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How are AI-powered robots transforming retail operations, and what does it take to make them safe, intelligent, and scalable? Jariullah Safi of Simbe explains how Tally robots combine computer vision, LiDAR, and depth sensing to turn real-time store observations into actionable retail intelligence. Viral B. Shah of JuliaHub explores how AI-native engineering tools and digital modeling are accelerating the design and simulation of complex physical systems. Join this episode of DM Radio to learn how advances in data, neural networks, and computational power are reshaping robotics, hardware development, and the future of retail.

How can experts protect, organize, and monetize their intellectual property in an increasingly AI-driven world? Join this episode of DM Radio as host Eric Kavanagh talks to Dan Curran of Chapters about how Chapters helps experts establish provenance for their work and turn their knowledge into revenue through books, consulting, speaking engagements, and more.  Explore the emerging possibilities of licensing expert content to AI companies, the challenges of establishing standards for these transactions, and the importance of protecting creators from unauthorized use of their work. As AI reshapes how knowledge is created and distributed, what will it take to preserve the value of human expertise for generations to come?

Join this episode of DM Radio to hear from Ara Kharazian, Lead Economist at Ramp and Barr Moses, CEO and Co-Founder of Monte Carlo AI. We'll discuss the rapid rise of AI agents, and the challenges of maintaining control over what they do. We'll also examine the narrative that AI is taking away jobs. Spoiler alert: Ramp data says otherwise, especially for heavy adopters! Don't miss this chance to hear from the source of real-world data at-scale.

As AI moves into an increasingly agentic era, enterprises need more than powerful models - they need trusted data, meaningful context, and control over how AI systems access and use information. Join this episode of DMRadio as Adam Gunther of Vertica at Rocket Software discusses how the company's MCP server connects LLMs directly to enterprise data, while Vertica's analytics and in-database machine learning capabilities help ground probabilistic AI with deterministic insights. He will be joined by Meeta Vouk of Rocket Software and Patrick Osborne of HPE, who explore the growing role of unstructured data and the need for "provable governance" as AI agents become more autonomous. The conversation covers blending structured and unstructured data, monitoring model drift, controlling agent access, and supporting secure AI deployments across cloud, on-premises, and sovereign environments.

AI Agents are moving fast, tackling all manner of enterprise workflows, and revolutionizing how things get done. Agentic trust is suddenly a mandate, as organizations employ these worker bees in new and innovative ways. The big question now? How can these Agents be supervised, managed and optimized? Register for this episode of DM Radio to learn from veteran Analyst David Linthicum will share key insights into the hard challenges of AI Supervision. Joining the show will be Lior Gavish, CTO and Co-Founder of Monte Carlo Data, who will demonstrate how their platform provides critical functionality for monitoring and managing AI Agents. Attendees will learn: How to establish visibility into agentic behavior across workflows, systems, APIs, and data sources How to enforce guardrails and policies at runtime - not just during development and testing How to detect and contain rogue or unexpected agent behavior before it spreads across the enterprise How to build an Agentic Governance framework that balances autonomy, accountability, security, and business value How to not get hacked, a la the Hugging Face fiasco

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Your data model is fast becoming AI infrastructure. As enterprises deploy agents and LLMs, tried and trusted data models are providing the structure and context AI needs to understand what corporate data really means. Sometimes called ontologies, these proven constructs are trending again because of the critical role they play in grounding Enterprise AI. Register for this special episode of DM Radio to hear Host Eric Kavanagh explain why AI architecture begins and ends with a data model. He'll be joined by Jamie Knowles of Idera, who will demonstrate how ER/Studio is filling the gap between powerful AI technologies and traditional enterprise Information Architectures. Attendees will learn:* Why the Entity-Relationship model matters more than ever * How data models enable trustworthy outputs from LLMs * What metadata can provide in terms of connective tissue * Where to begin your AI journey based upon your business needs

AI agents may be new, but the data problems they encounter are not. Before an agent can answer a question or take action, it needs to know what data exists, what it means, and how trustworthy it is. A single errant join, stale table, ambiguous definition, or missing access rule can quietly turn an otherwise capable agent into a confident source of bad decisions. And when agents string multiple steps together, even strong accuracy rates can deteriorate quickly. The good news? Much of the infrastructure needed to solve this problem already exists, if organizations rethink how data is collected, understood, and governed. Instead of repeatedly moving data through pipelines and warehouses, one creative solution uses an immutable, replayable fact log, continuously profiling data as it arrives and capturing schema changes, lineage, transformations, distributions, and other signals along the way. Tune into this DM Radio episode as host Eric Kavanagh talks with Mike Kowalchik of Matterbeam about why infrastructure originally designed to make data easier for humans may prove even more valuable for AI agents, and how evidence-backed inference, agent-specific governance, and reusable data context can help turn promising prototypes into trustworthy production systems. Visit https://matterbeam.com/ for details!

As AI moves from experimentation to enterprise deployment, the bottleneck is shifting from compute to the data infrastructure that powers it. Join this episode of DMRadio as host Eric Kavanagh speaks with Adrian Johnson of Hitachi Vantara about high-performance data access, on-premises infrastructure, and the growing demands of agentic AI.  Explore AI guardrails, data silos, knowledge graphs, Apache Iceberg, and how organizations can modernize legacy environments while keeping sensitive data secure and under control.

AI is transforming the workplace - not necessarily by eliminating jobs, but by fundamentally changing how people work and the skills they need. Join this episode of DM Radio as Eric Kavanagh speaks with Roberta Gamble, Chief Research Analyst at FOURCASTERS, about the real impact of AI on jobs, marketing, communications, and the evolving role of the knowledge worker. Learn why AI is making basic tasks easier while pushing professionals toward broader, more versatile skill sets and how it's being applied to corporate communications and the public sector, where better technology could dramatically improve everyday interactions with government services.