Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

Can data policy drive data productivity? w/ Nong Li

Everyone - including us - wants to talk about how to get value from your data, but the truth is you can’t even get your data program off the ground without policy. Policies guide our decisions, our access controls, and even our data supply chains. But can policy make us more productive?
In this special episode, Tim and Juan are joined by Nong Li, CEO of Okera, to discuss why and how the data world should be thinking about policies.
This episode will also feature:
How to think about policy as it relates to GDPR, CCPA, and the right to be forgotten
The impact of the modern data stack on data policy
One of the lyrics In the 1990 Depeche Mode song, “Policy of Truth,” is “Never again Is what you swore, the time before.” What’s something you swore you’d never do again, but did it anyway?

S3E13 Takeaways with Nong Li

Join Tim, Juan and special guest Nong Li, CEO of Okera, to discuss why and how the data world should be thinking about policies.
This Takeaway episode will feature the summary of the upcoming episode.

The future of data is knowledge w/ Bob Muglia

Companies have most of the last decade in pursuit of data. We’ve waded through data lakes, explored data warehouses, routed through data hubs, and migrated our data to the cloud. But the end goal was never about the data. It was the pursuit of knowledge.
In this special episode, Tim and Juan are joined by a legend in our industry. Bob Muglia, the former CEO of Snowflake, will hang out and chat about the modern data stack, new approaches to governance, and the search for the enterprise holy grail… knowledge
This episode will also feature:
Demystifying the approaches between lakehouses and warehouses
Interesting developments in data governance technology
You were the first product manager for SQL Server. What’s your favorite movie SQL?

S3E12 Takeaways with Bob Muglia

Join Tim, Juan and special guest Bob Muglia, former CEO of Snowflake, to talk about the future of data; knowledge
This Takeaway episode will feature the summary of the upcoming episode.

Agile like a fox, but for data. W/ Shane Gibson from AgileData.io

Agile processes in software development date back to the beginning of the century. We’re now seeing concepts like scrum and sprints make their way into the world of data. data.world is even applying agile to data governance.But what exactly does it mean to be agile in data? What’s the end product, and how do you measure and scale the practice in your organization? Join Tim, Juan and special guest Shane Gibson, Founder of AgileData.io to talk agile in the domain of data.This episode will feature:How and why you should apply agile practices to dataWhy your sprints should actually be three weeks, not twoAs a longtime fan of the podcast, who’s your favorite host, and why isn’t it Tim?

S3E11 Takeaways with Shane Gibson

Join Tim, Juan and special guest Shane Gibson from AgileData.io, to talk agile in the domain of data.
This Takeaway episode will feature the summary of the upcoming episode.

Your privacy is my currency with Patricia Thaine from Private AI

What does the word, “privacy” mean to you? Is it about being left alone? Being forgotten? In today’s world of ubiquitous digital apps, we think about privacy and utility as a give and get. To get the best experiences from Google, Facebook, and Amazon, I need to give up some measure of privacy. But, is that true?
Join Tim, Juan and special guest Patricia Thaine, CEO from Private AI to discuss the state of data privacy and how enterprises and customers should think about it.
This episode will feature:
Examples of privacy done right and wrong
How to balance privacy and customer experience
Which company’s privacy policy is required reading for insomniacs?

S3E10 Takeaways with Patricia Thaine

Join Tim, Juan and special guest Patricia Thaine, CEO from Private AI to discuss the state of data privacy and how enterprises and customers should think about it.
This Takeaway episode will feature the summary of the upcoming episode.

Are you swimming upstream by not streaming data? w/ Arjun Narayan from Materialize

Are you on Team Batch or Team Stream? Next-gen data warehouses, lakehouses, ELT, and orchestration have made batch more modern and popular than ever, but more and more use cases - from fraud detection to smart energy grids - rely on continuous streams to make real-time decisions. Is streaming the coming revolution, or just another way to process data?
Join Tim, Juan and special guest Arjun Narayan, CEO of Materialize to discuss all things data streams and how these pipelines fuel the modern data stack.
This episode will feature:
Reasons why streaming analytics still kind of sucks
The future of batch processing in the modern data stack
Brook, creek, or river: Which is the best stream and why?

S3E9 Takeaways with Arjun Narayan

Join Tim, Juan and special guest Arjun Narayan, CEO of Materialize to discuss all things data streams and how these pipelines fuel the modern data stack.
This Takeaway episode will feature the summary of the upcoming episode.