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Data engineering and data ops are some of the most challenging and resource intensive parts of the data science process. Cory Minton (https://twitter.com/Cory_Minton?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) and Brett Roberts (https://twitter.com/broberts2261) sit down with Infoworks (http://www.infoworks.io/) CTO and co-founder, Amar Arsikere (https://www.linkedin.com/in/amar500/) and VP of Product, Ramesh Menon (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramesh-menon-b13463/) to hear about how their agile Data Engineering Platform helps automate data workflows allowing organizations to accelerate the number of use cases they can get into production while using fewer resources.  The team explores the challenges organizations are having around data lakes, data sourcing strategies and scalable data pipelines and hear how the Infoworks’ platform helps solve these challenges.  Amar and Ramesh also provide real world examples of how customers have turned to Infoworks to help successfully solve these challenges.

Should we really fear AI?  What's really happening with Artificial Intelligence today?  Why are enterprises struggling to adopt AI in meaningful ways?  In this special episode of the Big Data Beard podcast, we share many previously unheard conversations with five of podcast guests about their view of AI today and find out if the fear we hear so often about AI is well founded. Our guests for this show include: * Vikram Mahidar, AI Practice leader at Genpact Consulting * David Fearne, AI Practice leader at Arrow Electronics * Dr. Stephen Thomas, Director of the Masters in AI program at Queens University * Dan Jeavons, Director of Data Science and AI at Shell Corporation * Doug Merritt, CEO of Splunk Don't be afraid of AI.  Be prepared. There's no better way to prepare for AI everywhere than to attend O'reilly Media's Artificial Intelligence Conference (https://conferences.oreilly.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-ny) happening in NYC April 15 - 18.We are running a contest for a free pass. For a chance to win, just follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/bigdatabeard/) by March 1st 2019, when we will be picking a winner. You can also save 20% on your conference pass by using code PCBEARD at checkout! Follow us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bigdatabeard/ (https://www.instagram.com/bigdatabeard/) Music from this episode is byAndrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/37712246).  Please go check him out...you'll thank us!  

Should we really fear AI?  What's really happening with Artificial Intelligence today?  Why are enterprises struggling to adopt AI in meaningful ways?  In this special episode of the Big Data Beard podcast, we share many previously unheard conversations with five of podcast guests about their view of AI today and find out if the fear we hear so often about AI is well founded. Our guests for this show include: * Vikram Mahidar, AI Practice leader at Genpact Consulting * David Fearne, AI Practice leader at Arrow Electronics * Dr. Stephen Thomas, Director of the Masters in AI program at Queens University * Dan Jeavons, Director of Data Science and AI at Shell Corporation * Doug Merritt, CEO of Splunk Don't be afraid of AI.  Be prepared. There's no better way to prepare for AI everywhere than to attend O'reilly Media's Artificial Intelligence Conference (https://conferences.oreilly.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-ny) happening in NYC April 15 - 18.We are running a contest for a free pass. For a chance to win, just follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/bigdatabeard/) by March 1st 2019, when we will be picking a winner. You can also save 20% on your conference pass by using code PCBEARD at checkout! Follow us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bigdatabeard/ (https://www.instagram.com/bigdatabeard/) Music from this episode is byAndrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/37712246).  Please go check him out...you'll thank us!  

Should we really fear AI?  What's really happening with Artificial Intelligence today?  Why are enterprises struggling to adopt AI in meaningful ways?  In this special episode of the Big Data Beard podcast, we share many previously unheard conversations with five of podcast guests about their view of AI today and find out if the fear we hear so often about AI is well founded. Our guests for this show include: * Vikram Mahidar, AI Practice leader at Genpact Consulting * David Fearne, AI Practice leader at Arrow Electronics * Dr. Stephen Thomas, Director of the Masters in AI program at Queens University * Dan Jeavons, Director of Data Science and AI at Shell Corporation * Doug Merritt, CEO of Splunk Don't be afraid of AI.  Be prepared. There's no better way to prepare for AI everywhere than to attend O'reilly Media's Artificial Intelligence Conference (https://conferences.oreilly.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-ny) happening in NYC April 15 - 18.We are running a contest for a free pass. For a chance to win, just follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/bigdatabeard/) by March 1st 2019, when we will be picking a winner. You can also save 20% on your conference pass by using code PCBEARD at checkout! Follow us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bigdatabeard/ (https://www.instagram.com/bigdatabeard/) Music from this episode is byAndrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/37712246).  Please go check him out...you'll thank us!  

Thomas Henson (https://twitter.com/henson_tm ) and Erin K. Banks (https://twitter.com/banksek ) spoke with Mike Watson (https://twitter.com/wiken), the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the Commonwealth of Virginia. His agency ( Virginia Information Technology Agency ) has a two fold mission in Virginia, they do centralized technology providing infrastructure services for 67 lines of businesses including hospitals, museums, businesses, and public safety. They are also responsible for setting governance rules for how the Commonwealth is supposed to operate in a secure fashion. They also have a data centric approach. They look to create controls and monitor all transactions around the data that the agencies are using and sending place to place. His job is to care mostly about the data. Computers are not worth anything, if they don’t have good data on them. They pay very close attention to the data that is out there and how to secure it. This is important because the Commonwealth is looking share information between agencies, while protecting the privacy of their citizens. They hired a Chief Data Officer to help with this and we talk about the projects that they are working on. We talk about the future of technology, combining security, privacy, with technology, and how they are dealing with it in the public sector Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/37712246).  Please go check him out...you'll thank us! Link to shownotes - http://bit.ly/BDB_EP58

Thomas Henson (https://twitter.com/henson_tm ) and Erin K. Banks (https://twitter.com/banksek ) spoke with Mike Watson (https://twitter.com/wiken), the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the Commonwealth of Virginia. His agency ( Virginia Information Technology Agency ) has a two fold mission in Virginia, they do centralized technology providing infrastructure services for 67 lines of businesses including hospitals, museums, businesses, and public safety. They are also responsible for setting governance rules for how the Commonwealth is supposed to operate in a secure fashion. They also have a data centric approach. They look to create controls and monitor all transactions around the data that the agencies are using and sending place to place. His job is to care mostly about the data. Computers are not worth anything, if they don’t have good data on them. They pay very close attention to the data that is out there and how to secure it. This is important because the Commonwealth is looking share information between agencies, while protecting the privacy of their citizens. They hired a Chief Data Officer to help with this and we talk about the projects that they are working on. We talk about the future of technology, combining security, privacy, with technology, and how they are dealing with it in the public sector Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/37712246).  Please go check him out...you'll thank us! Link to shownotes - http://bit.ly/BDB_EP58

Thomas Henson (https://twitter.com/henson_tm ) and Erin K. Banks (https://twitter.com/banksek ) spoke with Mike Watson (https://twitter.com/wiken), the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the Commonwealth of Virginia. His agency ( Virginia Information Technology Agency ) has a two fold mission in Virginia, they do centralized technology providing infrastructure services for 67 lines of businesses including hospitals, museums, businesses, and public safety. They are also responsible for setting governance rules for how the Commonwealth is supposed to operate in a secure fashion. They also have a data centric approach. They look to create controls and monitor all transactions around the data that the agencies are using and sending place to place. His job is to care mostly about the data. Computers are not worth anything, if they don’t have good data on them. They pay very close attention to the data that is out there and how to secure it. This is important because the Commonwealth is looking share information between agencies, while protecting the privacy of their citizens. They hired a Chief Data Officer to help with this and we talk about the projects that they are working on. We talk about the future of technology, combining security, privacy, with technology, and how they are dealing with it in the public sector Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/37712246).  Please go check him out...you'll thank us! Link to shownotes - http://bit.ly/BDB_EP58

Cory Minton (https://twitter.com/Cory_Minton?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) and Brett Roberts (https://twitter.com/broberts2261) sit down with their friend from across the pond Paul Brook (https://twitter.com/PaulBrookatData) to talk about the book he wrote titled “Life of AI: AI today, tomorrow, and in the future and what this may mean for human kind.  Paul talks about what inspired him to write a book (spoiler it was at a bar) about Artificial Intelligence and what went into creating it.  Paul and the team then explore different aspects of Artificial intelligence from bias, regulation, hardware and discuss how AI will evolve from man made AI to autonomous AI in the future.  Tune in to get some brilliant insights into all things AI. O’Reilly Media’s Strata Data is coming to San Francisco on March 25 - 28, 2019 and YOU have a chance to win a free pass to this fantastic conference.  All you have to do is subscribe to our BrightTalk (https://www.brighttalk.com/channel/17293/big-data-beard) channel between now and February 1st and you are entered to win.  You can also use Promo Code PCBEARD for 20% off your conference pass. Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/37712246).  Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

Cory Minton (https://twitter.com/Cory_Minton?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) and Brett Roberts (https://twitter.com/broberts2261) sit down with their friend from across the pond Paul Brook (https://twitter.com/PaulBrookatData) to talk about the book he wrote titled “Life of AI: AI today, tomorrow, and in the future and what this may mean for human kind.  Paul talks about what inspired him to write a book (spoiler it was at a bar) about Artificial Intelligence and what went into creating it.  Paul and the team then explore different aspects of Artificial intelligence from bias, regulation, hardware and discuss how AI will evolve from man made AI to autonomous AI in the future.  Tune in to get some brilliant insights into all things AI. O’Reilly Media’s Strata Data is coming to San Francisco on March 25 - 28, 2019 and YOU have a chance to win a free pass to this fantastic conference.  All you have to do is subscribe to our BrightTalk (https://www.brighttalk.com/channel/17293/big-data-beard) channel between now and February 1st and you are entered to win.  You can also use Promo Code PCBEARD for 20% off your conference pass. Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/37712246).  Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

Cory Minton (https://twitter.com/Cory_Minton?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) and Brett Roberts (https://twitter.com/broberts2261) sit down with their friend from across the pond Paul Brook (https://twitter.com/PaulBrookatData) to talk about the book he wrote titled “Life of AI: AI today, tomorrow, and in the future and what this may mean for human kind.  Paul talks about what inspired him to write a book (spoiler it was at a bar) about Artificial Intelligence and what went into creating it.  Paul and the team then explore different aspects of Artificial intelligence from bias, regulation, hardware and discuss how AI will evolve from man made AI to autonomous AI in the future.  Tune in to get some brilliant insights into all things AI. O’Reilly Media’s Strata Data is coming to San Francisco on March 25 - 28, 2019 and YOU have a chance to win a free pass to this fantastic conference.  All you have to do is subscribe to our BrightTalk (https://www.brighttalk.com/channel/17293/big-data-beard) channel between now and February 1st and you are entered to win.  You can also use Promo Code PCBEARD for 20% off your conference pass. Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/37712246).  Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

Brett Roberts (https://twitter.com/broberts2261) and Erin K. Banks (https://twitter.com/banksek ) met with Anna Anisin (https://twitter.com/annaontheweb), CEO and Jeremy Mason (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-mason-13531768/), Head of Marketing Operations of FormulatedBy (https://twitter.com/formulatedby), talking about the Data Science Salon (https://datascience.salon/) conference. Although these conferences are focused on the data and sessions, they make sure there is time for networking, a great reception, and the best coffee in town. There are four Data Science Salon conferences in 2019. The verticals they focus on are media & entertainment and finance & technology and some of the themes at the conference are data governance, data modeling trends, impact of data quality, data strategy trends, data security, and data bias. We are a partner of the Data Science Salon and if you are interested in attending, you can save some money by using the registration code BDBEARD19

Brett Roberts (https://twitter.com/broberts2261) and Erin K. Banks (https://twitter.com/banksek ) met with Anna Anisin (https://twitter.com/annaontheweb), CEO and Jeremy Mason (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-mason-13531768/), Head of Marketing Operations of FormulatedBy (https://twitter.com/formulatedby), talking about the Data Science Salon (https://datascience.salon/) conference. Although these conferences are focused on the data and sessions, they make sure there is time for networking, a great reception, and the best coffee in town. There are four Data Science Salon conferences in 2019. The verticals they focus on are media & entertainment and finance & technology and some of the themes at the conference are data governance, data modeling trends, impact of data quality, data strategy trends, data security, and data bias. We are a partner of the Data Science Salon and if you are interested in attending, you can save some money by using the registration code BDBEARD19

Brett Roberts (https://twitter.com/broberts2261) and Erin K. Banks (https://twitter.com/banksek ) met with Anna Anisin (https://twitter.com/annaontheweb), CEO and Jeremy Mason (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-mason-13531768/), Head of Marketing Operations of FormulatedBy (https://twitter.com/formulatedby), talking about the Data Science Salon (https://datascience.salon/) conference. Although these conferences are focused on the data and sessions, they make sure there is time for networking, a great reception, and the best coffee in town. There are four Data Science Salon conferences in 2019. The verticals they focus on are media & entertainment and finance & technology and some of the themes at the conference are data governance, data modeling trends, impact of data quality, data strategy trends, data security, and data bias. We are a partner of the Data Science Salon and if you are interested in attending, you can save some money by using the registration code BDBEARD19

Jimmy Niggles, the founder of Beard Season, is selling his beard for $1,000,000. In the season 3 finale, Cory and Kyle sit down with Jimmy at Cafe Salina in beautiful Bronte Beach Australia. Jimmy shares with us the history of Beard Season,

Jimmy Niggles (https://www.instagram.com/beardseason/?hl=en), the founder of Beard Season (https://beardseason.com.au/home), is selling his beard for $1,000,000. In the season 3 finale, Cory (https://twitter.com/Cory_Minton) and Kyle (https://twitter.com/KylePrins) sit down with Jimmy at Cafe Salina (https://www.facebook.com/cafesalina/) in beautiful Bronte Beach Australia. Jimmy shares with us the history of Beard Season, the importance of having your skin checked, and how beards can help save someone's life. We also discuss how Jimmy met Sir Richard Branson and speculate on the future of BeardCoin. The Big Data Beard Team has proudly become ambassadors the The Beard Season in hopes to assist Jimmy in helping to save more lives. Please consider donating or joining as an ambassador yourself. It's a wonderful cause to grow a beard and start a great conversation. We hope you have a wonderful holiday break. See you next Season!   Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/37712246).  Please go check him out...you'll thank us! Show Notes can be found here: http://bit.ly/BDB_EP55 (http://bit.ly/BDB_EP55)