Full Podcast with Ankush Gautam (Data Engineering & Platform Leader, Datastax)

When companies are using their data towards an AI-future, who should be measuring the ROI of those data products?
As a data leader, if you're not measuring & communicating your ROI, someone else is measuring it for you, in their own way.
In this clip from my conversation with Robin Patra (ex-Cisco & BlackRock), he shares his own experience & learning with managing the ROI of data products, both his successes and failures. Find out why connecting your data investments to business objectives is crucial, and why never ever ask for budget to do a Snowflake / Databricks migration! XD

Full Podcast with Robin Patra (Ex-Data Leader at ARCO, BlackRock & Cisco)

I've always been an advocate for data leaders to have cost awareness when building and growing their data platforms. However, my podcast with Marcia Stipanich Martins has opened me to a new perspective: cost itself is not the key—ROI is. When data leaders maintain a clear and concrete view of their product ROIs, they don't need to stress about high costs or exceeding budgets.

I'll quickly set the stage, now let's hear it from the pro:

Full Podcast with Marcia Stipanich Martins

Data leadership depends as much on building relationships as it does on building data systems.

Full Podcast with Laura Dawson

It was a great pleasure to co-host this webinar with Gokula Mishra, founding editor of CDO Magazine, to talk about how to maximize the ROI on data investment, and having Gokula to share a few key metrics every data leaders should measure & monitor in order to manage their data estate effectively.

👋 Continuing from my last talk, measuring the cost & impact for each data product instead of the entire data estate is crucial for data teams supporting multiple lines of business in their company. Whether you are building it yourself or looking for a solution, I hope sharing our approach is helpful to you! 👊

I hope everyone is having a great start to 2025! As I promised during the holidays, here is the first of my series on managing data estate effectively. I'm starting with a tangible yet challenging topic for many data leaders: The operating cost of running a data function in the cloud:

🎄 Whereever you are, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! 🎄 If you are online, taking a phone break from the rest of your holiday celebrations, hopefully you will enjoy hearing me talking about enterprise data and value for a few minutes. 😃