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The Data T

by Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi

Previously known as Coffee with Coalesce, The Data T is a monthly podcast hosted by Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi, co-founders of Coalesce, the data transformation company. Each month, we invite industry experts, entrepreneurs, and executives to spill the tea on the data industry's hottest topics: from data modeling and data ops to AI and LLMs, data engineering trends and predictions, datapreneurship, and more.

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Episodes

  1. Durable Growth in the Age of AI: Data & Marketing Lessons From Scaling Braze

    What does it take to build a company that doesn't just survive platform shifts—but compounds through them? In this episode, Coalesce CEO Armon Petrossian and CPTO Satish Jayanti sit down with Braze CEO & Co-Founder Bill Magnuson and SVP of Growth Spencer Burke for a wide-ranging conversation on...

  2. Gleb Mezhanskiy on Rewriting the Migration Playbook with AI

    Data migrations have long been the costly, painful bottleneck of modernization, dragging on for years and carrying multi-million-dollar price tags. But AI is already flipping that script. Gleb Mezhanskiy, founder & CEO of Datafold, who has been deep in the trenches of AI-driven migrations, joins…

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  3. The AI-Ready Data Team with Erik Duffield

    This month on The Data T, we sit down with Erik Duffield, CEO and co-founder of Hakkoda, now an IBM Company, to unpack the latest hot topic in our industry: AI-ready data. Everyone’s talking about it, but what does it really take to build an AI-ready data team or data practice? AI-readiness isn’t...

  4. How AI Made Data Governance Sexy with Pierre Jr Cliche

    Data governance is far from anyone’s favorite topic, but at Infostrux it’s the superpower behind launching successful AI initiatives. In this episode of the Data T podcast, CEO Pierre Jr Cliche joins Coalesce co-founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi to share how Infostrux rides today’s...

  5. Mid-Year Reality Check: Data Predictions With Mike Palmer

    With 2025 more than halfway over, it’s time to test this year’s bold data forecasts—and look ahead to what’s still coming. On this episode of The Data T, Sigma CEO Mike Palmer joins Coalesce co-founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi to unpack where data and analytics are really heading in...

  6. The Architect of Scale: Ion Stoica on Open Source, AI, and the Future of Data

    Ion Stoica is a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Databricks, and a key architect of the Apache Spark project. Most recently, he’s the Co-Founder of Anyscale, which leverages the open source Ray framework developed in-lab to enable scalable AI...

  7. Model as You Go: A New Take on BI

    In this episode of The Data T podcast, Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi sit down with Colin Zima, co-founder and CEO of Omni, to talk about what it takes to reinvent business intelligence. Colin shares his journey from Looker’s early days to building Omni, the lessons learned along the way…

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  8. Data Therapy in the Age of Relentless Innovation and AI

    In this episode of The Data T podcast, Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi talk with Nicho Mann, founder and CEO of Stratos Consulting, about the emotional and operational challenges facing data professionals today. Nicho introduces the idea of “data therapy” — a way to talk about the mounting...

  9. AI-Driven Data Catalogs

    Fresh off the announcement of Coalesce acquiring AI-driven data catalog company CastorDoc, now Coalesce Catalog, co-founders Tristan Mayer and Xavier de Boisredon join the Data T podcast to talk about how it all came together, why his marks a major shift in the industry, how the Modern Data Stack...

  10. Data Hot Takes with Joe Reis

    In this episode of The Data T, Joe Reis returns to discuss his journey since his last appearance on our podcast. We chat about the lasting impact of his book, Fundamentals of Data Engineering, and his latest focus on data modeling. Data modeling is the focus of Joe’s upcoming book, Practical Data...

  11. 2025 Data Predictions with Tejas Manohar

    Welcome to the Data T! In our first podcast episode for 2025, hosts Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi chat with Tejas Manohar, co-CEO and co-founder of Hightouch, about his predictions for the year ahead. The conversation covers the top trends in generative AI, customer engagement, and data...

  12. SAP Migrations with David Richert and Edwin Commandeur

    In the final episode of Coffee with Coalesce for 2024, we travel to Europe to chat with David Richert, SAP Modernization Evangelist and Principal Sales Engineer at Snowflake, and Edwin Commandeur, Principal Field Product Manager (SAP) at Fivetran, about the challenges and innovations in data...

  13. Data Orchestration with Hugo Lu

    In this episode of Coffee with Coalesce, Hugo Lu, CEO and founder of Orchestra, joins hosts Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi to share the company’s founding story, discuss the challenges of building and selling an orchestration platform in an already crowded data space, his predictions on the...

  14. Semantic Layer Innovation with Artyom Keydunov and Pavel Tiunov

    In this episode of Coffee with Coalesce, Cube co-founders Artyom Keydunov and Pavel Tiunov discuss their journey with Cube, from starting out as a side project to a successful company that recently raised its Series B funding rou nd. The discussion touches on Cube’s founding story, innovating the...

  15. The Modern Data Stack with Taylor Brown

    In this episode of Coffee with Coalesce, Taylor Brown, COO and co-founder of Fivetran, shares the origin story of the company and how Fivetran has helped pioneer the Modern Data Stack. Taylor dives into the challenges of building Fivetran, the company’s mission to make data as accessible and...

  16. Data Mesh with Una Galyeva

    We’re excited to welcome Una Galyeva, Data & AI Consultant with Honest Data and AI Consulting, to chat about data mesh. Topics covered in this episode include the reality of data mesh implementations vs the theoretical concepts, use cases where implementing data mesh makes sense, assembling the...

  17. The Future of BI with Rob Woollen

    In the latest episode of our data podcast, we welcome Rob Woollen, Co-founder and CTO of Sigma Computing, to chat about the future of BI, the journey of developing Sigma, finding product market fit, and the company’s success. In this episode you'll hear Rob's take on: the future of spreadsheets…

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  18. The 10X Data Engineer with Gu Xie

    In this episode of the Coffee with Coalesce podcast, we chat with Gu Xie, Head of Data Engineering at Group 1001, about the secret to building highly performant data engineering teams. Hint: It’s not about finding super-talented, highly-skilled professionals that are 10x more productive than…

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  19. Investing in Data and AI Startups with Joe Floyd and Saad Siddiqui

    In this episode of Coffee with Coalesce, we chat with Joe Floyd, General Partner at Emergence Capital, and Saad Siddiqui, General Partner at Telstra Ventures. Venture capital plays a pivotal role in guiding new companies and technologies to market, and our guests have had a first-row seat to the...

  20. Delivering on the Promise of the Modern Data Stack with Hightouch Co-Founder Kashish Gupta

    We’re excited to welcome Kashish Gupta, co-founder and co-CEO of Hightouch, the number-one composable customer data platform (CDP) that is revolutionizing the way marketers activate their data. From semantic layers to taking advantage of cloud-native data warehouse architectures, tune in and…

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  21. Data Modeling and AI with John Cosgrove and Kent Graziano

    We’re excited to welcome John Cosgrove and Kent Graziano to tackle the age-old topics of data management and data modeling in the new age of AI and LLMs. How can you get onboard the AI hype train and not end up in a train wreck? What if setting yourself up for success in the future depends more...

  22. Data Quality and Gen AI with Lior Gavish and Kent Graziano

    We’re excited to welcome Lior Gavish, CTO and Co-founder of data observability company Monte Carlo, as we kick off the new year with the topic on everyone’s mind: Generative AI. If 2023 was the year of gen AI talk, are organizations ready to walk the walk in 2024? And if the answer is “not yet”…

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  23. Best of 2023 in Data with Felipe Hoffa

    What do twinkies, weight loss, and LLMs have in common? Data may just have something to do with it. For our last podcast episode of 2023, we sit down with Felipe Hoffa, Data Cloud Advocate at Snowflake, to chat about his favorite and most memorable data trends and developments of the year. Listen...

  24. How to Win the C-Suite's Support for Your Data Team with Matt Tischler and Michael Tantrum

    Success for a data team today goes beyond technical expertise and a best-of-breed data stack; it hinges on the understanding and support of the C-Suite. In this Coffee with Coalesce episode, we’re excited to host two accomplished data leaders and executives who have mastered this art. Matthew...

  25. The Datapreneurs and the Future of Data and AI with Bob Muglia and Kent Graziano

    We’re extremely excited to welcome Bob Muglia to Coffee with Coalesce. The former Microsoft exec and Snowflake CEO doesn’t need an introduction in the data community: a legendary leader whose work has shaped our industry, Muglia joins us to talk about his new book, The Datapreneurs. Hosted by...

  26. Make the Most of Snowflake Summit 2023 with Frank Bell and Kent Graziano

    On our latest Coffee with Coalesce episode, Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi sat down with Frank Bell, Snowflake Evangelist and Snowflake Data Superhero, and Kent Graziano, Coalesce.io advisor and former Chief Technology Evangelist at Snowflake, to talk all things Snowflake Summit. Watch the...

  27. Generative AI and Data Modeling with Ethan Aaron and Sonny Rivera

    Coalesce co-founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi sat down with Ethan Aaron, CEO of Portable, and Sonny Rivera, senior analytics evangelist at Thoughtspot, to discuss the hottest topic in data and business today: Generative AI. Watch the full episode to hear our guests’ hottest takes,...

  28. DataOps with Chris Tabb and Collin Graves

    Coalesce Co-Founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi sit down with Chris Tabb, Chief Commercial Officer and Co-Founder of LEIT Data, and Collin Graves, Founder of Northlabs, to talk all things DataOps.Watch the full episode to learn: What is DataOps and how is it similar to–and different...

  29. The State of Data Engineering with "Seattle Data Guy" Ben Rogojan

    In our latest Coffee with Coalesce episode, Coalesce CEO Armon Petrossian and Head of Customer Experience Stewart Bryson sat down with Benjamin Rogojan, a.k.a. Seattle Data Guy, to talk where 2023 is going for data and data teams.Watch the full episode to learn: Top expectations for data...

  30. Transform Your Data Engineering Career with Joe Reis and Matt Housley

    We kicked off 2023 with a discussion on data engineering careers with two of the best known names in the field, Joe Reis and Matt Housley, authors of the best-selling book “Fundamentals of Data Engineering” (O’Reilly, 2022). Watch the full episode to learn: What are the biggest challenges facing...

  31. Data Contracts and Top Data Engineering Trends with Chad Sanderson

    We’re talking data engineering trends (and busts) with Chad Sanderson, head of data at Convoy. From data contracts and data mesh, to AI/ML and data governance and quality, we explore the main topics and pain points impacting your work today, and our predictions for 2023. Hosted by Coalesce CEO...

  32. The Future of Data Modeling with Kent Graziano and Matt Florian

    Data Modeling is back in vogue, but here’s the twist: there’s a better way to do it with tools and technology built for the cloud. Data veterans Kent Graziano and Matt Florian discuss data modeling best practices in the cloud era. Hosted by Coalesce CEO Armon Petrossian. Watch the full episode to...

  33. Transforming Data at Enterprise Scale with Kent Graziano

    Welcome to the first Coffee with Coalesce: a series of conversations with experts, thought leaders, and interesting people from the data community recorded live and available on demand at your podcast platform of choice!In this episode, Coalesce.io co-founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Previously known as Coffee with Coalesce, The Data T is a monthly podcast hosted by Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi, co-founders of Coalesce, the data transformation company. Each month, we invite industry experts, entrepreneurs, and executives to spill the tea on the data industry's hottest topics: from data modeling and data ops to AI and LLMs, data engineering trends and predictions, datapreneurship, and more.

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Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi

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Previously known as Coffee with Coalesce, The Data T is a monthly podcast hosted by Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi, co-founders of Coalesce, the data transformation company. Each month, we invite industry experts, entrepreneurs, and executives to spill the tea on the data industry's hottest...

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