The 80th episode of Datacast is my conversation with Alberto Rizzoli— the co-founder of V7 Labs, a platform for deep learning teams to manage training data workflows and create image recognition AI. Our wide-ranging conversation touches on his entrepreneurship background since university; his experience participating in Singularity University; his work…

Back in September 2021, I attended the second annual Modern Data Stack Conference, Fivetran’s community-focused event that brings together hundreds of data analysts, data engineers, and data leaders to share the impact and experiences of next-generation analytics. …

The 79th episode of Datacast is my conversation with Jessica Cherny — who currently runs the data analytics team at Ironclad, a series-D digital contracting startup. Our wide-ranging conversation touches on her upbringing in a triplet, her education in data science at UC Berkeley, her current journey building out data…

The 78th episode of Datacast is my conversation with Julia Schottenstein — a Product Manager at dbt Labs, the maker of the popular open-source project dbt. Our wide-ranging conversation touches on her education at Stanford, her first job in investment banking, her transition to venture capital at NEA, her investments…

The end of the year is usually a time for reflection, gratitude, and planning. With our inboxes quiet and our schedules free of meetings, we can afford to take a moment and think about what we achieved and what’s next. This is my 8th straight year writing an annual review…

The 77th episode of Datacast is my conversation with Einat Orr — the CEO and Cofounder of Treeverse, the company behind lakeFS, an open-source platform that delivers resilience and manageability to object-storage-based data lakes. Our wide-ranging conversation touches on her mathematics background; the evolution of her engineering career at Flash…

Gaining an in-depth understanding of the data-centric AI approach — Last September, I attended Snorkel AI’s The Future of Data-Centric AI. This summit connects experts on data-centric AI from academia, research, and industry to explore the shift from a model-centric practice to a data-centric approach to building AI. …

Building the modern stack with open-source data solutions — I attended the Open-Source Data Stack Conference in late September 2021, the first-ever conference dedicated to building a modern data stack using open-source data solutions. The emergence of the modern data stack has seen a rapid spike in the number of data tools an organization can use to drive better…

The 76th episode of Datacast is my conversation with Prukalpa — the co-founder of Atlan, a modern data collaboration workspace (like Github for engineering or Figma for design). By acting as a virtual hub for data assets ranging from tables and dashboards to models & code, Atlan enables teams to…