Metadata at the Space Force and Beyond
DMRadio Podcast
Space, the final frontier... for metadata! Space is no longer just a theater of rockets, launches, and satellites. It’s a data domain, where mission success depends on the ability to collect, govern, correlate, protect, and move information faster than adversaries can react. Join this episode of DM Radio to learn from former Space Force CDO Mark Brady, along with Hammerspace CEO David Flynn, and Director Robert Renzoni. They'll explore the criticality of metadata management at scale, from outer space, down to the largest, most complex organizations in the world.
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How Do Agentic Data Pipelines Work?
DMRadio Podcast
The first generation of data pipelines was built for humans. They moved data. They often broke. Engineers stepped in to fix them. While that world still exists, it now shares the stage with something far more demanding. Today, machines and AI systems are first-class consumers of data. The workload requirements are exploding, rendering the manually tuned, hand-patched pipelines woefully insufficient. Data-driven organizations require a new paradigm, one in which an army of specialized agents are at-the-ready to scale and adapt. Register for this episode of DM Radio to learn about the dawn of...
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Six Rules of Safe AI with Mark Brady
DMRadio Podcast
Join this episode of DM Radio, as host Eric Kavanagh speaks with Mark Brady, Chief Data Officer of TRMC/KBR, ex CDO for US Space Force, about the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence and the urgent need for clearer safety principles. Hi will share his perspective on how intelligence works across humans and machines, from perception and memory to language and reasoning, and why today’s AI systems challenge traditional definitions. Learn more about the risks of opaque “black box” models and why understanding their behavior is critical as they become more...
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A Sovereign Wealth Fund for Data?
DMRadio Podcast
Since time immemorial, the concept of sovereignty has defined control, whether for nations or legal authorities. Today, the rise of AI is forcing a global reckoning around one of the most important and misunderstood aspects of modern computing: data sovereignty. First there was GDPR, the Global Data Protection Regulation out of the European Union; then the CCPA, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA); and now, there are nearly 150 countries around the world with related laws and regulations on the books. What's a data team to do? Register for this very special DM Radio to learn from...
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Rethinking Data Trust with Blockchain
DMRadio Podcast
Join this episode of DMRadio as host Eric Kavanagh speaks with Xin Yan, CEO of Sign, about how blockchain is reshaping the way organizations establish trust in data. Learn how decentralized technologies and identity frameworks can help verify information, reduce reliance on intermediaries, and improve transparency. Hear more about misconceptions about blockchain and where it delivers real value beyond cryptocurrency.
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Reporting for Duty: Why Architecture Matters
DMRadio Podcast
Amid all the noise of AI hype, one thing remains constant: organizations still rely on trusted, reliable reporting as the foundation for decision-making. In fact, reporting is becoming more critical in an AI-first world, because governed, auditable data underpins every intelligent outcome. The question is how to architect for performance, scalability, and user expectations. In this episode of DM Radio, Host Eric Kavanagh will be joined by Evelyn Chou and Jeff Hainsworth of insightsoftware Data + Analytics. We'll explore how architectural choices fundamentally shape reporting outcomes. Where...
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From Chatbots to AI Agents: Rethinking Data & Decisioning
DMRadio Podcast
Join this episode of DMRadio with Jagdeep (Jag) Bedi of Purchasing Power, Sami Akbay of Dagen.ai and Mark Madsen of Third Nature, who explore how the rapid evolution of AI is reshaping the roles of data scientists, engineers, and business leaders. Dive into the shift from simple prompt-response systems to autonomous AI agents capable of planning, acting, and learning in real time. Learn more about the enduring importance of data as the foundation of AI, even as trends like “vibe coding” emerge. Tune in for a practical, forward-looking discussion on how organizations can navigate this...
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Enterprise AI: A Recipe for Success
DMRadio Podcast
It's often not the model, the data, or even the technology. The failure rate of AI initiatives mostly stems from organizational friction. That's good news, because it should be fairly easy to solve. So says Sarang Bapat, a seasoned SVP of Data and Analytics, who crafted a heartfelt methodology that can energize your team, and breathe life into your AI initiatives. Register for this DM Radio Virtual Summit to learn how a simple thought experiement can supercharge your Data and AI Initiatives. Bapat will demonstrate how he leads teams with an intutive balance of three equally critical...
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From Tokens to Vectors: The Substrate of AI
DMRadio Podcast
Join this episode of DM Radio as host Eric Kavanagh speaks with Pinecone CEO Ash Ashutosh about the technical foundation behind modern AI systems. Explore how large language models convert text, images, and other data into vectors - mathematical representations that enable machines to understand meaning and relationships. Find out more about the role of vector databases and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) in grounding AI with enterprise data to produce more accurate, trustworthy results. Tune in to learn how tokens, vectors, and semantic data structures are shaping the next...
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Resilient Data: From Ransomware to Revenue to Risk
DMRadio Podcast
Join this episode of DM Radio as Eric Kavanagh interviews Eric Herzog of Infinidat as he explains why cyber storage resilience is critical as ransomware attacks surge. Learn more how real-time data cleansing protects sales performance and email deliverability with Jason Gladu of Convertr. They are joined by Matt DeLauro from SEON, who explores AI-driven fraud detection and AML in a world of increasingly sophisticated financial crime.
info_outlineToday'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 foundation for organizations looking to make sense of their data estates, and how it is evolving beyond passive documentation into a living system of meaning and intelligence.
Host Eric Kavanagh will interview Suresh Srinivas, CEO and Co-Founder of Collate, and Sriharsha Chintalapani, CTO and Co-Founder of Collate, who will explain how OpenMetadata facilitates the synthesis of a wide range of information systems, and how Collate is helping organizations operationalize that foundation into governed, AI-ready data and semantic intelligence. Also joining the call will be AI Industry Analyst Mark Madsen of Third Nature, who will explain the wide-ranging value offered by the OpenMetadata platform for data and AI initiatives.
Attendees will learn:
* Why metadata provides the semantic control plane for modern, highly distributed data estates; and how it enables shared meaning across hundreds of applications, databases, and pipelines;
* How OpenMetadata creates a unified system of record for data assets, ownership, lineage, quality, and usage across cloud, on-prem, SaaS, and edge environments;
* What “active metadata” really means in practice, and how it becomes more powerful when enriched with business semantics and intent to support faster analytics, AI readiness, governance, and operational decision-making;
* How organizations are using OpenMetadata to break down silos, improve trust in data, and reduce friction between data engineering, analytics, and business teams;
* Why metadata has become foundational for AI, automation, and agentic systems, serving as the context-and-meaning layer that turns raw data into actionable intelligence for both people and AI systems.