The State of the Data Nation: Why Your Roadmap Is Already Behind | CDO Matters Ep. 101

The data and AI landscape shifted more in the last six months than in the three years prior and most data teams are still operating off roadmaps that predate it. Malcolm Hawker goes solo to give data leaders an honest read on where things stand and what to prioritize for the rest of the year.📌 In this episode:Why Gartner's keynote message — that it's okay to be a late AI adopter — is advice Malcolm thinks is negligent, and why you don't have three more yearsHow agentic AI and tools like Microsoft Foundry and OpenAI Studio are finally connecting the dots between data foundations (MDM, data quality, governance) and real AI business outcomesWhat SAP's acquisition of Reltio means for MDM customers and who should be paying close attentionProfisee named a leader in the new Gartner Magic Quadrant for MDM: what it means and why it took four years to get here💬 The takeaway: "If you don't have some idea of how you need to adapt your governance model to support AI, you don't have three years to figure it out because you already had three."About the host: Malcolm Hawker is a former Gartner analyst, Chief Data Officer at Profisee, Editor-in-Chief of CDO Matters on Substack, and host of the CDO Matters Podcast.🔗 Watch other episodes + read the transcripts on the CDO Podcast pageFollow Malcolm on LinkedIn