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A Podcast for Today's Modern Data Leader

Cindi Howson

Cindi Howson

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Chief Data & AI Strategy Officer ThoughtSpot

Today, AI is transforming every aspect of how we work, communicate, and do business—and at the heart of this evolution is the data powering it.

The Data and AI Chief brings these stories to life. Through insightful interviews with the world’s top leaders at innovative companies like Hyatt, Sephora, Macquarie Bank, Ecolab, and Canva, the podcast digs into real case studies and hard-won lessons.

As the Chief Data and AI Strategy Officer at ThoughtSpot, Cindi has spent over thirty years in the data and analytics industry, going behind the scenes with organizations that are truly exceptional. She recognizes a fundamental truth in the modern landscape: the leaders who are most successful right now are those who have figured out how to turn data and AI into a real competitive advantage.

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Josh McKenzie

Josh McKenzie

Chief Technology Officer
ELMO

THE DATA CHIEF |EPISODE 139
2026-06-24

How to Transform a SaaS Company with AI from ELMO CTO

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Boris Rabkin

Boris Rabkin

Chief Information Officer
Ligentia

THE DATA CHIEF |EPISODE 138
2026-06-10

How AI is Scaled Across Global Supply Chains with Ligentia

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Shub Agarwal

Shub Agarwal

Founder of the AI Trust Lab at USC

THE DATA CHIEF |EPISODE 137
2026-05-27

Why Most Enterprise AI Pilots Fail: Lessons on Trust and Deployment

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Saugata Saha

Saugata Saha

President of S&P Global Market Intelligence / Chief Enterprise Data Officer at S&P Global

THE DATA CHIEF |EPISODE 136
2026-05-13

S&P Global's Chief Data Officer on Turning Data into Business

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Jessica  Talisman

Jessica Talisman

CEO and Founder
The Ontology Pipeline

Tony Seale

Tony Seale

Founder
The Knowledge Graph Guys

THE DATA CHIEF |EPISODE 135
2026-04-22

How Semantic Layers and Ontologies Create Trusted AI

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Emily Capodilupo

Emily Capodilupo

Senior Vice President of Research, Algorithms, and Data
WHOOP

THE DATA CHIEF |EPISODE 134
2026-04-08

Inside WHOOP's Wearables AI Engine for Predictive Health

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Stefano Puntoni

Stefano Puntoni

Co-Director of Wharton Human-AI Research and Professor at The Wharton School

THE DATA CHIEF |EPISODE 133
2026-03-25

A Wharton AI Research Leader's Formula for Responsible AI

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Louis DiModugno

Louis DiModugno

Global Chief Data Officer
Verisk

THE DATA CHIEF |EPISODE 132
2026-03-11

How a Serial CDAO Scales AI in Insurance with Verisk

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Daniel Hulme

Daniel Hulme

Chief AI Officer
WPP

THE DATA CHIEF |EPISODE 131
2026-02-25

How AI Augments Human Creativity at Scale: The WPP Blueprint

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Angie Ruan

Angie Ruan

Chief Technology Officer
Capital Access Platform, Nasdaq

THE DATA CHIEF |EPISODE 130
2026-02-11

How Nasdaq Architected a $90 Trillion Data Ecosystem

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