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Are Companies Wasting Money on Data & AI?

2026-11-0347:36

In this episode of Data Analytics Chat, we welcome Lior Barak, Author & Founder of Impact Operations. After 15+ years in data organisations, Lior now helps data teams and their leadership treat data and AI as a capital allocation decision, so teams can show what their work returns, not just what it costs. Lior is the author of What Data Really Costs, a business fable about the hidden cost of data: the "zombie taxes" and "FTE debt" that organisations pay every year when business teams spe...

Your AI Is Live. But Is It Actually Working?

2026-10-2739:22

In this episode of Data Analytics Chat, we welcome Ryan Stevens, Senior Director of Applied Science at Ramp, the financial technology company helping businesses save time and money across cards, bill pay, expense management, travel and more. Ryan leads a team of machine learning engineers and product data scientists, and before Ramp he worked on ads ranking at Meta. He also holds a PhD in economics. Ryan shares how Ramp evaluates AI once it is live, from structured outputs like invoice OCR to...

Nestlé’s Chief Data & AI Officer on Scaling AI

2026-10-2049:01

In this episode of Data Analytics Chat, we welcome Jessica Matheron, Chief Data & AI Officer at Nestlé. Jessica brings a rare mix of experience to the role, from a French engineering and mathematics background and a Harvard MBA to a decade trading structured credit on Wall Street, followed by roles across fintech, ad tech and e-commerce before joining Nestlé. Jessica shares how she took a data team that was seen as a service centre, built on Excel and Power BI and reliant on external vend...

AI Is Moving Fast. Is Your Data Ready?

2026-10-1346:20

In this episode of Data Analytics Chat, we welcome Erica Howard, Head of Consumer Data Ownership at TD. Erica has spent 18 years at the bank, starting in the call centre before working on TD's early data governance model in 2012, moving into analytics, and returning to data management to bridge the gap between technology and the business. Today she works with business segments to embed data management practices and owns the bank's customer master data. Erica shares how data governance in bank...

They Tried 3 Times. Then AI Changed the Enterprise Data Build

2026-10-0646:22

In this episode of Data Analytics Chat, we welcome Mary Alfheim, VP of Data and Analytics, and Joseph Kroon, Data Architect, both from Headspace. Mary previously led analytics teams at Amazon Prime Video and HBO, while Joseph spent time in Cigna's data organisation and, earlier, as a Black Hawk helicopter crew chief in the National Guard. Mary and Joseph share how Headspace rebuilt its enterprise data model after three earlier attempts failed to keep pace with the business. The discussion exa...

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