It's About Data

Happy New Year! We review 2025 and prognosticate about 2026. Have you thought about semantics this year?

Links related to this episode:

Data 2026 outlook: The rise of semantic spheres of influence

https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/05/data-2026-outlook-rise-semantic-spheres-influence/

A discussion of PuppyGraph, a graph query engines:

https://youtu.be/nmKvGmRWRms

Joe Reis's substack on data modeling:

https://practicaldatamodeling.substack.com/

Generative AI Design Patterns:

https://youtu.be/OXgkkZufFfMhttps://www.oreilly.com/library/view/generative-ai-design/9798341622654/

OpenAI's latest round:

https://www.economist.com/business/2025/12/29/openai-faces-a-make-or-break-year-in-2026

Tech IPOs

https://gizmodo.com/2026-is-poised-to-be-the-year-of-the-tech-ipo-will-it-also-be-the-year-the-ai-bubble-bursts-2000704395

Databricks latest round and the possibility of an IPO:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-12-16/databricks-ceo-on-4b-funding-round-ipo-plans-and-ai-video

Ali Ghodsi on AI agents:

https://www.businessinsider.com/when-ai-automation-replacing-humans-databricks-ceo-ali-ghodsi-2025-6

Check out Data Day Texas here:

https://datadaytexas.com/

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#artificialintelligence #data #ai2026

Dinesh Chandrasekhar (Principal, @stratolallc) joins us to discuss his recent report on Architectural Intelligence. His core thesis is that we need to extend the capabilities of enterprise observability to reduce siloing and better manage the power and risks of AI workloads.Link to the report:https://stratola.com/architectural-intelligence-a-new-paradigm-for-enterprise-visibility-in-the-ai-era/

We're joined by Lak Lakshman to discuss his book Generative AI Design Patterns (Oreillly Media). Lak is also the cofounder of Obin.ai.Link to the book:https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/generative-ai-design/9798341622654/

We're joined by Justin Borgman, CEO of Starburst, to discuss data products and data federation for AI. We also cover the company's recently announced membership in OSI (Open Semantic Interchange).#agenticai #dataanalytics

IBM announced the acquisition of Confluent; what does this mean for hybrid cloud, agents and open source?#cloudcomputing #aiagents #opensource

Tony reports on his yearly pilgrimage to AWS re:invent.#awsreinvent2025 #aws #agenticai

Weimo Liu, CEO of PuppyGraph, joins us to discuss a new approach to graph analytics, bringing a graph query engine to existing relational and columnar data stores.#graphdatabase #dataanalytics #dataengineering

We're joined by Francois Lopitaux (SVP Product Management, ThoughSpot) to discuss the rise of semantic layers as a key source of agentic AI context, and the development of Open Semantic Interchange to facilitate sharing between tools and platforms.#dataanalytics #agenticai

This is a continuation of our conversation with Sanjeev Mohan in episode 27. We discuss the implications of Open Semantic Interchange, a data industry alliance designed to streamline semantic model sharing. Sanjeev also relates his experiences traveling to China for tech industry conferences.#dataanalyticsEp 27 link:https://open.spotify.com/episode/1AnyrsnDKryuOKCSOY1VLX?si=9H-P-zvkSdKueaQcM25eYw

John Santaferraro, host of The Digital Analyst Podcast, drops by to discuss practical deployment of AI and agents at his clients and in the broader data industry.The Digital Analyst Podcastthedigitalanalyst.aihttps://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLivd8WaRu-XkJsuP8YAtk8T1QYRYlEkD5&si=bIzbB3rCMBdq2YBW @InsightJam  https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnsantaferraro/ferraroconsulting.com#agenticai #artificialintelligence #dataanalytics