6th YEAR SEASON FINALE: Juan and Tim Rant

So we want to do a recap of stuff.

But anyways, what's on your mind? 2026, we're halfway through it.

We've had a bunch of amazing guests.

But yeah, what's on your mind? Let's rant a little bit.

Well, first of all, we had some amazing guests this season.

I think I was just very, you know, I was starting to look through all the guests that we had and just looking at all the names, you know, of folks that we got to chat with, you know, from from Tony and Matt to.

victoria to jenna and amalia to on and on and on like we just had so many good conversations so one thing uh that's very top of mind is i continue to feel every day very blessed and happy to be in the market and in the space and interacting with the community that we get to interact with because just the the quality of the people the quality of the conversations the quality of the thinking going on right now is just so high and uh and it's exciting to be a part of that with you juan we get we get to talk to some cool folks

So let's create the list here that we did.

So we had Tony Bear, Matt Housley, Oscar Corcho, Irina Steenbeck, Juan Goricho, Vahav Gupta, Nashiket Mehta, Sadie Haveri, Thais Cook, Kira Dodson, Kyle Winterbottom, Pete Williams, Jenna Jordan, Amalia Childe, Diana Wood-David, Victoria Gamerman, Bob Siner, Jason Doerr, and also Jesus Barraza on one of our rant sessions.

On one of our rants,

yeah.

Everything from data governance to decision intelligence to AI governance and data lineage and ontologies and trends and data leaderships and like what's our CDOs talking about? Obviously, AI is spread across everything.

And so this is what I really love about.

We've had this opportunity to go talk to so many people.

Now, I'll tell you what's on my mind right now.

Just I've been on the road for I'm always on the road, but actually, like I was at our knowledge conference just recently, then at Gertner London.

And then I did this tour kind of through Europe last week.

And Everybody's still in the basics.

Everybody's talking about context is the most popular thing, the right semantics, ontologies.

But wow, people are still on the basics.

So I think the reminder is that we need to get out of our bubble.

to really understand where people are today.

We know where we wanna go.

And that's why I think the foundational stuff of just understanding what is the business value we're connecting, right? And having the basic things we need to go do, know what data we have and all that stuff.

People are still in the very early stages.