In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Huzaifa Sayed, Senior Manager of Data Science at The Home Depot: What are some business operations solvable via AI? How can AI technologies help streamline, improve, or otherwise support operations? What does the future hold for leveraging AI as part of operational activities? What final piece of advice would you give to someone trying to find ways to leverage AI technology used to support business functions? Huzaifa Sayed, Seni...
Jul 02, 2025•17 min
In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Fouad Bousetouane, PhD, Co-Founder and Chief AI Officer at InterspectAI: What does it mean to be an AI expert What’s the problem with allowing everyone the ability to leverage AI How can we solve for this challenge (surely we don’t want to just allow LLMs for those with PhDs) What do we see for the future of leveraging AI Fouad Bousetouane , PhD, Co-Founder and Chief AI Officer at InterspectAI Follow Fouad Bousetouane...
Jul 02, 2025•24 min
In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Chelsea Lamar, VP, Global Sustainability @ AIT Worldwide Logistics: Tell us about the world of energy – and what’s considered renewable How is AI related to renewable energy? Where is AI applied to help with renewables? What are the problems we need to solve more effectively with AI to help with renewable energy? Help us understand what companies can do to leverage AI as a way of helping advance renewable energy? What do you see...
Jul 02, 2025•23 min
In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Brian Burns, Senior Manager of AI, Sprout Social: Talk about knowledge work – what does the term mean? Describe a few examples of how we might leverage GenAI What are the challenges when trying to incorporate AI and GenAI for knowledge work? How can we make this collaboration successful between human and machine? What do you see for the future of knowledge work as it relates to GenAI? Brian Burns Senior Manager of AI, Sprout Soc...
Jul 02, 2025•21 min
In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Raghu Kulkarni: • Tell me about what we mean by AI in this context? • Let’s talk about regulation.. What does that really mean? How does it limit or support organizations? • Regarding the notion of innovation, can you give some examples of how that might look in a regulated sense? • The possibilities with AI are endless! Are we having to compromise on innovation, especially being in a regulated environment because of responsible...
Jul 02, 2025•25 min
In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Marcy Cunningham: • The goal is to get more data, solutions, and AI into the hands of our consumers… Does this present certain difficulties? • What are some of the issues associated with not meeting the prerequisites for new AI tools? • Are we trying to use AI to fill gaps? • How can we improve our way of hitting the basics? • What advice would you give for the future efforts of streamlining these processes and ultimately levera...
Jul 02, 2025•27 min
In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Andrew Simmons: What are some examples of GenAI for retail Let’s talk about the difficulties and challenges GenAI can bring How about the positive opportunities presenting from GenAI Is the juice worth the squeeze What do you see for the future of retail with GenAI Geneva Taylor , Director of Data Analytics and Insights Follow Geneva Taylor...
Jul 02, 2025•24 min
In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Prateek Shrivastava: Describing some of the use cases in manufacturing. What sorts of specific challenges do manufacturing companies face? How can analytics adjust to take these issues into account? What does the future hold for advancing analytics in manufacturing? Prateek Shrivastava , Principal Data Scientist at Cummins Inc. Follow Prateek Shrivastava...
Jul 02, 2025•21 min
In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Aparajit Agarwal, Kao Corporation: What is analytics maturity as it relates to GenAI? Discussing relationship between a solid machine learning strategy and developing GenAI capabilities. Finding the applicable use cases for GenAI given maturity levels. Advice for getting GenAI implemented in your organization. Aparajit Agarwal , Enterprise Data and AI Architect at Kao Corporation Follow Aparajit Agarwal...
Jul 02, 2025•22 min
In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Akhil Mahajan, Technical Director at Proctor & Gamble: What are some of the core skill of traditional data teams? How is AI modifying the way we work in data? Describe ways to upskill, re-skill, or hire data teams of the future. Akhil Mahajan, Technical Director at Proctor & Gamble Follow Akhil Mahajan...
Jul 02, 2025•27 min
In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Bhavna Mehta , Assistant Vice President at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center: What are some examples of ways AI technology can support healthcare operations and decision making? Describe some of the challenges specific to healthcare when thinking about leveraging AI. How do you think AI will work with us in the future to support and improve community health? Bhavna Mehta, Senior Manager of Data Science at The Home De...
Jul 02, 2025•22 min
-Describe the marketing / data science dance - do we need data science for successful marketing? -What are the types of jobs for data scientists in marketing? -What are the key skills for a marketing data scientist? -What about other types of non-technical skills? Like domain knowledge or personal attributes? -How should data science talent vary based on Marketing context? -Describe your final piece of advice for anyone getting into the marketing data science space?
Apr 16, 2024•19 min
What is this How this interacts with other C”suite Technical business culture What can this solve for us
Mar 15, 2024•19 min
In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Hua Ai: What are the types of data science work able to get automated, managed with AI? How can AI help, what steps are reduced How does this change the necessary skill set? Are we writing ourselves out of a job? Final piece of advice for leveraging AI to reduce data science barriers
Feb 16, 2024•18 min
In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Giang Do: What is a Data Science career? Value of Experience, Exposure and Knowledge. What are the tricks to a successful career? Tips you wish you had known.
Jan 22, 2024•26 min
In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Deepac Jose: what are some of the capabilities importance of challenging status quo breaking silos how to know you’ve won final piece of advice
Jan 22, 2024•22 min
In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Ned Caron: What do we mean by data-informed? How does this differ from data-driven or other philosophies? What are the challenges and benefits for adopting data-informed decision making? What advice would you offer to someone trying to move in the data-informed direction?
Nov 24, 2023•24 min
In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Jorge Figueroa: AI Monopoly - Join or fight. Some developers are scared about AI being monopolized instead of thinking about the possibilities and opportunities new AI platforms represent in their projects. AI - A new danger to some professions or a new tool? Will use reporting as an example. Reports were created by IT specialists and were fixed and timely to create. These were mostly replaced by BI tools. Surely there were repo...
Oct 19, 2023•18 min
In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Dinakar Deshmukh: what does it mean for a solution to be scalable how have we lacked in this area as an industry why it’s important to make solutions that last the future of data science products and scalability
Sep 15, 2023•16 min
In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Chad Harness: describe automl to the business person how do these types of tools work what are the right ways to leverage automl expectations for the future of automl tools
Sep 07, 2023•21 min
In this episode of TAG Data Talk, host Dr. Beverly Wright talks with Justin Grieshop: Describe the backgrounds and disciplines in data science and analytics How to show the importance of diversity of thought Advice for understanding the right education and how to extract value from those resources
Sep 07, 2023•16 min
In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Patrick Halpin about Building and Managing the Data Science Product Development Process
May 18, 2023•19 min
In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Lyndsey Padden about the Evolution of Data Scientists: The Transitioning Role of Data Scientist
May 18, 2023•23 min
In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Nan Li about Dispelling the AI Hype
May 18, 2023•21 min
In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Kevin Enyekwe and Chanyong Yoo about Developing and Delivering a Quick Data Science project
Dec 15, 2022•26 min
In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Stephanie Dean about Enabling an Analytics Culture through Transformative Processes
Nov 17, 2022•22 min
In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Ken Viciana about Leading Data Scientists
Oct 15, 2022•23 min
In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Johnny Howze on how to Power Up with Data
Sep 14, 2022•18 min
In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Eric Friedman about Leveraging Data Science for Actionable Insights
Sep 01, 2022•18 min
In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Anqi Zou about connecting and leveraging academic partnerships in data science
Jul 14, 2022•32 min
