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DM Radio
by Eric Kavanagh
DM Radio is the world's longest-running show about data! Since 2008, we've interviewed the industry's brightest minds about AI, analytics, big data, cloud, data warehousing, digital transformation, Internet of Things (IoT), streaming and many other topics. Now broadcasting coast-to-coast, we're always looking for new voices. Send an email to [email protected]!
Episodes
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AI Agents: Who's In Control?
Join this episode of DM Radio to hear from Ara Kharazian, Lead Economist at Ramp and Barr Moses, CEO and Co-Founder of Monte Carlo AI. We'll discuss the rapid rise of AI agents, and the challenges of maintaining control over what they do. We'll also examine the narrative that AI is taking away...
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Grounding Agentic AI: Data, Context & Control
As AI moves into an increasingly agentic era, enterprises need more than powerful models - they need trusted data, meaningful context, and control over how AI systems access and use information. Join this episode of DMRadio as Adam Gunther of Vertica at Rocket Software discusses how the company's...
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Scaling Agents in Production
AI Agents are moving fast, tackling all manner of enterprise workflows, and revolutionizing how things get done. Agentic trust is suddenly a mandate, as organizations employ these worker bees in new and innovative ways. The big question now? How can these Agents be supervised, managed and...
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Breaking Data Silos: The Blueprint for Governed AI
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What's in a Model? Your Ontology
Your data model is fast becoming AI infrastructure. As enterprises deploy agents and LLMs, tried and trusted data models are providing the structure and context AI needs to understand what corporate data really means. Sometimes called ontologies, these proven constructs are trending again because...
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An Agent-Ready Data Architecture
AI agents may be new, but the data problems they encounter are not. Before an agent can answer a question or take action, it needs to know what data exists, what it means, and how trustworthy it is. A single errant join, stale table, ambiguous definition, or missing access rule can quietly turn…
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Beyond the GPU: AI's Data Challenge
As AI moves from experimentation to enterprise deployment, the bottleneck is shifting from compute to the data infrastructure that powers it. Join this episode of DMRadio as host Eric Kavanagh speaks with Adrian Johnson of Hitachi Vantara about high-performance data access, on-premises...
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AI, Work & the Return of the Generalist
AI is transforming the workplace - not necessarily by eliminating jobs, but by fundamentally changing how people work and the skills they need. Join this episode of DM Radio as Eric Kavanagh speaks with Roberta Gamble, Chief Research Analyst at FOURCASTERS, about the real impact of AI on jobs,...
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The Titanic Moment for Traditional Data Architecture
Apache Iceberg is rapidly becoming the architectural foundation for the modern enterprise data estate, enabling organizations to decouple storage from compute while preserving openness and governance at scale. By bringing database-grade capabilities like ACID transactions, schema evolution, time...
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Quantum Computing Beyond the Hype
What does it take to move quantum computing from the lab to the enterprise? Join this episode of DMRadio to hear host Eric Kavanagh interview Yuval Boger, Chief Commercial Officer at QuEra Computing. Learn how the industry is shifting its focus from scientific milestones to solving real business...
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Securing Salesforce Data in the AI Era
Join this episode of DM Radio as host Eric Kavanagh sits down with Sovan Bin, CEO and Founder of Odaseva, to explore the growing challenges of managing and securing Salesforce data in today's AI-driven world. Drawing on his experience as a Salesforce architect, Sovan shares how conversations with...
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Network Intelligence & AI-Ready Data
Join this episode of DM Radio as host Eric Kavanagh explores how organizations are turning complex enterprise data into actionable intelligence. First, he interviews Darren Fullwell of IP Fabric, who explains how network digital twins give IT teams complete visibility into their environments.…
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DM Radio Live from Accelerate: Why Context Is the Missing Link for Enterprise AI
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…
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Building an AI-Ready Knowledge Architecture
The forcing function of AI continues to reshape how organizations think about data architecture. It's no longer enough to simply centralize information in warehouses and lakes. AI systems require context, lineage, relationships, governance, and semantic understanding to deliver trustworthy…
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The Single MCP Approach to Compliant AI
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…
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DMRadio Special: Conversations from We Make Future
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.
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The 'Death' of Analytics Vendors
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,...
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AI-Native Innovation: Synthetic Market Research and the Future of SaaS
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,...
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Technical Debt: The Hand You Hold...
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...
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Training the Machines: The Race for High-Value AI Data
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...
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Metadata at the Space Force and Beyond
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…
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How Do Agentic Data Pipelines Work?
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…
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Six Rules of Safe AI with Mark Brady
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...
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A Sovereign Wealth Fund for Data?
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...
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Rethinking Data Trust with Blockchain
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...
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Reporting for Duty: Why Architecture Matters
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...
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From Chatbots to AI Agents: Rethinking Data & Decisioning
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...
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Enterprise AI: A Recipe for Success
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…
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From Tokens to Vectors: The Substrate of AI
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...
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Resilient Data: From Ransomware to Revenue to Risk
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…
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$10 Million Question: Got the Right AI Infrastructure?
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....
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How AI Is Reshaping Business and Learning
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...
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When AI Meets Real-World Data
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...
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Agent-Ready Architecture: Giving AI the Context it Needs
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...
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What Are You Imply-ing?
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...
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Auto Industry Overview: Profits, EVs, and What's Next
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…
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Open for Business: Why Metadata Holds the Keys
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...
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CES Special: AI at a Turning Point
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,...
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CES Preview: Why AI Needs Data
Join this episode of DM Radio as host Eric Kavanaugh sits down with legendary keynote speaker and author Jim Harris to unpack why AI's real power depends on data. Explore how generative AI is transforming workflows through massive time savings, real-world use cases, and practical productivity…
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2025 in Review: NLP, Upskilling & Intelligent Orchestration
Join this episode of DMRadio to look back at 2025, a year defined by natural language automation, rapid upskilling, and intelligent orchestration across the enterprise. Host Eric Kavanagh interviews Binny Gill of Kognitos, John Munsell of Ingrain AI, and Peter Sprygada of Itential about how...
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Breaking the IO Barrier: NVMe, Linux & the Future of Data
Join this DM Radio episode as Eric Kavanagh interviews David Flynn of Hammerspace and Mark Madsen of Third Nature. Together they dig into the latest breakthroughs in high-performance computing and data architecture, explore the rise of NVMe technology, Hammerspace's impressive IO500 benchmark...
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Rebuilding Security for the Data-Driven Future
Join this DM Radio episode with Sean Knapp of Ascend and Jack Smith of Syncari, as we explore how security must evolve in an AI-driven, real-time world. Discover why legacy TCP/IP approaches fall short as organizations push intelligence to the edge and leverage billions of sensors. Learn about…
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Move From AI Hallucinations to Production-Ready Intelligence
The hard truth about enterprise AI? According to industry research, some 88% of AI pilots never reach production. And by 2027, roughly 40% of AI projects may be canceled entirely. The problem isn't the AI models; it's the data. While organizations rush to implement generative AI, they're hitting…
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Meeting of the Minds: Getting AI-Ready
How Do You Know If Your Enterprise Is AI-Ready? It starts with data. Can your enterprise architecture support AI workloads, RAG, or Agentic AI? For most, the answer is not yet. But with the right strategy, any data environment can get there. Then comes Governance. Do you have the right policies…
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Real-Time Intelligence with Confluent
Live from Current in New Orleans, join this special episode of DM Radio exploring how Confluent is redefining the data foundation for the age of Agentic AI. Host Eric Kavanagh will interview Andrew Sellers, who will unveil Confluent Intelligence - a new way to deliver trusted, contextual data to…
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Private AI and the Data Race: Building Smarter, Safer Enterprises
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Good AI vs Bad for AML, KYC and Fraud
Know your customer? Know your bad guy! The power of AI extends to both black hats and white, and with Generative AI now in the toolset, all bets are off. Bad actors can whip up pixel-perfect, fraudulent web sites in seconds to pilfer your username and password. They can mimic your spouse's voice…
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Preparing Analytics for the AI Rewrite
The revolution has begun. AI will rewrite most major enterprise applications. Analytics will play a central role, but big questions remain. How can deterministic BI meld with probabilistic AI? How will fast-evolving AI systems be effectively governed? What's the secret to building trust in data…
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Act Now: Visual Immediacy At Scale
When time-to-action requires very low latency, the immediacy of data visualization makes all the difference. Being able to analyze vast amounts of multi-dimensional data in real-time requires massive throughput, and an in-memory architecture designed to deliver instant insights at scale. Check…
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Powering AI: Inside the Next-Gen Data Center
Join this episode of DM Radio, as host Eric Kavanagh dives into the emerging concept of "AI factories" with special guests Mark Madsen of Third Nature and Denise Muyco of Ravel. Together, they explore how modern data centers are being transformed to handle the massive compute demands of...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
DM Radio is the world's longest-running show about data! Since 2008, we've interviewed the industry's brightest minds about AI, analytics, big data, cloud, data warehousing, digital transformation, Internet of Things (IoT), streaming and many other topics. Now broadcasting coast-to-coast, we're always looking for new voices. Send an email to [email protected]!
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