George Fraser, CEO and Co-Founder of Fivetran, joins Kelly for coffee to discuss Fivetran then and now. He shares perspectives and insights into the value of fully automated and fully managed data integration and where Fivetran is going, a perspective on data lakes in 2021, as well as discusses company culture and Fivetran's journey as an early-stage startup to today's high growth $1B+ valued company.

Chinmayee joins Kelly to discuss one of Hashmap's newest open-source utilities, Hashmap Data Cataloger (hdc). Chinmayee is a cloud/data engineer in Hashmap's RTE program and brings a wealth of insight and knowledge to some of today's biggest challenges in data. The two discuss best practices and focus areas when migrating from on-prem to the cloud and what role hdc plays in that process. 

Sree is Co-Founder and CTO at Clocr, a SaaS platform that offers a state-of-the-art digital safety vault along with legacy planning solution for digital assets. Clocr's patent-pending security enables you to secure essential documents, information and organize them into ICE (In Case of Emergency), and, ICD (In Case of Death) vaults, that can be unlocked by pre-assigned nominees. Sree shares Clocr's approach to data security and privacy, digital asset management, digital shredding technology, and how he started the company alongside his daughter, Apoorva Chintala. 

Hashmap hosts Sam and David discuss how they redeveloped Snowflake Estimator to make it simpler and easier. Snowflake Estimator is one of Hashmap's Snowflake utilities that helps users estimate Snowflake cloud compute and storage. The tool was built for those looking to move to Snowflake and current Snowflake users looking to better understand their ongoing spend.

For this week's episode of Hashmap on Tap we have a great group of Hashmap hosts. Kelly, Chinmayee, and David discuss extracting Facebook Insights using a modern data stack that includes Fivetran, Snowflake, and Looker. The three talk about their experience with these tools and how they achieved true automation making the data extraction process practically effortless.

Hashmap on Tap host, Kelly Kohlleffel, is joined by Tejas Manohar, Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Hightouch. Tejas gives insights into Hightouch, what they do, and the value this SaaS-based startup brings to the reverse ETL solution space. Kelly and Tejas also discuss perspectives on use cases for Hightouch, GTM approaches, and hiring. 

Hashmap on Tap host, Kelly Kohlleffel, welcomes back Ajay Bidani. Ajay is the Digital Enablement and Insights Manager at Powell Industries. Kelly and Ajay discuss their perspectives on the impact of data in manufacturing and some best practices to adapt to the ever-changing data landscape. 

Russ Bartels is the Sr. Director for Data Science & SDN Orchestration at Windstream where he leads the data teams that are delivering experience-based insights for Windstream’s customers, partners, and employees. Russ walks Hashmap on Tap host Kelly through Windstream's recent data migration from Hadoop to Snowflake, what their data acquisition landscape looks like today, and offers advice for someone considering modernizing their data platforms. 

Hashmap on Tap host Kelly Kohlleffel is joined by Boris Jabes, Co-founder and CEO of Census, to discuss how they provide "in the moment" value to their customers with data to enable operational analytics. Boris provides insights into his background that later fueled his passion for creating Census and how they keep teams fully connected with their data to inform more timely and smarter decision making.

Hashmap on Tap hosts Kelly and Scottie race to find all the answers to safe cloud migrations. The two discuss how the safest migrations are the speediest. Join in and find out how to balance a perfect plan with a quick approach on this week's episode.