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The Joe Reis Show — 417 episodes · page 1 of 5
Build a Career That Looks Like You
The Pendulums of Data
This Year’s Better Mousetrap: New Tech, Same Old Problems
DuckDB - The Past, Present, and Future, DuckLabs, and More w/ Hannes Mühleisen
Why Off-The-Shelf AI Fails for Business Analytics w/ Rob Collie
Designing the AI-Driven Data Foundations: Architecture, Principles, and Practice w/ Sanjeev Mohan
Why Write Books?
Nobody Knows...
Why AI Agents Will Break Modern Data Engineering (And How to Fix It) w/ Christophe Blefari (Nao)
The Return of Conceptual Data Modeling w/ Sami Hero (CEO of Ellie.ai)
Agents, Self-Service BI Redux, and "Death of Data Teams"
Bringing Distributed Compute & AI to the Edge w/ David Aronchick (CEO of Expanso)
Are You Still Hands-On?
Building with AI, DuckDB + RDF, and the Semantic Future w/ Dan Bennett (Head of Tech @ S&P Global)
The Mixed Model Arts Manifesto
Agentic Analytics and the Death of Dashboards? | Oliver Laslett (CTO of Lightdash)
The Great Recomposition: Why Everything is Blurring Together
Stop Overpaying for AI! The Rise of Small Open-Source Models w/ Daniel Svonava (Superlinked)
The "X Is Dead" Fallacy
EBuilding Real AI Systems: Inside "Architected Intelligence" with Jacob Miller and Jeremy Mumford
My Podcast is Invitation Only. Please Stop Spamming Me.
The Post-Literate Engineer
The AI Backlash Is Real! - AI Journalist Sharon Goldman on Data Centers, Hype, the Future of Writing
The Data Engineering Lifecycle & Undercurrents - Mental Model Mondays
Why AI Agents Are Replacing Traditional Data Engineering w/ Matt Glickman
Conway's Law - Mental Model Mondays
Party's Over. The AI Market Is Entering Its Accountability Phase
EThe Database Is Not the Data Model
Why 80% of AI Projects Fail & How to Build an AI-First Company - Steve Brown (AI Futurist)
The Data Anarchy Tax: Why No One Owns Your Data
How I'm Actually Using AI to Write a Book
Is AI Replacing Data Engineers? - Kirill Bobrov (Luminousmen)
What I'd Do as a Junior Data Engineer in 2026
Max Beauchemin on Agentic AI and His Claude Code Moment
The AI Boom Looks a Lot Like the Gold Rush
Why Your AI Agents Die in Testing - Prukalpa Sankar, Atlan
The Semantic Swamp: Snowflake Summit 2026 Recap - Juan Sequeda
Building a Data Career Outside the Coasts - Ryan Dolley
AI, Energy Shocks, and the End of the Old Playbook
How AI Agents Are Changing Data Consulting - Chris Tabb
Why You Feel Behind in AI (and Aren't) - Eric Weber
Tristan Handy: AI Agents Are the New Consumers of Data
Why 90% of Data Teams Are Failing at Data Modeling
The Hidden Cost of AI Agents on Your Cloud Bill - Sanjay Agrawal
Data Engineering in 2026 - Zach Wilson
AI Agents Can't Fix Data - Josh Wills
Tokenmaxxing Is for Fools
The Future of Data Catalogs --Shinji Kim, Snowflake/SelectStar
WTF Is a Software Moat in 2026?
The Future of Open Data Infrastructure - George Fraser, Fivetran
Why Electricity, Not Dot-Com, Is the Right AI Analogy
Data Governance vs AI Governance - Bob Seiner
Do Data Fundamentals Still Matter in the Age of AI?
Wes McKinney on AI Agents and His Wild Coding Setup
Surviving the AI Grind: Hustle Culture, Fear, and Finding Value w/ Eric Weber (Freestyle Friday Episode)
Why 90% of Your Data is Wasted (and How AI Reclaims It) w/ Amit Prakash
Breaking Into Data Engineering in 2026: AI Tools, Standout Resumes, and more w/ Chris Gambill
AI in Healthcare - The Real-World Realities w/ Gowtham Chilakapati
Freestyle Fridays - AI Changed Everything, Except the Hard Parts
EInside the AI "Frankenact" Disaster & The Fight for Developers w/ Jake Ward
Freestyle Fridays - Thoughts on the Data Job Market, Going Solo, and More
Is SaaS Cooked? Why "Local First" AI Agents Are Taking Over w/ Demetrios Brinkmann
The Buzzword Industrial Complex, AI Agents & The Future of Data w/ Matt Housley
The Tech Job Market is Brutal. Is Freelancing Your Plan B? w/ Jody Hesch
The OGs of AI Analytics: Building Data Agents Before It Was Cool w/ Paul Blankley and Ryan Janssen
Freestyle Fridays - The AI Skills and Competence Gap
Are Software Engineers the New Data Engineers? w/ Tim Delisle & Chris Crane (514)
The AI Orchestrator & Building Human-Machine Teams w/ Sadie St. Lawrence
Freestyle Fridays - The Great Data Reckoning
Marketing to Developers During the AI Gold Rush w/ Prashant Sridharan
Freestyle Fridays - The Data Industry is the Definition of Insanity
EFrom ODBC to ADBC: Modernizing the Data Stack for AI and Analytics w/ Ian Cook
Freestyle Fridays - The State of Data Engineering in 2026, Book Writing, and More
Vibe Coding, Agents, and The Future of Streaming Data w/ Paul Dudley and Ricky Thomas (Streamkap)
Freestyle Fridays - The SaaS Slump and the Rise of Disposable Software
Dashboards vs. Agents: Navigating the New Era of BI and Analytics with Mike Driscoll
Freestyle Fridays - Why AI (Might) Mean More Work, Not Less
"I Needed to Be Back in the Game": Leaving PE & Big Tech to Build Vertical AI w/ Lak Lakshmanan
Freestyle Fridays - The 99% of Businesses and AI, and More.
Cory Doctorow on Enshitification, The AI Bubble, Reverse Centaurs, and The Post-American Internet
Why Smart Ideas in Tech Keep Failing (And Why We Suck at Selling)
Is the BI Dashboard Dead? Barry McCardel on Hex, AI Agents, and the Future of BI
Freestyle Fridays - Status Games
A History of Technology & Computing w/ Bill Inmon and Roger Whatley
Live with Joe Reis - January 2026 AMA. Ontologies, Data Modeling, Data Engineering, and More
Freestyle Fridays - The Law of Leaky Vibes, Making Your First Dollar, and More
EFreestyle Fridays - 2026 "Predictions", Kimball vs Inmon Thoughts, and More
EFreestyle Fridays - Have Good Taste and Keep Building
Bootstrapping a Data Consultancy Amidst The Great AI Grift w/ Nikhil Suresh (CEO @ Hermit Tech, Blogger)
The "Oh Word" - Why Ontologies Are Suddenly Popular
Freestyle Fridays - The Kids are Alright
The Truth About AI Agents, Hardware Wars, and Mixed Model Arts. Freestyle Fridays w/ Matt Housley
Data Contracts Are For Software Engineers, Not Just Data Teams w/ Mark Freeman and Chad Sanderson
Freestyle Fridays - To Succeed in 2026, Use December Wisely!
Why AI Agents Need a New Lakehouse. Ciro Greco (Bauplan) on “Git for Data”
Freestyle Fridays - So You Want to Grow on Substack
From Data Engineering to Context Engineering w/ Nick Schrock
The 2026 Data Career Roadmap: What’s Changed? w/ Maggie Wolff
AI Bubbles & "Vibe Coding" Dangers. Freestyle Fridays w/ Matt Housley
Why Most Chief Data Officers Fail w/ Malcolm Hawker