Best Data Lakehouse Podcasts (2025)

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How Ballard Spahr Modernized Analytics from Data Warehouses to Lakehouses 47:29

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How do you turn legal data into a modern platform that powers analytics, self-service, and AI across one of the nation’s most innovative law firms? In this episode, Lisa Mayo Haynes, Senior Director of Technology Innovation, and Ian Lopez, Manager of Technology and Innovative Solutions at Ballard Spahr LLP, share how the firm modernized its data wa…

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Why AI Agents Need a New Lakehouse. Ciro Greco (Bauplan) on “Git for Data” 53:47

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In this episode, Ciro Greco (Co-founder & CEO, Bauplan) joins me to discuss why the future of data infrastructure must be "Code-First" and how this philosophy accidentally created the perfect environment for AI Agents. We explore why the "Modern Data Stack" isn't ready for autonomous agents and why a programmable lakehouse is the solution. Ciro exp…

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What is a Data Lakehouse? 8:51

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Data management has traditionally forced organizations into an uncomfortable choice: use data warehouses for structured analytics or data lakes for flexible, large-scale storage. For years, this meant maintaining separate systems, duplicating data, and dealing with the headaches that come with disconnected infrastructure. The data lakehouse emerged…

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Freestyle Fridays - To Succeed in 2026, Use December Wisely! 16:27

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I meet a lot of people who want to accomplish major goals next year. Then the year comes and goes and most people are still waiting to get started. It's almost December. Rather than wait until the New Year to get going, use December to plan how you'll execute on "that thing" you're itching to accomplish. Time waits for nobody, so get going.…

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Building a multimodal lakehouse for AI (w/ Chang She) 56:58

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In this episode, Tristan Handy sits down with Chang She — a co-creator of Pandas and now CEO of LanceDB — to explore the convergence of analytics and AI engineering. The team at LanceDB is rebuilding the data lake from the ground up with AI as a first principle, starting with a new AI-native file format called Lance. Tristan traces Chang's journey …

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Freestyle Fridays - So You Want to Grow on Substack 27:21

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Just launched your Substack? Great! Here’s what to do next. This episode covers the realities of writing long-form in public, the traps that cause most writers to stall, how to build consistency, and how to grow an engaged audience from day one.

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From Data Engineering to Context Engineering w/ Nick Schrock 44:57

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Data engineering is undergoing a fundamental shift. In this episode, I sit down with Nick Schrock, founder and CTO of Dagster, to discuss why he went from being an "AI moderate" to believing 90% of code will be written by AI. Being hands on also led to a massive pivot in Dagster’s roadmap and a new focus on managing and engineering context. We dive…

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From Data Steward to AI Strategist: Redefining the Role of the CDO in the Agentic Era 30:14

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While the role of a chief data officers (CDOs) was traditionally focused on regulatory compliance, it has now expanded to empowering the consistent and effective use of data across organizations to improve business outcomes. One of the most effective ways for CDOs to demonstrate their value is by developing a data strategy that is closely aligned w…

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The 2026 Data Career Roadmap: What’s Changed? w/ Maggie Wolff 43:54

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The days of easy entry into data jobs over. Maggie Wolff joins the show to discuss the new reality of the data career landscape. We dive into why the bar is higher than ever and why "cold DMing" on LinkedIn is a terrible strategy.Maggie also breaks down her secret strategy for networking as an introvert: treating events like a game or role-playing …

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AI Bubbles & "Vibe Coding" Dangers. Freestyle Fridays w/ Matt Housley 56:31

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Matt Housley joins me for our monthly round-up of topics. This time, there's danger everywhere - The AI Bubble, how vibe coding is evolving, AI slop, and more.

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Why Most Chief Data Officers Fail w/ Malcolm Hawker 58:18

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After 1,500+ conversations with CDOs and VPs of data , guest Malcolm Hawker noticed a disturbing pattern: a "limiting mindset" that causes data leaders to fail. He argues that too many leaders blame external factors such as "culture" , "data literacy", or a lack of support rather than taking accountability for delivering value. In this conversation…

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We're Losing Our Ability to Be Human w/ AI Ethicist Cecilia Dones 56:20

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In this conversation, Dr. Cecilia Dones and I discuss the social skills we're losing as AI becomes more integrated into our lives. We explore the erosion of social norms, from AI companions joining Zoom calls without consent, endless enshitified content, to my son's generation calling AI girlfriends "clankers".Is there hope? We break down the "rage…

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Freestyle Fridays - Eroding the Edges. What Does AI Mean For Products? 17:43

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In conversations I've been having with leaders and practitioners, there's some open-ended questions about the impact of AI on vendors and open-source projects. If you don't have a moat, you need to start thinking about how AI coding tools will erode the edges of your product. And what about getting users and traction? I cover this and much more in …

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Is Your Financial Reporting Ready for the Future? 19:45

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The challenge all organisations, big and small, face is answering and implementing solutions to solve this key question: How can finance and accounting teams work faster, smarter and more accurately? In the recent episode of the Don’t Panic It’s Just Data podcast, host Scott Taylor, The Data Whisperer and Principal Consultant at MetaMeta Consulting…

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Data as the Fourth Pillar: How CDOs Can Move from "Cost Center" to "Offense" with Sujay Dutta and Siddharth Rajagopal 47:49

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Sujay Dutta and Sidd Rajagopal, authors of "Data as the Fourth Pillar," join the show to make the compelling case that for C-suite leaders obsessed with AI, data must be elevated to the same level as people, process, and technology. They provide a practical playbook for Chief Data Officers (CDOs) to escape the "cost center" trap by focusing on the …

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What is Agentic AI? 7:59

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Agentic AI is transforming how we think about artificial intelligence, representing a shift from passive tools that wait for instructions to proactive systems that can think, plan, and act independently to achieve goals.By AEDI

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What is a Customer Data Platform? 6:50

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The 2025 MAD Landscape w/ Matt Turck 48:57

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Matt Turck (VC at FirstMark) joins the show to break down the most controversial MAD (Machine Learning, AI, and Data) Landscape yet. This year, the team "declared bankruptcy" and cut over 1,000 logos to better reflect the market reality: a "Cambrian explosion" of AI companies and a fierce "struggle and tension between the very large companies and t…

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What is AI Observability? 8:39

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AI observability provides deep visibility into AI systems beyond traditional monitoring, tracking data quality, model performance, infrastructure, and ethical compliance. It's essential for detecting silent model degradation, managing complexity at scale, and building trust in AI systems. Organizations implementing AI observability gain faster trou…

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From Pricing Models to BI Dashboards: How Morgan Lewis Operationalizes Data 43:11

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How do you turn legal data into trusted insight across one of the world’s largest law firms? In this episode, Jennifer Mapp, Senior Director of Data Management and Analytics at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, shares how her team built a firmwide data foundation that empowers attorneys and business leaders to make faster, smarter decisions. From launch…

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Freestyle Fridays - The Road Warrior. Why I Travel, Travel Tips, and More 20:50

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I travel a TON, and the most frequent questions I get relate to traveling: Why I do it and any tips I have for traveling. Here, I answer those questions and more.

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How enterprises can enable the Agentic AI Lakehouse on Apache Iceberg 14:34

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"A flaw of warehouses is that you need to move all your data into them so you can keep it going, and for a lot of organisations that's a big hassle,” says Will Martin, EMEA Evangelist at Dremio. “It can take a long time, it can be expensive, and you ultimately can end up ripping up processes that are there." In this episode of the Don’t Panic It’s …

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The Surprising Rise of FastMCP, a 1M+ Download/Day Hit w/ Jeremiah Lowin 49:52

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Jeremiah Lowin, founder of Prefect , returns to the show to discuss the seismic shift in the data and AI landscape since our last conversation a few years ago. He shares the wild origin story of FastMCP, a project he started to create a more "Pythonic" wrapper for Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP). Jeremiah explains how this side project was…

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The Real Future of Data Isn’t AI — It’s Contextual Automation 18:26

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At Big Data LDN (BDL) 2025, Keboola CEO Pavel Dolezal presented a new data agent designed for all business users, not just engineers. With a mission to make AI, automation, and data easy to access, relevant, and useful across the organisation, Dolezal revealed that the data agent has been embedded with contextual intelligence and generative AI. “Wh…

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Freestyle Fridays - Choosing Tools and Vendors, Having a Plan B, and More 25:04

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I'm back, and give some notes from the road, thoughts on choosing tools and vendors, having a plan B for tools, and more.

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Why Unstructured Data Governance is the Key to Scaling AI 17:38

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With an ever-changing business climate, companies have begun to shift their focus to unstructured data. In the past, unstructured data was challenging to deal with, considering the volume, governance and compliance, so organisations mainly focused on structured datasets. However, with the rise of generative AI and large language models (LLMs), Reec…

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Why 90% of Data Engineers Will Never Become Leaders w/ Yordan Ivanov 52:44

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There's no shortage of technical content for data engineers, but a massive gap exists when it comes to the non-technical skills required to advance beyond a senior role. I sit down with Yordan Ivanov, Head of Data Engineering and writer of "Data Gibberish," to talk about this disconnect. We dive into his personal journey of failing as a manager the…

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BARC DATA festival online: Practical AI Case Studies for Professionals 15:24

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Organizations are increasingly exploring new technologies to improve their operations, but adoption comes with real challenges. In the latest episode of Don’t Panic, It’s Just Data, host Trisha Pillay speaks with Kevin Petrie, VP of Research at BARC, about the practical realities of integrating these emerging technologies into business operations, …

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The Agentic Future: How Streaming is Evolving for AI w/ Tyler Akidau 41:00

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The world of data is being reset by AI, and the infrastructure needs to evolve with it. I sit down with streaming legend Tyler Akidau to discuss how the principles of stream processing are forming the foundation for the next generation of "agentic AI" systems. Tyler, who was an AI cynic until recently, explains why he's now convinced that AI agents…

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From Chaos to Launch: Your Product is Ready, Your Data Isn't 16:51

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"Most companies still juggle with multiple different platforms; the communication between these tools and these platforms is happening in spreadsheets, and that is tedious, it's error-prone,” states Søren Lundtoft, Sr. Director of Product Management at Stibo Systems. On the Don't Panic, It's Just Data podcast, host Doug Laney and Søren Lundtoft div…

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Freestyle Fridays - Scared Money Don't Make Money 7:28

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I still see some companies acting sheepish with AI, too scared to even try it out. That's a massive mistake. Now is the time to play offense with incorporating AI into your company and reimagining what it can become.

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Stop Fighting Excel: How to Turn Your Spreadsheets into a Real-Time Reporting Powerhouse? 22:08

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With an erratic and fast business environment, finance teams are facing high pressure to process reports. The main challenge lies in how mid-market firms achieve digital transformation, not by abandoning familiar tools but by making them more effective. In this episode of the Don't Panic It's Just Data podcast, host Kevin Petrie, Vice President, Re…

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From Dashboards to Agents: How Salesforce is Redefining Data Interaction w/ Irina Malkova 51:53

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Are dashboards dead? For complex enterprise use cases, the answer might be yes. In this episode, I'm joined by Irina Malkova (VP Data & AI at Salesforce), to discuss her team's transformational journey from building complex dashboards to deploying AI-powered conversational agents. We dive deep into how this shift is not just a change in tooling, bu…

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Freestyle Fridays w/ Matt Housley - Fivetran + dbt?, Modern Data Stack Consolidation and AI Bubbles 42:24

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It's all about acquisitions, acquisitions, acquisitions! Matt Housley joins me to tackle the biggest rumor in the data world this week: the potential acquisition of dbt Labs by Fivetran. This news sparks a wide-ranging discussion on the inevitable consolidation of the Modern Data Stack, a trend we predicted as the era of zero-interest-rate policy e…

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Sailing Through Uncertainty: Building the Law Firm Lakehouse 40:59

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What makes a modern data platform actually work inside a law firm? In this episode, Mark Thorogood, Director of Enterprise Data Operations & Software Engineering at Perkins Coie LLP, breaks down how his team moved beyond on-prem constraints to a DIY lakehouse and logical data fabric that unify insights across the firm. Drawing on lessons from the a…

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The Rise of the Context Company: Reshaping Data Engineering with Saket Saurabh 48:09

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In this episode, I sit down with Saket Saurabh (CEO of Nexla) to discuss the fundamental shift happening in the AI landscape. The conversation is moving beyond the race to build the biggest foundational models and towards a new battleground: context. We explore what it means to be a "model company" versus a "context company" and how this changes ev…

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Thanks for the memories 4:10

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Companeros, all good things must come to an end. While the details of what is next is uncertain, my time with the podcast is coming to an end. A quick thank you and a glimpse of what is next.

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The Fundamentals of Metadata Management and Uncovering the MetaGrid w/ Ole Olesen-Bagneux 55:03

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In this episode, I sit down with Ole to discuss his new book, "Fundamentals of Metadata Management." We move past the simple definition of "data about data" to a more nuanced view of metadata as something that exists in two places at once , serving as a pointer to find information elsewhere. Ole introduces his core concept of the "MetaGrid"—the int…

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Freestyle Fridays - My Observations on How AI Is Already Reshaping Work 12:24

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The way we work is changing right in front of us. In this rant, I talk about how I'm seeing AI reshape how technical and non-technical people do their work. The bottom line - there's a lot of room to innovate and evolve your job.

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Transforming Law Firm: From Data to Intelligence 40:49

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What good is a dashboard if no one’s using it? In this episode, Jeannine Zito, senior manager of global knowledge solutions at Cleary Gottlieb, talks about how her background in banking shaped the way she thinks about data, strategy, and transformation inside major law firms. She gets into what happens when firms wait too long for the “perfect” dat…

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Why Your Data Project Will Fail (It's Not The Tech) w/ Remco Broekmans & Marco Wobben 1:18:55

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In this discussion, I sit down with data veterans Remco Broekmans and Marco Wobben to explore why so many data projects fail. They argue that the problem isn't the technology, but a fundamental misunderstanding of communication, culture, and long-term strategy.The conversation goes deep into the critical shift from being a "hardcore techie" to focu…

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Freestyle Fridays - Givers and Takers 19:22

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Are you a giver or a taker? It seems like every few months, I have to put out a PSA about how I get annoyed at unsolicited pitches from people who are one-sided and transactional. These people are takers. I've got no time for takers. Instead, pay it forward. Give away your ideas in free articles and videos. Mentor people. Create an open source proj…