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Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast
Catalog and Cocktails is the honest, No-BS, non-sales-y podcast about data and analytics. This is your unfiltered chat about everything interesting in data and analytics. Join Juan Sequeda and Tim Gasper to explore emerging topics and hear from thought leaders, practitioners and executives across the data and analytics space.
Episodes
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastStart With the Business Metric, Not the AI with Richard Masters
Richard Masters, Senior Managing Director and Head of AI Strategy at Ancora AI by Design and former VP of Data at Virgin Atlantic joins Juan and Tim to discuss…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastTAKEAWAY Start With the Business Metric, Not the AI with Richard Masters
This is the takeaway episode with Richard Masters, Senior Managing Director and Head of AI Strategy at Ancora AI by Design and former VP of Data at Virgin…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastDashboard Slop rant with Sonny Rivera
In this special rant episode, Sonny Rivera joins Juan and Tim during a live recording and rant about AI-generated dashboards, semantic layers, and what it…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastHow data teams become trusted business partners with Nick Zervoudis
Nick Zervoudis, data product manager, trainer, and consultant at Value from Data & AI, joins Juan and Time to talk about why many data teams end up working…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastTAKEAWAY How data teams become trusted business partners with Nick Zervoudis
This is the takeaway episode with Nick Zervoudis, data product manager, trainer, and consultant at Value from Data & AI, joins Juan and Time to talk about why…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastGame Changers: The Talent Imperative for the AI Era with Mohammed Aaser
Mohammed Aaser, former chief data officer at McKinsey and former chief data strategy officer at Domo, recently visited Juan and shared his framework on talent…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastTAKEAWAY Game Changers: The Talent Imperative for the AI Era with Mohammed Aaser
This is the takeaway episode with Mohammed Aaser, former chief data officer at McKinsey and former chief data strategy officer at Domo. He recently visited…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastPreserve Executive Trust by Protecting Your Judgement with Dora Boussias
How do leaders preserve executive trust and credibility? Dora Boussias, executive advisor and former data executive returns to the podcast to unpack this…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastTAKEAWAY Preserve Executive Trust by Protecting Your Judgement with Dora Boussias
This is the takeaway episode with Dora Boussias, executive advisor and former data executive. We unpack the question "How do leaders preserve executive trust…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastAgents are taking over data! So what comes next? with Tristan Handy
Agents will build data infrastructure at every layer and become its primary consumers. Tristan Handy, President and Co-founder of Fivetran / dbt Labs joins…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastTAKEAWAY - Agents are taking over data! So what comes next? with Tristan Handy
This is the takeaway episode with Tristan Handy, President and Co-founder of Fivetran / dbt Labs where he joins Juan and Tim to discuss how agents will build…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastAI Inherits the Business Choices You Never Made with David Krauza
AI doesn't create your problems. It inherits the business choices you never made and the results nobody owns. David Krauza, VP of Data Strategy and Governance…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastTAKEAWAY - AI Inherits the Business Choices You Never Made with David Krauza
This is the takeaway episode with David Krauza, VP of Data Strategy and Governance at Comcast who makes the case that AI doesn't create your problems, it…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastHarvest Now, Decrypt Later: Why Quantum Is Already a Data Problem with John Licata
Most quantum conversations are stuck on the timeline question: five years out? Two? Q-Day, the day current RSA encryption breaks, keeps getting pulled forward…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastTAKEAWAY - Harvest Now, Decrypt Later: Why Quantum Is Already a Data Problem with John Licata
This is the takeaway episode with John Licata, ServiceNow's futures director and quantum lead where Juan and Tim unpack what quantum means for enterprise data…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastWhy Data Teams Fail and Succeed with Shachar Meir
Shachar MEIR has spent 20 years fixing data teams and understanding why they fail. In this live episode, Shachar joins Juan and Tim to discuss the reason why…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastTAKEAWAY - Why Data Teams Fail and Succeed with Shachar Meir
This is the takeaway episode with Shachar Meir, who has spent 20 years fixing data teams and understanding why they fail. In this live episode, Shachar joins…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastIntelligence Without Action Is Just Overhead with Patrick McGarry
Patrick McGarry, Federal CDO at ServiceNow and author of The Adaptive Organization, has spent years watching organizations accumulate data and tools but fail…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastTAKEAWAY Intelligence Without Action Is Just Overhead with Patrick McGarry
This is the takeaway episode with Patrick McGarry, Federal CDO at ServiceNow and author of The Adaptive Organization, who has spent years watching…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastData Products Done Right: Lessons from Capital One's Journey at Scale with Bethany Sehon
Most companies slapping the "data product" label on existing data assets are fooling themselves. Bethany Sehon, Enterprise Data Leader at Capital One, has been…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastTAKEAWAY - Data Products Done Right: Lessons from Capital One's Journey at Scale with Bethany Sehon
This is the takeaway episode with Bethany Sehon, Enterprise Data Leader at Capital One where she share lessons learned of building data products and ontologies…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastHonest No-BS Data Podcast 7th Year and Season 12 Kick Off
This is the start of our 7th year of doing the podcast. Juan and Tim kick off the 12th season sharing who are the upcoming guests and what's the latest on…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast6th YEAR SEASON FINALE: Juan and Tim Rant
Can't believe it's already been 6 years. Thank you to our amazing guests and specially our listeners. In this season finale episode, Juan and Tim rant about…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastPragmatic Use-Case-Driven Data Governance with Jason Doerr
Jason Doerr has spent years watching governance programs undermine themselves by cataloging everything without a use case, naming data stewards who have…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastTAKEAWAY - Pragmatic Use-Case-Driven Data Governance with Jason Doerr
This is the takeaway episode with Jason Doerr who has spent years watching governance programs undermine themselves. He walks through what pragmatic governance…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastData Catalyst³: Governance × Change Management × Data Fluency w/ Bob Seiner
Bob Seiner has spent decades in data governance, and in this episode he joins Juan and Tim to unpacks his new framework, Data Catalyst Cubed, which multiplies…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastTAKEAWAY - Data Catalyst³: Governance × Change Management × Data Fluency w/ Bob Seiner
Takeaway episode with Bob Seiner where he unpacks his new framework, Data Catalyst Cubed: multiplies data governance by change management and data fluency…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastAI Governance Isn't Compliance. It's About Humans with Victoria Gamerman
Most organizations are treating AI governance as a compliance checkbox. Victoria Gamerman argues it's the gateway that finally forces organizations to confront…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastTAKEAWAY - AI Governance Isn't Compliance. It's About Humans with Victoria GamermaN
This is the takeaway episode with Victoria Gamerman who argues that AI Governance is the gateway that finally forces organizations to confront the human side…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastAI Appetite Is Easy, Digestion Is Hard with Diana Wu David
Everybody wants AI. AI adoption conversations are dominated by tools, models, and metrics. Far fewer organizations have figured out what to do with it once…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastTAKEAWAY - AI Appetite Is Easy, Digestion Is Hard with Diana Wu David
This is the takeaway episode with Diana Wu David, Director of Futures at ServiceNow where we discuss AI adoption, the metrics and how far fewer organizations…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastIt's Friday: Juan and Tim rant about AI, Agents, and the Uncomfortable Truth About Data's New Center of Gravity
Juan and Tim's Friday rant covers a lot of ground, from Juan's TED takeaways on AI's unprecedented speed and what it means for humanity, to the uncomfortable…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastThink Like a Librarian: Why the Reference Interview Is the Framework Data Teams Are Missing with Jenna Jordan and Amalia Child
Data teams spend enormous energy building pipelines, platforms, and governance frameworks but often skip the most fundamental step: truly understanding what…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastTAKEAWAY - Think Like a Librarian: Why the Reference Interview Is the Framework Data Teams Are Missing with Jenna Jordan and Amalia Child
Data teams obsess over pipelines and platforms but often skip the most fundamental step: truly understanding what people are actually asking for. We chat with…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastThe Void Between Data and Decisions with Pete Williams
There's a gap at the heart of most organisations and data hasn't filled it. Pete Williams, an experienced data leader, has spent years watching companies build…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastTAKEAWAY - The Void Between Data and Decisions with Pete Williams
This is the takeaway episode with Pete Williams, an experienced data leader, who argues that organisations still make decisions along traditional vertical…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastJuan & Tim rant w/ Jesus Barrasa about Ontologies, Knowledge Graphs, Context Graphs and AI
Juan and Tim have a rant session with a special guest in person, Jesús Barrasa, well known in the knowledge graph space. We covered AI trends, the…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastThe Wrong Mandate: Why Boards Set Data & AI to Fail with Kyle Winterbottom
Most organisations know they're not getting value from their data and AI investments, but few are willing to name the real culprit: the boardroom. In this…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastTAKEAWAY - The Wrong Mandate: Why Boards Set Data & AI to Fail with Kyle Winterbottom
This is the takeaway episode with Kyle Winterbottom where he argues that the mandates handed to CDAOs from the board are fundamentally broken because the…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastAI Governance Is Everyone's Problem (And That's Actually Good News) with Kierra Dotson
Stop treating AI governance like a compliance checkbox handed down from the boardroom. Kierra Dotson joins Juan and Tim to argue that the chasm between…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastTAKEAWAY - AI Governance Is Everyone's Problem (And That's Actually Good News) with Kierra Dotson
This is the takeaway episode with Kierra Dotson where she argues that the chasm between ambitious AI strategy and messy technical reality exists precisely…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastThe Data Hygienist with Thais Cooke
What does dentistry have to do with data analytics? More than you'd think. Thais Cooke went from cleaning teeth to cleaning datasets and her unconventional…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastTAKEAWAY - The Data Hygienist with Thais Cooke
This is the takeaway episode where Thais Cooke joins Juan and Tim to talk about why subject matter expertise is the ultimate force multiplier. Oh, and what…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastTakeaways from Gartner Data & Analytics Rants with Sanjeev Mohan, Ryan Dolley, Juan and Tim
Want to get the honest no bs scoop of what happened at the Gartner Data & Analytics in Orlando, then this short and sweet episode is for you. This was an…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastPre Gartner Data & Analytics Rants with Juan and Tim
Juan and Tim rant about whats on their mind going into Gartner Data and Analytics conference: "Context" is going to be the word of the week, The Execution Gap…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastYour data should speak your language with Säde Haveri
Most data and AI initiatives don't fail on technology — they fail on meaning. In this episode, Juan and Tim chat with Säde Haveri, who makes the…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastTAKEAWAY - Your data should speak your language with Säde Haveri
This is the takeaway episode with Säde Haveri where she makes the case that metadata is the bridge between systems and people. Most data and AI…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastShift Left Everything: How Ontology, Events, and Culture Unlocked Enterprise AI with Nachiket Mehta
Juan and Tim are back for a LIVE episode with Nachiket Mehta, an experienced data leader who has lived and breathed the “shift left”. In this…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastTAKEAWAY - Shift Left Everything: How Ontology, Events, and Culture Unlocked Enterprise AI with Nachiket Mehta
This is the takeaway episode with Nachiket Mehta, an experienced data leader who has lived and breathed the “shift left”. In this episode we will…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastThe way we build agents today is dumb with Vaibhav Gupta
Tim and Juan unpack why Vaibhav Gupta, co-creator of BAML, states that most agentic AI code out there is dumb. It's ugly, fragile, and built by people who've…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastTAKEAWAY - The way we build agents today is dumb with Vaibhav Gupta
This is the takeaway episode with Vaibhav Gupta, co-creator of BAML, where we unpack why most agentic AI code out there is dumb. If you like what you hear, you…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastIt's Friday, Juan and Tim rant about Decisions, Context, MCP and Maturity Models
Juan and Tim grab a beer and rant about decision intelligence and context graphs, MCP vs Skills, and how companies really have a work problem (not a data/AI…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastStop Chasing AI Hype. Start Counting Dollars. w/ Juan Gorricho
Tired of executives breathlessly asking "what's our AI strategy?" while your data team drowns in 1,000 dashboards that nobody uses? In this episode, Juan and…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastTAKEAWAY - Stop Chasing AI Hype. Start Counting Dollars. w/ Juan Gorricho
This is the takeaway episode of our chat with Juan Gorricho, a data and analytics executive with more than 25 years of experience delivering business value at…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastIt's Friday, Juan and Tim rant with Data Day Texas takeaways
Juan and Tim got together for a beer to rant about what's on their mind, the latest in the data world and share Data Day Texas takeaways See…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastAll things Data Lineage with Dr. Irina Steenbeek
Dr. Irina Steenbeek is a data practitioner, and author of multiple books including Data Lineage from a Business Perspective. In this episode, Juan and Tim…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastTAKEAWAY - All things Data Lineage with Dr. Irina Steenbeek
This is the takeaway episode with Dr. Irina Steenbeek, a data practitioner, and author of multiple books including Data Lineage from a Business Perspective. In…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastOntologies Aren’t New with Oscar Corcho
Ontologies are suddenly everywhere but they didn’t come out of nowhere. In this episode, Juan and Tim chat with Professor Oscar Corcho, who has been…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastTAKEAWAY - Ontologies Aren’t New with Oscar Corcho
This is the takeaway episode of our conversation with Professor Oscar Corcho, who has been doing ontology engineering since the early 2000s where we demystify…
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data PodcastIt's Friday! Juan and Tim rant about data and context graphs
Juan and Tim rant about Context Graphs and categorizations of how companies work with data. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.