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In this episode, Jase chats with Marios Michaelides, Engineering Director at Virtuos Labs, one of the largest co-developers in the world. Marios shares hard-won lessons from working across multiple AAA projects—and reveals how his team built tools to prevent the performance disasters that derail schedules and burn out developers. Here's what you'll learn: Why co-developers are building more tools than ever before—and how proprietary-to-commercial engine migrations are driving this shift.

AI isn't failing because the models are weak. It's failing because the data beneath them is broken. 88% of AI pilots never make it to production. 74% of companies haven't seen value from AI. The uncomfortable truth? These failures aren't about intelligence—they're about access, governance, and context.

Missed the live event? Here’s a quick look at what we unveiled. AI has fundamentally changed how applications are built, creating a growing gap between development velocity and your ability to validate what’s being built. That’s why SmartBear delivers application integrity for the AI era – ensuring continuous, measurable assurance that your software just works as intended, with governance to operate at AI speed and scale.

Learn why scaling AI is as much a human challenge as it is a technological one. Stefano Puntoni, Co-Director of Wharton Human-AI Research and Professor at The Wharton School, examines the limits of data-driven decision making in the age of AI and why insights so often fail to translate into action. He breaks down the psychology behind AI resistance and outlines the leadership and change management strategies needed to turn AI potential into real organizational impact.

Is AI a tool or a threat? Wharton Professor Stefano Puntoni explains why "self-preservation mode" is killing AI adoption in the workplace. Puntoni joins Cindi Howson (The Data Chief host) & breaks down why AI isn't a strategy—it's a tool that requires a "meet in the middle" approach. To succeed, leaders must provide the vision and resources, while empowering workers to co-create the roadmap.

From econometrics to anthropology to leading roles at Salesforce, AWS, and Nextdoor, Tatyana shares how her background shaped a fundamentally different approach to leadership. Drawing on her unconventional journey, she explains why agentic AI is forcing leaders to rethink how they manage technology, shifting from systems to a focus on teams, culture, and governance. Together, Tatyana and Paul share their perspectives on.

Modern enterprises are currently overwhelmed by massive, fast-moving data in various formats that traditional legacy warehouses simply cannot manage. Cloudera addresses these complexities with its open data lakehouse powered by Apache Iceberg, providing a single, seamless, and optimized view of all your information.

Most agencies report on growth. But growth alone doesn’t answer the real question clients care about: Are we actually competitive? In this walkthrough, 42 Agency shows how they use the Databox MCP with Claude to benchmark client performance against relevant peer groups — filtered by size, revenue, and industry. Instead of relying on generic industry averages, they combine: The result? Stronger strategy conversations, clearer goal setting, and more confident planning grounded in a real market context.–

If you’re consistently posting on LinkedIn, the hard part isn’t getting data — it’s analyzing it. Most people review posts one by one, compare impressions manually, and try to “spot patterns” by eye. That’s slow. And it makes strategy reactive. In this walkthrough, Kamil Rextin, founder of 42 Agency, uses the Databox MCP with Claude to run a fast, AI-driven analysis of his LinkedIn performance — the kind of first-pass review you’d normally assign to a junior analyst.

What does it actually take to ship Gen 2 AI experiences to real users at scale? Matthew O'Riordan, CEO of Ably, shares insights from conversations with 40+ engineering leaders — including at unicorns and public corporations — on where AI delivery breaks and what production teams are doing about it. Topics covered: Timestamps.