Sean Taylor is an industry veteran and expert in Data Science, AI, and ML. Sean is Chief Scientist at Motif Analytics: a paradigm-shifting toolkit for sequence analytics. His career accolades include leading core data science at Facebook and Lyft. Sean is also known for launching Prophet – a popular open-source forecasting framework leveraged at some of the world's largest companies.

We dive into Data Science and tie it back to Data Engineering. How does Data Science differ from Data Engineering? Do common Data Engineering skills such as SQL map into Data Science? Will Data Engineers have enough leverage and tooling to execute on AI initiatives? We also discuss experimentation with data.

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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.

Mark Freeman is a vocal advocate of Data Quality, Data Contracts and aligning the data community around these pillars. Mark Freeman has experience as both a data scientist and data engineer which gives him a unique, astute outlook on data management. This is why he's amassed tens of thousands of followers on social media to date along with the largest slack community on Data Quality that he founded with Chad Sanderson: Data Quality Camp. Our host John Kutay dives into these topics with Mark starting with why data quality is critical, before going into the depths of implementation and monitoring. 

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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.

Zhamak Dehghani is the CEO / Founder of Nextdata and also well known as the creator of Data Mesh. Data Mesh is a set of core principles that enables organizations to become data-driven by changing the way they organize their teams and their data architecture. 

Zhamak walks us through her deep expertise working with enterprise data teams and the story of how Data Mesh came to be. Zhamak also discusses the power decentralization and how it allows enterprises to scale insights.

Zhamak Dehghani's vision for Nextdata is building a world where AI and ML is powered by equitable and responsible data ownership via decentralization.

We also discuss data products as a first class primitive and how data teams can start their Data Mesh journey with practical steps of 'change through movement.'

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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.

In this episode John Kutay hosts Aron Clymer to discuss the current state of the Modern Data Stack. Aron shares his expertise as he details how far we've come in data and what the next big milestones are. Aron also discusses Data Governance, the Semantic Layer, and how teams can best modernize their stack. 

Aron Clymer is Founder & CEO of Data Clymer, a next gen data & analytics consulting firm that empowers every client’s success by unlocking the value of data. The Data Clymer team implements modern cloud data solutions that drive positive results through data accessibility and actionable insights.

Aron previously established and built the Product Intelligence team at Salesforce for 7 years to support all data and analytics needs of 400+ product managers. Subsequently, Aron headed up Data at PopSugar where his team democratized data and supported analytics/data science across the company.

Aron has grown Data Clymer over the past 6 years into a nationwide team of deeply experienced cloud data professionals.

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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.

Pedram Navid – Founder of West Marin Data – is a data engineering savant who has captured the attention of the entire industry with his writing and viewpoints. Pedram has been a trailblazer in terms of leveraging the modern data stack including tools like Snowflake, BigQuery, DuckDB, Striim, Fivetran, and dbt to build pipelines.

However in a changing environment with tightening budgets and rising interest rates, Pedram is on a new slant of data minimalism. He speaks of 'Doing Data the Hard Way', using low cost tools that are purpose built for narrow jobs that data teams need to get done. Is Pedram's new approach the key for data teams to survive and thrive with economic headwinds? Listen to find out!

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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.

Bruno Aziza – Head of Data and Analytics at Google Cloud – has a unique expert perspective on the data industry  through his work with data executives and visionaries while managing a broad portfolio of products at Google including  BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, Looker, Data Studio, PubSub, Composer, Data Fusion, Catalog, Dataform, Dataprep and Dataplex.

In this episode, Bruno we dive into  topics such as the development (and disappointment) of Data Mesh, how it relates to Data Products, along with how data leaders can transform their organizations by first looking inward and transforming one's self.

We also speak to why Chief Data Officers are navigating from 'reactive analytics' to data products that are driven by real-time. 

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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.

This episode features David Jayatillake, Co-Founder & CEO at Delphi Labs, as we explore the Semantic Layer and Data Governance.

Join us as David shares his expertise on the Semantic Layer's role in unifying data access and simplifying user interpretation. We'll discuss its benefits, challenges, and implementation best practices.

We'll also cover Data Governance, a vital aspect of managing data quality and security. David will reveal the importance of governance in today's data-driven world, the essential components of a successful strategy, and balancing control with flexibility for data users.

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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.

In this episode we chat with Armon Petrossian – CEO of Coalesce – about a broad range of topics in data including the state of the data economy, column-aware data transformations, and data mesh.

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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.

In this episode, we're excited to welcome Brian Chambers, Director of Enterprise Architecture at Chick-fil-A, to share his insights on edge computing.

Edge computing has become a hot topic recently as companies look for ways to process and analyze data closer to where it is generated. With the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and the need for real-time decision-making, edge computing is poised to transform how we think about data management.

Brian brings a wealth of experience, having worked on numerous edge computing projects at Chick-fil-A. He'll share his thoughts on the benefits of edge computing, the challenges involved in implementing it, and some best practices for making the most of this exciting technology.

Whether you're a data scientist, IT professional, or business leader, this episode of "What's New in Data" is not to be missed. So tune in and join the conversation as we explore the cutting edge of data management with Brian Chambers.

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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.

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.

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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.