It’s the end of BI as we know it (and I feel fine)
Is BI dead? Orion by Gravity CEO Lucas Thelosen, ex-Google, on AI analysts, why few people open dashboards, and the BI basics an AI analyst still needs.
What AI think does to critical thinking at work
Leigh Felton on AI think, the habit of publishing what gen AI produces unchecked, and what it costs your productivity, your voice, and critical thinking.
Are industry analysts still relevant when AI builds the shortlist?
Are industry analysts still relevant when buyers ask AI for a shortlist? Alteryx's Gerry Van Zandt on AI-drafted RFIs, pay to play, and trust.
Why data initiatives fail before technology is the problem
Stacie Christensen of H-E-B on why data initiatives fail before technology is the problem, from the easy button to circular data flows and governance.
Tribal knowledge is the AI context layer nobody names
Clarifeye's Ken Sanford on the AI context layer nobody names: the tribal knowledge in experts' heads, who should write your AI skills, and who should own them.
Where should the chief data officer report? Randy Bean says sales
Randy Bean on where the chief data officer should report, the 42 percent technology reporting line, and why every CDO from last year's CDOIQ panel is gone.
The perfect storm behind the tech job market
Executive recruiter Jim Jinright on why interest rates and overhiring, not AI, stalled the tech job market, and why judgment is what companies pay for now.
Data quality is everybody’s job when the alert means 140 million people
Intuit Credit Karma's Veenit Shah and Puneet Singh on data quality at scale: five pillars across 40,000 columns and the AI agent that came last.
AI-ready data is the wrong question
Profisee CDO Malcolm Hawker on why AI-ready data depends entirely on the use case, and what a semantic layer can never fix about your customer records.
Build data products for the hundredth use case
Capital One's Amy Lenander and Christina Egea on curating data products, building for the hundredth use case, and why adoption is a listening problem.