All Episodes

Decision intelligence and embedded analytics: making the decision the unit of design

GxP integrity, 21 CFR Part 11, and GDPR: what happens when three regulatory regimes collide

Publishing open data that citizens, journalists, and oversight bodies actually use

How Fanatics quantified its data platform value and got the board to care

Load forecasting for utility operators: integrating weather, behavioral, and DER signals into demand prediction pipelines

The modern ELT stack: how dbt, ingestion, and orchestration actually fit together

Proving data ROI to the board: why the standard playbook is failing CDOs

How JPMorgan Chase built data contracts across 50+ domains

Data literacy programs that actually change behavior

Zero-trust architecture for enterprise data access: what CDOs actually need to understand

How Salesforce learned to make master data stick

Feature stores and the ML data supply chain: what CDOs actually need to understand

Pricing and packaging a data product for external revenue

Data observability: catching bad data before it reaches decisions

Hub-and-spoke data teams: the model that sounds right and works badly

The data flywheel field guide: who built compounding advantage and what they actually did

Privacy-enhancing technologies in practice: a CDO playbook

How Walmart proved data ROI to its board: lessons from a $1 billion bet on supply chain intelligence

Natural-language BI and the analyst's new role: why the "democratisation" story is only half true

How Walmart's CDO built credibility and structure in the first 90 days

Clean rooms in practice: a CDO's playbook for data collaboration without the risk

Internal data products: a field guide to the teams and companies worth studying

Real-time streaming data: a CDO playbook for getting it right

The data flywheel: how compounding data advantage actually works

Privacy-enhancing technologies in practice: the hype is ahead of the implementation

Operationalizing the EU AI Act for data teams: a practical playbook

How Airbnb rebuilt metric consistency with a semantic layer

Data literacy programs that change behavior: a CDO's execution playbook

How Cloudflare rebuilt its data stack around dbt, Fivetran, and Airflow

Model monitoring, drift detection, and retraining triggers: a CDO playbook

Building a semantic layer for consistent metrics across business units

How Uber built its ML data supply chain: lessons from the Michelangelo feature store

GDPR beyond consent: a CDO playbook for retention and minimization

Data clean rooms explained: what they actually do and when they're worth the effort

Cutting cloud data costs without breaking analytics

Why most data culture initiatives fail before they start

When the AI model is wrong: what CDOs must own in 2026