data quality cannot earn AI trust without the right business context. Hiatt also walks through why data stewardship is shifting away from manual human review and toward agents that handle metadata, quality checks and classification on their own.

Shebani Baweja, Group Chief Data Officer at Standard Chartered, tells Bryan Lee, Group Head of Data at United Overseas Bank, that scaling AI across a bank is an enterprise challenge rather than a technology one. Baweja explains why data governance has shifted from a defensive compliance function into a source of competitive advantage, and names three enablers essential to scaling AI safely: data a...

Neil Cooke, Chief Data Officer for the State of Texas, tells Dr. Adita Karkera, Chief Data Officer, Government and Public at Deloitte, that leading a statewide data program depends less on technology and more on governance, communication and trust. Cooke walks through the shift into the interim CDO role and the questions that still guide the office today: what matters most, how it is measured, whe...

Tony Trim, Manufacturing Operations AI Leader at Eaton, speaks with Stephen Hooper, SVP Operations Solutions at Autodesk, that agentic AI in manufacturing only earns trust when its boundaries, interlocks, permissives and clear human authority are engineered in before it reaches the plant floor. Trim explains why a wrong AI action on a plant floor can cost product, equipment or safety, and why the...

Kyle DuPont, Founder and CEO of DataXray (Ohalo), speaks with Maribeth Achterberg, CDO Magazine Editorial Board Member, about data loss prevention, zero trust, compliance, and the metadata foundation connecting security with data management. The conversation explores how regulated enterprises can protect data across internal and external environments while supporting broader data use cases.

Tony Trim, Manufacturing Operations AI Leader at Eaton, tells Stephen Hooper, Senior Vice President of Operation Solutions at Autodesk, that most digital twins fail by trying to replicate an entire factory instead of solving one costly problem. Trim breaks down where digital twins actually generate savings, including a push toward $50 million in annual value, and explains why agentic AI on the pla...

Beth Hiatt, SVP of Product Management, Data Governance and Responsible AI at LPL Financial, tells Jessie Smith, Chief Product Officer at Ataccama, that AI without business context will not produce the results a company expects. Hiatt breaks down why the first 90 days of an AI program need the underlying data infrastructure in place, and why a governance team has to sit inside that process instead...

Kyle DuPont, Founder and CEO of DataXRay, speaks with Maribeth Achterberg, CDO Magazine Editorial Board Member, about how AI is changing the value of unstructured data. The conversation focuses on metadata, file relevance, and how enterprises can help users and agents find the information needed for specific workflows.

Tony Trim, Manufacturing Operations AI Leader at Eaton, explains why the biggest obstacle on the factory floor was never the equipment itself but the tribal knowledge trapped in people's heads and scattered across disconnected systems. In conversation with Stephen Hooper, SVP Operations Solutions at Autodesk, Trim breaks down the digital thread concept and the three traits that separate manufactur...

Most banks still treat customer identity as a compliance requirement, and that framing now leaves every online transaction exposed. Rohit Chauhan, former Executive Vice President of Artificial Intelligence and Fraud Solutions at Mastercard, joins Robert Lutton, Vice President of Sandhill Consultants, for the concluding part of a three-part series on the identity graph. The conversation covers why...

In the final episode of this three-part series, Muralidhar Vemulapalli, Chief Enterprise Architect and Acting Chief Technology Officer at Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield, tells Chris Gengo, Chief Innovation Officer at HiLabs, why AI approving eighty percent of prior authorization requests does not mean reviewers can step back. Vemulapalli lays out the decision-centric architecture, funding discipl...

Rohit Chauhan, former Executive Vice President of Artificial Intelligence & Fraud Solutions at Mastercard, tells Robert Lutton, Vice President of Sandhill Consultants, why a more powerful AI model will not fix fraud detection on its own. Chauhan argues that trust in AI comes from the data architecture underneath it, not from the model's output, and explains how connected context can flip a fla...

In this CDO Magazine interview, Muralidhar Vemulapalli, Chief Enterprise Architect and Acting Chief Technology Officer at Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield, tells Chris Gengo, Chief Innovation Officer at HiLabs, why ungoverned AI cannot be deployed at enterprise scale. Vemulapalli lays out the governance model, from AI inventory to human-in-the-loop review, that turns fast models into trustworthy in...

Enterprise leaders frequently fail to justify data investments because they report on technical outputs rather than commercial outcomes. In this video, Mindfuel CEO Nadiem von Heydebrand joins CDO Magazine Editorial Board Member Justin Heller to solve this operating model problem. The discussion provides a clear framework for tracking AI value to prove true return on investment to the board.

Banks continue investing in more sophisticated fraud models, yet many still struggle to keep pace with increasingly connected fraud schemes. In Part 1 of this three-part interview series, Rohit Chauhan, former Executive Vice President of Artificial Intelligence & Fraud Solutions at Mastercard, explains to Robert Lutton, Vice President of Sandhill Consultants, why connected data architecture ha...

Muralidhar Vemulapalli, Chief Enterprise Architect and Acting Chief Technology Officer at Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield, tells Chris Gengo, Chief Innovation Officer at HiLabs, why most health plans generate insight but never turn it into an operational decision. Vemulapalli argues that AI governance and a unified data fabric matter less than the decision infrastructure and shared accountability...

In the final episode of this three-part series, Carrier Global Chief Data Officer Arun Nandi joins Flexor Co-Founder and CEO Or Zabludowski to explain how centralized AI governance and decentralized context ownership can work together inside a large enterprise. Nandi also unpacks why large language models have commoditized domain knowledge once locked inside departing employees and legacy vendors,...

Many AI initiatives deliver outputs, yet struggle to generate sustained business value. In this conversation, Nadiem von Heydebrand explains why organizations must shift from project-based thinking to product-based execution and why identifying the right use cases remains one of the biggest challenges in enterprise AI. Nadiem von Heydebrand, CEO & Co-Founder of Mindfuel, joins Justin Heller, E...

As enterprises race to deploy AI, many risk creating technical debt that will be difficult to unwind in the future. Arun Nandi, CDO at Carrier Global, explains why open standards, architectural flexibility, and trusted data products are becoming essential for sustainable AI adoption. Nandi joins Or Zabludowski, Co-founder and CEO of Flexor, to discuss governance, enterprise architecture, and emerg...

Scaling Next Best Action platforms across diverse therapeutic areas requires solving the critical challenge of field-level user adoption. In this interview, Commercial Strategy, Insights & Analytics Executive Ashutosh Katiyar and Subrata Chatterjee, Global Growth Partner for Life Sciences at Tiger Analytics, reveal how explainable AI drives enterprise trust. Discover how embedding invisible an...