Move From AI Hallucinations to Production-Ready Intelligence
Release Date: 11/13/2025
When AI Meets Real-World Data
DMRadio Podcast
Join this episode of DM Radio as host Eric Kavanagh welcomes Sarah Hoffman, Director of AI Thought Leadership at AlphaSense, for a practical conversation about what AI actually does in the enterprise - beyond the hype. Discover why trusted data determines whether AI creates value, how retrieval-augmented generation and human-in-the-loop workflows improve reliability, and why the real breakthrough is AI embedded directly into everyday work. Hear what’s next: proactive, personalized AI and what it could mean for decision-making and productivity across the business.
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Agent-Ready Architecture: Giving AI the Context it Needs
DMRadio Podcast
The promise of AI agents is quickly turning into a reality check for many organizations, with almost 90% of AI pilots failing to reach production. Many AI projects are faltering due to escalating costs and unclear business value. The root cause is often not the AI models; it’s the architecture underneath. Join us for this episode of DM Radio to learn what it takes to build agent-ready systems. Shawhin Mosadeghzad and Jeff Hainsworth of insightsoftware will explain the three pillars of agent-ready architecture: context, governance and reliability. They'll further demonstrate how semantic...
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What Are You Imply-ing?
DMRadio Podcast
Dive into the evolving modern data stack through the lens of observability, security, and log analytics as host Eric Kavanagh interviews Eric Tschetter of Imply and Mark Madsen of Third Nature about why vertically integrated observability platforms are giving way to more decoupled, composable architectures. Unpack how logs differ from traditional BI data, why schema-on-read changed the game, and how multiple query languages (SPL, KQL, SQL, and more) shape real-world workflows. Learn more about the cost and complexity trade-offs of data lakes, cloud storage, and retrieval at scale in this...
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Auto Industry Overview: Profits, EVs, and What’s Next
DMRadio Podcast
Join this episode of DM Radio as host Eric Kavanagh sits down with Kevin Tynan of The Presidio Group, known for his early and accurate predictions on major automotive shifts. Drawing from Presidio’s 2026 year-ahead outlook, Tynan will explain why EV subsidies, tariff fears, and long-standing growth drivers are fading - and what that means for automakers. Find out how the industry’s pivot toward trucks and SUVs reshaped profitability, why electrification hasn’t delivered the expected returns, and how rising prices collide with consumer expectations. Hear more about the U.S. and Chinese...
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Open for Business: Why Metadata Holds the Keys
DMRadio Podcast
Today's data landscape spans a vast range of information systems, from the warehouse to the edge, SaaS to on-prem. The average enterprise manages hundreds of applications and scores of databases. Making sense of all that data requires an understanding of what data exists, where it lives, who owns it, how it’s actually being used, and increasingly, what it means in different business and analytical contexts. The glue that keeps this all together? Metadata—and the semantics layered on top of it! Register for this episode of DM Radio to learn how the OpenMetadata project has become a trusted...
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CES Special: AI at a Turning Point
DMRadio Podcast
AI is at a turning point - and this CES special episode of DM Radio captures it from both sides of the spectrum. Hear Jason Hardy of Hitachi Vantara on how LLMs are transforming enterprise productivity, and Queena Qiu of Polyverse Studio on how GenAI is unlocking a new era of personal creativity, media creation, and storytelling. Whether you’re building with AI or simply experiencing it, this conversation offers a clear view into what’s coming next.
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CES Preview: Why AI Needs Data
DMRadio Podcast
Join this episode of DM Radio as host Eric Kavanaugh sits down with legendary keynote speaker and author Jim Harris to unpack why AI’s real power depends on data. Explore how generative AI is transforming workflows through massive time savings, real-world use cases, and practical productivity gains - from real-time translation to enterprise decision-making. Learn why bespoke models, enterprise data, and deterministic AI will matter most as organizations look to turn AI investment into real business value.
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2025 in Review: NLP, Upskilling & Intelligent Orchestration
DMRadio Podcast
Join this episode of DMRadio to look back at 2025, a year defined by natural language automation, rapid upskilling, and intelligent orchestration across the enterprise. Host Eric Kavanagh interviews Binny Gill of Kognitos, John Munsell of Ingrain AI, and Peter Sprygada of Itential about how NLP-driven interfaces and coordinated automation changed the way people work. Hear what shifted, what scaled, and how organizations prepared their teams for an AI-powered future.
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Breaking the IO Barrier: NVMe, Linux & the Future of Data
DMRadio Podcast
Join this DM Radio episode as Eric Kavanagh interviews David Flynn of Hammerspace and Mark Madsen of Third Nature. Together they dig into the latest breakthroughs in high-performance computing and data architecture, explore the rise of NVMe technology, Hammerspace’s impressive IO500 benchmark results, and why Linux continues to anchor modern data platforms. Learn about the evolution from 2D to 3D file-system architectures and how standards-based, turnkey data layers are powering the next generation of AI and enterprise workloads.
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Rebuilding Security for the Data-Driven Future
DMRadio Podcast
Join this DM Radio episode with Sean Knapp of Ascend and Jack Smith of Syncari, as we explore how security must evolve in an AI-driven, real-time world. Discover why legacy TCP/IP approaches fall short as organizations push intelligence to the edge and leverage billions of sensors. Learn about the growing global maturity of cybersecurity and how industries are implementing shared standards and security-by-design architectures. Tune in to hear what modern network defense truly requires.
info_outlineThe 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.
Register for this episode of DM Radio to learn about the next stage of AI adoption: bridging enterprise data to AI with trust and governance built from the ground up. Sami Akbay and Terrence Sheflin of insightsoftware will discuss:
- Why AI projects fail in production
- The path to production-ready AI
- How to eliminate hallucinations at the source
Stop treating AI hallucinations as an acceptable trade-off. Learn how to deliver consistent, verifiable, and auditable AI outcomes that move your organization from experimental pilots to production-ready intelligence that drives real business value.