It's Friday and Eevamaija Virtanen and I are hanging out at Data Day Texas in Austin.

In this episode, we chat about her upcoming talk, "Bridge Skills."

Chip Huyen joins me to chat about AI Engineering, AI Agents, and much more.

Jamie Davidson (Chief Product Officer at Omni, Former VP of Product at Looker) joins me to chat about "modern" data modeling, going from a startup to Google and back to a startup, and much more.

Omni: https://omni.co/

Burnout is a big topic right now. Carly Taylor and Ghalib Suleiman join me to chat about burnout and ways to deal with it.

Sarah Levy (CEO of Euno) joins me to chat about modern data governance for analytics.

Euno - https://euno.ai/

Carsten Bange (Founder & CEO of BARC) joins me to chat about trends in data, analytics, and AI.

BARC website: www.barc.com

Carsten on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carsten-bange/

BARC Data Culture Summit: https://barc.com/events/data-culture-summit%20/

BARC DATAfestival: https://barc.com/events/data-festival/

Will AI chatbots replace old school BI dashboards and reports? Or can they co-exist with one another? Will AI help the often poor adoption by the business of dashboards and reporting? I rant about this and more in this latest episode.

Dave Colls and David Tan join me to chat about building effective machine learning teams, the challenges they face, the 7 deadly wastes in data and ML, writing a book, and much more.

Get their book here: https://amzn.to/3DS2OMp

It's 2025! We made it! ;)

In this podcast, I rant about why data modeling matters more than ever, AI, and why humans will seek out "human" things in 2025 and beyond.

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🤓 My works:

📕Fundamentals of Data Engineering: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/fundamentals-of-data/9781098108298/

🎥 Deeplearning.ai Data Engineering Certificate: https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/data-engineering

🔥Practical Data Modeling: https://practicaldatamodeling.substack.com/

🤓 My SubStack: https://joereis.substack.com/

Simba Khadder (CEO of FeatureForm) joins me to chat about feature stores, reinforcement learning, surfing, and much more.