In this episode, Dr. Michael Zimmer, Chief Data Officer at Zurich Insurance Germany, dives into how his team creates business value and gains trust from various constituents in a regulated environment. He shares his perspectives on AI use case prioritization and scaling as well as how customer empathy drives innovation in insurance.

In this episode, Andy Markus, the CDO at AT&T, dives into how AT&T leverages analytics and AI to improve the customer experience, and he shares his perspectives on change management, business value realization and talent development. Andy also sheds light on AT&T’s AI use cases and governance frameworks as well as their experience using Databricks to drive innovation in a regulated industry.

In this episode, Thom Kenney joins us to dive into how organizations and the U.S. Special Operations Command are democratizing data to the front lines by maintaining high standards for zero-trust security and data access while maximizing the last time to value of their data. Also, hear why Thom loves the lakehouse architecture as a foundation for scaling data and AI to meet the growing demands of data.

Yanyan Wu joins the Champions of Data + AI podcast to dive into the importance of having large amounts of diverse, clean and high-quality data to drive new insights. She also discusses how modern cloud data architectures, like the Lakehouse, make it easier than ever to combine data sets, structured to unstructured, to execute algorithms in near real-time. We’ll also explore how the work she and her data team are doing is helping oil and gas companies run more efficiently and generate more energy to help fill the gap brought on by current global events. If that wasn’t enough, she’ll also share the role Canada geese play in aircraft safety.

More and more organizations are becoming technology-powered companies and are embracing data and AI to fuel innovation and introduce new products and services. In this episode, Mike shares his thoughts on Nasdaq’s transformation journey and highlights some of the coolest new AI-enabled use cases. We’ll also discuss why the cloud is an inevitable certainty for all parts of financial services inclusive of the exchanges themselves.