What Most Companies Get Wrong About AI Strategy with Jeff McMillan, former Morgan Stanley AI Leader
Every leadership team is arguing about which AI model is best, but that debate is a distraction from the real problem. In this episode, Jeff...
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20 of 147 episodesAI Literacy Starts in the C-Suite
Most AI playbooks are built for a workforce tethered to a desk, but many workers are not near a keyboard. In this episode, Beth Miles, Chief...
3 Data and AI Books Every Leader Should Read in 2026
In this special episode of The Data & AI Chief, host Cindi Howson sits down with three incredible authors to explore what it really takes to...
How Vanguard is Architecting its AI Semantic Layer
Semantic layers and ontologies have moved from nice-to-have data modeling tools to the foundational engine required for enterprise AI. In th...
How Grant Thornton Reimagines Core Processes in the AI Era
Imagine redesigning your most important processes from a blank sheet of paper, with no legacy systems to hold you back. Alpa Lally, Chief Pr...
How Google Is Building Enterprise Trust in Agentic AI
For most enterprises, autonomous AI agents still feel like a risk waiting to happen. Andi Gutmans, Vice President and General Manager for Da...
How Swire Coca-Cola Turned Governance Into an AI Growth Engine
For most data leaders, governance feels like the thing standing between them and progress. Bharathi Rajan, Vice President of Digital, AI, an...
How to Transform a SaaS Company with AI from ELMO CTO
What happens when a software company building AI tools for HR teams uses those same tools to transform itself? Josh McKenzie, Chief Technolo...
How AI is Scaled Across Global Supply Chains with Ligentia
Explore how a global supply chain company turned its data platform into a customer-facing product designed to operate at the speed of disrup...
Why Most Enterprise AI Pilots Fail: Lessons on Trust and Deployment
Understand how to close the gap between AI experimentation and enterprise production. Shub Agarwal, Founder of the AI Trust Lab at USC and a...
S&P Global’s Chief Data Officer on Turning Data into Business Outcomes
Learn what happens when the executive accountable for data strategy is also the executive accountable for the business results that depend o...
How Semantic Layers and Ontologies Create Trusted AI
Learn why an organization’s ontology, a structured framework for how a business defines, connects, and makes sense of its data and knowledge...
Inside WHOOP's Wearables AI Engine for Predictive Health
Discover how WHOOP is building an AI-powered health data infrastructure that is redefining how we understand human health. Emily Capodilupo,...
A Wharton AI Research Leader's Formula for Responsible AI
Learn why scaling AI is as much a human challenge as it is a technological one. Stefano Puntoni, Co-Director of Wharton Human-AI Research an...
How a Serial CDAO Scales AI in Insurance with Verisk
Discover how enterprise AI and data strategy are operationalized at scale in one of the most highly regulated industries in the world. Louis...
How AI Augments Human Creativity at Scale: The WPP Blueprint
Learn how AI agents are reshaping enterprise decision-making, AI governance, and brand creativity. Daniel Hulme, Chief AI Officer at WPP & C...
How Nasdaq Architected a $90 Trillion Data Ecosystem
Discover how Nasdaq uses data platforms at a massive scale to power markets and prepare for AI. Angie Ruan, Nasdaq’s CTO of Capital Access P...
How OneDigital Is Reframing AI Agents as Coworkers
Discover why the future of AI at work is more human than you think. Vinay Gidwaney, Chief Product Officer at OneDigital, shares how treating...
Preparing for Agentic AI: Top Trends in Data and AI 2026
In this season premiere of The Data Chief podcast, host Cindi Howson sits down with three industry leaders to unpack what’s next for AI, and...
GenAI Best Practices: What Early Adopters Have Learned
In this special episode, host Cindi Howson pulls together the most useful, and hard-won, lessons from a year of conversations with Data Chie...