Edge Computing in Fast Food, Transformative AI Use Cases, and the Future of Data Privacy

Ever wonder how a chicken shop got your order just right? Today, we’re discussing the transformative power of edge computing in fast food, with insights from Brian Chambers, chief architect at Chick-fil-A, and KC Rakam, head of customer engineering at Google Cloud. Get ready to understand how data centralization enhances customer experience and how the future of the restaurant industry can potentially be driven by IoT and automation.

Next on the menu is a deep dive into the world of AI. We discuss how this revolutionary technology is shaping the creation of AI-powered products, with a focus on three significant use cases: customer experience, marketing automation, and developer experience. We’ll uncover the crux of streamlining actions with AI, the importance of having a solid foundation of data before launching AI initiatives, and the invaluable advice for data teams contemplating AI adoption.

As we continue our conversation, we’ll delve into the broader implications of AI in shaping modern experiences and business value. From using Warren Buffett’s timeless advice in the context of economic downturns to understanding the business value of AI projects, we’re covering it all. You’ll hear real-world examples, including a tale of an AI-generated Instagram influencer, and understand the infinite possibilities of AI. Wrapping up, we’ll discuss the future of data and the challenges of data privacy with Brian and KC. So tune in, engage, and stay updated about the latest trends in data and technology! What’s New In Data is a data thought leadership series hosted by John Kutay who leads data and products at Striim.

What’s New In Data hosts industry practitioners to discuss latest trends, common patterns for real world data patterns, and analytics success stories.

Data teams adopting Generative AI, Google Cloud Next Announcements, AI-generated social

What’s New in Data – a popular podcast and thought leadership series hosted by John Kutay – did a special live episode at the top of Salesforce Tower in San Francisco. Bruno Aziza from CapitalG, Ridhima Kahn from Dapper Labs, and Sanjeev Mohan of SanjMo (former VP of Data at Gartner) did a recap of 2023 Google Cloud Next’s biggest announcements, how (and why) data teams are adopting GenerativeAI, and gave examples of futuristic consumer experiences such as interacting with AI-generated social media influencers. John Kutay moderated the panel in front of a live audience.

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Hot Topics in Data with Ethan Aaron from Portable.io

We are kicking off Season 3 of What’s New in Data with none other than Ethan Aaron: CEO of Portable.io. Ethan is known for founding Portable.io – a leading Cloud ETL product – along with his viral perspectives on data and “low key” data events that have taken over the industry with appearances in New York City, Chicago, Denver, Toronto, Boston, and many other cities. We chat with Ethan on the hottest topics in data including macro economic effects on the data industry, consolidation of the data ecosystem, and of course data contracts.

BONUS: Sign up for Portable.io’s Low Key Data Conference: a free data conference featuring Fortune 500 data executives, leading data venture capitalists, and other expert data practitioners:

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Data Mesh, Data Products, and re-inventing yourself with Bruno Aziza (Head of Data at Google Cloud)

Bruno Aziza – Head of Data and Analytics at Google Cloud – has a unique expert perspective on the data industry through his work with data executives and visionaries while managing a broad portfolio of products at Google including BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, Looker, Data Studio, PubSub, Composer, Data Fusion, Catalog, Dataform, Dataprep and Dataplex.

In this episode, Bruno we dive into topics such as the development (and disappointment) of Data Mesh, how it relates to Data Products, along with how data leaders can transform their organizations by first looking inward and transforming one’s self.

We also speak to why Chief Data Officers are navigating from ‘reactive analytics’ to data products that are driven by real-time.

Follow Bruno Aziza on Linkedin, Twitter, and Medium.

What’s New In Data with Jacob Matson (S2E3)

In this episode, we host Jacob Matson – VP of Finance and Operations at Simetric. Jacob is a long time data leader who will dive deep into whether data engineers should ship production-ready code and data streaming use cases in finance. He will also talk about his love for DuckDB.

Is “The Modern Data Stack” Dead?

In this episode recorded live from New York City, we hosted Ethan Aaron: CEO of Portable and thought leader in the data industry. Ethan covers a range of topics such as out-of-the-box analytics, the ‘Post-Modern Data Stack,’ and running a dashboard-driven organization.

Ethan explains why having too many tools too early could weigh down small data teams and reduce the business value they could provide. Make sure to follow Ethan on Linkedin for more.

 

The Modern Data Divide with Arpit Choudhury

We host Arpit Choudhury – well known for his work in building data communities such as Astorik.com – to talk about the ‘modern data divide’ and how to overcome friction between data people and non-data people. Arpit also talks about the value of ‘all in one’ tools versus having a multivariate modern data stack. Follow Arpit Choudhury on Linkedin and check out his community of data practitioners at Astorik.com

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