Move From AI Hallucinations to Production-Ready Intelligence
DMRadio Podcast
The hard truth about enterprise AI? According to industry research, some 88% of AI pilots never reach production. And by 2027, roughly 40% of AI projects may be canceled entirely. The problem isn't the AI models; it's the data. While organizations rush to implement generative AI, they're hitting a fundamental wall: AI agents can't deliver reliable business value without clean, governed, and context-rich enterprise data. The result? Non-deterministic outputs that change from run to run, black box decisions that leaders can't defend, and brittle integrations that break at enterprise scale....
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Meeting of the Minds: Getting AI-Ready
DMRadio Podcast
How Do You Know If Your Enterprise Is AI-Ready? It starts with data. Can your enterprise architecture support AI workloads, RAG, or Agentic AI? For most, the answer is not yet. But with the right strategy, any data environment can get there. Then comes Governance. Do you have the right policies in place, the right people involved? Do you understand your use case well enough to know what success looks like? What You’ll Learn: * How to assess whether your data architecture is AI-ready * Practical ways to modernize your systems for AI workloads * Real-world lessons from successful enterprise AI...
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Real-Time Intelligence with Confluent
DMRadio Podcast
Live from Current in New Orleans, join this special episode of DM Radio exploring how Confluent is redefining the data foundation for the age of Agentic AI. Host Eric Kavanagh will interview Andrew Sellers, who will unveil Confluent Intelligence - a new way to deliver trusted, contextual data to AI systems in real time. Then, Kamal Brar will join to discuss how streaming architectures built on Kafka are enabling dynamic, multi-agent frameworks that respond and learn continuously. Learn how real-time context, speed, and data integrity are fueling the next wave of enterprise AI...
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Private AI and the Data Race: Building Smarter, Safer Enterprises
DMRadio Podcast
Dive into this episode of DM Radio, as host Eric Kavanagh joins experts from Cloudera and Hitachi to explore how enterprises are rethinking AI and data infrastructure amid rapid innovation. Manasi Vartak, Chief AI Architect at Cloudera, unpacks the concept of “Private AI” - enabling organizations to maintain full control over their data, models, and hardware while ensuring trust and governance. Next, Dan McConnell of Hitachi Vantara delves into the data arms race driving AI advancement, highlighting the role of modern data fabrics, hybrid cloud strategies, and intelligent control...
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Good AI vs Bad for AML, KYC and Fraud
DMRadio Podcast
Know your customer? Know your bad guy! The power of AI extends to both black hats and white, and with Generative AI now in the toolset, all bets are off. Bad actors can whip up pixel-perfect, fraudulent web sites in seconds to pilfer your username and password. They can mimic your spouse's voice to put you in a panic. And they can use Agentic AI to hide even the most brazen cases of money laundering. What's the cure? Check out this episode of DM Radio to hear fraud-fighting veteran Matt Vega of Sardine.ai, who will explain how their AI Agents tackle the tedious tasks that hamper...
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Preparing Analytics for the AI Rewrite
DMRadio Podcast
The revolution has begun. AI will rewrite most major enterprise applications. Analytics will play a central role, but big questions remain. How can deterministic BI meld with probabilistic AI? How will fast-evolving AI systems be effectively governed? What's the secret to building trust in data and interactive dashboards in this new era? Register for this episode of DM Radio to learn how AI-enabled solutions will leverage industrial engineering at scale. Jeff Hainsworth of insightsoftware and Mark Madsen of ThirdNature will dive into the details for building next-gen applications that leverage...
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Act Now: Visual Immediacy At Scale
DMRadio Podcast
When time-to-action requires very low latency, the immediacy of data visualization makes all the difference. Being able to analyze vast amounts of multi-dimensional data in real-time requires massive throughput, and an in-memory architecture designed to deliver instant insights at scale. Check out this episode of DM Radio to hear how advanced optimization techniques leveraging multi-core CPU, GPU, contiguous memory, and advanced compression are re-inventing what is possible. Marc Stevens and Mikhail Pikalov of Row64 will demonstrate several use cases where traditional approaches would falter....
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Powering AI: Inside the Next-Gen Data Center
DMRadio Podcast
Join this episode of DM Radio, as host Eric Kavanagh dives into the emerging concept of “AI factories” with special guests Mark Madsen of Third Nature and Denise Muyco of Ravel. Together, they explore how modern data centers are being transformed to handle the massive compute demands of AI-balancing workloads, optimizing power usage, and rethinking infrastructure for the GPU era. From high-performance computing roots to today’s generative AI breakthroughs, this discussion unpacks the challenges and opportunities of scaling intelligence at industrial levels.
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Data Products, On-Demand
DMRadio Podcast
You can always build a better mousetrap. Data warehouses and lakes turn out to be overkill for many business teams. A new approach makes enterprise data readily available for last-mile transformations. In other words, don't build it until they come, then do so dynamically in minutes. Register for this DM Radio to learn how enterprise data from any database can be captured in an append-only log to expedite the creation of highly focused data products. A replay engine allows users to create purpose-build products from the write-ahead logs of enterprise systems. The result is rapid-fire data...
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Bridging the Gap: Driving Innovation with Data
DMRadio Podcast
The blessing and curse of today's data landscape is diversity. Hundreds of vendors, scores of databases, a dozen cloud providers and an infinite array of information architectures: That's the reality facing business analysts and engineers every day. But there is one foundational player that can help make sense of all these variations: the battle-tested ODBC and JDBC drivers! From enabling real-time analytics to streamlining BI workflows, the newly updated Simba Drivers powers high-performance queries, aggregates data across multiple databases, and simplifies reporting in even the most...
info_outlineYou can always build a better mousetrap. Data warehouses and lakes turn out to be overkill for many business teams. A new approach makes enterprise data readily available for last-mile transformations. In other words, don't build it until they come, then do so dynamically in minutes.
Register for this DM Radio to learn how enterprise data from any database can be captured in an append-only log to expedite the creation of highly focused data products. A replay engine allows users to create purpose-build products from the write-ahead logs of enterprise systems. The result is rapid-fire data products that enable enterprise transformation, without the tremendous overhead of traditional data repositories.
Host Eric Kavanagh will interview Michael Kowalchik of Matterbeam, who will share his expertise in modern approaches to data access and transformation. They will be joined by Mark Madsen of ThirdNature, a recognized authority on analytics and information strategy, and Josh Pendergrass of Broadlume, who will offer practical insights from building scalable engineering solutions for enterprise data.