Your AI stack will be wrong in 12 months
Qlik CTO Sam Pierson on adaptable AI architecture, routing tasks to models that are 10x cheaper, and why AI token costs are decided before the model runs.
The AI tell hiding between your sentences
Stop counting em dashes. Unearned transitions show where AI-assisted writing fakes logic and where your draft needs real thinking.
Data in one place is not value
Amin Venjara of ADP on why value equals data plus capabilities, and why the capability layer, not the model, decides what your AI can actually do.
AI will expose every weakness in your data
CDOIQ 2026 field notes on data quality and trust as the AI foundation, with Tom Redman, Fern Halper, H-E-B, and Apple on why AI exposes every weakness in your data.
20 years in, the chief data officer’s job is being rewritten
CDOIQ 2026 field notes on the chief data officer role at 20 years, with Randy Bean, Richard Wang, and Peter Aiken on how AI is rewriting the job in real time.
Agentic AI is only as good as the data you feed it
CDOIQ 2026 field notes on the context problem behind agentic AI, with IDC, BARC, Capital One, and ADP on why agents are only as good as the data you feed them.
What data leaders actually fear about AI
Field notes from 24 data and AI leaders at the 20th CDOIQ Symposium, grouped into three themes: agentic AI, the CDO role at 20, and data quality as the AI foundation.
Practice over process: what vendors sell when AI copies every feature
Donald Farmer on the one thing a prompt can’t replicate Listen now on YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts |...
The three V’s of agentic AI
Doug Laney names the three V's of agentic AI and maps seven levels of autonomy, from chatbot to self-driving business, on the Data Faces podcast.
The question that separates AI value from sunk cost
Andreas Welsch on why the autonomous enterprise is overhyped, the revenue question leaders skip, and the human judgment agentic AI still needs.