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Meet the world’s top data and analytics leaders transforming how we do business. Hear case studies, industry insights, and personal lessons from the executives leading the data revolution. J...

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Separating AI Hype From Reality with Capgemini’s Danielle Crop

Between the doom headlines and the vendor hype, it’s hard for data and AI leaders to see what enterprise AI can actually do. In this episode...

00:30:30Oct 28, 2026

Why AI for Good Fails and How Leaders Can Fix It

Even well-designed algorithms can fail and end up hurting the people they're meant to help. In this episode, Dr. Ben Green, Assistant Profes...

00:39:56Oct 14, 2026

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...

00:44:15Sep 30, 2026

AI 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...

00:36:41Sep 16, 2026

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...

01:26:43Sep 2, 2026

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...

00:48:12Aug 19, 2026

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...

00:42:59Aug 5, 2026

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...

00:38:49Jul 22, 2026

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...

00:24:53Jul 8, 2026

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...

00:35:48Jun 24, 2026

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...

00:31:14Jun 10, 2026

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...

00:37:49May 27, 2026

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...

00:41:03May 13, 2026

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...

00:53:20Apr 22, 2026

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,...

00:40:35Apr 8, 2026

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...

00:42:16Mar 25, 2026

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...

00:46:57Mar 11, 2026

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...

00:41:22Feb 25, 2026

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...

00:43:20Feb 11, 2026

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...

00:48:06Jan 28, 2026