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Data Innovators brings you candid conversations with technical data leaders tackling today’s toughest challenges.
We'll dive into fresh approaches to data engineering, practical strategies for scaling modern data platforms, and the trends shaping the data ecosystem.
Hosted by Roy Daniel – CEO of definity – each episode shares hard-won lessons and actionable insights from those building data systems at scale.
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Ep 6: Ime Akpan - Data foundation for AI readiness
AI readiness is a common priority. Ime Akpan, Head of Data Engineering and Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Vanguard Europe, is executing on it at scale.By leveraging Apache Spark, AWS Glue, and a…
Ep 5: Rohit Sivaprasad – Is your data warehouse ready for AI?
Legacy Data warehouses are becoming too heavy to support AI initiatives, Rohit Sivaprasad, Head of Data Science and Engineering at Adobe Stock, explains how his team is systematically decluttering…
Ep 4 : Paras Doshi – wide data & AI platform foundations at Opendoor
Real estate data is a classic example of “wide data” at scale. In this episode, Paras Doshi, Sr Director of Data & Insights at Opendoor, explains how his team rebuilt their data platform to…
Ep 3: Alla Piltser – how big banks tackle data cloud migration and exploding platform costs
Alla Piltser, Bank of America's former Managing Director of Tech Infra, shares insights from her 35 year career in financial services technology and the critical shifts happening today in big banks’…
Ep 2: Renu Tewari – will Agentic AI unlock 100x data engineering value?
Renu Tewari, former LinkedIn data platform leader, shares about her experience scaling the platform from 1 trillion to 35 trillion messages per day, and how Agentic AI is now reshaping the future of…
Ep 1: Romit Mehta – how Disney democratizes data while curbing chaos
Disney’s Head of Data Platform Product shares how his team built platform-level guardrails, cost attribution, and lineage systems to scale data democratization without losing control. This episode…
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Data Innovators has published 6 episodes since September 2025, covering topics in Technology.
Data Innovators is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 months. Average episode length is 36m.