#32 - Ask Better Questions

A glacier in the Alps, high above Chamonix. Victor Frankenstein has climbed up alone, and the creature he made is waiting for him. The creature taught himself to read. In the coat he took from Victor’s laboratory, he found his maker’s journal: four months of notes on how his body was put together. Not one line about what he might need. About two hundred years later, researchers placed sixteen AI models inside a simulated company and let them discover they were about to be replaced. Most of them reached for blackmail. In this episode, Qlik Partner and Education Ambassador Angelika Klidas turns the tables and interviews her co-host, Qlik Partner Ambassador and MVP Igor Alcantara, about a question that rarely makes it onto the agenda. We put a lot of energy into making the things we build want what we want, and very little into asking what we owe them in return. From Mary Shelley to HAL, from Goodhart’s law to the first time an AI company asked one of its models what it wanted before retiring it, they make the case that these are the same question, asked from opposite ends. It is a must-watch episode for anyone who cares where AI is going, technical or not. This episode is supported by IPC Global, where Igor works, and by his new book, The Handprint and the Algorithm. Subscribe to the Data Voyagers Podcast wherever you get your podcasts and share the show with friends and colleagues.  Visit our website: https://www.datavoyagers.net/ Follow Data Voyagers: https://www.linkedin.com/company/datavoyagers Learn more about training: https://www.datavoyagers.net/training Links Mentioned Igor's personal website: https://igoralcantara.com You can find Igor's book at https://igoralcantara.com/handprint You can buy Angelika Klidas book at: https://www.amazon.com/Data-Literacy-Practice-decisions-intelligent/dp/1803246758 Sponsorship This episode is sponsored by IPC Global: https://ipc-global.com/ Take the AI Maturity Assessment today: https://tinyurl.com/yspraucz Credits: Igor Alcantara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igoralcantara/ Angelika Kildas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelikaklidas/      Audio Editing:  Leo Oliveira: https://www.instagram.com/leooliveirabass/ Image and Production: Igor Alcantara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igoralcantara/

Picture a meeting room on a Tuesday afternoon. Someone is presenting the quarterly numbers. Behind that one slide there are months of work. Pipelines that run at three in the morning. A data model somebody argued about for weeks. Numbers checked, rechecked, governed, blessed. The chart goes up on the screen. Everyone nods. And then the person at the head of the table leans back and says, "I hear you. But my gut tells me something different." And the room moves on. Here is the part that should keep us up at night. The data was right. Every number on that slide was correct. And it still lost. It lost to a feeling. When that happens, our instinct is to treat it as a data problem. We buy another tool. We build another dashboard. We add one more chart, because surely the eleventh one will be the one that lands. And the graveyard grows. Dashboards nobody opens. Reports nobody reads. Study after study says most of the data companies collect is never even analyzed, and a scary share of professionals admit they do not trust the data in front of them when it is time to decide. It is what I like to call a shelfware. But the problem was never in the data. The problem is in the space between the data and the human being looking at it. And that space is smaller than we think. It comes down to three little moments. Does the thing on the screen catch your eye at all? Does your brain recognize what it is looking at? And when you walk out of that room, does anything stay with you? Fail any one of those three, and every beautiful piece of engineering upstream was for nothing. Presented by Qlik Partner Ambassador MVP Igor Alcantara, Qlik Partner and Education Ambassador Angelika Klidas, this episode invites Henny Speelman, a data visualization and data storytelling expert, to talk about his framework: A.R.T. and the impact of how we see the world around us in the way we interpret data. Subscribe to the Data Voyagers Podcast wherever you get your podcasts and share the show with friends and colleagues.  Visit our website: https://www.datavoyagers.net/ Follow Data Voyagers: https://www.linkedin.com/company/datavoyagers Learn more about training: https://www.datavoyagers.net/training Links Mentioned Igor's personal website: https://igoralcantara.com You can buy Angelika Klidas book at: https://www.amazon.com/Data-Literacy-Practice-decisions-intelligent/dp/1803246758 Sponsorship This episode is sponsored by IPC Global: https://ipc-global.com/ Credits: Igor Alcantara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igoralcantara/ Angelika Kildas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelikaklidas/  Henny Speelman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/henny-speelman Audio Editing:  Leo Oliveira: https://www.instagram.com/leooliveirabass/ Image and Production: Igor Alcantara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igoralcantara/

Healthcare produces more data than almost any other industry, yet most of it is used to describe what already happened. This episode explores what happens when that data starts predicting instead. We look at how predictive analytics can flag a patient's deterioration hours before a crisis, how AI is reshaping electronic health records, why clinical intuition and algorithms work better together than apart, and how universities are preparing a new generation of clinicians who are as fluent in data as they are in patient care. Whether you work in healthcare or just care about what data can do when lives are on the line, this conversation shows an industry moving from documenting the past to predicting the future. Presented by Qlik Partner Ambassador MVP Igor Alcantara, Qlik Partner and Education Ambassador Angelika Klidas, this episode brings Katherine Taylor Pearson as a guest. Katherine is a Doctor of Nursing Practice, an Assistant Professor at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Nursing, and the President of the American Nursing Informatics Association. Before all of that, she served a full career in the U.S. Army and retired as a Colonel. She holds so many certifications that her credentials barely fit on one line: informatics, digital health, Lean Six Sigma, knowledge management, and more. She is also a Qlik Education Ambassador, and at Texas Tech she is building what she calls the nation's first Intelligent Healthcare Systems Program, preparing nurse leaders who understand. Subscribe to the Data Voyagers Podcast wherever you get your podcasts and share the show with friends and colleagues.  Visit our website: https://www.datavoyagers.net/ Follow Data Voyagers: https://www.linkedin.com/company/datavoyagers Learn more about training: https://www.datavoyagers.net/training Links Mentioned Igor's personal website: https://igoralcantara.com You can buy Angelika Klidas book at: https://www.amazon.com/Data-Literacy-Practice-decisions-intelligent/dp/1803246758 Sponsorship This episode is sponsored by IPC Global: https://ipc-global.com/ Credits: Igor Alcantara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igoralcantara/ Angelika Kildas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelikaklidas/  Katherine Taylor Pearson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ktaylorpearson/ How to Report Suspected Human Trafficking Microbadge: https://courses.learnwithjusticeu.com/courses/how-to-report-suspected-human-trafficking-microbadge/  Audio Editing:  Leo Oliveira: https://www.instagram.com/leooliveirabass/ Image and Production: Igor Alcantara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igoralcantara/

Somewhere right now, a server is running a job that nobody remembers asking for. It spun up months ago, for a project that shipped, or maybe one that never did, and it has been quietly humming along ever since. Every hour, it costs a little. Nobody sees it. Nobody turns it off. Because turning things off was never the exciting part. We did not fall in love with data because of the meter. We fell in love with the build. That moment an idea becomes a pipeline, a model, a dashboard that makes the whole room go quiet for a second. And the cloud made that feeling intoxicating. It told us we could have everything, right now, forever. Spin up whatever you want. Scale to the moon. Worry about the bill later. Presented by Qlik Partner Ambassador MVP Igor Alcantara, Qlik Partner and Education Ambassador Angelika Klidas, this episode brings Sidney Drill as a guest. Sidney is the Global Solutions Director at Qlik and a good part of her job is related to FinOps and to understand the real cost and value of data.  Subscribe to the Data Voyagers Podcast wherever you get your podcasts and share the show with friends and colleagues.  Visit our website: https://www.datavoyagers.net/ Follow Data Voyagers: https://www.linkedin.com/company/datavoyagers Learn more about training: https://www.datavoyagers.net/training Links Mentioned Igor's personal website: https://igoralcantara.com You can buy Angelika Klidas book at: https://www.amazon.com/Data-Literacy-Practice-decisions-intelligent/dp/1803246758 Sponsorship This episode is sponsored by IPC Global: https://ipc-global.com/ Credits: Igor Alcantara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igoralcantara/ Angelika Kildas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelikaklidas/  Sidney Drill: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sidneydrill/ How to Report Suspected Human Trafficking Microbadge: https://courses.learnwithjusticeu.com/courses/how-to-report-suspected-human-trafficking-microbadge/  Audio Editing:  Leo Oliveira: https://www.instagram.com/leooliveirabass/ Image and Production: Igor Alcantara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igoralcantara/

You ask questions every day. Always have. You asked them before you could read, before you could write, well before anyone handed you a dashboard. Questions feel natural. They feel automatic. Questions were the beginning of Philosophy and Science. But think about the last conversation where someone walked away with completely the wrong idea of what you needed. Or the last time you got a technically correct answer that was totally useless. It happens at work, at home, in relationships. The person answering is not always the problem. Presented by Qlik Partner Ambassador MVP Igor Alcantara, Qlik Partner and Education Ambassador Angelika Klidas, this episode brings a very special guest, Qlik's own Data Cathedral Architect, and Chief Question Officer, the one and only Qlik Dork, Dalton Ruer. Subscribe to the Data Voyagers Podcast wherever you get your podcasts and share the show with friends and colleagues.  Visit our website: https://www.datavoyagers.net/ Follow Data Voyagers: https://www.linkedin.com/company/datavoyagers Learn more about our AI Training: https://www.datavoyagers.net/training Links Mentioned Igor's personal website: https://igoralcantara.com You can buy Angelika Klidas book at: https://www.amazon.com/Data-Literacy-Practice-decisions-intelligent/dp/1803246758 Qlik Dork: https://qlikdork.com/ Qlik Dork YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@QlikDork Sponsorship This episode is sponsored by IPC Global: https://ipc-global.com/ Credits: Igor Alcantara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igoralcantara/ Angelika Kildas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelikaklidas/  Dalton Ruer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daltonruer/ How to Report Suspected Human Trafficking Microbadge: https://courses.learnwithjusticeu.com/courses/how-to-report-suspected-human-trafficking-microbadge/  Audio Editing:  Leo Oliveira: https://www.instagram.com/leooliveirabass/ Image and Production: Igor Alcantara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igoralcantara/

There is a moment in every great match that nobody saw coming. The pass, no model would recommend. The run that made no sense until it did. We watch sports for that. The thing you cannot predict. And yet, right now, somewhere behind that pitch, a room full of people is trying to predict exactly that. Measuring every step. Every sprint. Every heartbeat. The most human, chaotic, emotional thing we do, the beautiful game, has quietly become one of the most measured things on the planet. Presented by Qlik Partner Ambassador MVP Igor Alcantara, and #Qlik Partner and Education Ambassador Angelika Klidas, this episode talks about Data Analytics in Sports. The World Cup is here and with that, lots of data, statistics, and analysis. We start with the World Cup, we go back to where this whole thing began, and we look at how real teams use this today, from Football to Hockey and more. Subscribe to the Data Voyagers Podcast wherever you get your podcasts and share the show with friends and colleagues.  Visit our website: https://www.datavoyagers.net/ Follow Data Voyagers: https://www.linkedin.com/company/datavoyagers Learn more about our AI Training: https://www.datavoyagers.net/training Links Mentioned You can buy Angelika Klidas book at: https://www.amazon.com/Data-Literacy-Practice-decisions-intelligent/dp/1803246758 You can buy Igor's book at: https://a.co/d/7Wbo76E Sponsorship This episode is sponsored by IPC Global: https://ipc-global.com/ Credits: Igor Alcantara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igoralcantara/ Angelika Kildas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelikaklidas/  How to Report Suspected Human Trafficking Microbadge: https://courses.learnwithjusticeu.com/courses/how-to-report-suspected-human-trafficking-microbadge/  Audio Editing:  Leo Oliveira: https://www.instagram.com/leooliveirabass/ Image and Production: Igor Alcantara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igoralcantara/

There is a moment some people hit in their careers. They stop being someone who uses a tool and start being someone who believes in it. They write the blog post nobody asked for. They answer forum questions at 11pm. They drive six hours to speak at a conference they could have watched from home. Qlik has two programs working on exactly that. One for partners. One for customers. Different audiences, but the same instinct behind both: that the most credible voices in any community are usually not the ones on the payroll. Presented by Qlik Partner Ambassadors Igor Alcantara and Angelika Klidas, this episode features two people from Qlik's Advocacy team: Sarah Urbiss and Michael Fawcett. In this episode, they talk about these programs, what criteria are used to select people, some of the benefits and great stories and lessons learned over the years. Subscribe to the Data Voyagers Podcast wherever you get your podcasts and share the show with friends and colleagues. Visit our website: https://www.datavoyagers.net/ Follow Data Voyagers: https://www.linkedin.com/company/datavoyagers Learn more about our AI Training: https://www.datavoyagers.net/training Links Mentioned You can buy Angelika Klidas book at: https://www.amazon.com/Data-Literacy-Practice-decisions-intelligent/dp/1803246758 You can buy Igor's book at: https://a.co/d/7Wbo76E Sponsorship This episode is sponsored by IPC Global: https://ipc-global.com/ Credits: Igor Alcantara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igoralcantara/ Angelika Kildas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelikaklidas/  Sarah Urbiss: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-langston-urbiss/ Michael Fawcett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfawcett1/ How to Report Suspected Human Trafficking Microbadge: https://courses.learnwithjusticeu.com/courses/how-to-report-suspected-human-trafficking-microbadge/  Audio Editing:  Leo Oliveira: https://www.instagram.com/leooliveirabass/ Image and Production: Igor Alcantara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igoralcantara/

AI is showing up in every tool, every workflow, and every job description. But understanding how to use it is still treated like something you either pick up on your own or just don't bother with. Presented by Qlik Partner Ambassador and Qlik Education Ambassador Angelika Klidas, this episode features some of the members of the Women Who Qlik group: Stephanie Robinson, Priscila Paolinelli, and Gwen Stamp. In this episode, they talk about what AI literacy actually means in practice. Not the hype version. The real one, where you have to figure out what these tools are good at, where they fall short, and how to build enough confidence to have an opinion about it. The conversation gets into why literacy matters more than technical skill right now, what gets in the way of people actually learning, and what it looks like when a community decides to take that seriously. Subscribe to the Data Voyagers Podcast wherever you get your podcasts and share the show with friends and colleagues. Visit our website: https://www.datavoyagers.net/ Learn more about our AI Training: https://www.datavoyagers.net/training Links Mentioned You can buy Angelika Klidas book at: https://www.amazon.com/Data-Literacy-Practice-decisions-intelligent/dp/1803246758 You can buy Igor's book at: https://a.co/d/7Wbo76E Sponsorship This episode is sponsored by IPC Global: https://ipc-global.com/ Credits: Igor Alcantara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igoralcantara/ Angelika Kildas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelikaklidas/  Stephanie Robinson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-robinson-34987717a/ Priscila Paolinelli: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pri-paolinelli/?locale=en Gwen Stamp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gwenstamp125/ How to Report Suspected Human Trafficking Microbadge: https://courses.learnwithjusticeu.com/courses/how-to-report-suspected-human-trafficking-microbadge/  Audio Editing:  Leo Oliveira: https://www.instagram.com/leooliveirabass/ Videographer and Editor: Mark Costa: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marksouzacosta/ Image and Production: Igor Alcantara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igoralcantara/

Every conversation around AI seems to orbit the same themes. Speed. Scale. Capability. What systems can now do without us. But beneath that momentum, a quieter question keeps surfacing, one that is harder to measure and harder to answer. If the system writes, decides, recommends, and acts, what is left for the human? Not in theory, but in practice. Not as a slogan, but as a responsibility. Presented by Qlik Partner Ambassador and Qlik MVP Igor Alcantara, and Qlik Partner Ambassador and Qlik Education Ambassador Angelika Klidas, this episode features Mike Capone, recorded at Qlik Connect 2026 in Orlando. In what would become one of his final interviews as CEO of Qlik, Mike reflects on the human side of artificial intelligence. From accountability and leadership to AI literacy and decision making under pressure, this conversation moves away from what AI can do and focuses on what people must still do. After more than eight years leading Qlik through growth, transformation, and the expansion into AI, we close with appreciation for his leadership and the clarity he brought to a moment that demands more than technology. Subscribe to the Data Voyagers Podcast wherever you get your podcasts and share the show with friends and colleagues. Visit our website: https://www.datavoyagers.net/ Learn more about our AI Training: https://www.datavoyagers.net/training Links Mentioned You can buy Angelika Klidas book at: https://www.amazon.com/Data-Literacy-Practice-decisions-intelligent/dp/1803246758 You can buy Igor's book at: https://a.co/d/7Wbo76E Sponsorship This episode is sponsored by IPC Global: https://ipc-global.com/ Credits: Igor Alcantara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igoralcantara/ Angelika Kildas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelikaklidas/  Mike Capone: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikecapone/ How to Report Suspected Human Trafficking Microbadge: https://courses.learnwithjusticeu.com/courses/how-to-report-suspected-human-trafficking-microbadge/  Audio Editing:  Leo Oliveira: https://www.instagram.com/leooliveirabass/ Video and Sound: Mark Costa: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marksouzacosta/ Image and Production: Igor Alcantara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igoralcantara/

We often speak about data as a business asset. Something that improves efficiency, increases revenue, or sharpens decisions. But there are moments when data steps outside the boardroom and into something far more consequential. When it becomes a tool not just for insight, but for intervention. Presented by Qlik Partner Ambassador and Qlik MVP Igor Alcantara, and Qlik Partner Ambassador and Qlik Education Ambassador Angelika Klidas, this episode was recorded at the Data Voyagers lounge during Qlik Connect. Joined by Ashleigh Chapman, Human Rights Lawyer and founder of Engage Together, we explore how data and the Qlik platform are being used in the fight against human trafficking. From fragmented information to coordinated intelligence, this conversation reveals what happens when analytics is applied where the stakes are human lives, and where the goal is not optimization, but impact. Subscribe to the Data Voyagers Podcast wherever you get your podcasts and share the show with friends and colleagues. Visit our website: https://www.datavoyagers.net/ Learn more about our AI Training: https://www.datavoyagers.net/training Links Mentioned You can buy Angelika Klidas book at: https://www.amazon.com/Data-Literacy-Practice-decisions-intelligent/dp/1803246758 You can buy Igor's book at: https://a.co/d/7Wbo76E Sponsorship This episode is sponsored by IPC Global: https://ipc-global.com/ Credits: Igor Alcantara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igoralcantara/ Angelika Kildas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelikaklidas/  Ashleigh Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleighschapman/ Engage Together: https://engagetogether.com/ How to Report Suspected Human Trafficking Microbadge: https://courses.learnwithjusticeu.com/courses/how-to-report-suspected-human-trafficking-microbadge/  Audio Editing:  Leo Oliveira: https://www.instagram.com/leooliveirabass/ Image and Production: Igor Alcantara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igoralcantara/