We are kicking off Season 3 of What's New in Data with none other than Ethan Aaron: CEO of Portable.io. Ethan is known for founding Portable.io – a leading Cloud ETL product – along with his viral perspectives on data and "low key" data events that have taken over the industry with appearances in New York City, Chicago, Denver, Toronto, Boston, and many other cities. We chat with Ethan on the hottest topics in data including macro economic effects on the data industry, consolidation of the data ecosystem, and of course data contracts.

BONUS: Sign up for Portable.io's Low Key Data Conference: a free data conference featuring Fortune 500 data executives, leading data venture capitalists, and other expert data practitioners:

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What's New In Data is a data thought leadership series hosted by John Kutay who leads data and products at Striim. What's New In Data hosts industry practitioners to discuss latest trends, common patterns for real world data patterns, and analytics success stories.