The Data & AI Chief

Cindi Howson

lindsay.noonan@thoughtspot.com

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Booking Overview

The Data & AI Chief brings high-level executives and builders in data and AI together to share how they turn data infrastructure into measurable business outcomes. For PR pros, it’s a strong platform for C-suite and senior leaders who can speak to strategy, governance, and practical deployment lessons behind modern AI systems.

Metrics

Episodes: 138

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

Instagram: 3.2k followers

Contact Information

lindsay.noonan@thoughtspot.com

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Host

Cindi Howson - Chief Data & AI Strategy Officer at ThoughtSpot. She hosts the show, interviewing data and AI leaders about how they transform business through data strategy, AI readiness, governance, and real-wor...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Data and AI executives and senior research/engineering leaders (CDAO/Head of Data, enterprise data strategy, AI product/algorithms leaders, and founders/CEOs of knowledge-graph/ontology/data infrastructure firms) with demonstrable deployment experience and responsibility for measurable outcomes or governance/privacy in production.
Required Achievements:  
Executive leadership roles overseeing enterprise data/AI strategy (e.g., CDAO/President of data orgs), Published or widely recognized thought leadership in data/AI architecture (e.g., knowledge graphs/ontologies), Built and scaled AI/data science organizations or platforms in regulated/health or enterprise environments, Led initiatives tied to business ROI, workflow transformation, or measurable decision/product outcomes

Recent Guest Discussions

Saugata Saha - Data Strategy Tied To Business Outcomes; Federated Data Organizations; Semantic Layers/graph Databases; AI ROI Via Workflow Transformation; Entity Matching For Integration

Tony Seale - Knowledge Graphs As A Foundation For Ai; Open Standards; Representing Relationships As First-class Citizens; Ontology Defensibility; Provenance/lineage Importance

Jessica Talisman - Ontologies/semantic Layers For Trusted Ai; Knowledge Graphs; Business Ontology Creation; AI Provenance/lineage And Hallucination Mitigation; Protecting Proprietary Ontology Assets

Emily Capodilupo - AI For Predictive Health; Continuous Physiological Data; Data Governance In Regulated Environments; Data Trust/privacy Infrastructure; Translating Multi-signal Data Into Actionable Metrics

Recent Topics

Data, Artificial Intelligence, Strategy, Governance, Knowledge Graphs

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Data & AI Chief
:

Why Most Enterprise AI Pilots Fail: Lessons on Trust and Deployment

May 27, 2026

Understand how to close the gap between AI experimentation and enterprise production. Shub Agarwal, Founder of the AI Trust Lab at USC and author of Successful AI Product Creation: A Nine-Step Framework, shares his AI product management framework for taking enterprise AI strategy from demo to production, drawing on two decades of product leadership at Amazon and Fortune 50 firms. He breaks down why experimentation must tie directly to business OKRs, the four mindset shifts leaders need to sca...

S&P Global’s Chief Data Officer on Turning Data into Business Outcomes

May 13, 2026

Learn what happens when the executive accountable for data strategy is also the executive accountable for the business results that depend on it. Saugata Saha, President of S&P Global Market Intelligence and Chief Enterprise Data Officer at S&P Global, shares how he manages one of the world's largest financial data estates while driving business outcomes across public and private markets. He breaks down the four pillars of S&P Global's data strategy, the federated organizational model that co...

How Semantic Layers and Ontologies Create Trusted AI

April 22, 2026

Learn why an organization’s ontology, a structured framework for how a business defines, connects, and makes sense of its data and knowledge, is the most valuable and most overlooked asset in any AI strategy. Jessica Talisman, CEO and Founder of The Ontology Pipeline, and Tony Seale, Founder of The Knowledge Graph Guys, break down what it actually takes to build trusted AI, covering everything from semantic layers and knowledge graphs to why provenance is non-negotiable. They explain how orga...

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