It's About Data

This is a breaking news episode responding to the announcement that Amazon has signed an agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the developer of the DuckDB analytics database.

The announcement from DuckLabs:

https://ducklabs.com/ducklabs-to-join-aws

Joe Reis and Matt Housley interviewing Jordan Tigani about the founding of MotherDuck:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2fi-Y6RiTw

Our interview with Nikita Shamgunov on Neon and Lakebase. (Ep 73).

https://youtu.be/zpqM-YWrXB4?si=Ik-0zjrjT1_mU-Rz.

MotherDuck acquires Tower Computing: https://motherduck.com/blog/motherduck-acquires-tower/ #duckdb #dataanalytics

Vipin Samar (SVP Database Security at Oracle ) joins us to discuss a database centric approach to securing and enabling agentic AI.

Ryan Dolley joins the show to discuss his work on an upcoming book. This episode was recorded at DataTune 2026 (https://datatuneconf.com/).#businessintelligence #largelanguagemodels

Stephen Messer (cofounder of Collective[i]) joins us to discuss an AI-driven talent shortage, the future of education, non-generative AI and the business prospects of foundation model developers.This episode is a continuation of our conversation in episode 86.https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/vI0LwVLgY4b#artificialintelligence

Stephen Messer joins us to argue that we're making a significant cognitive error when we view AI as a shiny new feature to augment existing software and user experiences.

Tiankai Feng (Director of Data and AI Strategy, Thoughtworks) joins us to discuss two of his recent books on the human side of data and AI.

This is a continuation of our conversation with Dipti Borkar from episode 81. We discuss Microsoft Fabric IQ as a tool for managing meaning in data, the problem of data interop, and the rapidly evolving role of data engineers.Episode 81:https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/K7ACFfYNq4b

This is a continuation of our discussion in episode 82. Kevin explains that AI agents are now a "fox in charge of the hen house," but this actually portends great things in the longstanding quest for data quality.Harnessing Unstructured Data for AI Innovation (BARC Study):https://barc.com/research/harnessing-unstructured-data-for-ai-innovation/Episode 82, where we introduce the BARC study:https://open.spotify.com/episode/5TexEQAYm2S5cOWUvXGgY1?si=88d763ba0ae045a9​

Kevin Petrie and Merv Adrian (BARC) join us to discuss a recent study:"Harnessing Unstructured Data for AI Innovation: Problems, Practices, and Principles for Success"This episode is part of a two part series. In the first part, we discuss the findings of the study.The study is available here:https://barc.com/research/harnessing-unstructured-data-for-ai-innovation/

Dipti Borkar joins us to discuss how Microsoft is addressing the growing importance of open data through Fabric. We also talk about solving for agentic analytics support, and the evolution of data roles and responsibilities.