The Data Hotseat
Join the team at Advancing Analytics to chat all things data & AI! Each week will see a new guest and a new topic in the hotseat, and you'll hear their unfiltered opinions, tips, tricks, and maybe a hot take or two.
With a focus on Databricks, The Data Hotseat gives you takeaways from technical insights to data strategy. Whether you're a Data Engineer or Head of Data, you'll get opinionated insights you won't find anywhere else.
All Episodes
Ep 6: All About Genie App Builder | James Bentley
In the hotseat this week is James Bentley, Senior AI Consultant and face of the AI videos on our YouTube channel! With host, Paul McComish, they chat about Genie App Builder - how it differs from other app builders, and how, yet again, the conversation turns to data quality and governance.
Ep 5: All About Genie One & Genie Ontology | Ashley Warren
In the hotseat this week is Ashley Warren, here to chat about Genie One and Genie Ontology. This episode dives into Databricks' attempt to stop AI from confidently getting business questions wrong. They explore why context is the missing ingredient in enterprise AI, why governance is suddenly everyone's problem again, and whether analysts should be excited, worried, or both.
Ep 4: All About Genie ZeroOps | George Dutton
In the hotseat this week is George Dutton, here to chat about Genie ZeroOps, Databricks' new autonomous background agent for data and AI operations. Is this the beginning of the end for Monday morning firefighting? With host Paul McComish, they dig into how Genie ZeroOps detects, diagnoses and fixes broken pipelines before they hit production, and why sandboxed testing is key to earning engineers' trust.
Ep 3: All about Lakehouse//RT and LTAP | Peter Sach
In the hotseat this week is Peter Sach, who joins our host, Paul McComish, in chatting about Lakehouse//RT and LTAP - two big announcements from Databricks Data + AI Summit. What are they? How do the two integrate with Reyden and the wider Databricks ecosphere? And how could they impact you?