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Mike Ferguson (CEO Intelligent Business Strategies) joins us to discuss data governance in the AI era. Where past data governance initiatives aimed to achieve compliance, he argues that companies view AI data governance as a commercial strength.Fundamentals of Data Engineering is available through the O'Reilly Learning platform. Use the code MATT20 for a 20% discount on a one year subscription.

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Mike Ferguson (CEO Intelligent Business Strategies) joins us to discuss an increasingly urgent question: what do you have to do to make data AI-ready?

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Dave McComb, CEO of Semantic Arts, joins us to discuss AI code overload, the software wasteland and data centric AI architecture.
Dave's book, Software Wasteland.
The New York Times article we discuss.
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Paul Blankley, CTO and Cofounder of Zenlytic, joins us to discuss agents and semantic layers.
Paul's talk at AI Council.

Matt's book Fundamentals of Data Engineering is available through the O'Reilly Learning platform. Use the code MATT20 for a 20% discount on a one year subscription.https://learning.oreilly.com/signup/Your subscriptions support this podcast.We welcome Justin Borgman, cofounder and CEO of Starburst, back to the show to discuss data and context. Justin argues that context engineering is a human in the loop process.