Date with D8A: Recent Episodes
D8A Directors
A date with data.
Industry leaders are interviewed on topics related to data innovations within organisations. D8A believes that data innovation is the next wave. And in this podcast, we cover relevant topics around data and innovation.
Every podcast will cover a specific topic. One of our D8A members will interview an industry leader about the given topic. We’ll talk to a range of organisations, diving into the specific of different industries.
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Paolo Platter (founder at AgileLab) on one of the four pillars of the data mesh paradigm: data as a product.
Pierre Louis Usselman, founder at Sweeft.ai shares about his journey in bringing analytics to mobile devices and the discoveries he made regarding the sustainability of analytical operations. He talks about Sweeft’s framework and product, helping companies reduce carbon emissions in the data analytics lifecycle.
Axel Goris (Founder at dataXPdesign) on: what is needed to create a healthy data platform using his self-service development framework: "unboss, enable and accelerate". Axel explains how to shift the workload from IT to the business, using risk assessments as a tool to facilitate communication between business and IT.
Mark de Brauw (Cofounder at Mesoica) on: how data quality is traditionally addressed as a technical issues rather than a business issue. Mark explains how more than a data governance is required in order to implement successful data quality management processes. He explains the advantage of using dedicated data quality tooling that support business users.
Ori Yudilevich (Chief Technology Officer at Materials Zone) on: the history of Materials Zone, the company and its product. Ori explains how Materials Zone’s Materials Informatics platform applies material science techniques to save costs. He also explains what challenges with regards to data they usually come across.
Ryan Price (Executive Data & Artificial Intelligence at Avanade) on: trends and developments within data analytics consulting. Ryan talks about how Avenade approached data and AI on a global scales and discusses his views regarding important topics around data and AI.
Caroline Fluit (Global VP Digital Product Engineering at IKEA) on: data innovation within the retail industry. Caroline shares her experience and lessons learned with regards to data innovation as well as leadership.
Sander Kerstens (Director Data Analytics at Vanderlande) on: data mesh, what it means and how Vanderlande has approached its implementation. Sander talks about the challenges they’ve faced and how they’ve addressed them. Listen to hear tips on how to tackle a data mesh implementation.
Jan Leenaars(Product Owner at Rijkswaterstaat) on: data-driven asset management, how data can be leveraged to manage assets, common pitfalls and lessons learned. Jan talks about how users & developers can work effectively together to create reliable insights on time. Listen to hear how Rijkswaterstaat has faced data-driven asset management challenges and how they overcome these … Read more "Data-driven asset management"
Remi Verhoeven (Senior Manager at KPMG) on: the character traits, technical skills and soft skills required in order to become a successful data profession. Listen to hear about the ways data professionals can improve their skills to increase their chances in the recruitment process.
Dennis Groot on: data autonomy, what it is, why it matters and why it is important now. Dennis talks about how to implement data autonomy in complex architectures and how it relates to current trends like self-sovereign identity and the metaverse.
for and how it adds value to organisations. Wim Kees talks about how synthetic data helps speed up Development, Test, Acceptance and Production (DTAP) cycles by making privacy a non-issue. Listen to hear how Syntho provides the technical solution to root out the need for production data and mitigate possible privacy risks.
rew, leading to a concrete need for a data strategy. Listen to hear how van Spaendonck approached truly living through the principles set out in the data strategy and how it helped create new services for their clients.
his organisation. Bart shares examples of use cases that inspired him to get start with data innovations, the framework that employs to structure initiatives, examples of data innovations he implemented and the team that made that possible. Listen for tips when starting out with the implementation of data innovations.
Arjan Pepping (Corporate Data Manager at MN) on: creating awareness around trusted data and the role of data in control for a pension provider. Listen for the golden tip on implementing data awareness.
Marinka Voorhout (Director at Philips) on: data quality in design is becoming a pre requisite for innovations on data. Listen to practical approach tips and ideas to take data quality into account in user interfaces.
In this trailer of the Date with D8A podcast series, Simone from D8A explains the idea behind the D8A initiative and the what, why and how of the Date with D8A podcast.