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AI is reshaping how sales teams find prospects, build relationships, and close deals. Frank O’Dowd, Cloudera’s Chief Revenue Officer, joins to discuss Cloudera’s approach to AI in the sales function. Frank details his philosophy, which is that rather than replacing the human touch, AI is helping sales professionals work smarter, offering insights, personalization, and efficiency at scale. It’s a complementary tool that can help sales teams make themselves relevant to their target audience. As Frank says in the episode, “The person with the most information always wins.”

Sales Leaders: Are you making decisions based on data, or just a "gut feeling"? If you want to move faster, you need to see this. James Smith, our SVP of EMEA, is demonstrating a hashtag#wowmoment that turns a vague intuition on SDR pipeline progression into a multi-million dollar revenue roadmap using Spotter.

RevOps Leaders: How much time does your team spend prepping for forecast calls? If the answer is "too much," you need to see this. Kelley Jarrett, our SVP of Strategy, Operations, and Enablement, is sharing her daily workflow and a hashtag#wowmoment using Spotter.

Here's the replay of our live event. We cover how software teams and ISVs can add powerful, AI-assisted analytics to their products without building it from scratch. You will see real world use cases, white labeling options and much more! If you’re planning new features for 2026 or feeling the pressure to “add AI” in a way that actually makes sense, this one’s worth your time.

In this season premiere of The Data Chief podcast, host Cindi Howson sits down with three industry leaders to unpack what’s next for AI, and the concrete moves data and AI leaders need to make in 2026—many of which are detailed in ThoughtSpot’s Top Data & AI Trends of 2026 ebook. Get ready for a deep dive into: Consider this your field guide to navigating AI in 2026.