The death of SaaS is a myth
April Dunford on why competitors can’t easily copy your software Listen now on YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts |...
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.
Freedom is the economics of enterprise AI
Qlik's Matt Hayes on why AI-ready data is a higher bar than analytics-ready, and how data freedom keeps enterprise AI both trustworthy and affordable.
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.
Governance now decides whether AI delivers value
Six data and AI leaders from the BARC 2026 retreat on why governance, control, and context decide whether AI delivers value.