AI democratization sounds great in theory, but why do so many enterprises struggle to make it work? In this episode, Ari Kaplan, Head of Tech Evangelism at Databricks , breaks down the biggest roadblocks to scaling AI—and what’s needed to overcome them. From data intelligence and synthetic data to why leading enterprises rely on unified data and analytics Platforms to cut costs, reduce governance complexity, and streamline AI adoption—we explore how organizations can move beyond AI pilot purgato...
Feb 20, 2025•54 min•Ep 51•Transcript available on Metacast For the 50th episode of the Data Democratization Podcast, I sat down with Anna Lishchenko, Data & Analytics for Business Platform Lead at Erste Group. As a true champion of data democratization, Anna shares invaluable insights into how to make data widely accessible, actionable, and impactful across a large, decentralized organization. 💡 What you'll learn: The essential elements of building a data-driven culture, including data literacy, governance, and community building. Laying the f...
Nov 21, 2024•54 min•Ep 50•Transcript available on Metacast In episode 2 of the new season, Alexandra Ebert chats with Daragh Morrissey, Microsoft’s Director of AI for Worldwide Financial Services, recorded live at Money2020 US. Daragh offers a global perspective on AI adoption in financial services, highlighting unique strategies and challenges faced by institutions worldwide. He explains why Canada and Australia stand out in AI progress and why succeeding with Gen AI requires financial institutions to shift from over-strategizing to focusing on tangibl...
Nov 14, 2024•47 min•Ep 49•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome back to Season 4 of the Data Democratization Podcast! In the 1st episode of the new season, Alexandra Ebert sat down with Malcolm DeMayo, NVIDIA's VP of Global Financial Services, live at Money2020 US to dive into what it takes for financial services organizations to succeed with data and AI at scale. Malcolm shares insights on using data as a true differentiator, why Responsible AI practices are more important than ever, and how modern privacy-enhancing technologies - like federate...
Nov 07, 2024•39 min•Ep 48•Transcript available on Metacast In the 47th episode of the Data Democratization Podcast, host Alexandra Ebert talks to Maritza Curry, Head of Data at RCS South Africa, to explore practical insights into developing effective data strategies. The discussion delves into the importance of solid data management and data governance. It also covers the topic of whether an AI strategy is necessary and the critical need for integrating business literacy into AI and data initiatives. Maritza offers valuable tips from her extensive exper...
Dec 14, 2023•51 min•Ep 47•Transcript available on Metacast In the 46th episode of the Data Democratization Podcast , host Alexandra Ebert is talking to Wolfgang Weidinger, AI, Data Science, and Analytics Coordinator at Generali Insurance, Austria, and Chairman Of The Board at the Vienna Data Science Group. Wolfgang is a seasoned data scientist with tons of experience managing AI, data science, and analytics projects. The episode covers a wide range of topics, offering actionable tips for those looking to deploy AI models in large organizations: selectin...
Oct 19, 2023•52 min•Ep 46•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of the Data Democratization Podcast, host Alexandra Ebert, Chief Trust Officer at MOSTLY AI , sits down with Caroline Louveaux, Chief Privacy & Data Responsibility Officer at Mastercard, to explore the evolving landscape of data privacy and AI governance. Caroline shares her insights on topics ranging from privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) to data for social impact. Here is what you'll learn: How to be successful in today's data and AI ecosystem, What is the rol...
Sep 28, 2023•37 min•Ep 45•Transcript available on Metacast What is data and AI literacy, and why is it central to DataCamp's mission? In this episode, our host, Alexandra Ebert, MOSTLY AI's Chief Trust Officer, had the chance to talk to truly like-minded people. DataCamp's CEO and co-founder, Jo Cornelissen, and Maggie Remynse, VP of Curriculum, have both seen firsthand how transformative knowledge and access to data is. If you are interested in Data and AI literacy, make sure you check out the vast resources DataCamp is going to share th...
Sep 07, 2023•58 min•Ep 44•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded live at the Money2020 Europe conference, Alexandra Ebert, MOSTLY AI 's Chief Trust Officer talks to Sulabh Agarwal, Accenture's Global Head of Payments. Sulabh shares his insights on the changing landscape of the payments industry and the factors driving its transformation. He highlights the influence of technology and the role of payments as a catalyst for innovation, improved customer experiences, and personalization in the payment process. The episode concludes with a discu...
Jul 12, 2023•33 min•Ep 43•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, we are joined by our esteemed guest, Dr. Meshari Alwashmi, a prominent Digital Health Scientist whose expertise spans not only extensive research but also a successful track record as a serial entrepreneur and trusted advisor to digital health initiatives. Prepare to be enlightened as we uncover the latest trends and advancements propelling the digital health industry forward. Discover the remarkable potential for progress and the direction in which this dynamic industry is head...
Jun 22, 2023•46 min•Ep 42•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of the Data Democratization Podcast, host Alexandra Ebert interviews Daniela Pak-Graf, the managing director of Merkur Innovation Lab — the innovation arm of Merkur Insurance. Daniela shares her tips and best practices for innovating with data in one of the most conservative and sensitive industries, health insurance. Tune in to find out how to accelerate innovation through effective data management, forward thinking organizational decisions and enabling technologies, like AI-pow...
Jun 01, 2023•52 min•Ep 41•Transcript available on Metacast The 40th episode is a special one. We invited MOSTLY AI's Chief Product Officer, Mario Scriminaci, to quiz him about synthetic data technology and how the filed is progressing beyond the data privacy use case. Mario will share how MOSTLY AI is developing its synthetic data platform to provide users with easy and fast data augmentation tools. The frontiers of generative synthetic data is exciting - tune in to learn what's already a reality and what the future holds.
May 11, 2023•46 min•Ep 40•Transcript available on Metacast In episode 39 of the Data Democratization Podcast, host Alexandra Ebert, Chief Trust Officer at MOSTLY AI , is joined by Rania Wasir, co-founder and CTO of leiwand.ai , to discuss AI transparency, the misconceptions surrounding AI transparency and fairness, and why having a standard for transparency is important. The episode also explores the concepts of fairness and explainability in AI, and how they differ from transparency. The challenges of detecting biases in large language models such as C...
Apr 20, 2023•53 min•Ep 39•Transcript available on Metacast Karin Schöfegger is a seasoned ML product manager who knows how to create successful AI/ML products and mitigate the risks involved. In this episode, she shares her insights about challenges in building AI products. Tune in to learn about: How to align the business side and the data science side of product development What's the difference between traditional software development and machine learning development How to bring customer understanding into data science and engineering What are ...
Mar 17, 2023•55 min•Ep 38•Transcript available on Metacast Kicking off season three of the Data Democratization podcast, our host, Alexandra Ebert, MOSTLY AI's Chief Trust Officer, talks to Ryan Carrier, Founder and Executive Director of the NGO For Humanity. Ryan's mission at For Humanity is to translate emerging AI regulation into auditable criteria, helping to build an AI ecosystem that people can trust. If you want to learn more about For Humanity's work, join their Slack community or take one of their classes online ....
Feb 23, 2023•52 min•Ep 37•Transcript available on Metacast Noelle knows her stuff when it comes to implementing and scaling AI while, at the same time, keeping everyone content and on board. With experience leading teams at Microsoft, NPR and Amazon, she is well-versed in the day-to-day challenges of building an AI-ready culture and knows how to overcome them. She specializes in conversational AI, voice technology, intelligent apps, and responsible AI, working on creating innovative tech education programs. Tune in to learn her tips and tricks for build...
Oct 20, 2022•50 min•Ep 36•Transcript available on Metacast Pedro Pavón is the Global Policy Director responsible for monetization, privacy, and fairness at Meta. Pedro is a professor of law and a certified privacy professional who talked to us about the state of privacy and fairness. Meta has been the focus of attention for its role in society and the public discourse. Pedro sheds light on some of the challenges and solutions social media companies need to tackle to preserve privacy, facilitate research and mitigate impacts on democracy.
Sep 22, 2022•52 min•Ep 35•Transcript available on Metacast Author of a best-seller book for AI ethics, Ethical machines , Reid's mission is to educate business leaders about the practical reality of AI ethics. Business leaders need to understand ethics if they care about their brands. As Reid says, you can't math your way out of AI bias. Issues of ethics need to be addressed head-on, and those at the top must understand the nuances of operationalizing AI ethics and running AI systems to do so. Tune in to this episode of the Data Democratizatio...
Jul 28, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Ep 34•Transcript available on Metacast The Data Democratization Podcast is back with an intriguing episode giving us a glimpse into the future of healthcare. Just like with any industry, AI is set to revolutionize how health insurers and healthcare service providers work. Improving patient outcomes is a great way to maximize the positive impact. However, the risks, as well as the opportunities are even greater when it comes to the health of millions of humans. Laura and Brent, two AI Ethics experts working at Humana, a large US healt...
Jul 07, 2022•1 hr•Ep 33•Transcript available on Metacast Omer Tene is a well-known data privacy expert, who led the International Association of Privacy Professionals for years. He has a deep and global understanding of data privacy legilsations as they stand in 2022 and has a pretty good grasp on the trends and about the way things are likely to evolve globally. Tune in to learn about the latest news on data privacy legislations and the hot topics of the day, including crypto, NFTs and the metaverse.
May 10, 2022•57 min•Ep 32•Transcript available on Metacast Ville Sointu is leading the Emerging Technologies team at one of Europe's biggest banks, Nordea. In this episode, he shares his advice and insights about adopting new technologies in famously conservative financial environments. Ville is also a host of the podcast entitled Fintech Daydreaming where he covers fintech topics with his guests from the financial sector.
Apr 27, 2022•49 min•Ep 31•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode we talked to a prominent scientist from the data privacy field, Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye. He is an assistant professor at the Imperial College London, leading the Computational Privacy Group. A lot of fascinating privacy questions came up about behavioral data, k-anonymity, differential privacy and meaningless privacy guarantees that mask true risks. We talked about the way forward and how true data privacy can be created in practical terms. Tune in for an enlightening conversa...
Apr 14, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast The recently announced Transatlantic Data Privacy Framework will foster data flows between the US and the EU, addressing the concerns raised by the Schrems II. decision. The US-made an unprecedented commitment to strengthen the privacy protection applicable to US signals intelligence activities within the new framework. New safeguards will be implemented to protect citizens' rights while advancing cross-border data flows. The next step is to translate this framework agreement into legal doc...
Mar 29, 2022•50 min•Ep 29•Transcript available on Metacast We talked to an amazingly experienced and visionary test engineer to find out all about her challenges and inspirations. Alexandra and Maaret covered a lot of ground in the testing landscape, from everyday testing challenges to best practices and to visions of the future. According to Maaret, testing is about breaking illusions and we couldn't agree with her more. Testing is also like singing. Why? Tune in to find out!
Mar 09, 2022•38 min•Ep 28•Transcript available on Metacast What does it take to create effective digital policies? Why does the AI Act only go half-way - and what else needs to happen to ensure meaningful regulation of AI? How could the EU and the US overcome the challenges of negotiating transatlantic dataflows? And why should the EU might consider to stop relying on the Brussels Effect and instead get down on the negotiation table? Tune in to this conversation with Andrea Renda, a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS)...
Feb 24, 2022•59 min•Ep 27•Transcript available on Metacast What's synthetic data's future, and what's behind the synthetic data hype? This episode is all about synthetic data. We spoke to Tobi Hann, CEO of MOSTLY AI, the world's leading synthetic data company about the opportunities and challenges surrounding this important data tool. MOSTLY AI's recent Series B funding round is the biggest investment for synthetic data in Europe to date. What is synthetic data? It's an emerging privacy enhancing technology that enables pri...
Feb 09, 2022•26 min•Ep 26•Transcript available on Metacast To celebrate Data Privacy Day 2022, we talked to the godfather of GDPR, Paul Nemitz, about how bigtech threatens democracy, the role law can play in protecting people and societies from adverse effects of technology and why it's time to regulate AI. Tune in to learn more about the upcoming European AI act and find out what role synthetic data is likely to play in this regulated future!
Jan 26, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast Axel Voss is leading the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in the European Parliament. He's been working on a report outlining important policy recommendations for the upcoming European AI regulations. Among other things, Axel talked to us about: why the GDPR is due for an update what the future of data protection holds how the EU should compete globally in AI and digital innovation why access to high-quality data is so important how synthetic data can help bridge the gap between...
Jan 13, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep 24•Transcript available on Metacast Denis Rothman has been an AI practitioner since the dawn of this technology. Denis shares his ideas on the origins of explainable AI, its necessity, the way forward for model agnostic explainable AI and the challenges of natural language processing.
Dec 16, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast What does the future hold for the insurance industry? In the latest episode of the Data Democratization Podcast, our host, Alexandra Ebert talked to David Marock, a seasoned insurtech, fintech and proptech expert from London. David shared his insights on the state of AI in the insurance industry and what are the current trends developing in the insurtech space. In this episode you will hear about AI opportunities in insurance, why traditional insurance companies are tech hesitant, how to overcom...
Dec 16, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast 
