DATAVERSITY Talks

Welcome to Inside Applied Data Governance, a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we explore the practical realities of data governance with the experts who helped build the Applied Data Governance Practitioner (ADGP) certification.

In this episode, we speak with John Ladley about proving the value of data governance and sustaining long-term momentum. John shares practical insights on measuring governance success, connecting initiatives to business outcomes, and communicating value in ways that resonate with stakeholders. He also discusses common signs that a governance program may be losing traction, why traditional ROI calculations often miss the bigger picture...

Welcome back to an all-new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

In this episode, we speak with Samuel Spencer, CEO and co-founder of Aristotle Metadata and a recognized leader in data governance and metadata management. Samuel shares his unconventional journey into the world of data, reflecting on how a career that began far outside traditional data roles ultimately led him to building one of the industry's leading metadata platforms.

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Welcome to Inside Applied Data Governance, a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we explore the practical realities of data governance with the experts who helped build the Applied Data Governance Practitioner (ADGP) certification.

In this episode, we speak with John Ladley about designing data governance frameworks that actually work. Drawing on decades of experience, John discusses why governance structures must align with organizational culture, how to evaluate centralized and federated models, and why copying another organization’s framework rarely succeeds. Discover practical guidance for building governance approaches that are sustainable, scalable, and tailored to your or...

Welcome back to an all-new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

In this episode, we speak with Mageshwaran Subramanian, Managing Consultant, ERP Data Transformation at Delaware North America. With over 15 years of experience in SAP data migration and governance, Mageshwaran shares his journey working across global ERP transformations and how his career has evolved alongside the shift to cloud and AI-driven architectures.

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Welcome to Inside Applied Data Governance, a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we explore the practical realities of data governance with the experts who helped build the Applied Data Governance Practitioner (ADGP) certification.

In this episode, we speak with John Ladley about why data governance is more than policies and processes; it’s a critical business capability. John shares insights on the business drivers behind governance initiatives, common misconceptions organizations face, and what effective governance looks like in practice. Learn why successful programs focus on business outcomes and how practitioners can help organizations turn governance from a concept in...

Welcome back to an all-new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

In this episode, we speak with Joe Devon, technology entrepreneur, accessibility advocate, Co-Founder of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), and Chair of the GAAD Foundation. From early internet ventures and high-scale platforms like American Idol to launching a global movement for digital accessibility, Joe’s career has followed an unexpected path shaped by risk, reinvention, and impact.

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Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Sanjal Kanti Howlader, Insights Analyst, Greene King Limited. At six years old, he dreamed of becoming an actor to be the hero solving everyone's problems, later imagining himself as a detective solving mysteries before earning degrees in applied statistics and joining telecommunications where his first customer segmentation assignment in SPSS revealed that data could answer unanswered questions and solve real or...

Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Karina Blackman, Master Data Governance Manager, GrainCorp. At six years old, she dreamed of becoming a librarian and ironically, she's now doing something remarkably similar as Master Data Governance Manager. For years, she assumed data careers were only for analytical people living in spreadsheets and code. Hear how she realized the real leverage sits in strategic thinking & understanding how things fi...

Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Duru Ahanotu, PhD, Sole Proprietor , Ahan Analytics. At six years old, he dreamed of becoming a scientist solving big problems, never imagining he'd spend his career doing data management, sometimes without even realizing it until later. After earning his PhD at Stanford working with expert systems and automotive diagnostics, he was pulled into boutique management consulting where he built a le...

Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Suresh Srinivas, CEO and Co-founder, Collate. At six years old, he dreamed of being a scientist passionate about math and puzzles but fell in love with computers for the same reason later in life. Debugging problems and fixing what doesn't work, a passion he still pursues by coding on weekends when not serving as CEO - "chief of everything officer". He...

Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Ron Zionpour, Chief Technology Officer, Healthee. At six years old, he never dreamed of becoming a CTO. He grew up in the 90’s taking apart old radios and flashlights to reassemble them into something more useful, inspired by his father's electronics work and driven by an innate desire to solve problems and create. When his love of math and science led...

Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Macie Minier, Director of Strategy and Evaluation, Coburn Place Safe Haven. She never imagined working with data on a macro level. Growing up watching her social worker mother, she assumed social work meant directly helping people face-to-face, starting as a case manager at a domestic violence emergency shelter realizing that is not always the case working with survivors brought in fr...

Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Erin Woodward, Lead AI Architect, Cyclotron. At six years old, she dreamed of becoming an astronaut due to an aunt sending her items from space camps and watching the film of the same name. But being in the middle of the country left little opportunities for that path. Her advisor suggests computer science since "computers were becoming a thing" which fe...

Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Malcolm Hawker, Chief Data Officer, Profisee. At six years old, he dreamed of getting paid to build Lego for the rest of his life. While that didn't pan out, his winding career path through data and product management has been just as creative. After earning a business degree, he pursued a master's in communications while dreaming of becoming the next Ri...

Welcome to the season finale of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Shannon Fuller, Lead Data Governance, Ahold Delhaize USA. At six years old, he dreamed of becoming a pilot. When he discovered he was colorblind, he shifted his interests to architecture, a passion fueled by his family's construction company where he worked summers as a teen. Tune in to hear how his journey to electrical engineering shaped him to become a Data Governance le...

Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Susan Ray, Associate Professor of English, Delaware County Community College. She never imagined she'd become invested in data as an English professor specializing in Victorian literature, but her crash course came when developing an accelerated learning program. There, data shaped everything from student placement to school funding decisions. When AI-generated essays flooded her classroom, she refused to be like her un...

Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Ariel Utnik, CEO, Seemore Data. He never knew what he wanted to be at six years old, or even at twenty-six, and honestly admits he still doesn't know. What he does know, is that he loves climbing mountains, taking on challenges and learning from his mistakes. His career journey began almost by accident when a friend told him about a QA...

Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Niruta Talwekar, Data Engineer at Meta. At six years old, she dreamed of becoming a university professor, like her father, inspired by the profound impact he made on his high school students' lives. Discover how she became the first engineer in her family during the big data boom, and why she made the pivotal transition from front-end software engineering to da...

Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Ronen Schwartz, CEO, K2view. His mother joked that he tried to manage his parents and sister from a very young age, but his real dream was to be an engineer and build something significant that hadn't been built before. This vision evolved into the belief that software would “eat everything” and become the key to creating meaningful impact when he rea...

Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Shree Periakaruppan, Head of Data Engineering and Analytics at the American College of Radiology. At ten years old, she walked into her father’s office which was a data center for nuclear science, saw massive mainframe computers, and her destiny was sealed. From that moment, she pursued every data role imaginable from software engineer, to DBA, to analyst, to architect, lear...

Welcome back to an all new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Muzna Jamil Mallal, Senior Data Consultant, Nike, As a child her dream of becoming a flight attendant for free travel did not work out, but coming from a family of scientists naturally led her towards the engineering and STEM fields. Particularly math, a subject she genuinely enjoyed while her peers dreaded it because problems had clear right or wrong answers wi...

Welcome back to an all new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Daragh O Brien, CEO, Castlebridge, his parents used to joke that the perfect job for him would be “to tell people they're doing it [a task] wrong”. Finding a problem and solving it is what he loved to do. Through data management, a field that didn't really exist when he was growing up, aligned perfectly with his hardwired problem-solving brain. Tune i...

Welcome back to an all new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Laura Clayton McDonnell, President of Corporates, Thomson Reuters, from childhood dreams of becoming an astronaut to witnessing her immigrant parents fight housing discrimination through the courts, Laura's path led her to law school to advocate for the voiceless. While specializing in corporate securities law and helping women and people of color start businesses pro bono, her curiosity about how businesses ac...

Welcome back to an all new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Prateek Arora, Business Analyst, Non-Profit in Fintech & Retail, a playful six-year-old who saw studying as an afterthought to a data professional who discovered his career path by his calling through curiosity. With no knowledge that roles like 'business analyst' even existed, he followed his instinct toward technology, becoming fascinated with fixing what wasn't working and finding better ways of organizing in...

Welcome back to an all new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Marcia Rhode, Leadership Coach, Marcia Rhode Coaching & Consulting Services, hear how she broke free from small town traditional expectations to forge her own path through an unexpected journey of discovery. A seemingly mundane volunteer opportunity to learn a computer system at a state agency became the catalyst that launched her into data management, despite having zero technical training. Mentored by in...

Welcome back to an all new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Stacy Bein, Principle Business Data Steward, Discover, from a six-year-old's dream of becoming a dental hygienist to mastering complex data challenges is a testament to following your strengths. After discovering biology wasn't her calling in college, she took a bold detour into business collections, where everything clicked. Thriving on multi-team problem-solving, she became a self-taught data analyst, using insights to cr...

Welcome back to an all new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Tim Alexander, Director of Technical Product Marketing, Yellowbrick Data, What started as a six-year-old's fascination with paleontology evolved into dreams of becoming a music industry power player. Armed with a business & technology degree and talent agency internships, he dove headfirst into the world of artist representation. But reality hit hard – the glamorous industry wasn't what it seemed from the outside. This...

Welcome back to an all new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Monica Miller, Senior Product Manager, Starburst Data, she shares how a personal physical challenge first sparked her interest in audiology, and how a pivotal college internship completely shifted her trajectory from mechanical engineering to the dynamic world of data. Discover the unexpected turns that led her to where she is today."

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Welcome back to an all new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Dia Adams, Enterprise Data/AI Strategist, TCG Incorporated , about her fascination in becoming a Supreme Court Justice as a child, later redirecting drive towards finance in high school, and ultimately discovering a passion for data and AI in university.

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Welcome back to an all new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Christina Sandema-Sombe, CEO Christina Sandema-Sombe DBA LLC and Co-Founder & CDAIO Datum Cafe, about her aptitude for science in Zambia & focus to becoming a doctor but with the help of mentors altering her career path to becoming a leader of not one but two data centered companies.

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Welcome back to an all-new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Jacqueline Paneque, Head of Data Literacy & Data Quality, TE Information Solutions , about how she went from loving arts & crafts as a child with data not even on her radar to becoming the leading person in her company to raise data literacy and quality.

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Welcome back to an all-new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Eric Polet, Director of Product Marketing at Arcitecta, about how he went from not knowing the difference between a petabyte and terabyte into becoming the Director of Product Marketing for a premiere data management software company.

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Welcome back to an all-new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Michel Morgan, General Counsel of Operations, Universal P&C Insurance Company, about how she followed her childhood dream of becoming a lawyer and then learned to incorporate data management to ease her team's burden.

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Welcome back to an all-new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Michael Meyer, Solutions Engineer at Snowflake, about how he turned his early interest in weather to a career in data.

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Welcome back to an all new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This episode we speak with Peter Vennel, the Global Data Office Leader at Equifax, about how he went from an interest in coding to a career in data.

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Welcome back to an all new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This week we talk with Sandesh Gawande, the CTO and Founder of iceDQ, about how he turned his talent for building things into a career in data.

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Welcome back to and all new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This week we're talking with Dr. Suman Mathur, a Senior Lecturer at Regenesys Business School, about how education fuels her career in data.

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Welcome back to season two of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This week we talk with Kiomi Soledad Spriestersbach, the Head of Data Quality and Governance at Lufthansa Group, about how she translated an interest in mathematics and languages to a career in data.

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Welcome back to season two of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This week we're talking to Ramla Suhra, the Senior Staff Software Engineer at H-E-B, about how she translated an early interested in how things work to a career in data.

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Welcome back to season two of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data.

This week we talk with Gloria Zukauskaite, an Advisory Board Member at Inox Fintech, about how she went from an interest in social work to a career in data.

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