In this episode, Nitin Kumar, Director of Data Science and GenAI at Marriott International, joins CDO Magazine to discuss how enterprise data leaders are rethinking data readiness as the foundation for AI at scale.

In conversation with Ben Blanquera, VP of AI and Sustainability at Rackspace Technology, Kumar explores:

💠Why AI success is constrained by data, not models

💠How responsible AI becomes an engineering reality

💠What democratizing AI with guardrails actually means

💠How Marriott approaches Customer 360 using structured and unstructured data

💠Why agentic AI and multimodal systems will define the next phase of enterprise AI

This episode is part of CDO Magazine’s executive interview series focused on real-world AI leadership, governance, and value creation.

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